Is New Age Spirituality Or A Money Maker?
Bona fide esotericism starts with a belief in gnomes, or that colors affect you. A discussion about Mother Earth in the world in which you befriend with gnomes appears more logical if compared to speaking about career achievements in you Tarot studies.
Do you know that fortunetellers or magicians often deceive you? Before you let them invite you to their New Age land of miracles, ask them: “Can you truly foresee the future? Then tell me the winning numbers of the upcoming lottery! If I win, I will pay you much more, but only after winning the money.”
What do you think would happen after confronting a fortuneteller with such a question?
What is New Age?
New Age is a hybrid of all spirituality that appeared throughout history of the humankind and is hidden under veils of things like “Meditation”, “Reiki”, “tantra”, etc. Its teachings got far beyond the central pillars of the above traditional techniques.
New Age practitioners are “spiritual grave thieves”, as they make great profits from spiritual treasures of aboriginal people and deform their teachings. If you look, for example, at “meditation” websites in Google, you will see that promoters of the New Age ideas, often “therapists”, mix up everything into one soup – Tantra, meditation, UFO, Reiki, amazing health, success, etc.
New Age abuses sacramentality of old values of the humankind. Look into history and study a bit the reasons why meditation or Tantra was used – Tantra is secret, so the point One is that it cannot go public; the point Two is that meditation, yoga or Tantra were not originally a tool for profits; the point Three is that these old techniques served as the gate to spiritual knowledge always without thinking of things