Wednesday, January 18, 2012

There's nothing "spiritual" about this stuff

Actually, that's not true. Evil is a factor of the spiritual level of reality.

I have touched on the whole "New Age" phenomenon a few times in the course of this blog's unfoldment. My favorite blog for exposing and debunking that whole area of postmodern human activity is Whirreled Musings.

The blogmistress has spent a great deal of posting space in the last few months to covering the impact of Jerry Hicks's death on the whole Abraham-Hicks organization. She's been thorough and conscientious, linking to every source necessary to defend the veracity of everything she writes.

True to form, she has offered a new post that looks into the suicide death of an ex-Aber. The lady that is the subject of this incredibly sad tale tried up to the last day of her life to find some kind of comfort, encouragement, cosmic liberation and supreme peace from the circular reasoning and jargon-rich happy talk that passes for profound spiritual insight among the "monster bus" / "alignment with the vortex" crowd.

The whole "New Age" / "transformational" thrust in our culture has creepy parallels to the narrow range of discourse that is tolerated by leftist ideology. Still not getting that career-changing gig after years of striving to "feel good" / "align with source"? Pissed at having shelled out $41,000 for a Chevy Volt only to have the damn battery blow up? Feeling a little regret at having invested in Solyndra? Sorry, pal, you just didn't get your vibrations in order sufficiently, and there will be no consideration of any other viewpoint on the matter.

It's not an encouraging sign of where we are as a civilization that we swallow such hooey not only readily but with enthusiasm, so hungry are we for validation, salvation, and absolution for the choices we've made with the moments that comprise the truly precious and irreplaceable lives in these mortal coils.

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