| Reincarnation, auras, and energizing crystals -- surely these are the stuff of fairy tales, nothing more. People don't really speak to ancient Egyptian holy men, or listen seriously to Shirley MacLaine, for that matter -- do they? Drawing from a range of occult, pagan, and pseudo-scientific traditions, the New Age Movement is broad, diffuse, hard to nail down -- and insidiously dangerous. Its belief in the"e,divinity of humanity,"e, its emphasis on"e,self-actualization,& uote, and its looking forward to a coming utopian"e,new world"e, have tremendous appeal. But does it have the truth? |
