ACE LIGHTWORKERS – NEW ASCENSION AGE – 12/21/2012New Media-New Politics-New Ascension Center Enlightenment – New TJ I never considered that my upbringing was programming in the Christian world to which I was born. I was actually born into the Southern Baptist Convention or association at birth. I had to go to church because that was how my life was lived with my family as a child. It was not until I became an adult that I was able to choose which churches I would attend. I lived the life I was supposed to and went to Church like I was supposed too. To me, Church and religion was like school and education. They were expected and how we lived in the South in the USA. I loved my life then and still do now. I simply am not as concerned about attending a church which my husband says are glorified social clubs. Now, I realize that I was drawn to the life I have lived because of my spirit and my new path was one that I chose and created. I was exploring, researching, and learning as I went along. It was not until one day a messenger was sent to me that I had read enough books and had enough personal experiences that I should now teach. It took me another few years before I was approached again by another messenger and was told I was reminded a second time that I was to go and teach those who remained on earth. It was hard for me to understand why I should spend time teaching others when I still did not know what life was all about myself. There were many mystical experiences I still wanted to have and I had not yet learned what was causing them. I now realize that teaching is a calling and one that is highly appraised in other worlds. However, we must first call upon our memories and past life experiences in order to make this world and work a better place for ourselves. There are now people on this planet like me. We are all working together although we may not know who each other are in the body-mind-spirit but yet, we can feel each other’s presence and share in the existence of energy as spirit. This is what we are now calling the Ascension Center Enlightenment. I was given the words Ascension Center by those from above who we call extraterrestrials in some social circles. I am told now that much of my Christian beliefs are tied into that of the New Age Movement. I had never placed a label on my interests I only knew that I was drawn to the New Age books when I entered a book store. No one ever came up to me and explained to me that I should join a church, club, or organization called New Age. It just was something that was out there to explore, research, learn about, and apparently now be called to share in with my lifetime experiences and stories. I have found a home in various places in the world and now am looking for friends to share life with in cyberspace and we use the Internet. My husband, Tom does not want any part of the Internet and Cyberspace. He is not alone. This concerns me because there are so many intelligent beings in the world that are missing the friendship and knowledge that one can find on the Internet. The way we now live on earth is complicated and requires energy and time for our obligations such as family, and school There are many who are required to spend at least 8 hours a day at a full time and some a part-time job in order to sustain their lifestyles. We all must realize that it is our differences that make us interesting and yet we are all learning what makes us the same and yet different. We shall begin to learn how our piece of the puzzle or shard of glass fits into the big picture of life. It was not until I became willing to share and teach what I knew inside to be my truth about my spirit and my past lives on earth and what I learned from them that I felt like I could reach out to others. It was the friends I found in Hawaii 1989-1990 where I was given the inspiration to become the Founder of the Ascension Center. I was not told that it would be part of something called the New Age back then but I knew that there was such a movement in the books that were written. There was the Llewellyn Books www.llewellyn.com/ and others including the Bear and Inner Traditions Inner Traditions – Bear & Company, Together Inner Traditions · Bear & Company have eleven imprints: Inner Traditions, Bear& Company, Healing Arts Press, Destiny Books, Park Street Press, …www.innertraditions.com/ I use Google everyday and find that it has become easier to navigate and to find out more. I use Firefox, and sometimes Bing. I enjoy certain web browsers and creating websites. For now, I shall do what I can to leave my energy behind on the Internet. Please know that when I expire like all others who come to earth that unless certain of my articles are archived and kept by others that all the information will simply fade away. Therefore, if you want to keep some of the information we share on the Internet for your own or your future family members, one might want to learn to keep a copy on disk somewhere in the physical. Books will always be on earth and I know this because there are still copied in space by some who are of the other galaxies for reading. Most are the great classics and stories but who knows, some of us may make a lifetime impression and our works will be kept in space because we may make a difference for those who come to earth and those who travel in space. TJ -(Adding the rest to hopefully be archived and kept by those who care to make the world and space a better place for the good of all.). This is chiefly composed from a compilation of information with various contributors where we can all share in our information on what we all now use called Wikipedia. I support the Wikipedia and advocate its use. Please feel free to share information and research to be shared with others and as peers of the New Age, we can share our knowledge and information while raising consciousness for our world. TJ I include this information as an article for the convenience of all our Ascension Center Enlightenment Lightworkers who are assisting in this time while on earth. We can all share in our various shards of truth to make up a better and complete puzzle of this existence we call life on earth. There are various ways we can share in life, communities, and awareness while we spread our abundance and our new motto of the Ace Institute of Philosophy and Technology, of the Ascension Center Enlightenment. “Shift and Uplift Health and Prosperity for all!” Those who desire to share more of my stories and me can visit me at social paranormal.com and theresamorris.com. I also share americannewsmagazine.com with the world. Life can be what we make it with our own free will and free choice to compile memories. We can take our memories with us as treasures of our spirit back to our soul and home world. I believe we are only visiting this planet! Some of us are coming forward and admitting that we are committed to sharing our memories which are our accumulated treasures through our spirit incarnate that returns back to our soul Some still regard our spirit as the same as our soul. This is like saying that Christ is God and vice versa. To some, we see the two as separate. This is still a form of theism and pantheism inside our minds with separation and categories. We have new groups on the Internet among our websites, which include our pages, categories, and archives where we keep our memories on our websites. The updates that we make in life now as we live them is what we present as new posts and our stories in life are what we now share on our websites, our blogs, and on some new places we can all access like Facebook and Twitter. It is great that the authorities are allowing us to share the area of our existence that we presently regard as Cyberspace. This place we all meet deals with our making our presence known while we are in body-mind-spirit. Maybe some of us are willing to raise our conscious awareness to greater heights in the Akashic Field that exists beyond the creation of our energy in Cyberspace we use on the Internet for communication purposes. There is a place we can all visit and agree to new experiences. There are some in the New Age Movement that agree it is time to share more! We call some of those above who come and go in the extraterrestrial visitation spacecraft, ET. Steven Spielberg with his movie ET made this popular. I shall always remember his Close Encounters movie, which changed my life that day. I actually had to be taken to the Emergency Room at a hospital where I learned that many people were brought it the same time due to the premier of the movie in my town called Houston in Texas, USA. I was given a paper bag to breathe into. I was told I hyperventilated. I was changed because I knew it was time to share the truth that in me was secret. I knew that there would be more people who like me who could share their sightings of these spacecraft not of earth origin that many liked to use the word UFO for convenience, which was an acronym for Unidentified Flying Objects. I knew from my past near death experience (NDE) how to have Out of Body (OBE) and it was the movie GHOST with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore that influenced me once more and changed my life. Life changes through visualization in movies are the major tool that can be used to change the world in which we live. Television is also a medium to change that, which in the past was not in our psyche. The Critical Mass Consciousness is changing in the NEW MEDIA, which is influenced by the NEW AGE. While there is no unified belief system, many spiritual practices and philosophies are common among adherents of the New Age Movement. ”New Age movement” and “New Age spirituality” can be redirect at the source for most all information shared in this article, which came from source – Wikipedia.. For other uses, see New Age (disambiguation).(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Main articles: Spirituality and List of New Age topicsSee also: Outline of spirituality and List of philosophies ?New Age spirituality often incorporates aspects of the Earth, Moon, and outer space; the term New Age refers to the coming AstrologicalAge of Aquarius. [1]The New Age movement is a spiritual and quasi-religious Western movement that developed in the latter half of the twentieth century. Its central precepts revolve around “drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational psychology, holistic health, parapsychology, consciousness research and quantum physics”[2] in order to create “a spirituality without borders or confining dogmas” that is inclusive and pluralistic.[3] Another of its primary traits is holding to “a holistic worldview”,[4] thereby emphasizing that the Mind, Body and Spirit are interrelated[1] and that there is a form of Oneness and unity throughout the universe.[5] It further attempts to create “a worldview that includes both science and spirituality”[6] and thereby embraces a number of forms of science and pseudo-science. According to historian Nevill Drury, the origins of the movement can be found in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly through the works of the esotericists Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Anton Mesmer, Helena Blavatsky and George Gurdjieff, who laid some of the basic philosophical principles that would later influence the movement. It would gain further momentum in the 1960s, taking influence frommetaphysics, self-help psychology, and the various Indian gurus who visited the West during that decade. [7] The New Age movement includes elements of older spiritual and religious traditions ranging from atheism and monotheism through classical pantheism, naturalistic pantheism, and panentheism to polytheism combined with science and Gaia philosophy; particularly Archaeoastronomy, astronomy, ecology, environmentalism, the Gaia hypothesis, psychology, and physics. New Age practices and philosophies sometimes draw inspiration from major world religions: Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism; with strong influences from East Asian religions, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Thought, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Universalism, andWestern esotericism.[8]OriginsHistorian Nevill Drury identified “four key precursors of the New Age”, who had set the way for many of its widely held precepts. [9] The first of these was Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), a Swedish scientist who after a religious experience devoted himself to Christian mysticism, believing that he could travel to Heaven and Hell and commune with angels, demons and spirits, and who published widely on the subject of his experiences. The second was Franz Mesmer (1734-1815), who had developed a form of healing using magnets, believing that there was a force known as “animal magnetism” that affected humans. The third figure whom Drury identified was the Russian Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891); one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, through which she propagated her religious movement of Theosophy, which itself combined a number of elements from Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism in with Western elements. The fourth figure was the Turkish George Gurdjieff (c.1872-1949), who founded the philosophy of the Fourth Way, through which he taught a number of spiritual teachings to his disciples. A fifth individual whom Drury identified as an important influence upon the New Age movement was the IndianSwami Vivekananda (1863-1902), an adherent of the philosophy of Vedanta who first brought Hinduism to the West in the late nineteenth century. [10] TERM NEW AGEWilliam Blake who described a belief in a spiritual and artistic “New Age” in his preface to Milton used the term New Age as early as 1809.Some of the New Age movement’s constituent elements appeared initially in 19th-century metaphysical movements Spiritualism, Theosophy, and New Thought; also, alternative medicine movements chiropractic and naturopathy.[1][5] These movements in turn have roots inTranscendentalism, Mesmerism, Swedenborgianism, and various earlier Western esoteric or occult traditions, such as the hermetic arts of astrology, magic, alchemy, and Kabbalah. The term New Age was used in this context in Madame Blavatsky’s book The Secret Doctrine, published in 1888. [11]A weekly journal of Christian liberalism and socialism titled The New Age was published as early as 1894; [12] it was sold to a group of socialist writers headed by Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson in 1907. Other historical personalities were involved: H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats; the magazine became a forum for politics, literature, and the arts. [13][14] Between 1908 and 1914, it was instrumental in pioneering the British avant-garde from vorticism to imagism. After 1914, publisher Orage met P. D. Ouspensky, a follower of G. I. Gurdjieff, and began correspondence with Harry Houdini, becoming less interested in literature and art, with an increased focus on mysticism and other spiritual topics; the magazine was sold in 1921. According to Brown University, The New Age “… helped to shape modernism in literature and the arts from 1907 to 1922.”[15]DevelopmentPopularization behind these ideas has roots in the work of early 20th-century writers such as D. H. Lawrence and William Butler Yeats. In the early to mid-1900s, American mystic, theologian, and founder of the Association for Research and Enlightenment Edgar Cayce was a seminal influence on what later would be termed the New Age movement; he was known in particular for the practice some refer to aschanneling.[16] Former Theosophist Rudolf Steiner and his Anthroposophical Movement are a major influence. Neo-Theosophist Alice Baileypublished the book Discipleship in the New Age (1944), which used the term New Age in reference to the transition from the Astrological Ageof Pisces to Aquarius. While claims of racial bias in the writings of Rudolf Steiner and Alice Bailey were made,[17] Alice A. Bailey was firmly opposed to the Axis powers (according to Bailey, Adolf Hitler was possessed by the Dark Forces [18]) , and Steiner emphasized racial equality as a principle central to anthroposophical thought and humanity’s progress.[19][20] Any racial elements from these influences have not remained part of the Anthroposophical Society as contemporary adherents of the society have either not adopted or repudiated these beliefs.[21][22] Another early usage of the term, was by the American artist, mystic, and philosopher Walter Russell, who spoke of “… this New Age philosophy of the spiritual re-awakening of man …” in his essay “Power Through Knowledge”, which was also published in 1944.Carl Jung was an early articulator of the concept of the Age of Aquarius. [23] In a letter to H. G. Baynes, dated 12 August 1940, he wrote in a passage concerning the destruction of the temple of Karnak by an earthquake in 26 BC: “1940 is the year when we approach the meridian of the first star in Aquarius. It is the premonitory earthquake of the New Age.”[24]SUBCULTURE OF NEW AGEThe subculture that later became known as New Age already existed in the early 1970s, based on and adopting ideas originally present in the counterculture of the 1960s. The Findhorn Foundation – anintentional community near Findhorn, Moray, Scotland founded in 1962 – played an instrumental role during the early growth period of the New Age movement;[citation needed] it continues to operate the Findhorn Ecovillage. (Findhorn Ecovillage.)Widespread use of the term New Age began in the mid-1970s (reflected in the title of monthly periodical New Age Journal) and probably influenced several thousand small metaphysical book- and gift-stores that increasingly defined themselves as “New Age bookstores”.[25][26] As a result of the large-scale activities surrounding the Harmonic Convergence in 1987, the American mass media further popularized the term as a label for the alternative spiritual subculture, including practices such as meditation, channeling, crystal healing, astral projection, psychic experience, holistic health,simple living, and environmentalism; or belief in phenomena such as Earth mysteries, ancient astronauts, extraterrestrial life, unidentified flying objects, crop circles, and reincarnation. A range of New Age publications appeared by the late 1980s such as Psychic Guide (later renamed Body, Mind & Spirit), Yoga Journal, New Age Voice, New Age Retailer, and NAPRA Review by the New Age Publishers and Retailers Alliance.Several key moments occurred in raising public awareness of this subculture: the publication of Linda Goodman’s best selling astrology books Sun Signs (1968) and Love Signs (1978); Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1967) with its opening song “Aquarius” and its memorable line “This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius” [emphasis added]; the broadcast of Shirley MacLaine’s television mini-series Out on a Limb (1987); and the Harmonic Convergence (1987) organized by José Argüelles in Sedona, Arizona. Also influential[citation needed]were the claims of channelers Jane Roberts (the Seth Material) and J. Z. Knight (Ramtha), as well as revealed writings A Course in Miracles(1976) by Helen Schucman, The Celestine Prophecy (1993) by James Redfield, and Conversations with God (1995) by Neale Donald Walsch. Relevant works also include the writings of Eckhart Tolle, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, John Holland, Gary Zukav, and Wayne Dyer; also, The Secret (2006) by Rhonda Byrne, which was based on the writings of Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks.While authors J. Gordon Melton,[27] Wouter Hanegraaff,[28] and Paul Heelas[29] have emphasized the above-mentioned personal aspects,Mark Satin,[30] Theodore Roszak,[31] Marilyn Ferguson,[32] and Corinne McLaughlin[33] have described New Age as a values-based sociopolitical movement.Philosophy and CosmologyMain articles: Philosophy and CosmologyTheism There is a general and abstract idea of God, understood in many ways and seen as superseding the need to anthropomorphize deity.Spiritual beings Many believe that gods, angels, Ascended Masters, elementals, ghosts, faeries, Spirit guides and extraterrestrials can spiritually guide a person, if they open themselves to their guidance.[34]Afterlife Consciousness persists after death as life in different forms; the afterlife exists for further learning through the form of a spirit,reincarnation and/or near-death experiences.[35] The New Age belief in reincarnation is different than the Buddhist or Hindu concepts in that the New Age religion believes that a soul can be born into a spiritual realm or even on a far-away planet and there is no desire to end this process.[36] There may be a belief in hell, but typically not in the traditional Christian sense or Islamic sense of eternal damnation.Universalist views of the afterlife are common.Age of Aquarius The current time period is claimed by some astrologers to be the dawning of the Age of Aquarius correlated to various changes in the world and some claim that the early 1960s was the actual beginning of the Age of Aquarius, though this claim is highly contentious. Common claims about the developments associated with the Age of Aquarius include, but are not limited to, human rights, democracy, innovative technology, electricity, computers, and aviation. Esoteric claims are that the Age of Aquarius will see a rise in consciousness.[11]Astrology Horoscopes and the Zodiac are used in understanding, interpreting, and organizing information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters.[37] Teleology Life has a purpose; this includes a belief in synchronicity—that coincidences have spiritual meaning and lessons to teach those who are open to them. Everything is universally connected through God and participates in the same energy.[38] There is a cosmic goal and a belief that all entities are (knowingly or unknowingly) cooperating towards this goal.Indigo children Children are being born with a more highly developed spiritual power than earlier generations.[39][40]Interpersonal relationships There are opportunities to learn about one’s self and relationships are destined to be repeated until they are healthy.[41] Those in the New Age movement accept women’s complete equality in all aspects of society including religion and the complete acceptance of one’ssexual orientation, whether heterosexual, homosexual (gay or lesbian), bisexual, transgender, or intersexual as a means of spiritual development. A number of New Age people practice Tantric sex as an aspect of Tantric yoga.[42]Intuition An important aspect of perception – offset by a somewhat strict rationalism – noted especially in the works of psychologist Carl Jung.[43]Optimism Positive thinking supported by affirmations will achieve success in anything;[44] this is based on the concept that Thought Creates. Therefore, as one begins focusing attention and consciousness on the positive, on the “half-filled” glass of water, reality starts shifting and materializing the positive intentions and aspects of life. A certain critical mass of people with a highly spiritual consciousness will bring about a sudden change in the whole population.[45] Humans have a responsibility to take part in positive creative activity and to work to heal ourselves, each other and the planet.[46]Human Potential Movement The human mind has much greater potential than that ascribed to it[47][48][49] and is even capable of overriding physical reality.[50]Spiritual healing Humans have potential healing powers, such as therapeutic touch, which can be developed to heal others through touch or at a distance.[51] Religion and ScienceMain articles: Religion and ScienceFurther information: Relationship between religion and science and Quantum mind–body problemEclecticism New Age spirituality is characterized by an individual approach to spiritual practices and philosophies, and the rejection of religiousdoctrine and dogma.[52]Matriarchy Feminine forms of spirituality, including feminine images of the divine, such as the female Aeon Sophia in Gnosticism, are deprecated by patriarchal religions.[5]?Stonehenge and other ancient sites are revered by many who practice New Age spirituality.Ancient civilizations Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, and other lost lands existed.[53] Relics such as the crystal skulls and monuments such as Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza were left behind.Psychic perception Certain geographic locations emanate psychic energy (sometimes through ley lines) and were considered sacred in pagan religions throughout the world.[54]Eastern world practices Meditation, Yoga, Tantra, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, martial arts, Tai chi chuan, Falun Gong,Qigong, Reflexology, Reiki, and other Eastern practices may assist in focusing spirituality.Diet Food influences both the mind and body; it is generally preferable to practice vegetarianism by eating fresh organic food, which is locally grown and in season.[55][56] Fasting may be used.[57]Mathematics An appeal to the language of nature and mathematics, as evidenced by numerology, Kabbalah,[58] Sacred geometry, and Gnosticism to discern the nature of God.Science Quantum mechanics, parapsychology, and the Gaia hypothesis have been used in quantum mysticism to explain spiritual principles.[59]Authors Deepak Chopra, Fritjof Capra, Fred Alan Wolf, and Gary Zukav have linked quantum mechanics to New Age spirituality, which is presented in the film What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004); also, in connection with the Law of Attraction, which is related to New Thought and presented in the film The Secret (2006). They have interpreted the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, quantum entanglement, wave function collapse, or the many-worlds interpretation to mean that all objects in the universe are one (monism), that possibility and existence are endless, and that the physical world is only what one believes it to be. In medicine, such practices as therapeutic touch, homeopathy, chiropractic, and naturopathy involve hypotheses and treatments that have not been accepted by the conventional, science-based medical community through the normal course of empirical testing.[60][61]Lifestyle?New Age shop in St Albans, UKNew Age spirituality has led to a wide array of literature on the subject and an active niche market; books, music, crafts, and services in alternative medicine are available at New Age stores, fairs, andfestivals.[62][63]DemographicsPeople who practice New Age spirituality or embrace its lifestyle are included in the Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) demographic market segment, currently in a growth phase, related to sustainable living, green ecological initiatives, and generally composed of a relatively affluent and well-educated segment.[64][65] The LOHAS market segment in 2006 was estimated at USD$300 billion, approximately 30 percent of the United States consumer market.[66][67] According to The New York Times, a study by the Natural Marketing Institute showed that in 2000, 68 million Americans were included within the LOHAS demographic. The sociologist Paul H. Ray, who coined the term Cultural Creatives in his book The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (2000), states, “What you’re seeing is a demand for products of equal quality that are also virtuous.”[68][69]Holistic healthMain articles: Holistic health and Alternative medicineSee also: List of branches of alternative medicinePractitioners of New Age spirituality may use alternative medicine in addition to or in place of conventional medicine;[63][70] while some conventional physicians have adopted aspects or the complete approach of holistic health.MusicMain articles: New Age music and Ambient musicSee also: List of New Age music artists and List of ambient artistsNew Age music is peaceful music of various styles, which is intended to create inspiration, relaxation, and positive feelings while listening. Studies have determined that New Age music can be an effective component of stress management. [71] Some New Age music albums come with notes to encourage use in meditation.This style began in the 1970s with the works of free-form jazz groups recording on the ECM label; such as Oregon, the Paul Winter Group, and other pre-ambient bands; as well as ambient music performer Brian Eno and classical avant-garde musician Daniel Kobialka. In the early 1970s, it was mostly instrumental with both acoustic and electronic styles. New Age music evolved to include a wide range of styles from electronic space music using synthesizers and acoustic instrumentals using Native American flutes and drums, singing bowls, and world music sounds to spiritual chanting from other cultures.Sustainable livingMain articles: Sustainable living, Sustainability, and Simple livingSee also: List of intentional communitiesThere is an emphasis on living in a simple sustainable way that attempts to reduce an individual’s or society’s use of the Earth’s natural resources and shuns the consumer society.[72][73]ReceptionOrganized religionMain articles: Comparative religion and A Christian reflection on the New AgeMichigan attorney and activist Constance Cumbey offered the first major criticism of the New Age movement from a Christian perspective inThe Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and Our Coming Age of Barbarism (1983).[74]In 2003, following a six year study, the Roman Catholic Church published a 90 page document A Christian reflection on the New Age which was highly critical of New Age practices such as yoga, meditation, feng shui and healing by crystals. [75][76] The Vatican stated that euphoric states attained through New Age practices such as meditation and yoga should not be confused with prayer or assumed to be signs of the presence of God.[77][78]Monsignor Michael Fitzgerald stated at the Vatican conference on A Christian Reflection on the New Age that the “Church avoids any concept that is close to those of the New Age”. Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said that the “New Age is a misleading answer to the oldest hopes of man.”[78]Expressing general agreement with the views expressed by the 2003 Vatican document, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Conventionsaid that there would be widespread agreement among Baptists that New Age ideas are contrary to Christian tradition and doctrine.[79]MarxistMarxism is generally critical of the New Age movement, as with all religious activity and experience. Marxists regard the idea of spirituality, including New Age, as a form of what Engels called False Consciousness and that it is just superstition that goes against provable fact. Instead, as materialistic rationalists, they believe that either if a ghost or miracle (for example) cannot be explained, science has not advanced fully to explain it or that if something cannot be explained, it does not exist. They would also consider the New Age Movement an ideology suited to globalization and late capitalism that treats belief as a commodity to be traded and that the pick and mix approach is just the illusion of individuality.Post Marxists argue that the economic base and ideological superstructure is the same thing and that New Age Ideas are suited to late capitalism, as they believe that identities are fluid and co modifiable.Integral theoryMain article: Integral theoryThe author Ken Wilber posits that most New Age thought falls into what he termed the pre/trans fallacy.[80] According to Wilber, humandevelopmental psychology moves from the pre-personal, through the personal, then to the transpersonal (spiritually advanced or enlightened) level.[81] He regards 80 percent of New Age spirituality as pre-rational (pre-conventional) and as relying primarily on mythic-magical thinking; this contrasts with a post-rational (including and transcending rational) genuinely world-centric consciousness.[80][81]Indigenous peoples of the AmericasMain article: Indigenous peoples of the AmericasSome adherents of traditional disciplines such as the Lakota people, a tribe of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, reject the term New Age. They see the movement it represents as not fully understanding, deliberately trivializing, or distorting their disciplines. [82]They have coined the term plastic shaman to describe individuals who identify themselves as shamans, holy people, or other traditional spiritual leaders, but who have no genuine connection to the traditions or cultures they claim to represent. The academic Ward Churchill has criticized the New Age movement as an instrument of cultural imperialism that is exploitative of indigenous cultures by reducing it to a commodity to be traded. In Fantasies of the Master Race, he criticizes the cultural appropriation of Native American culture and symbols in not only the New Age movement, but in art and popular culture. [83]Goddess movementMembers of the Goddess movement have severely criticized the New Age as fundamentally patriarchal, analytical rather than intuitive, and as supporting the status quo, particularly in its implicit gender roles. Monica Sjöö, who worked with Zsuzsanna Budapest, Starhawk and other feminist pagans, pointed out that New Age “channels” were virtually all women, but the “spirits” they purported to channel, offering guidance to humanity, were nearly all male. Sjöö was highly critical of Theosophy; the I AM Activity, and particularly Alice Bailey, whom she saw as promoting Nazi-like “Aryan” ideals. Sjöö’s writings also condemn the New Age for its support of communication and information processing technologies which, she believes, may produce harmful low-level electromagnetic radiation.[84][85][86]See also? Spirituality portal? Philosophy portal? Astrology portal? Environment portal? Ecology portal? Sustainable development portal 2012 phenomenonEco-communalismHigher consciousnessNew Age communitiesParadigm shiftSocial equalitySpiritual evolution^ a b c New Age Transformed J. Gordon Melton, Director Institute for the Study of American Religion. 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