Dissecting The New Age Movement, Part I: Who Is Looking Out For The Health Of The Nation?

"Dr. Elizabeth Targ, a psychiatrist at the Pacific College of Medicine in San Francisco, has,...tested out prayer on critically ill AIDS patients.

All 20 patients in the study got pretty much the same medical treatment, but only half of them were prayed for by spiritual healers. Ultimately, 10 of the prayed-for patients lived, while four who had not been prayed for died.

In a larger follow-up study, Targ found that the people who received prayer and remote healing had six times fewer hospitalizations and those hospitalizations were significantly shorter than the people who received no prayer and distant healing.

'I was sort of shocked,' says Targ. 'In a way it's like witnessing a miracle. There was no way to understand this from my experience and from my basic understanding of science.'

Dr. Deepak Chopra believes 'there is a realm of reality which goes beyond the physical.' (ABCNEWS.com)

Dr. Deepak Chopra, who is well-known for his insights on science and spirituality, says these prayer experiments are proving what he's been saying all along: There are healing forces in nature that science is only beginning to understand.

'What physicists are saying to us right now,' he says, 'is that there is a realm of reality which goes beyond the physical … where in fact we can influence each other from a distance.'"

-- Noetic Science.com

I'm re-printing this to use it as a jump-off point, as a way to highlight the outright lies we're being fed by NewAgers - in cahoots with the media - to influence people into joining the ranks of The NewAge Movement. I also want to begin to show it is a movement, with many groups and individuals working together, to make an unknowing public think lies are truth and truth are lies.

See the banner above? I didn't make it. Somebody else did - somebody who is part of the movement. So there is a movement, and you've heard about it - even without much in the way of publicity - and, like all movements, those who are in it are doing things to attain certain goals. One of The NewAge Movement's goals is to covertly influence the rest of us. To work on us, without our knowing about it - that's why there's so little publicity or serious news investigations - which is dirty. And it is now those unethical people who are the ones influencing the collective mind, and politics, of the Western World - AND - though they do not have complete control yet, they have begun to get the upper hand.

Now, Noetic Science.com is your typical "fringe" NewAge site, filled with imagery of "spiritual" stuff (pictures of Buddhist monks, praying hands, etc.) but they ripped the text, above, straight from ABC News. So both of them (Noetic Science.com and ABC News) are using the same well-known quack, "Doctor" Elizabeth Targ, as a reference - though her studies were flawed, and her scientifically-NewAge beliefs caused her to die a sad, pathetic death - a fact ABC News and Noetic Science, both, could have easily discovered using Google.

They are, both, also using "Doctor" Deepak Chopra, the famous NewAge quack I covered recently for his anti-American comments on CNN - a venue where he had no place speaking, on a subject with which he has no expertise - not that he has expertise on any subject except for the gullibility of the public and fraud.

So ask yourself, why are these three supposed "information sources" (one, supposedly, looking out for your health and spiritual well-being, and the others - supposedly - for "news" to assist in your education and information needs) telling you outright lies and using the words of two delusional frauds as evidence? Because they're all - the quacks, the newscasts, and the spiritual believers - all of them are in the cult of The NewAge Movement. And they're not the only ones.

Is anyone going to sincerely think ABC News and CNN don't have the resources to know and print the truth behind two NewAge quack doctors? (Chopra's crimes should've been exposed years ago, but he's still a regular in such trusted media venues as PBS.) Has the press been telling us the truth about anything else - especially anything of importance? And why, if they aren't doing it, aren't they doing it?

I've got to go, but ponder that until I get back - and look around the site for more (I'm hoping this one post, with all these links and where they lead, will be enough to keep you busy for a while) - because I'll be picking this up, here, when I return.

12/4/08 UPDATE: This post was slightly re-written, today, for clarity - and the following link was added, above, so readers could understand the pathetic and sad tale of Elizabeth Targ - to show how NewAge beliefs (which most people think are "harmless") are actually a trap of delusional ideas that, ultimately, do great harm.