Metaphysical Pit Stop

Here, let me take a few quotes and break down some of the world you think you know, and show you how NewAge has already warped it beyond recognition:

Presidential ambitions squandered:

"There was nothing legit,...about [Reille] Hunter’s behavior. It was freaky, wildly inappropriate, and all too visible. She flirted outlandishly with every man she met. She spouted New Age babble, rambled on about astrology and reincarnation, and announced to people she had just met, 'I’m a witch.' But mostly, she fixated on [John] Edwards."

Presidential minds warped:

"The president of Slovenia has given up his palace for a mountain hut and habitually decks himself in leaves to celebrate nature.

Adopting a New Age existence after being diagnosed with cancer, Janez Drnovsek, 56, has moved from the presidential palace in Ljubljana to the village of Zaplana, where he lives alone with his dog on a vegan diet of organic fruit and vegetables, while he bakes his own bread.

He has even been known to 'greet the trees' by dressing up in cloaks of leaves."

And, since she's doing such a bang-up job, let's not leave out our current Secretary of State:

"Bernstein's biography reveals a genuinely spiritual woman whose religious convictions often seemed self-righteous and even a bit bizarre: 'She dabbled in New Age spiritualism, almost always carried with her an underlined and dog-eared book of celestial axioms, and welcomed into the White House Solarium a pair of feminist oracles who channeled her into Eleanor Roosevelt’s soul.' (p. 10)"

Or how about our culture itself? This quote from Camille Paglia has been accurately updated with the "NewAge" film Avatar:

"The New Age movement, to which I belong, was a distillation of the 1960s' multicultural attraction to world religions, but it has failed thus far to produce important work in the visual arts. The search for spiritual meaning has been registering in popular culture instead through science fiction, as in George Lucas' six-film Star Wars saga, with its evocative master myth of the 'Force.'"

And, finally, I'll leave you with this for now - not because it's all I've got to make my point, but because I just got home and I'm tired:

"In Reflections of Her Mountain Look, Linda French relates the heroic story of one woman's struggle to expose the evil of a religious cult and a judicial system that failed her."

Yea, tell me about it. By ignoring The NewAge Movement, we're failing our fellow citizens, our country, our world, and ourselves.