Has the New Age movement failed you

[Moonburn33]

chocolate/carob chip cookies work so much better than crystals at "stablizing your aura"

[need]

My two cents,

fortunately new age is too weak to really be of value to anybody, false stuff with some truth mixed in, this leads to dangerous situations and wasteful curiosity. They take advantage of people's  intentions , give them intentions they never had ,and when you get into a problem, no-one has the key because they don't have it. Rarely will there be any good information 95% flakely stuff and 5% something possibly real. The new age is full of quasi-gimmickery, everything is supposed to heal you for a charge few places work for free. Books sell emptiness, only we do not have the eyes to see. Emptiness leads to emptiness, something radical is the only way out of that trap. We know how to buy emptiness, we never suspect we are getting not much.

Support systems in the entire world are almost non-existent in many different areas, need support from the new age? forget it , it comes with a charge and it doesn't work. They don't give you a key, they give you a maze. Complicate rather than simplify. Talk to new agers ad most with these belisfs and if you have anything differnt to their conformity, they will never comfirm your findings, the new age is not as free thinking as so many think it is, it drains you, confuses you and gives you more unpeace not less. There has to be another way.

Notice more and more psychics give readings in closed environment, wise psychics who want the money lock you into the room, can't leave until money is on the table, this is more and more common. They sell emptiness, we don't intuit our truth and they won't tell you, they are draining you. The New Age is a new movement to easily invasive hooking itself into lives and taking a lot out of people. There needs to be a new wave of New Age.

On the positive side there is a wealth of new avenues opening up to us and can be set out in a more helpful manner instead of dictating the way it seems to be, would actually need to be more exploratory in nature and confirmatory result wise.New Age encourages in contradiction to most spirituality all the traps that do not indicate spiritual wisdom. In it's current phase the New Age is a mind trip with not much validation to life on the ground, the complete opposite infact. It's a brainwash but isn't it fascinating trying to sort the wheat from the chaff. This is my cynical thought but despite all this there is still some sort of value there

[Tony M.]

The New Age movement may be a "threat" to dumb people, who follow what others say and don't think for themselves.

The New Age movement hasn't failed me, because I'm not part of a movement. I just follow my own path and don't take excrement from some book. I am the one who decides what is true for me. Just use common sense and intuition and not much can go wrong if you ask me. New Age books have changed my life and didn't make it more complicated. If you get lost in everything that the New Age movement proclaims, it's your own fault. Don't search outside yourself when something goes wrong, search your inside.

[Mustardseed]

I am interested in asking this question not so much as a reaction to Beths thread about the church and their failings but more as to examine if, what fails people, is individuals and their behaviour rather than religious organisations and teachings. I was the first to post on the thread about the church failing me and vented quite a bit. I thought it was a great idea. However since posting I thought a lot about it and decided not to make a spectacle of myself and I deleted it. It was some quite private things.So anyone out there.