Often imitated, never duplicated.
This is one of my articles from a series of articles I wrote in 2009 on New Age deconstruction. It's called "New Age Solipsism," and it was first published on the blog on May 29, 2009.
"This is something so many people are caught up in these days, and it has some really horrid effects socially, culturally, and politically.
This idea of: "Nothing exists outside me."
This concept is basically feeding the already off-the-charts strain of narcissism in Western culture and leads to endless philosophical tail-chasing, navel-gazing, and inaction in any concrete, meaningful ways. It also leads to that very scary level of detachment so commonly asserted: "I live in a different dimension. I've transcended the pain and suffering of Earth. It has nothing to do with me. I'm enlightened."
(I'd just like to point out here - anyone who uses the word "enlightened," isn't. There's nothing worse than premature enlightenment! The New Age sells it in a jar.)
It's some sort of Piscean oneness concept gone way wrong, horribly misapplied to the point that its effect is opposite what was really meant. Instead of understanding the energetic connection among people/situations and the personal responsibility that goes along with that, it promotes a very desired mindset: It's all about you! Nothing exists outside you and your little own bubble of understanding!
It's a prime example of how the New Age latches onto a grain of truth (concepts of holism, for example) and then promotes the misapplication of it.
I was on an internet message board yesterday on a thread where people were talking about Obama and if he is a "lightworker." Someone posted that he was doing the evil deeds of the New World Order.
The reply to that comment from another poster (a huge The Secret fan who is constantly schlepping his website based on it) was a prime example of this solipsism.
Instead of actually talking about Obama and his concrete track record (you know, continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, funneling trillions of dollars of taxpayers' money to international bankers under threat of martial law, attempting to bring in compulsory military service for all citizens 18 - 25, etc., etc.), this dude gets all up on his pseudo-Socratic high horse (another common method with these condescending douches who believe they're "kindly and wisely" pointing out the errors in our perceptions) and asks:
"What is it in yourself that Obama reflects that you've decided is evil?"
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
The old "If you don't like something about someone, it's related to something you don't like about yourself" trex. Bullshit dime-store psychology packaged and sold as "spiritual truth."
His whole ideology is that if there is something you're seeing that
you don't like in the world, you just require more meditation or
cleansing or self-examination or whatever the fuck he prescribes, more
INTERNAL focus, and that will make all the bad stuff go away.
Insanity. Sheer insanity. And the popularity of The Secret (and now, of course, Beyond the Secret!)
has created millions of these people, promoting this same garbage, up
on their "enlightened" high horses about how those of us who see
"darkness" are buying into a "negative belief system" and that we will
only understand the errors of our ways once we get to their "level."
Dear God. And we wonder how Bush et. al. were able to get away with
it all? And how international bankers just robbed the American people
blind under Obama? How all this continues?
It doesn't matter what particular subject you're talking about. "True
believers" of this stuff translate everything into their brand of The Secret-ese.
It all has that very simplistic and meaningless answer. It all goes
back to the same solipsistic ideology and lets them off the hook for any
sort of real analysis or concrete problem-solving.
Don't like poisonous oilsands mucking up your river systems? Well, it's a part of you that's doing it! You're creating it.
Don't like babies being born irradiated and deformed from exposure to
the U.S. Army's depleted uranium munitions? Well, it's connected to
you! You create your own reality, so you're creating that.
They seem to believe constant repetition of this messed-up, solipsistic idiom is meaningful in and of itself.
It's not.
You can see exactly how this is being used by the powers-that-be.
They love the fact that people are going to look at themselves as the
cause of these murderous, destructive regimes and focus internally, rather
than holding those truly responsible accountable for their crimes against humanity.
It's this whole idea of giving institutionalized murder and crime a
New Agey free pass because "we were all murderers in one lifetime or
another!"
Bullshit.
It's the same misuse of concepts like "bad karma" and the caste
system, manipulating people with "spiritual" concepts into accepting
injustice and substandard conditions.
The New World Order (or Global Government) seeks control in four ways - political, monetary, intellectual, and spiritual.
And its clear that the ideology of the New Age movement works
perfectly to subdue and energetically lobotomize the population. They'll
repeat the same old, meaningless idioms, lulling themselves and those
around them into complacency.
A complacent population: just what the
doctor ordered. Unless humanity starts to collectively take a look at
what is really going on, to hold awareness of it and demand
accountability for crimes committed against humanity, these things
continue unchallenged.
All while the "enlightened" crowd sits on their thumbs in some yoga studio.
Oh, but these people are all beyond the archaic political system,
right? It has nothing to do with them up on their enlightened pink
clouds. They see no level of personal accountability at all. It's all in
the hands of the "higher power," which, it turns out, is THEM! (No
wonder these people are so messed up.)
"All part of the divine plan. All part of the divine plan. All part of the divine plan."
The thing is...spiritual hierarchy is over. Dead. Done.
So anyone talking about "enlightenment" is living in an outdated
paradigm. Most of the Love and Light worshippers I've come across are
enamoured of false light. They have little to no intuitive capacity as
far as determining what is real and what isn't and have handed over
their personal discernment powers to external sources.
Many go from fad-to-fad, desperately trying to get their fix of
puffed-up Neptunian glamour, using whatever energy they can find (dirty
or not) to sustain their ride on the spiritual carnival merry-go-round, not wanting to get off to face anything beyond that spinning wheel of
hyper-real lights and mind-spinning ether.
Neptunian energy really can be an intoxicating and addictive
substance, and once you see how people are using/abusing it, it's sad
and enraging at the same time. Most people are better than this.
I see signs of progress, though. There are a lot more people speaking
up about this stuff than there ever were before, challenging the
constantly repeated assertions of the New Age ideology and ideologies of
the day, in general. I think the mass appeal is weakening. People are
speaking up despite the fear of spiritual bullying from the
positivity-pushers. That pressure really was immense. There were (and
still are) so many people lying in wait to latch onto anything they
perceived as "negative" and stuff their ideology down other people's
throats. This dynamic has definitely created self-censorship, and I hope people
continue to break the influence of that.
It's kind of crazy that the positivity-pushers could have that level
of control, considering the weakness of their schtick, but they did and
still do to a great extent.
The other odd thing is how many people who are blatantly promoting
ideology related to the New Age movement do not consider themselves New
Age. (Or at least won't admit it.) The aforementioned The Secret-spouting message board poster is an example, as are quite a few people in astrology circles.
I think it's possible they have no idea what they're promoting when
they constantly spout off this ideology, no real understanding of the
effects this stuff has...
However, in the name of bringing this all to awareness, I definitely
encourage people to speak up and put these New Age regurgitators in
their places. I do it every (clear) chance I get."
All Willow's Web Astrology articles from the blog on Deconstructing the New Age Meme Complex
Zine "Deconstructing New Age: The New Age Movement as a Spiritual Control Mechanism"
2 comments:
This illustrates the false hierarchy and eugenicist ideology promoted by the New Age and Helena Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, et. al.
"Mankind is obviously divided into god-informed men and lower human creatures. The intellectual difference between the Aryan and other civilized nations and such savages as the South Sea Islanders, is inexplicable on any other grounds. No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African Tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites, and the Turanians so called. The 'sacred spark' is missing in them and it is they who are the only inferior races on the globe, now happily – owing to the wise adjustment of nature which ever works in that direction – fast dying out. Verily mankind is 'of one blood,' but not of the same essence. We are the hot-house, artificially quickened plants in nature, having in us a spark, which in them is latent" (The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2, p 421).
Alice Bailey was also a big proponent of the "New World Order" and one world government:
1934 -- The Externalization of the Hierarchy by Alice A. Bailey is published. Bailey is an occultist, whose works are channeled from a spirit guide, the Tibetan Master [demon spirit] Djwahl Kuhl. Bailey uses the phrase "points of light" in connection with a "New Group of World Servers" and claims that 1934 marks the beginning of "the organizing of the men and women...group work of a new order...[with] progress defined by service...the world of the Brotherhood...the Forces of Light...[and] out of the spoliation of all existing culture and civilization, the new world order must be built."
Chad and Lori Daybell (responsible for at least four murders, including two of Lori's children) are illustrations of how dangerous New Age delusions can be. People think New Age is innocuous. It certainly is not.
"They scored people on a "vibration" scale, with those deemed as having high-enough "vibrations" to have special powers, or be "translated."
The Daybells just made up their own hybridized version of the New Age paradigm. New Age teaches that there is a hierarchy of "vibrations" with the "highly-vibrating" New Agers at the top of the heap. They also believe the "highly vibrating" people will "ascend to the 5th dimension" and the 3D, "density-dwellers" will simply die off or disappear. It's the same thing. A form of false spiritual hierarchy with roots to spiritual eugenics.
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