Is New Age Spirituality Or A Money Maker?

like “amazing health”, or “electrifying sexual experience”. Quality spiritual knowledge ultimately includes a service for humanity, helping the poor, doing charity, etc., which is the core of all religions.

The greatest criticism of New Age comes from the indigenous Indians. Lakota people have “Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality”. Among critics of the “white witchdoctors” are Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Indian tribe) and Wendy Rose (the Hopi tribe), but many others, too.

The declaration mentioned above contains statements like this:

WHEREAS sacrilegious “sundances” for non-Indians are being conducted by charlatans and cult leaders who promote abominable and obscene imitations of our sacred Lakota sundance rites; and

WHEREAS academic disciplines have sprung up at colleges and universities institutionalizing the sacrilegious imitation of our spiritual practices by students and instructors under the guise of educational programs in “shamanism;” and…</i>

René Guénon, a famous French mystic, says that our universe is not a random or evolutionary manifestation. Traditional creation concepts of the world are not products of “clairvoyants”, but are based on the cosmological context which Hindus call the Mahayuga (four Yugas). Guénon thinks the Hindu cycle is the most complex one.

It is important to distinguish the following things: 1) religious metaphysics and esotericism, and 2) magic and New Age occultism.

All forms of God may exist and may work as one body that springs from One Source for the good. Things that are not good deserve their proper name. Things that are good should be kept on places where they have developed as good, because the thing that makes them

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