to
learn and practice it. I have no expectations and they are not really important. I will know when the
time is right if it is something I want to study or something I don’t. Either way, life will
go on, the world will turn, and change will happen. Not a lot of people (except me) will care
what I read or what I learn from it, to be frank. And that’s ok.
Whatever we read, learn, practice, etc. it is not to improve others, it is to improve ourselves.
We often get that mixed up. “I am going to learn this so I can ‘save the world’ or ‘teach it
something special’.” Oh, if only that were true. My learnings have been that only when we
improve ourselves, not our wives, not our cousins, not our grouchy uncle or in-laws, do we improve
the world.
And there are other New Age Religions and schools of thought. Though many offer
excellent pragmatic practices to work on the body, soul, spirit (though I do not practice the
religion of Buddhism, for instance, I am impressed with it introducing us to incorporating
the body, along with the mind and spirit, as even modern medicine seems to agree they
are all interconnected, and yoga, meditation, etc. seems to help many no matter what their
religion, or if they have none at all.
Other than the aforementioned religions, though I certainly cannot berate anything
“New Age” as I have seen such programs help many people, I have reached a conclusion after
studying (and even practicing) some of them, there really is nothing new but the words and
interpretations and sometimes those are lacking.
If I have “a beef” with anything New Age, it is the ones we have seen cropping up since
the 1960’s that