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C.I.M. Outline #2 -- THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT

The New Age Movement is impossible to define in one simple
sentence.  It is very broad and diverse, but here are some major
criteria which seem to be universally true of the movement:

1.  It is basically Eastern philosophy often "clothed" in
    scientifically-sounding terminology (see Scientology).  It also
    readily applies western technology.  It is a form of mystical
    humanism.

2.  The main ingredients of its philosophy are:

    a.  The unity or connectedness of all things.  We are one with
    all other things.

    b.  All is God.

    c.  Reality is spiritual rather than material as in Western
    thinking.  Reality is what you perceive or think, therefore,
    since you create what is real, you are god! ("You can achieve
    what the mind can conceive!")

    d.  The goal of New Age thinking is to achieve a higher form of
    consciousness (where you realize your oneness with all things
    and that god is within you).

    e.  Nota bena.  Evolution is a basic assumption of the New Age
    worldview.  Everything and everyone is in a state of becoming.
    New Agers are optimistic.

3.  The main ingredients of New Age philosophy are found in Gen.
    3:4,5.(創3:4-5)  It is anything but new.

    a. "you shall not surely die"   Re-incarnation.

    b. "Your eyes will be opened"   Enlightenment.

    c. "You will be like God"       Humanism.

    d. "Knowing Good and evil"      Knowledge "Gnosticism"

4.  New Age thinking finds its way in into our culture in the
    following ways:  (Note: we are not saying that all the following
    are bad, only that they are the conduit for New Age ideas)
    Science fiction, holistic health movement, back-to nature
    movement, new trends in psychology, parapsychology, martial arts,
    rock music, children's cartoons, motivational seminars (positive
    thinking), new religious cults, occult practices, quantum
    physics, and generally speaking, leftist political causes("one
    worldism").

5.  New Agers can generally be associated with the following beliefs
    and practices: God is impersonal (a force), the universe is
    eternal, matter is illusionary, life is cyclical, the necessity
    of reincarnation, evolution, need for eastern meditation, occult
    practices, vegetarianism, pacifism, one- worldism, syncretism.

6.  Best Christian books:

    Unmasking the New Age, by Doug Groothuis.  It is probably
    college level.
    For a more popular treatment see: Understanding the New Age, by
    Russell Chandler, or The New Age Cult, Walter Martin.

7.  The New Age Movement does have elements of conspiracy.  It is
    funded by large foundations which have produced several
    important think tanks; it has plans for permeating all of western
    culture.

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補充:

New Age Movement 創辦:

1. Marilyn Ferguson
2. Paramahansa Yogananda
3. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
4. Shirley Mascline (1980)他有出書  如: Out on a Limb, Out of the Body
Experience,  Trance Channeling dan Dancing in the Light.