new age

Is anyone else terribly besieged with deadlines and projects? This is my excuse for my negligence, dear blog.

As for New Ageism, the sudden fervor of an escapist spirituality available via Visa or American Express, is a convenient phenomenon for a consumer society diagnosed with manic depression. A rather bleak way to introduce my impression on New Ageism, but I do find the anthem for the Age of Aquarius and the experience derived from it, an interesting hallucinogenic reality endowed with so much meaning and even a bit of beauty.

Yet the meaning of these lived fantasy in the moments of LSD induced experiences, are reduced to pharemecutical procedures rather than magical moments. Yet, at the same time, this property of spirituality rolled in to a pill (or a splith), makes the ancient experience of shamism accessible to the urban dweller in an era of machines.


The principles behind the movement, of self-oriented, monkey's grace orthopraxy (rather than cat's grace orthodoxy), reflect a particular type of renaissance with a twist of capitalist flavor. As the article delineates the links of Buddhism and new ageism, the 'return' to an age of innocence and uncorrupted social behaviorism, and the subsequent pseudo bohemianism modeled after the ancient ways of shamas, yogis, and other "pre-modern' archetypes of sacred "others", leads way to a rather pompous hyper-humanism; a perfect venue of redemption for the modern consumer.