A new book by a prominent New Age writer is promising to change your life by introducing you to the greatest guiding light of all time – an alignment of universal forces or “falling together” of physical and psychical events known as synchronicity.
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Doctors have completed a 15 day examination of an Indian holy man who says he hasn’t eaten in 70 years and claims to live on a “spiritual life force” alone.
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EB writes:
“I have a friend who is getting involved in direct sales for a company called CieAura. Specifically, my friend is going to be representing the CieAura Transparent Holographic Chips™, which the company is touting as a "revolutionary new technology combining holographic data storage and sophisticated homeopathic processes with Chinese medicinal practices devised over the past 3000 years. . . . This all sounds very ‘New Age’ to me. Can you confirm or deny? I'd like to warn my friend to stay away from this company if my suspicions are correct.”
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I don’t know about you, but I get this stuff all the time - the latest New Age hyper-sell to land in my inbox is the Home Enlightenment and Self Realization Program by Sri Sutrananda which uses a combination of Jnana, Raja, Bhakti, Karma, Hathaa and Kunda yoga to take users on a journey of “spiritual discovery and self realization.”
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A recent
New York Times article documents the decline in the number of people attending yoga classes along with a rise in the number of people who are rebelling against the high-priced “yoga machine” that has overtaken the country in recent years.
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A three year-old German boy who died after drowning in a pond claims to have seen his grandmother standing “by a gate” who told him to “go home to mummy and daddy” before he was resucitated.
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K writes:
“I am Catholic and have been going to an MD who practices cranial biodynamic osteopathic manual medicine and a homeopath for several years. I also have been doing self help with Jin Shin Jyutsu. I went to these practitioners because going to the regular doctors who prescribe the chemical drugs was making me sicker. . .
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More than two dozen people, 15 of them children, were killed in ritual murders last year in Uganda where the use of drugs made from their body parts is thought to attract wealth.
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Lou asks: "
My grand kids were talking about using a Wii game on their television to do yoga. Is this version proper exercise or a combination of physical positioning with spiritual roots?"
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After a four year investigation, an Australian coroner
ruled that participation in an intense four-day self-help program designed to take people on a "journey to the core of the human spirit" led to the suicide of a 34 year-old woman.
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