New Age takeovers, classic or dud?

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First it was Celestine Prophecy. Now, it's Conversations with God. Do you read these out of curiosity or jump on 'em full throttle with zealous intensity? Or, do you ignore them as if they were just more of the same ol' rehashed magickal stuff?

― , Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

see my answer re: tarot

― gareth, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Generally ignore them. See tarot thread for why tarot *really* words. Very little to do with actual magic, it's just Jungian psychology dressed up in new threads. Thanks, I'd rather read Dreams, Memories, Reflections again.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't know what either of those things are, actually.

― Ally, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

New Age conspiracy theory shite seems to be the one area of culture I can successfully ignore.

― suzy, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I read the Celestine Prophecy. That may be the most embarrassing thing I've ever done.

― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Total cobblers stretching back to Carlos Castenada and beyond. Call me a cynic, but why did 'The Celestine Prophecy' require a sequel? Did the author somehow miss one of the Secrets of the Universe during his first trip round the cellar of mystical knowledge (whatever)?

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

When I worked at a public library in high school it was all really creepy pseudo-hippie/yuppie couples who would check out books like this, so that was enough to put me off if the dopey premises of such books weren't enough.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Andrew, there were 3 CELESTINE PROPHECIES as well as a workbook sort of thing. There might have been more than just those 4. As for Conversations with God, there's I, II, and III. There's also a workbook type thing for that... AND another book called Communicating with God, I think... Anyway, it's some other book that's like "hangin' with god" but I guess the author needed a new title, rather than Conversations IV. My girlfriend and I were observing it last weekend at Barnes & Nobles. I, too, have read celestine prophecy. It was interesting, but I wouldn't start a religion around it! Also, it seemed like PURE FICTION, which is what it is classified as!

― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

_The Celestine Prophecies_ are the _Left Behind_ for people who exchanged their crosses for crystals. Both make about as much sense as a Coke enema.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is it like all that UFO stuff?...I was really into that about 8 years ago, but now as contact has not been made I think it's all rubbish!

― james e l, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Passage I just came on, in Malcom Gaskill's 'Hellish Nell: Last of Britain's Witches', abt belief and disbelief: "Arriving in England in 1855, [Daniel Dunglass] Home rapidly entered polite society as a medium of staggering talent, famously floating gracefully out of a window at Ashley House in the presence of, among others, Lord Adare and Lord Lindsay.... Himself a harsh critic of charlatans in sheets, Home was investigated many times but never exposed despite rumours, among them that he used police intelligence, carried a secret monkey and drew magnetic powers from cats."

The accusation that someone "drew magnetic powers from cats" as a rational debunking of their mediumism: huh?

"He carried a secret monkey" = from now poss. my favourite rumour abt anyone ever.

― mark s, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Mark is a very funny man. Go anthromorphic humor!

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Only thing worse than fake occultism - "real" occultism.

― duane, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I always knew that cats had secret powers, but I never guessed that they were merely magnetic. Och, what a nonsense, all that fear and witch hunting in the middle ages for nothing.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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