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Dinva asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 7 years ago

What are your thoughts on New Age philosophy? Would you say that I adhere to New Age philosophy?

I'm not a hipster (probably because I'm too poor to be one) but I believe a lot of what I read as New Age philosophy.

I believe in the eternal here and now. I believe that we are all One cosmic entity, that any divisions or labels or values are manifested solely by the human psyche. Living and non-living are fundamentally the same. I believe that unless we are directly in harms way or suffering from a disease that all of our problems are simply our own mind's doing. I believe that poor diet and exercise and posture causes a lot more problems than people think it does. I believe that people put way, way, way too much emphasis on money and power. Nobody should strive to hold authority over their fellow man and nobody should believe that happiness comes from material. Happiness is a mindset and you can't buy a mindset you can only create it.

Many of my views come from psychedelic drug use. DMT and to a lesser extent LSD have changed my views, for the better. I agree with Alan Watts though, once you get the message hang up the phone.

Does this sound like New Age to you? I've never fully adhered to or even deeply studied any philosophies.. My current beliefs are basically an accumulation of what I've learned throughout life combined with the dramatic chance in perception that was brought on by the psychedelic experience.

Update:

What I don't believe in are the conspiracies I see spewed by the same people who share my views. I don't believe the government intentionally calcifies our pineal gland to keep us subdued. I don't believe gluten is bad for you (my girlfriend is a celiac and I would give anything for her to be able to eat gluten). And I definitely don't believe in the Illuminati or Anunnaki.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    Loving and non living fundamentally the same >

    Come now if I hit a stone with a hammer there is something missing which is very important

    To go one step further if you hit your finger I do not feel it so this one cosmic entity is a meaningless concept

    Values manifested solely; by human psyche .

    It does seem to me that this new age is destroying

    the individual which seems to me to be a very sad theory

    something like those collective ideals of Marx and Hitler where the individual was only a part of the state and subject to the whims of it

    This is where the divisions start and are important I believe the Social Contract between me and the state does not mean I am the servant of the state

    I am an individual with rights under natural law that the state can not take away No matter what unitity is appealed to

  • Mark
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    You should do some skeptical reading. The "new age" is not new at all. Almost all the disciplines (or nonsense) that are lumped under new-age philosophy came into popularity around the turn of the century...The last one.

    A character calling herself "Madame Blatavasky" was responsible for much of this, sort of the "J.Z.Knight" of her times. She claimed to be spiritually communicating with a group of "ascended masters" who gave her pithy wisdom that she doled out at seminars and through books...

    Becoming rather wealthy.

    A great deal of nonsense was spawned from all this... The Order Of The Golden Dawn, various "Magickal" practices.... All nonsense but wildly popular.

    Then the same silliness popped up in the Late sixties and early 70s with the "Age Of Aquarius" and all that nonsense. There was a huge fad for this "new age" stuff then. Folks were sitting under pyramids and doing all manner of foolish things.

    Much of the modern skeptical movement rose in response to all this, and all of the various claims and products and people were shown to be either nonsense at best or frauds at worst. (Like the above-mentioned Ms. Knight)

    So....There you have it. No, I don't think much of the New Age. It's the same as the Old Age.

  • 7 years ago

    The "new age" is informed by quantum physics!

    Thus, the 'latest' philosophy is the 'best', the 'closer to home'.

    Quantum pretty much nailed the last nail in Aristotle's coffin, disproving most of his 'laws'!

    While validating the Easterners, every day.

    Cutting edge thought is happening Now! Here!

    The low of intellect demonize anything 'new' because of the fallaciousness of their 'thought'.

    The finest of philosophy is also happening tight Now! As it was with Lao Tsu, for instance.

    "Again and again some people in the crowd wake up,

    They have no ground in the crowd,

    And they emerge according to much broader laws.

    They carry strange customs with them

    And demand room for bold gestures.

    The future speaks ruthlessly through them."

    Rainer Maria Rilke

    "Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past."

    -Maurice Maeterlinck

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    philosophy : unlike new-age literature or music is not to create a dream world, a fantasy. But it has to create new-age,rational thoughts

    Unless a new-age man with newage mind arrives on the earth a new philosophy cannot arrive The new-age mind is boiling with repressed sexuality, anger, hatred, violence. Centuries of repressions have accumulated;

    New-age man is suffering, is in immense misery and hell and it is shown in its modernity.,so as the modern or new-age philosophy

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    My advise is to see your nearest Marine Corp recruiter, he will help you to see the world as it is.

  • Naguru
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Yes. Your ideas and my ideas are same. So we are in a common platform.

    Source(s): compiled.
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