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Monday November 3, 2008
New Age:
Marilyn Ferguson, the author of the 1980 bestseller “The Aquarian Conspiracy” and a galvanizing influence on participants in scores of alternative groups that coalesced as the New Age movement, died Oct. 19 at her home in Banning.Ferguson was embraced as a beacon. Her book became “the most commonly accepted statement of Movement ideals and goals,” wrote J. Gordon Melton in the New Age Encyclopedia.
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Wednesday January 23, 2008
New Age:
Meditation, crystal therapy, self-help books – think they’re making you happier? Think again. A Brisbane academic has found a strong link between new-age spirituality and poor mental health in young people.
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Thursday August 9, 2007
New Age:
Known as “Darwin’s rottweiler”, Prof Richard Dawkins caused a furore with a stinging attack on religion. Now the evolutionary biologist has turned his wrath on “new age” alternative therapies, describing them as based on “irrational superstition”.
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Tuesday May 1, 2007
New Age:
More than a mere sales gimmick, spirituality tours are taken very seriously by their participants, who are commonly pantheistic, choosing to believe in truths of every religion rather than just one. They also invoke the whole panoply of New Age beliefs, finding power in crystals, aromatherapy and, of course, pyramids.
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Saturday March 3, 2007
New Age:
In weeks of frustration and anger, not knowing if her son would live or die, she was ready to ditch the whole idea that there was a loving God who cared what happened on earth. Then came the angels…
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Tuesday January 30, 2007
New Age • The Secret:
It’s absolutely possible for everyone to have these things and more — at least that’s what the teachers say in The Secret.
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Thursday December 28, 2006
Cafeteria Religion • New Age • Religion Trends • Religious Retailing:
Across the US, and increasing number of spiritual bookstores cater to people who are starting to question their true purpose in life without the restrictions of a specific religion.
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Tuesday December 19, 2006
Findhorn Foundation • New Age:
The foundation, home to 400 people, is one of the UK’s largest alternative spiritual communities.
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Tuesday September 26, 2006
New Age:
Marianne Williamson, one of the Oprah Friends who will be chattering on the talk show hostess’ new XM Radio channel, will broadcast her show from Detroit.
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Monday September 18, 2006
New Age:
A Spiritualist School in Westbrook Offers a Metaphysical Menu That Includes Massages, Marriages and Helping People Connect With Their Higher Selves.
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Wednesday January 18, 2006
New Age:
New college of mystical studies -- from astrology to potions -- is for adults only
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Monday September 26, 2005
New Age:
A Christian group says a stress-reduction classes for students at a Raleigh elementary school promoted "New Age" beliefs and were school-sponsored religious activities that violated the First Amendment.
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Wednesday September 21, 2005
New Age:
Even by the standards of the alternative therapies said to be used by Cherie Blair, submitting her husband's toenail clippings to a health guru's pendulum is taking her alleged New Age obsession to a higher level.
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Monday May 16, 2005
New Age:
The year's most unexpected indie hit in American cinemas - a film about quantum physics - is about to open here. But how are ordinary mortals to judge its assertions about the nature of matter, mind, and the universe? We asked some of Britain's best scientific brains to give us their verdicts.
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Wednesday April 20, 2005
New Age:
In a rapid change of heart, a local Episcopal priest is abandoning Druid spirituality - a decision made one day after it was reported that he had renounced his Episcopal ordination and become the founding priest of a Druid group.
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Sunday April 17, 2005
New Age:
When the DVD of What the Bleep Do We Know!? hit the market last month, it did so after earning more than $10 million in theaters over the past year and a half and trailing only The Incredibles among preorders on Amazon.com.
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Saturday April 16, 2005
New Age:
The former Downingtown rector said it was "a joyous occasion."
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Tuesday April 12, 2005
New Age:
Therapies like yoga have become part of the mainstream in the last 30 years. But other approaches - such as channeling Archangel Zadkiel - still beckon from the outside.
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Sunday October 3, 2004
New Age:
A south Oregon town is a magnet for spiritual seekers who reject mainstream religion but are searching for enlightenment
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Monday August 30, 2004
New Age:
For 25 years, Guy and Jeanne Spiro have been ushering in the Age of Aquarius one reader at a time.
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Saturday May 15, 2004
New Age:
Summary: Can new-age teachings be trade secrets?
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Tuesday March 30, 2004
New Age:
Once labeled alternative, the Evolving Times Expo has flowed into the mainstream
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Tuesday February 10, 2004
Esalen Institute • New Age:
Satirist of religion in Monty Python now a spiritual man
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Tuesday January 27, 2004
New Age:
Cherie and Tony bonding in a muddy Mayan ritual - it's the ultimate example of how mumbo-jumbo has inundated Britain, writes Francis Wheen in this final extract from his fascinating new book
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Friday January 9, 2004
New Age:
ORLANDO, Fla. - (KRT) - It's a story that Orlando resident Jach Pursel has told probably hundreds of times: Sitting quietly on his bed one day in 1974, he slipped deep into meditation as his wife watched. Then words spilled from his lips, and Lazaris made his first appearance through Pursel.
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- Vatican Weighs in on New Age Movement
- Controversial church figure resigns
- Episcopal priest who turned Druid changes his mind
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