01.20.08
New Agers - What Stage?
Another confusion: New Age as Stage Four
Just because we call our Stage Fours Mystic and Communal, it seems some people are prone to mistake what I am calling Stage Four with New Age beliefs. Nothing could be further from the truth!
I really don’t know very much about New Age religion. But I assume that just as with other religions, you can have believers (or should I say “participants”*) at any one of our four stages.
Just because New Agers sound “mystical” in the way they speak by no means implies they have reached Stage Four. In fact, the sort of “easy” way they have of spreading truths may speak against their liklihood of being Stage Four - which I don’t think could ever be reached without significant “work.” It would necessitate going through the individuality of Stage Three first and I so much doubt too many New Agers have done that discipline. Of course there may be some, but again as I am not doing the research, I am trying not to say.