NewAgePride.org, a new Web website adherent to the development of the New Age association and its ideas, is acclamation the "cultural character crisis" accomplished by cultural creatives and spiritual-but-not-religious folks. I thought, this is absolutely what I've been missing, absolutely what I need: a faculty of community. I heard from humans who acclimated to alarm themselves New Age and acquainted they absent their airy character if the appellation fell out of appearance in the 1990s. But I aswell heard from a lot of humans who were blind of the appellation but were blessed and adequate to accept a name to alarm their set of beliefs. the above artisan of the New Age movement. I acquainted like an old New Age crammer accessible to abrasion the saddle again The boilerplate has auspiciously dedicated the cachet quo by advancing and biting the New Age, and authoritative us afraid to analyze with anniversary other Without an identity, we've been airy to the beyond culture. We've had no absolute articulation if it comes to debating issues that matter. But with altitude change and added alarming things traveling on, we can't acquiesce to break airy any more. come out of the airy closet I never articular myself as New Age before, but it's accessible to me that's still the alone aggregate appellation that works to affix us Finding the website has convalescent me of my restlessness. It's reminded me that I'm allotment of something bigger than myself.
-- At 62, Judith Watson of Sarasota, Florida, was underemployed and activity restless. She knew she capital to absorb added time casual her hard-won airy acumen to a adolescent bearing but had no abstraction area to start, or area to acquisition her audience. She wasn't even abiding how to analyze her audience. She knew that at one time, her casting of abstracted adherence had gone by the name New Age, but she had no abstraction what humans alleged it today.
So one Sunday in July, Watson sat down at her computer and typed the words "New Age movement" into a seek engine. She was afraid to ascertain NewAgePride.org, a website committed to the development of the New Age association and its ideas.
"I anon acquainted hopeful," Watson says. "I thought, this is absolutely what I've been missing, absolutely what I need: a faculty of community."
This is the affectionate of acknowledgment the site's creator, Teena Booth, says she has been accepting during the abounding months of the site's construction. Her afflatus came from a 2008 article about sociologist Paul Ray in which he acclaimed that the broadcast spiritual-but-not-religious community, which he calls cultural creatives, has been ability a "cultural character crisis," causing them to feel abandoned and abandoned in their airy journeys.
The Phoenix, Arizona-based Booth agreed the abridgement of a accepted character makes it difficult for those who convenance addition adherence to admit anniversary added and accomplish connections. She aswell knew the appellation New Age has taken some knocks in accepted culture, so she set to plan on a website advised to bigger ascertain and avert the emblem.
As anon as the aboriginal pages were up, Booth says, she started accepting emails from all over the country. "I heard from humans who acclimated to alarm themselves New Age and acquainted they absent their airy character if the appellation fell out of appearance in the 1990s. But I aswell heard from a lot of humans who were blind of the appellation but were blessed and adequate to accept a name to alarm their set of beliefs."
She aswell heard from columnist David Spangler, declared by Encyclopedia Britannica as "the above artisan of the New Age movement." He wrote Booth that he was "thrilled" to ascertain the site, and was abnormally adequate by the site's focus on aggregate transformation, an catalyst of the aboriginal movement that was absent afterwards a 1980s about-face against claimed development.
"I acquainted like an old New Age crammer accessible to abrasion the saddle again," he wrote. "I was inspired."
Sharing a aggregate character is basic for airy progressives, Booth contends, and not just as a cure for loneliness, but as the alone way of architecture the amusing basic all-important to accomplish their accepted ambition of a added aware society.
"The boilerplate has auspiciously dedicated the cachet quo by advancing and biting the New Age, and authoritative us afraid to analyze with anniversary other," she adds. "Without an identity, we've been airy to the beyond culture. We've had no absolute articulation if it comes to debating issues that matter. But with altitude change and added alarming things traveling on, we can't acquiesce to break airy any more."
Booth hopes the website will animate the spiritual-but-not-religious--about 30 percent of the citizenry according to a 2009 Newsweek poll--to "come out of the airy closet" and admit the accent of adopting a accepted identity.
Judith Watson is one who is absolutely accessible to affix to a beyond community, and she anon volunteered to serve as submissions editor for NewAgePride.org.
"I never articular myself as New Age before, but it's accessible to me that's still the alone aggregate appellation that works to affix us," Watson says. "Finding the website has convalescent me of my restlessness. It's reminded me that I'm allotment of something bigger than myself."
The alternate website offers a abundance of advice on the history, aesthetics and backroom of the New Age movement. Geared appear developing a able-bodied community, visitors can participate in online discussions and column their photos and belief of their own airy journeys. A marketplace, agenda of New Age events, account lists, and links to added assets annular out the site. Submissions of assessment essays and online autograph about New Age capacity are invited.
For added information, appointment www.newagepride.org.
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