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The New Age Movement Looks Like A Mixed Bag. I See Much In It That Seems Good: It's Optimistic; It's Enthusiastic; It Has The Capacity For Belief. On The Debit Side, I Think One Needs To Distinguish Between Belief And Credulity. How Deep Does New Age Go? Has It Come To Terms With Radical Evil? More, I Am Not Sure How Much Social Conscience There Is In New Age Thinking.

After His Great Awakening, The Buddha Continued To Meditate And To Devote Himself To Others; Otherwise His Vision Would Have Receded Into A Pleasant Memory.

The Sufis Say There Are Three Ways To Know Fire - By Hearing It Described, By Seeing It, Or By Being Burned.

It Remained For The Twentieth Century To Discover That Locked Within The Atom Is The Energy Of The Sun Itself. For This Energy To Be Released, However, The Atom Must Be Bombarded From Without. So Too, Locked In Every Human Being Is A Store Of Love That Partakes Of The Divine-the Imago Dei-image Of God, It Is Sometimes Called. And It Too Can Be Activated Only Through Bombardment, In Its Case Love's Bombardment

Love Is The Movement Within Life That Carries Us, That Enables Us, That Causes Us To Break Out Of What Alan Watts Calls The “skin-encapsulated Ego.” Without Love, We Are Self-centered, But Love Enables Us To Move The Center Of Our Lives Outside Our Ego. Therefore It Expands Our Lives And, Needless To Say, Enriches It. Any Human Being Would Give Anything To Love Or Be Loved. When It Really Happens, It Is Like Heaven On Earth.