New Age/Workshop

New Age offers us a change in how we actually form ideas, the overall archetype itself.

What specific change? The archetype of what? Archetype is a synonym for paradigm, and i had trouble using that word earlier if u recall. This means "new age allows a change in the system itself underlying how ideas are formed." When a person's cognitive mental system changes, her perception changes and extraordinary events may ensue.

Isn't that a truism? It is the next stage after a person has new perceptions, categorically labelled the mind. Suppose someone comes back from the brink of death. She looks at her world totally new, compared to her old viewpoint.

New Age also resists labelling processes, for example, biological taxonomy, because it is a dynamic, event-driven system at the simplest level.

How does New Age resist labelling processes? What is the simplest level? What does "event-driven system" mean? This was put in there to lessen the descriptions made in the article that diminish the experiential nature of New Age itself. Event-driven means exactly what it says, driven by events. An example...When a leaf falls from a tree, and I happen to notice it, there is a frozen snapshot in time, when I consider "leaf here now", and whatever I feel is part of this. Any more specifics would be unfair, and dilute the import of experiential reality. Mind you, I may have also merely thought, "oh there's a leaf" and nothing else. Such things are so varied and dynamic and ongoing once you have changed your mindset, C. Related to this last part is an old saying, "Take time to smell the roses." My thoughts at this moment, which you should cherish, are that I not only smell the roses, I get lost in the petals, like a tiny little bee, while viewing myself as the bee, out of body, from above, then enlarge into normal size again, and smile.

BF, I'd like to say with all due respect (really) that most of the things you write sound crazy. I assume you know this already. When you claim to be so all-fired sure you know "the truth", surely you can't expect others to agree with your view of it unless you can present something more substantial to back it up. I think that's what we've basically been asking for here. Either give us some sort of reason to agree that you're right, or don't expect us to agree that you're right.

See also : New Age