| Description |
xiii, 360 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Religions and beliefs series ; no. 5 |
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Religions and beliefs series ; no. 5
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION: TARGETS, METHODS, -- THESES 1 -- Defining the New Age 2 -- Internalization of Psychological Objects 8 -- Postmodernism 13 -- This Book's Thesis 14 -- CHAPTER II - THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MATRIX -- OF NEW AGE THINKING. 19 -- PART 1 -- Separation and Merger 19 -- The Stages of Development 22 -- Separation Underway 24 -- Increasing Autonomy, Persistent Ambivalence 25 -- Undeniably Alone 26 -- Resolving the Dilemma 28 -- PART 2 -- Evoked Companions, Attunement, Transformation 30 -- Early Excitement, Early Affect 32 -- Evoked Companions 33 -- Affect Attunement 34 -- The Transformational Object 36 -- The Tie to the Culture 38 -- The Oedipus 40 -- Qualifications and Reaffirmations: A Final -- Preparatory W ord 41 -- CHAPTER III A PSYCHOANALYSIS OF NEW AGE -- THINKING 45 -- PART 1 -- The New Ager's Goal 45 -- The New Ager's Method. 46 -- Magic Stones 49 -- Crystal Attunements, Crystal Transformations: -- Vibrational Stones 52 -- Crystals as Companions 56 -- Travelling with and Entering into the Stone: A New -- Psychoanalytic View of Religious Feeling 62 -- Telepathy, Healing, Gazing, and the Question of -- Scientific Evidence 69 -- PART 2 -- Shamanism, New Age Style 75 -- The Shamanic Myth of Connection and Disruption 77 -- The Shamanic Journey 79 -- New Age Shamanism Underway: A Few -- Representative Trips. 86 -- Guardians and Guides 92 -- The Big and the Powerful: Back on Daddy's Shoulders. 96 -- The Transformational Animal 98 -- Magical Stones, Magical Plants, and Synchronicity 103 -- The Healing Journey, Sucking Style 110 -- The Theoretical Picture 115 -- PART 3 -- Channelling: Transmitters, Receivers, Masters, -- and Guides 124 -- Wisdom from the Beyond 127 -- The Spirits Speak 129 -- Loving Vibrations from the Beyond: The Thirst -- for Affect Attunement 132 -- Rebirth Channelling Style: Easy for Some, -- Not So Easy for Others 135 -- Conscious Motivations, Unconscious Implications 142 -- Sanaya and Duane Open to Channel 147 -- Philosophies and Prophecies: A Few Closing -- Remarks on Opening to Channel 154 -- Channelling on the Grand Scale: The Universal -- Masters 158 -- Mr. Creme and His Symbiotic Vision 160 -- The Obsessional Pull of Affective Attunement 161 -- Transmission Meditation and New Age "Evolution". 165 -- The Master's Eye, the Invocation, and Om 167 -- Nourishing the Little Ones 173 -- PART 4 -- Goddess Worship in the New Age: Neo-Pagan -- Witchery 177" -- The Magical System of Modern Witchcraft. 179 -- Magic at Work 182 -- Circles of Power 183 -- Patriarchal Concerns 186 -- Initiation and the Meaning of Rebirth 189 -- Tools and Invocations 191 -- Omnipotence: The Limitless Self 196 -- Six Wiccan Rituals 200 -- Trance and the Astral Journey 208 -- Visualization: Magic and Its Ends 210 -- Polarity and Channelling 211 -- Auras 214 -- N um bers 216 -- Some Wiccan (and Human) Paradoxes 218 -- Gender 222 -- CHAPTER IV - HEALING IN THE NEW AGE 229 -- The Power of Sainthood 232 -- The Magic of Energy 237 -- The Ultimate Mother 2,44 -- The Group 2,48 -- The Blessings of Cancer: Moss among the Sick 258 -- The Dangers of Sainthood 2265 -- New Age Healers Everywhere 272 -- CHAPTER V - A LITTLE GALLERY OF NEW AGE THINKERS: -- INTERVIEWS AND EXPERIENCES 275 -- Pauline jCrystal Healing) 276 -- Catherine (Shamanic Healing) 281 -- The Treatment (Huna) 287 -- Carol (Pranic Healing) 288 -- Boris (Channelling) 295 -- Natalie (W itchcraft) 301 -- Richard (Witchcraft) 307 -- At a Coven Meeting 314 -- The Grounding 315 -- The Directions, the Circle, and the Ablutions 316 -- The Goddess Comes 316 -- CHAPTER VI THE GREAT HOLOGRAMAMA: -- CONCLUDING REMARKS ON NEW AGE -- THINKING 321 -- Dr. Pribram and Dr. Bohm 322 -- The Illusion of Separateness 324 -- Universal Vibrations 330 -- Cosmological Evolution 333 -- The Soul 337 -- Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, and New Age -- Thinking 342 -- Regression in the Service of Regression and -- Transformation in the Service of Magic 346 -- Two Final Points 352 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Healers.
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Neopaganism.
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New Age movement -- Psychological aspects.
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New Age movement.
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Shamanism.
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Spiritual healing.
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Spiritualism.
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| LC no. |
96131640 |
| ISBN |
0776604171 (paperback) |
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077660421X (bound) |
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