Terence McKenna outlines how the New Age came about in its many forms, and how its meaning has changed over time.
"It's fundamentally shaped by an impulse toward the irrational, and my argument with it is that it seems to lack any ability to do critical evaluation of itself."
"A person can consider themselves New Age, I suppose, if they just practice affirmations and try to keep their cholesterol low, well that's a far cry from signing up at the Solar Temple and giving all your money away and beginning to use moldavite suppositories."
"I think the impulse to watch your diet, and the impulse to form your thoughts with care, lest you put bad vibes into the world, and certainly the impulse to care for the environment, these are healthy impulses. But the sense of moral superiority, the elitism, the gimmickry, the dependency on unproven and exotic technologies, and the general lack of any sense of historical anchoring makes this to me a kind of pop phenomenon."
Thanks to the wonderful interview of Terence by Adam Phillips,
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