New Age Stuff

I saw the movie “The Adjustment Bureau” yesterday and it reminded me of something. The movie is about the absence of free will and the notion that some higher force controls our life’s path. It’s a very new age concept that seems to crop up now and then…typically on the brink of, after or during some world changing event. During difficult times, and one can argue the prolonged war in the Middle East and the recent turmoil there constitute difficult times, we tend to look inward. Why? Why now and not later? Why me and not them? Am I destined to live through this…is it a lesson for a later life?

What the movie reminded me of was that every generation has its “book”…the book that people cling to in their depths of despair for any hope whatsoever. This generation has “Eat, Pray, Love”. Mine had “The Celestine Prophecy”.

“The Celestine Prophecy”, which I read in one sitting not because it was good but because I had so many questions, discussed (and I quote Wikipedia which I am loathe to do) “… various psychological and spiritual ideas that are rooted in many ancient Eastern Traditions, such as the claim that vegetarianism can help an individual to establish a connection with the Divine. The main character of the novel undertakes a journey to find and understand a series of nine spiritual insights on an ancient manuscript in Peru. The book is a first-person narrative of spiritual awakening. The narrator is in a transitional period of his life, and begins to notice instances of synchronicity, which is the realization that coincidences may have deep meaning.”

"The Celestine Prophecy" website (how Eastern Transcendental) lists the 9 insights.

9 Insights:

We are discovering again that we live in a deeply mysterious world, full of sudden coincidences and synchronistic encounters that seem destined.


As more of us awaken to this mystery, we will create a completely new worldview - redefining the universe as energetic and sacred.


We will discover that everything around us, all matter, consists of and stems from a divine energy that we are beginning to see and understand.


From this perspective, we can see that humans have always felt insecure and disconnected from this sacred source, and have tried to take energy by dominating each other. This struggle is responsible for all human conflict.


The only solution is to cultivate a personal reconnection with the divine, a mystical transformation that fills us with unlimited energy and love, extends our perception of beauty, and lifts us into a Higher-Self Awareness.


In this awareness, we can release our own pattern of controlling, and discover a specific truth, a mission, we are here to share that helps evolve humanity toward this new level of reality.


In pursuit of this mission, we can discover an inner intuition that shows us where to go and what to do, and if we make only positive interpretations, brings a flow of coincidences that opens the doors for our mission to unfold.


When enough of us enter this evolutionary flow, always giving energy to the higher-self of everyone we meet, we will build a new culture where our bodies evolve to ever higher levels of energy and perception.


In this way, we participate in the long journey of evolution from the Big Bang to life's ultimate goal: to energize our bodies, generation by generation, until we walk into a heaven we can finally see.

What I got from both the book and yesterday's movie was that we have to be honest about our motives and lead an honest life and all the wonder of our lives will be revealed.

I’m not saying this is all hooey. I do believe there is a higher being. I’m not sure if it’s the God my church worships or the God some other church, synagogue, or mosque worships, or neither. But I do sincerely believe that “truth” and “good” are the keys to understanding the universe. I believe the universe was formed from positive and not negative energy and that only positive energy will ensure its viability.

Heady stuff for the first day of Lent…and how prophetic that I’m having these thought during Lent? Or is this the divine at work????