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Summary: pleasant read, but too dramatic...
Review: Great book if you want to know a true story about rise and fall of someone deeply into New Age "spirituality".The author is very good on giving detailed account of total possesion.It is however an extreme case and at times sounds too depressing and dramatic.Fortunately not all of New Agers are so into their philosophy.
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Summary: For the spiritually bereft
Review: Great book if you want to know a true story about rise and fall of someone deeply into New Age "spirituality".The author is very good on giving detailed account of total possesion.It is however an extreme case and at times sounds too depressing and dramatic.Fortunately not all of New Agers are so into their philosophy.
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Summary: Obviously True
Review: I read this book several years ago. I never got over it. Mr. Baer's incredible description of the deception within the New Age movement is extremely helpful to someone without detailed knowledge of the dangers involved there. His salvation experience could only have been described by someone who actually experienced it. It was not fiction, nor fabrication. The book leaves you with a choice, "Choose you this day whom you will serve." Refusing to believe in God or satan, does not cause either one to cease to exist. And selecting what you want from the various religions ("Smorgasboard Religion) would have to mean that God is schizophrenic. Why would He keep changing His name, His attributes, His requirements for heaven, ect., like that? It's not logical, it doesn't add up. And how could you worship a god like that? And if you worship no god at all, you are really worshipping yourself, which is pride, and the ultimate sin, and so, you have played into satan's hands after all. If you don't believe he exists, he has you exactly where he wants you. No, there is no third choice. I have read many exposes on the New Age movement, this is one of best. Randall Baer wrote the book when he found Truth, and reached out in love to those who are still deceived. He counted the cost.
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Summary: Love Your Sister
Review: Now if you ask me, and a lot of folks interested in new Age do now and again, this here book is a must read if you have an interest in rescuing your loved one from the clutches of this sinister movement. This feller what wrote the book done got rescued, and my hope is that all the other stupid yokels out there who got sucked in can find a rescuer as well.
Up until a few years back I assumed New Agers were just hippies who didn't fear soap. Same stupid credos, same stupid hair styles, same colorful yet trite bumper stickers... only significant difference was that New Agers didn't reek like a hippy. Well, I had it all wrong. New Agers aren't just re-hashed hippies with a fetish for crystals. No, them folks have a whole passel of mixed up, depraved, wacky ideas what hippies never even dreamed of!
I read this book and found it kind of interesting in that this feller what wrote it failed to take any responsibility for his own actions (I mean, nobody forced him to spend his money on crystals and such) but he does shed insight in to the nastier side of the New Age movement which, after all, ain't "new" in the least.
I went to school on the East Coast at one of them hoity toity Ivey league places (some good it's done me) and had me some classmates who were all in to the New Age sham when it first come out. One of them, Matt, had him a sticker on his car that had an illustration of the earth and the slogan "Love Your Mother." Well, Matt was one of them New Age lemmings who were tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine and he was a sucker for every new movement, new idea, new packaging of an old idea, etc. He wanted to embrace all, accept all, and remain open to all... which is why he thought any religion he wasn't familiar with was the ant's pants.
I was walking past him as he was fixin to crawl in to that car of his one day and I said to him I said, "Matt, you know that sticker there probably offends Hindus, and Sikhs." He asked me why and I explained that in their concept, it would be appropriate to write "Love Your Sister" he kind of gazed off in the distance and commenced to cogitate on that one. Before he could say any thing I said, "You know... them believing in a supreme creator, they reckon we was created by the same creator what created the Earth, therefore she is our sister, not our mother... we have the same father" and he commenced to cogitate more. I then said, "You know, the Aztecs had the same thought, and the Muslims, and the Buddhists" And he got all happy and light hearted and went back and took out a credit card and started to wedge it up under the edge of the sticker so as to yank it off his car and stop offending all them exotic folk...
About a week after that he had him a new sticker supporting abstinence from meat products or the cessation of nuclear power or some such. I ain't seed him in a coon's age, but last I heard he had got sucked in to the New Age movement and was praying to lumps of rock and sleeping in a pyramid or some such nonsense. He made a lot of money on the stock market back in the 90s, but managed to give it all away to his "spiritual guide" Now his guide drives a Mercedes when he ain't in one of the three Rolls Royce he owns, and Matt takes a bus and wears Salvation Army Thrift Shop garments. So in a way I guess Matt is like a hippy in that he is gullible and thick as a pair of short planks, but he has a good heart and kind of desires the best for all people... even though he don't know what that might be. But I gots to hand it to Matt, I don't never smell like one of them hippies. They stink.
Read this book! Buy a couple copies and pass them out to any of them fools you know who pray to crystals and hand their money over to "spiritual guides" and assist them to peel them silly "Love Your Mother" stickers off their hybrid cars. Also, encourage hippies to take a bath and use soap... it will make the planet more habitable for all of us.
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Summary: Fear
Review: People fear what they don't understand. Thinking for yourself is scarey and following a dogma much safer.
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Summary: Once a fundamentalist purist, always a fundamentalist purist
Review: Please don't waste your money on this book. I'll tell you the story. * Author goes to college and does drugs. Author blames this on Satan. * Author spends entire summers working to go to Yoga Training. Author blames this on Satan. * Author has success in New Age field. Author takes personal credit. He becomes a fundamentalist purist New Ager. * Author gets burnt out and decides needs new religion. Author blames this on Satan but gives Jesus credit for "cleansing him". * Author fails initially at being a successful Christian organizer. Author blames this on Satan and self for having hung on to New Age ideas. He becomes a fundamentalist purist Christian. * Author becomes successful "teaching" Christians about the supposed lurid details of the New Age. (I guess saying most have FT jobs and families would be boring.) Author takes personal credit for this.BTW, this guy died shortly afterwards at age 33 according to another writeup.
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Summary: The Best, Most Authoritative Book on this Subject!
Review: Randall N. Baer, formerly a respected leader in the New Age movement and author of noted New Age tomes "The Crystal Connection: A Guidebook for Personal and Planetary Ascension" and "Windows of Light: Using Quartz Crystals as Tools for Self-Transformation", has penned the most revealing look inside the New Age Movement to date. Mr. Baer was deeply immersed in many of the New Age practices; in fact, his entire personal and professional life revolved around its myriad concepts. This lends credence to his discovery of the hidden dangers of the movement, and adds weight to his warnings of how seductive, yet ultimately deceptive the "benefits" of the movement can be. Anyone familiar with Mr. Baer's earlier works should seriously consider examining his arguments in this, his final book, and perhaps re-examing their own perspectives on the New Age.
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Summary: Bravo! This one tells the truth from experience!
Review: There's a lot that gives this book great relevance in our times. First off, New Age ideology has invaded many realms of public life. Under the guises of non-religious wisdom, philosophy, psychological practices, legitimate religion, medicine and even, science (alternative or not), the New Age subversion of our thinking is deliberate and subtle. Unfortunately, many of us would just as soon entrust the well-being of their soul to whomever is noisy and colorful enough to attract their attention--and plenty of New Age charlatans are just waiting for their turn at the hapless followers' wallet. This author discusses the New Age deception from many years of personal experience. He describes the experiences of (temporary) elation that New Age practices brought him, the fame and seduction of becoming a New Age leader, as well as the dramatic and painful consequences of this ideology. Fortunately, he has a good ending to report as his soul and spirit found truth and rest in the one true God (eternal rest, soon after the book was published and the author passed away). This book ought to be mandatory reading for all of us who have been seduced by such foolish claims as "all roads lead to God," "it doesn't matter what you believe in as long as it works for you," "just try to be a good person" and many others like it. This author does not just dispense opinions but refers to his own personal experience as a New Age "leader." I highly recommend this book to all of us interested in contemporary thought, as well as those of us caught in the clutches of New Age thinking or desirous to reach out to others in need of help.
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Summary: Bravo! This one tells the truth from experience!
Review: There's a lot that gives this book great relevance in our times. First off, New Age ideology has invaded many realms of public life. Under the guises of non-religious wisdom, philosophy, psychological practices, legitimate religion, medicine and even, science (alternative or not), the New Age subversion of our thinking is deliberate and subtle. Unfortunately, many of us would just as soon entrust the well-being of their soul to whomever is noisy and colorful enough to attract their attention--and plenty of New Age charlatans are just waiting for their turn at the hapless followers' wallet. This author discusses the New Age deception from many years of personal experience. He describes the experiences of (temporary) elation that New Age practices brought him, the fame and seduction of becoming a New Age leader, as well as the dramatic and painful consequences of this ideology. Fortunately, he has a good ending to report as his soul and spirit found truth and rest in the one true God (eternal rest, soon after the book was published and the author passed away). This book ought to be mandatory reading for all of us who have been seduced by such foolish claims as "all roads lead to God," "it doesn't matter what you believe in as long as it works for you," "just try to be a good person" and many others like it. This author does not just dispense opinions but refers to his own personal experience as a New Age "leader." I highly recommend this book to all of us interested in contemporary thought, as well as those of us caught in the clutches of New Age thinking or desirous to reach out to others in need of help.
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Summary: For the spiritually bereft
Review: This author doesn't understand the difference between religion and spirituality. Lacking any spiritual sense, he goes back and forth between two extremes, not seeing the forest for the trees. This unfortunate "seeker" finds only blind alleys, and therefore this book is a total waste of time.
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