The Age of Aquarius and a Promise of Peace”

The Age of Aquarius and a Promise of Peace”

by Caryl Matrisciana

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June 16, 2009

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Note: In view
of the late Marilyn Ferguson’s upcoming re-release of
her epic New Age book, The Aquarian Conspiracy, Caryl
Matrisciana’s article (from her book Out of India) is
most relevant today.  

Born and raised in India, Caryl Matrisciana was
surrounded by a strange and mystical religion, seeing
first hand the effects Hinduism had on the people of
that nation. After leaving India as a young adult, she
became involved in the counter-culture hippie movement,
only to find that the elements of Hinduism and the New
Age were very much the same. Eventually, Caryl would
discover that this same spirituality had entered not
only the Western world, but the Christian church as
well, unbeknownst to most people.

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Millions of people who are being influenced by the New Age
do not realize they are being conditioned by a powerful
religious and political structure: globalism is the goal,
and peace is the promise.

I remember endless conversations with peers in the ’60s who
were predominantly focused on hopeless gloom. With
unrelenting paranoia, we discussed the inadequacies of
society. “Everything,” we agreed, “is corrupt.” This
included medicine, food, environment, politics, and
education.

A cultivated atmosphere of fear and doom forced us to escape
into our own man-made solutions, since answers could only
come from us, the awareness brigade, and our enlightened
alternatives. Like millions of others, we concluded that a
new world order was our only salvation. Our spiritual
resources, if encouraged and tapped correctly, could bring
goodness, harmony and peace to the world.

The results of nearly fifty years of New Age infiltration
into the Western world are staggering. In 1980, Marilyn
Ferguson, a major New Age prophetess, wrote a veritable
manifesto of New Age philosophy titled The Aquarian
Conspiracy. Explaining the choice of title for her best
seller, she says this:

Conspire, in its literal sense, means “to breathe together.”
It is an intimate joining. To make clear the benevolent
nature of this joining, I chose the word Aquarian . . .
after a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a
millennium of love and light–in the words of the popular
song, “The Age of Aquarius,” the time of “the mind’s true
liberation.”1

Although countless arguments will continue to debate the
insinuation of New Age thinking into our culture, the
consensus is that a widespread shift in consciousness is
taking place. And this is displaying itself in our everyday
lives, right under our noses!

New Age proponent David Spangler describes this hope of a
New Age world:

The earth [is] entering a new cycle of evolution, which
[will be] marked by the appearance of a new
consciousness within humanity that would give birth to a
new civilization . . . They would then enter a new age
of abundance and spiritual enlightenment–the Age of
Aquarius.2

This
“spiritual enlightenment” can be capsulated in these
characteristic points of the New Age:

1.
God is seen more as a flowing energy or creative force that
exists in all things rather than as a personal God who is
distinct from man and creation.
2. Man is seen as divine, essentially a part of God.
3. Salvation for the soul is something attained when one
becomes an awakened soul by understanding one’s divinity and
oneness with all. This awakening comes about through the use
of various rituals and mystical practices that help remove
one’s attachment to the world.
4. The gap between good and evil is eradicated. In other
words, there is no evil–all is divine.

The New Age offers new ideas of
peace, love, integrity, and community–all that a needy
world is hungry for. It attempts to reform religious ideals
based on Judeo-Christian principles with an improved formula
of application. It seeks to replace age–old sentiments of
patriotism and traditional moral standards with a new
philosophy. All of the old-fashioned ideals are dismissed as
mundane and archaic.

It also casts the more serious charge that the “old ways”
only serve to impede the progress of a society bent on an
upward evolution to a higher consciousness–the new power.

The conditioning of a potential New Age disciple may start
subconsciously at an early age. Perhaps he is trying to find
answers and purposes for his life. A difficult family
environment may urge him on. Disillusionments and
disappointments may create needs. Dissatisfaction with
religious hypocrisy may cause him to explore other
philosophies. In my case, all of these contributed to my
sense of powerlessness and resultant quest.

I became deeply committed to the New Age agenda, although I
must admit I did not understand the spiritual implications.
I merely longed for self-improvement and hungered after some
kind of peace and love. In more troubled moments, I sensed a
strange recognition of New Age teachings and sometimes felt
a disturbing tension to realize that some wonderful new idea
of mine had originally been written thousands of years
before–in Hindu teachings.

My life experiences had taught me more about India and its
religious ramifications than any of my enlightened friends
would have dared guess. And in my recollection, nothing to
be found along the streets of Calcutta, Bombay, or Madras
promised a better life to anyone.

So, in accepting New Age teachings in the 1960s, had I
somehow accepted the very religion that had frightened me so
much as a child? If so, had I somehow misunderstood the
sights and sounds and smells of my childhood?

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From

Out of India by Caryl
Matrisciana, chapter 1.

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Notes:
1. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy (Los Angeles,
CA: J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1980), p. 19.
2. David Spangler, Emergence (Delta 1984), p. 17.

Also by Caryl Matrisciana:


An Enlightened Race?

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Source:

http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletter061609.htm