My Discovery of New Age

My first contact with so-called "New Age" was exceedingly unexpected to say the least. One night, while online, one of those damn "pop-ups" flashed on my computer screen. That one caught my attention. It offered a personality test which claimed to provide help with inter-personal relationships. I needed help! So I took the test. As you might expect, the test said I needed the book they were selling. The truth is, I did need that book. So I went to buy the book. At Books-a-Million, that book was shelved in the same aisle with "New Age" publications. Seeing books on Dreams, The Subconscious and Hypnosis got me further into the New Age rack. Eventually I found Karma and Reincarnation. Those five topics are about the extent of my knowledge in what is called "New Age." I was totally unaware that some fifty-five other topics (which I found listed online in alphabetical order) are supposedly "New Age" ideas.

Not having been part of the so-called "New Age Movement,"which Gordon Melton said died in the early1990s, I had never paid much attention to the fact, I'm supposedly living in the Piscean Age. Nor have I ever consciously tried to bring the Age of Aquarius into existence. The fact is, I don't know enough about astrology to talk about it sensibly. At this particular moment, neither do I have any desire to delve into that realm. My interest and experience with "New Age" ideas is very limited. But I did get far enough into "New Age" to experience a "past life" while under self-hypnosis.

Whoa! What did I just say? I experienced a "past life!" Hello, Houston! I've got a problem. How could I possibly have experienced a "past life?" If I've had a "past life," then reincarnation must be a reality. That idea flies in the face of everything I was taught as a child. While growing up, I attended a Methodist Church in rural Alabama. The Superintendent of our Sunday School was an Ordained Baptist Minister. Thus in my formative years, I was thoroughly grounded in what is called "fundamental" Christianity. Later in life I was ordained as a Deacon, and also became an Elder in the United Methodist Church as an itinerant minister. I was a Pastor/Evangelist until my travels took me half way around the world as a "faith missionary." You can't go further than half-way around the world. At that point, you start coming back. When I came back from the darkness in which I was reared, I learned reality is entirely different from what I'd been told. In my opinion, you cannot find greater truth than what you are about to read.