NP: Q re Jung Order

[Steven Koteff]

My thanks to all of you for your responses. Memories, even revised ones,
very much welcome.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Just accessing my memories seems to wipe them out.
>
> There was a turn sometime in the 70's when mystical thought went from
> pragmatic mysticism (the sort of thought that brought us Hatha Yoga and
> Alan Watts on the radio) to narcissistic mysticism (like the believe that
> when you bend your index finger the whole planet has to accommodate you act
> of volition) Earlier mysticism (and the Age of Aquarius, as far as I
> remember) eschewed money and sought enlightenment. What became The New Age
> offered Power and Wealth. (Gosh, was it EST that cemented this change? It
> was said at the time that Werner had repurposed (ok, they didn't use THAT
> word) all the mystical instruction that came before him into one lecture
> that lasted for 3 days and worked only if you didn't have to pee) For me,
> the personal chronology was over the two years it took to complete my first
> Rolfing Series. My rolfer, who was definitely in touch the flow of with
> what was becoming the New Age played meditation music (yet to become New
> Age music as far as I recall) but by my final sessions (before 1985, best
> as I can recall) were accompanied by taped lectures by Reverand Ike, a man
> who had no doubt that Spiritual success was demonstrated by money in the
> bank and rings on your fingers.)
>
> When did "New Age" music start getting it's own section in record stores
> (cassette tape stores, really ;--) Or in the book store, let alone being a
> New Age bookstore?
>
> Did anyone else suffer a lot of their friends believing or, much worse,
> becoming, channelers?
>
> Or advocates for the ability of crystals to cure anything AND foretell the
> future.
>
> The most misleading idea, though, would have to be the idea that
> meditation can be a replacement for psychedelics, if you ask me.
>
> Allan in WV who just ran across an article on GOOGLE about how to contact
> the spirit world without a Ouija board and is probably going to try to
> contact Reverend Ike right now
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been revising my memories. I think New Age was later than the late
>> sixties as the phases
>> of my life merge like ice and snow. yes, woo woo hit pittsburgh in 70s, I
>> now think
>>
>> So, I believe wikipedia is right (although as we know from etymology re
>> many words, may words were spoken
>> before we know they were spoken by the traces we can detect that they
>> could only leave by markers, usu
>> print, of some kind.)
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Alan,
>>> Probably a good place to look for an answer to the first, if not both
>>> your questions, would be an archive of the UK magazine Resurgence.
>>> The wiki article on the term 'New Age' says the debate is between the
>>> early and late 1970s. I'd guess later myself, but Resurgence started
>>> publishing in 1966 so a methodical look through would surely reveal the
>>> answer.
>>>
>>>
>>> Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote :
>>>
>>> > Fond of the WooMark Kohut -  Here are a couple of questions that only
>>> you can answer: When did "New Age" become a publisher's
>>> category? More importantly for my consideration, when did New Age book
>>> advertisements start featuring the smiling faces of their authors rather
>>> than inspirational images? Landmark dates in the evolution of inductive
>>> reasoning, I'd assume.Myself, I was an early adaptor, subscribing to
>>> mail order Rosicrucian teachings before I was out of High School, well
>>> before I ever heard the name "Sandoz."Allan in WV 'Here,
>>> here's proof: concentrate on the needle floating on the surface of the
>>> water in this glass...'On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Ian Livingston
>>> <
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