In Search of Heaven on Earth - Softcover
As the year 2000, the millenium, approaches, spiritual pundits predict the dawn of a new age. But is this prediction really so new? Since the beginning of time, prophets have regularly announced the arrival of Heaven on Earth. Throughout history, idealists - as well as the not-so-idealistic - have attempted to create paradise in the here and now. The book puts today's so-called New Age into its historical perspective. It draws both on first hand experience of Utopian communities and interviews with current spiritual leaders as well as historical accounts of heavens and Utopias past.
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Today's New Age revival, writes Storm, is a "vast umbrella movement" held together by the conviction that a planetary shift in consciousness will usher in a new mode of being, an earthly paradise. In this entertaining, detached cautionary probe, the author, a London-based freelance jornalist, surveys the current New Age scene and traces its historical roots to Madame Helena Blavatsky's Theosophical Society, to George Gurdjieff's mystical teachings, to free-love apostles Aleister Crowley and the Marquis de Sade and to utopian communitarians like 19th-century British socialist Robert Owen. Scientologists; Zen meditators; televangelists; LSD advocates; witches; neo-pagans; Green environmentalists; Indian gurus; and channeler Elizabeth Clare Prophet, whose followers are prepared for nuclear armageddon, all come under Storm's skeptical scrutiny. While acknowledging New Agers' occasional wisdom, she argues that their valuing of intuition over intellect, and of community over the individual, can lead to a spiritual muddle instead of enlightenment. Photos.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1855382555
- ISBN 13 9781855382558
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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