I was a regular long form workshop student of Lazaris, from 1984 to 1992.
For more of that story and other new age consumer information, see our article
links at left.
And for those cautious yet still success-directed enough to continue the pursuit
of yet "unmapped" spirituality :
How do they get away with it? Isn't it strange we can begin to abandon critical thinking at the first confident claim of
alternative health or spiritual authority?
Not really. The trouble is that so few have sufficient free time to effectively research claims made by "new experts".
It has been observed that the strength of our desire for knowledge beyond that which our traditional culture offers, may be
in direct proportion to our tendency to 'slip' and surrender unwarranted trust.
There has been a lot written about our modern New Age movement. Some
say it is 100% rooted in anti-semitic, turn-of-the-19th century Theosophy. And indeed, very sadly, parts of it are.
The paradox in New Age material is that there is also great value thrown
under the same heading with Theosophy's turn-of-the-century eugenics (and other assorted 'spiritual backbone'-crushing beliefs).
On the negative we see power hungry, greed-driven (or both) absolutes from
manipulative doom and gloom "masters of disaster".
On the far more positive, there are New Age leaders such as Anthony Robbins. We have found that many, though not all, of Anthony's health, fitness and success-coaching material works surprisingly
well in the nuts-and-bolts, real urban world. Over the last decade some have quite measurably improved our lives.
So what is a new age consumer to do?
Personally we stopped arguing with angry "debunking experts", social backbone-crushing "enlightened teachers"
and frightened, controlling new age bashers on their own Internet boards and
opened our own site.
Welcome to our on-line Lazaris community.
Contact us by posting in the Lazaris Discussion section (follow
the discussion link, at top left).
Steve