Tag Archives: New Age

The New Age Decision: Saying Yes means Saying No …

By roger | Published: 8 May 2013

  Today, I return to an old theme of this website – the New Age movement. As I have said often here, I got caught up in the New Age, when both the movement and myself were very young. Around 1979, age 15, I began to read of the Findhorn community in northern Scotland and [...]

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From Findhorn to Catholicism: On Leaving the New Age for the Church

By roger | Published: 6 March 2013

    Introduction: What follows is a very personal, autobiographical piece regarding my own conversion journey from New Age mysteries to the Catholic Mystery. It is taken from my upcoming book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum. Now, ripping extracts like this from a book’s totality is no easy thing. For the book supplies a great deal of context [...]

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The Suffering of the Heart of Sacred Humanity

By roger | Published: 7 October 2012

    Today, we will just feature some small extracts adapted from the manuscript of my upcoming book in regards to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. *** The Divine Heart was presented to me in a throne of flames, more resplendent than a sun, transparent as crystal, with this adorable wound. And it was surrounded [...]

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Catholic Obedience and New Age Thinking

By kim | Published: 27 August 2012

Roger has recently posted a long piece, on the traditional nature of the Catholicity of Valentin Tomberg. This piece was written largely in response to questions and comments by a reader of the site. Having read the article, I am struck by the theme of obedience, of giving oneself over to the authority of a [...]

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Valentin Tomberg, the New Age and the Way of the Heart

By roger | Published: 21 August 2012

Or: An Open Letter on the Salvation of the World     APOLOGIA This Page is in process of a regrettable Deconstruction. The Deconstruction will be ongoing over the days ahead. We will explain the reasons for this regrettable Deconstruction and aim for a Reconstruction with most of this material and indeed expanded on. Until [...]

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On the Growth of the New Age Movement and the Withering of Christianity …

By roger | Published: 29 July 2012

    Last time, we ripped an extract on the New Age movement from my upcoming book, Cor Jesu Sacratissimum. Now my book (among many other things) details how I became caught up in the New Age around 1980 – at a time when New Age thinking had still not exploded into the mainstream. In [...]

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Catholic-New Age Dialogue (Long Years after Leaving Findhorn)

By roger | Published: 21 July 2012

Twenty five years ago, I was an enthusiastic young member of the Findhorn Community in Northern Scotland. Findhorn: it remains today one of the major world centres of the New Age movement, or as a Vatican document puts it: ‘The two centres which were the initial power-houses of the New Age, and to a certain [...]

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Catholicism: Living Mystery or Human Label?

By roger | Published: 28 June 2012

  In dialoguing with non-Catholics in secular society, the greatest problem will frequently be complete lack of understanding. This can easily arise because – often without realising it – non-Catholics and Catholics have completely different understandings of what the Church is. For within the secular world, the idea has become prevalent that Catholicism amounts to [...]

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What Findhorn Could Never Give Me

By roger | Published: 16 April 2012

Once long ago, I lived at the New Age community of Findhorn in northern Scotland. What to say of this Findhorn community? Well, according to a Vatican document on the New Age, Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of Life: ‘The two centres which were the initial power-houses of the New Age, and to a [...]

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Portals into the Catholic Mystery: A Very Personal Hello Again

By roger | Published: 12 April 2012

Hello again Friends, Known and Unknown, This weblog starts up again … after months of winter. And although most of the time, I resist the temptation to very personal and informal writing at this blog – I’ll make an exception here. (Note the contractions I wouldn’t normally use). Many personal events have sharpened my awareness [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part VII

By roger | Published: 10 September 2011

So far in this series, we have been quoting material from 2005 – from a letter I wrote back then to old New Age friends of mine. But now a little interjection or interlude to this series … But before this injection, let me reference the following from last time: “Some … may be astonished [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part VI

By roger | Published: 4 September 2011

Foreword 2011: As has been explained previously, this is a very personal series, which is drawn from a letter originally written in 2005 for old New Age friends of mine. As I touch on below, my writing and thinking today differs considerably from six years ago, which was significantly less traditional. Still with amendments I [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part V

By roger | Published: 21 August 2011

Foreword 2011: We continue with my serialisation of a letter originally written in 2005 mainly (though not completely and entirely) for New Age friends – who could not comprehend how I could leave my Findhorn-New Age past behind in favour of the Catholic Church. The series is subtitled “A Still Hesitant Apologetics”, because in 2005 [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part IV

By roger | Published: 14 August 2011

Foreword 2011: I am convert to the Church after twenty years of New Age faith and activity – in Findhorn, among other places. Recently I have been serialising a long letter originally written to old New Age friends of mine back in 2005. Traditional Catholic readers of this weblog could be mystified by my approach [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Approach) – Part III

By roger | Published: 7 August 2011

Foreword 2011: In the previous material (from 2005), we have been contrasting William Bloom’s upbeat New Age approach with a very different approach – one where instead of New Age denial, Robert Sardello encourages us to feel – feel the pain of the world. Between William Bloom’s call for a supposedly all-embracing universal “holistic” spirituality [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part II

By roger | Published: 31 July 2011

Foreword 2011: As explained before, the following material was originally written in 2005 in an attempt to reach New Agers. For this and other reasons previously explained, more traditional Catholics may find the language and even the content here different to the norm at this site. In part, this stems from my being a more [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics)

By roger | Published: 24 July 2011

Foreword 2011: As announced last time, this weblog will be re-presenting older material for a short period, while I am in the midst of relocation and transition. I will be serialising a long letter from 2005, which I originally wrote mainly for British New Age friends of mine – from my New Age past. If [...]

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Where the Temples are Today …

By roger | Published: 18 June 2011

Another extract ripped from my book in preparation: Much of the world stands before the Catholic Church, completely ignorant of Her central claims. Naturally, this includes countless members of Indian, Chinese, African traditions that may have never glimpsed the Church at all. But what of that which was once known as the Christian West? There [...]

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On the Cathars, the New Age and the Da Vinci Code …

By roger | Published: 10 June 2011

Forenote: For various reasons, it is taking longer than expected to continue both my series on the Sacred Heart and Valentin Tomberg. Meanwhile, I rip another extract from my book in preparation: Cor Jesu Sacratissimum. Ripping such a fragment out of context is tricky business. There are references below, which may make little sense. It [...]

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Easter in England

By roger | Published: 21 April 2011

This was originally written for my weblog. But due to the fact of its length, as well as the fact that it treats of so many key themes concerning this website as a whole, I place it in the Articles as well. Only time will tell, but I suspect that this will prove to be one of the most personally important pieces at this site – RB.

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