Posted on 05/26/2014 7:04:04 AM PDT by marshmallow
It may be called the "New Age Movement" but there is little new about it.
In 2012 Barbara Marx Hubbard was the keynote speaker at the national assembly of the Leadership of Catholic Women Religious in the United States. The LWCR is the largest organization of Catholic sisters -- representing many different orders and over 57,000 nuns. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had some blunt words to say about the American sisters’ choice of speaker when he addressed the leadership on April 30.
Cardinal Müller voiced "increasing concern" about the LCWR's promotion of the "concept of conscious evolution."
What is “conscious evolution”? Hubbard’s website describes it as "part of the trajectory of human evolution, the canvas of choice before us now as we recognize that we have come to possess the powers that we used to attribute to the gods." Through conscious evolution the individual is empowered to reach their full human potential. A website advertising Hubbard’s "ACE training" (which costs $497.00) encourages devotees to “activate Your Evolutionary Potential and Contribute Your Unique Gifts to a Global, Heart-Centered Movement That’s Co-Creating a Healthy, Sustainable, Peaceful and Prosperous World for All.”
Once we get past the vague-sounding hype, conscious evolution not only promises to help the individual reach their full spiritual potential, but to join in with a global movement that will help bring about a historic shift in human consciousness. The Shift Network is a conglomerate of various New Age philosophies, all with their particular founders, gurus, shamans, and healers. It has the usual New Age blend of Eastern religions, occult connections, and systems for raising consciousness -- of which Hubbard’s “conscious evolution” is just one piece of a complex network.
The New Age Movement was defined and condemned by the.......
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This is what happens when poorly formed sisters read Germaine Greer, Teilhard de Chardin and L. Ron Hubbard in one sitting.
The need for married, transgendered nuns is obvious./sarc
I will no doubt be flamed for this. An organization touted as 57,000 strong, spouts this BS.
Jesus Christ, the living Son of God, Who spoke the universe into being in one day, by Whom everything that exists was created.
Well, Jesus Christ is not an absentee landlord. He made it clear that He would be coming back.
For many professing “Christians” they will hear Him say to their face, the dreaded sentence, “I never knew you”.
And He will.
Yes, that’s a lethal mixture!
Another thing rarely mentioned because it sounds sort of insulting is that most of these sisters were in what were originally teaching orders, aimed at teaching grade-schoolers and not even high schoolers. The education of religious sisters wasn’t exactly extensive or profound, and many of them attended a sort of “sisters” track at Catholic colleges if they even went to college. So a lot of them weren’t the best educated or even smartest of the religious world to begin with, and suddenly they were reading these wacky things with virtually no intellectual background to defend them. And the fact that these sisters had rejected the authority of the bishops or the Church (with no penalties, generally) meant that they had nobody to keep them from imbibing deeply of these poisoned springs. (Teilhard wasn’t entirely poisonous, btw, but he certainly provided ample material for misinterpretation.)
Ah, a little learning is a dangerous thing...drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring...
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