Harry Potter and The Lost Generations; Former New Ager Explains Potter Danger.

The Cross and the Veil ^ | Nov, 2001 | Clare McGrath Merkle

[DAnconia55]

[gdani]

Watching hours of "Bewitched" turned me into a satanist.

I suspect I also would have been lured into the homosexual lifestyle if Paul Lynde was a regular cast member instead of just a recurring guest star.

[horsewhispersc]

The only things missing are the wine, bread and olives, of course then it wouldn't be "cheeeeeezy"! ; )

[jlogajan]

Well at least it made me want to practice some magic on Samantha!

[ppaul]

I suspect I also would have been lured into the homosexual lifestyle if Paul Lynde was a regular cast member instead of just a recurring guest star.

LOL

[zeromus]

The resemblence is because Harry Potter draws from the same old fiction as modern magical technology. "...telepathy, divination, energy-work, necromancy, geomancy and time travel..." are hardly new ideas. This author shouldn't presume that fictional literature drawing from any of those topics are borrowing from her field of expertise. It's instead drawing from years of fictional tradition. It is not Rowling's fault if their science so closely resembles fiction.

An analogous situation would be if aliens charged sci-fi authors with specism for constantly representing them as creepy war-mongering bugs.

[jlogajan]

Scripture (excuse the reference) repeatedly refers to violence

Boy does it ever! Especially the part where it commands us to go out and kill homosexuals.

[bayourod]

The snake oil salesmen have really come out of the woodwork to try and make a buck off of Potter.

When I see this author fly on a broom I'll start to worry about Potter being too realistic.

[Hail Caesar]

"...Hitler's Nazi elite were themselves victims as children of what is now termed radical attachment disorder, having been the product of "new" thinking in strict and antiseptic child rearing techniques. These children later grew into conscience-less supermen with no hearts.

Attachment disorder is much talked about these days, the latest in clinical diagnoses, applied to such horrors as the mass murderers of Columbine. These are youth that never attached emotionally to a parent, either through multiple primary care givers, neglect or abuse. These children suffer a core rage and an inability to develop normal moral scruples. They are children who often seek out violence and the occult to gain control and to channel their rage. Is there no truer representation of this than our orphan Harry when he points his weapon of magic in rage at his aunt, or when he stands in a dark "haunted" house confused as to who exactly killed his parents and if he should kill him too?..."

BINGO! Above succinctly describes what the American pop culture sheeple may be cavalierly dismissing.

[ppaul]

Cheesier.....

:

[Dimensio]

Watching hours of "Bewitched" turned me into a satanist.

I suspect I also would have been lured into the homosexual lifestyle if Paul Lynde was a regular cast member instead of just a recurring guest star.

Did you just watch the original Bewitched or did you stick around even after the "new" Darren? If the latter, then you might want to do a wrist-limpness check to see if Dick Sargent influenced you...

[ppaul]

Vablatsky

That's great!

[FreeTally]

BINGO! Above succinctly describes what the American pop culture sheeple may be cavalierly dismissing.

I would tend to agree, although I can't say that I am either "for" or "against" Harry Potter stuff. I see both sides of the argument, but I think you pointed out from the article something people dont want to recognize - and that is, this kind of stuff, entangled with everything else out there in "Pop Culture" will undoubtedly affect kids in some way. The signs may not be seen for years.

[gdani]

Did you just watch the original Bewitched or did you stick around even after the "new" Darren? If the latter, then you might want to do a wrist-limpness check to see if Dick Sargent influenced you...

Good point!

The wrist-limpness test turned out OK but, now that you mention it, I now suspect that my wife was replaced by a different woman several years ago, even though she goes by the same name & identity as the 1st woman (my original wife)

[niki]

bump

[ctdonath2]

Many of the delightfully described magical arts in the Harry Potter series were pretty standard fare in training courses I mastered to some degree or another, including telepathy, divination, energy-work, necromancy, geomancy and time travel, to name but a few.

She mastered telepathy & time travel? LOL! I couldn't read any more after that line.