The more I think about this, the more disturbed I am by it. Given the current situation in the Church, the neglect and dismantling of our mystical and deep spiritual traditions in favor of bland and insipid substitutes, why IS the Vatican surprised at the attraction to the New Age movement? What are they doing to stem the tide? Do they even understand it? I'm afraid they have lost moral authority with the scandals and any document along these lines will simply be laughed off. What I am more afraid of is they are unaware of our Spiritual Traditions which could bring in the lost and spiritually searching.
I concur. A very uneven, but mostly inadequate treatment of the subject.
Seems to rely too heavily on Marilyn Ferguson, who has a similarly superficial outlook.
No mention at all of the Qabbalah. No mention of the Order of the Golden Dawn. No mention of Aleister Crowley. No mention of the star Sirius.
Even Freemasonry gets just 3 mentions in passing, nothing in depth. They don't even make the cut for the glossary.
Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a "New Age book"? LOL! Did they even buy a copy?
Don't drink any herbal tea!
Very strange!