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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
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- Subject: Re: 'Newage' music
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 17:29:14 GMT
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- When "New Age" music first came out, it was often advertised as an
- aid to meditation, as practiced in yoga and other practices attached
- to Eastern religions. Some music was advertised as helping attain
- "alpha states" or "theta states" or whatever it was.
- Some fundamentalist Christians (not all) do not distinguish between
- any non-Christian, or perhaps non-God-worshipping religions, so
- practices such as meditation and yoga seem just as "bad" to them as
- worshipping idols or the devil (and we won't even talk about Tantric
- Sex Yoga.)
- Taken to extremes, there are fundamentalist Christians who beleive
- that the Bible is the only non-sinful recreational reading (I wonder,
- do these people read Netnews? <grin>)
- Of course, the term "New Age" is an umbrella term that has covered
- everything from organic foods to tree-worshipping, and not one
- organized anti-Christian religion, but you can't talk to some people.
- Betsy
- (posting from Cambridge, the heart of the New Age Bookstore community)
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