Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assignment also included a seminar conducted by Actress Shirley MacLaine, one of the New Age's most energetic acolytes. "I dipped into meditation, brushed with reincarnation, knocked down blockages, forgave my enemies, hugged strangers, attempted to contact deceased relatives and acquired a large crystal," says Cronin. Though Cronin had never met MacLaine before (in this life or any other), she eagerly tested her new skills at a believer's apartment. Cronin and several others gathered around a table with their crystals and sniffed from scent bottles, all the while humming seven musical notes. She did not discover her inner spirit...
Cronin has noticed no change in her perception of external reality as the result of her foray into the New Age, but the experience has left its mark. "Before going out on a difficult assignment, I sometimes pull that energizing magic crystal out of my bottom desk drawer," she reports. "And I concentrate on the key words for the New Age: surrender and trust...
...trying to find out more about the New Age...
...Always the New Age...
...here we are in the New Age, a combination of spirituality and superstition, fad and farce, about which the only thing certain is that it is not new. Nobody seems to know exactly where the term came from, but it has been around for several decades or more, and many elements of the New Age, like faith healing, fortune-telling and transmigration of souls, go back for centuries. (Ages, in general, are an uncertain affair. The Age of Aquarius, celebrated in the musical Hair, may have started in the 1960s or at the turn of the century...