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Though Groothuis is now writing a second book, Confronting the New Age, about the movement's inroads into business and education, it is probably wise to remember that phenomena like the New Age have to some extent been a part of the American scene ever since there was an American scene. Remember the 18th century Shaker leader, Mother Ann Lee, whose followers believed she represented the second coming of Christ. Remember Mary Baker Eddy, severely injured by a fall on the ice, who became cured while reading a passage in St. Matthew and thereafter taught the unreality of all physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...chronicle of 130 people who claim to have been abducted by extraterrestrial visitors and tell tales of being subjected to various degrading medical experiments. On the other hand, the extraterrestrials who turn up in the course of channeling -- one of the most popular New Age sports -- appear almost unfailingly wise and benevolent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...protected activity in some other contexts," but not in the Navy, which has a special need to maintain order among men forced into close contact with one another. He added that the regulations requiring discharge of homosexuals, though not unconstitutional given the situation, were nonetheless "harsh" and not necessarily "wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Far More Judicious | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

Every President sooner or later has to cut a deal with that thing we call Washington, or else he will be scorned, humiliated or simply brushed aside. Most of them hate it. The wise ones finally accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Coping with Washington | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

Rutger Fury, formerly a living creature, was national political writer for the National Inquirer and a one-time friend of Jeffrey J. Wise...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Death of a Sleazeball | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

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