The eclectic mixing and matching of New Age spirituality isn't new, people have been doing it for a long time, much to the chagrin of priests and theologians who wanted to impose legibility on people's spiritual lives.
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Now of course, it's accelerated. You can do a vipassana meditation, drink ayahuasca, eat peyote and go on an Ignatian retreat in rapid succession. Maybe even find sometime to do some yoga while you're at it.
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This doesn't appear to be producing a hell of a lot of saints.
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The problem I see is that this eclectic, by the seat of your pants, if-it-feels-holy-do-it approach is extremely open to being co-opted by Capital, the Lord of this world.
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To resist this, you actually need something much closer to fundamentalism. The kinds of weirdos who won't use electricity on Sabbath day (or at all) or who would ban music are much more likely to avoid the meandering, consumerist path of modern do-what-thou wilt post-religion.
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