In Reply to: To Mike posted by Jo on September 25, 2006 at 13:55:01:
I'm not really into lots of New Age practices.
If you look at book list of New Age reading there's no end to the diversity of subjects, it's hard to define it, except by saying it's an eclectic mix. I don't think of myself as being a New Ager.
Both my wife and I like very much Louise Hay's books, she's been termed one of the founders of the New Age movement. We like very much Dr. Wayne Dyer's books too. He wrote a book I've used to learn meditation called "Getting In the Gap". We've read some of his other books too. My wife practises yoga. We read John O'Donahue's books. He's an Irish writer who often explores Celtic wisdom and truths. All of these books can be termed self-help books too.
One of our favorite valleys to walk here is the Val de Binn, a place close to the Aletsch Glacier which is the source of the Rhone River. It crystalline. The energy there is positive and therapeutic. We learned this simply by going walking there. First we visited a ederly Catholic nun we know who lives in the area, and she told us about crystals and the good energy there. Then we camped and walked in the valley, collecting lots of rocks with cyrstals in them to bring home. So the energy in cyrstals is something beautiful and I believe in it. In New Age stores you find lots of crystals.
Further down the board here a posters told me: "I've been there and done that", and he says he wants to "convince" me that I should be careful. He said his experiences in life gives him the authority to warn people like me about my practices: "Welcome out of the nasty little cult of TFI! There are equally bad things out here; just trying to warn about them, as a public service."
I have the greatest respect to his choice of faith, belief and spiritual experience, the ideal would be if we could all be respected by each other here for our personal choices.