New Age is made up
of people who are genuinely seeking for better answers to the problems of life,
genuinely seeking the spiritual path. New
Thoughters know where the
path is, because they are already on it, even if they fall off once in a while.
New Thoughters
know enough to keep an open mind, but not to “dabble in the occult,” which
Charles Fillmore warned against. Without abandoning their Western roots and rationality,
they learn from Eastern ideas and practices, especially the ones about centered
attention and balance. As Joan Cline-McCary puts it in her book about Divine
Science founder Malinda Cramer, Malinda
Cramer’s Hidden Harmony [1],
