[Buddha-l] Enneagram and Buddhism

[Bernard Simon]

> "New Age religion is simply what religion looks like when people
> are allowed to think whatever they please. Much of it is
> unedifying in the extreme, but the messiness of spiritual
> anarchism is much to be preferred over the alternatives proposed
> by those who like their spiritual trains to run on time. "

The New Age is simply another name for Western Occultism, which still  
gets too little scholarly attention because of its disreputable  
character. Its best known historian is Frances Yates, a Shakespeare  
scholar. Parts of the New Age are anarchic and individualistic, others  
are highly regimented. Remember Elizabeth Clare Prophet?