Information AboutDavid Spangler |
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| new age | |
| spangler, david | |
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Spangler has often been miscast as a new-age represented by Alice Bailey and an emerging worldview that is more postmodern, less obscure, and less metaphysical than theosophy. Spangler himself reports that it took him some years to develop a language in which to communicate clearly the insights and experiences he had been having since childhood. Seen within the context of this 'emerging worldview' (which cannot be strictly defined because it is, well, "emerging," fluid, and difficult to summarize accurately without doing it violence) it is clear that Spangler's act of giving voice to qualities of being, or energies, (they are not discrete 'entities' per se) beyond our normal perceptual ranges has more in common with the tradition of , Paul Solomon , or their many new age simulacra still living. In recent years he has emphasized a practical or "incarnational spirituality" in which our everyday lives -- our physical, embodied, sometimes resplendent and sometimes shabby persons -- can be experienced as spiritual or sacred, as opposed to a spirituality concerned solely with the transpersonal and transcendent. REFERENCES
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