The New Age Lexicon - Peter Lemesurier

Over 800 entries, ranging alphabetically from absent healing to zone therapy, make this the definitive guide to the new age, spirituality, religion, God, the planet, the universe, and whatever is out there, in short. Or perhaps not out there.;But it comes with several health warnings attached. It will make you laugh at what other people believe. Worse, it will make you laugh at what you believe. But then if you can't laugh at what you believe you probably don't understand what you believe-and wisdom is seldom distinguishable from folly to those who have not yet understood it.;EXTRACT;God;Vague spiritual entity said to preside over life, the universe and everything. Widely supposed to be in favour of one half of his own creation (the "good" half) and opposed to the rest of it (the "bad" half). Currently in state of chronic doubt regarding his own gender. The former, Christian view of him as a kind of celestial one-parent family has never been popular with New Agers.;Also rumoured to dwell "within" rather than "without." No doubt this is why his guidance from "within" is generally assumed to be more reliable than the corresponding guidance he gives to other people.;Fundamentalist Christians tend to assume that he stopped committing himself to writing some two thousand years ago, and is not now allowed to say anything that he has not already committed to print. New Agers, however, insist that he is still at it. Still issues lavish cheques drawn on the Bank of Heaven, but refuses to respond to tax demands. See Absolute, Bible, Brahman, Christianity, deism, delusion, monotheism, Reality, religion, spirituality.