Ordo Ab Chao: New Age

 

Willis Harman’s protégé and also a director of IONS, Marilyn Ferguson was the author of the 1980 bestseller The Aquarian Conspiracy, which became regarded as the “handbook of the New Age.” Ferguson was inspired in the choice of her title when she read about a speech by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau—father of Justin, the current Prime Minister—to the United Nations Habitat Conference in Vancouver, where he quoted a passage where synarchist Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin called for a “conspiracy of love.” As an indication of who represents the modern leaders of this “conspiracy,” Ferguson conducted a survey of 185 leaders of the New Age and Human Potential Movement and found that they answered that the most influential thinkers in their lives were, in order, first was Teilhard de Chardin, followed by Carl Jung Aldous Huxley, Abraham Maslow and Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Nazi sympathizer and CIA collaborator Carl Jung was convinced that he had been chosen by God for a prophetic mission to herald the dawning Age of Aquarius, and it is through him that the idea became a mainstay of the counterculture of the 1960s and the 1970 Scholars have listed Jung among the five chief influences of twentieth-century occultism, in addition Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, Gurdjieff and René Guénon. Jung is the father of the “New Age” phenomenon, and coined many of the concepts employed by New Age writers, such as synchronicity, archetypes, collective unconscious, and individuation. Jung appeared on the album cover of the Beatles’ 1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, along with H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, William S. Burroughs, and Madame Blavatsky. Fifth Dimension had a hit song from the musical Hair echoing Jung’s ideas, and millions of people all over the world believed it was “the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

In “Aion,” Jung calculated that, according to the the longitude of the stars in Ptolemy’s Almagest, the next Platonic month, the Age of Aquarius, that would succeed the Age of Pisces would begin in 1997.  (more...)

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