The way consciousness can create or alter reality. In New Age religion, mental imaging can create new realities, not unlike the way affirmative postmodernists hope to create new realities. Although New Age thinkers have not thus far demonstrated the fascination with political power seen in postmodern circles, they also favor oppressed tribal peoples as more pure than western culture. Experience and Authority in Religion Of the several religious leaders we profile in The Death of Truth, most explicitly say that personal experience is the key to understanding religion. Most also call for dissociation as a preface to the religious experience.
Dissociation is the loss of conscious awareness of the real world.
Specifically, postmodern religionists call for people to leave all rational categories behind before ascending to the godhead. Whether it's Joseph Campbell, John Bradshaw or Fredrick Turner, all agree that we must first take leave of our senses before trying to know spiritual things. Copyright 1996 Xenos Christian Fellowship. All Rights Reserved. Send the contributors a comment or question.