It provides no place for the divine woman, other than Mary, who's a nice girl. That's very different from the great female beings of India. Your religion should be your mythology and your cosmology. Jones, the Grace Cathedral dean, separates himself from conservative evangelicals who condemn New Age as satanic but nevertheless has his own criticism of the movement. People into channeling, karma and reincarnation can easily go of on private trips.
People seem to use it in a way to be indifferent to the poor and homeless.
Those people are just working out their own karma. They're all just following their own destiny. The Chronicle Poll was conducted by Mark Baldassare and Associates. The survey of 600 Bay Area adults was conducted March 16 to 19 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Results may not add up to 100 percent because of rounding.