A Catholic Response to the New Age Phenomenon by the Irish Theological Commission in 1994. To see the contents of the whole chapter, click here . We live in the age of the counterfeit. It is so acceptable to have a copy of an original that we hardly think about it.
Women wear counterfeit jewels that look just as good as the real thing.
The paper copy of the master painting looks good. The wood veneer looks as good as real wood. The plastic version of an object is commonplace. Today, counterfeit religion is also available, and it, too, looks superficially like the real thing. The NAM is a religious system even though its leaders cloak it with humanistic or pseudoscientific language.