A Pilgrim in Aquarius by David Spangler

ISBN: 978-0-905249-83-4
David Spangler has been teaching courses in spiritual development since 1964. In this book, David draws on his more than thirty-five years of experience with the New Age as one of its leading exponents, explorers, philosophers and teachers and on his lifelong contact and communication with the inner spiritual world, to both critique and honour the idea of the New Age and the movement that has developed around it.

128 pages paperback

The New Age can be very confusing. What are we to make of a movement that ranges from the most profound and wise teachings on the one hand, to people selling crystals on the street corner on the other - and includes everything from occult practices to new science, personal growth to holistic medicine, sustainable communities to channels and UFO abductees? Underneath all the contradictions and confusions of the New Age movement, however, is a very ancient idea, a spiritual idea that can put us in touch with an inexhaustible source of creative energy and vision at the very foundations of the universe. It is a vision of a loving world - a sacred world - and of the creative power in each of us to bring that world into being.

David Spangler has been teaching courses in spiritual development since 1964. In this book, David draws on his more than thirty-five years of experience with the New Age as one of its leading exponents, explorers, philosophers and teachers and on his lifelong contact and communication with the inner spiritual world, to both critique and honour the idea of the New Age and the movement that has developed around it.

Part autobiographical, this book opens up new dimensions of insight and understanding about the pitfalls and the potentials of the New Age. It is sure to become a classic in its field for all those wishing a deeper understanding of the transformative drama of our time.

David Spangler
David Spangler is an internationally known spiritual teacher and writer. In 1970, he was invited by the founders of Findhorn Foundation community in northern Scotland, Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, to become a co-director to help lead and develop the community. He occupied this position until he returned to the United States in 1973. Since then David has travelled widely within the United States and Canada giving classes, workshops and lectures. His themes have included the emergence of a holistic culture, the nature of personal sacredness, our participation in a coevolving, co-creative universe, partnering, and working with spiritual realms, our responsibility to the earth and to each other, the spiritual nature and power of our individuality, and our calling to be of service at this crucial time of world history. Many of these themes come together in his primary work, which is the development of a spiritual perspective and practice called Incarnational Spirituality.

This is a well-written and comprehensive guidebook to the New Age, written by one who has traveled its roads. David Spangler distinguishes between the New Age and the New Age movement, and into the latter he lumps the fringe groups beloved of the media for their sensationalism. For him, the New Age is the consciousness of the sacred rising like a benign tide amongst us, breaking into our human world. He warns that this consciousness is filtered by our personalities, and that there will be those unable to handle "the sacred world of love and wisdom, fiery intelligence and passionate will, imagination and delight," and that this failure sometimes leads to bizarre manifestations.

He emphasizes that when one is on the spiritual path, it is important to ask the right questions to ensure that one is serving the whole and not one's ego. He warns of cults. "At the slightest whiff of a power game, look for the exit." He has no use for prophecies of apocalyptic disaster, describing them as movie-like projections of the seer's own fear and anger.

David Spangler was on his way to becoming a molecular biologist before mystical experiences intervened, and as befits this background, he writes objectively and with authority. He identifies fantasies and illusions on the one hand, commercial greed and power trips on the other, and gives the reader directions for a clear middle path towards a more benign future. If you read nothing else about the New Age, read this.

— Tony Mitton




 

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