New Age
New Age & Metaphysical Myth, Misinformation, Inspiration & Truth – Idealism vs. Realism
By Scott Petullo & Stephen Petullo
Aug 30, 2007

We certainly appreciate the value of inspirational
messages that are rooted in truth. However, at
the present time, an over-abundance of spiritual
misinformation is flooding the metaphysical
market by those whom we call the New Age
Cheerleaders.

They’re usually well-meaning, but denying the
reality that adversity is an unavoidable part of
everyone’s life, that it has a divine purpose, and
instead promoting false promises is a disservice
to consumers. Ultimately, a lot of the excitement
and hype only serves to increase book sales and
seminar profits and can do more damage than
good.

Throughout the past 20 plus years of being
involved in the self-help, New Age, and
metaphysical industry, we’ve seen it time and
time again: participants of inspirational seminars
and devotees of rosy passages in best-selling
“spiritual” books grab hold of the false claims
that the “experts” offer (“the perfect relationship
and infinite abundance are right around the corner
for you—it’s your birthright!”) and end up being
disappointed after all the hype has faded. Too many
“experts” claim, “…you can ‘create’ whatever you
want and be whatever you want.” Based on our
extensive research, we’ve found this to be false.

Further popular myths in the New Age movement
include the following: “The era we are in is more
‘potent’ than ever. Therefore, we are more able,
than ever before, to create what we want--we can
have it all;” “We are moving from a time of ‘cause
and effect’ to a time of ‘resonant causation,’ which
means that we can now create whatever we want
through the power of intent;” “It’s possible to dodge
the karma you don’t feel like dealing with through
the power of forgiveness;” “Astrology and numerology
aren’t applicable to those who have increased their
vibration through love and wisdom.”

Many of the Cheerleaders claim that fate doesn’t
exist or that it is only applicable for select parts
of life. In our opinion, they lack the right to deny
the theory of destined life conditions until they
first disprove the predictive sciences of numerology
and astrology.

Hypothesis or theory can’t be proven, it can only
be invalidated. Numerology and astrology have
yet to be shown scientifically invalid. In order to
accomplish this, two things are necessary: long-
term, objective observation of the circumstances
in the lives of many people and extensive
personality and predictive work involving these
ancient sciences.

Until then, the Cheerleaders are denying a more
than 2000 year esoteric tradition (which has
been wrongfully dishonored by the world’s
organized religions--one of the greatest spiritual
injustices in recorded history--and greatly
distorted by the 17th/18th century Age of
Reason/Rationalism) involving the prediction
of life circumstances through numerology and
astrology. In doing so and promoting their
baseless promises of the power to “create”
anything anyone wants and erase life challenges,
they lead astray those seeking wisdom.

However trendy it is these days to reject the idea
of predestination (events that are unavoidable),
our research shows that fated circumstances
(rewarding and challenging) are part of
everyone’s life. Since 1992 we’ve scrutinized
the numerology and astrology charts, and
observed the representative circumstances
(past and present) of thousands of people.
Furthermore, whether a person believes in
karma and fate or not, they are still bound by
it, as we constantly witness.

Once you see, as we have, the constant
repetition of numerological and astrological
patterns entirely corresponding to circumstances
in peoples’ lives, it is easy to stop rejecting
the concept of fate.

Furthermore, though we are grateful for our
guides and angels in spirit form and regularly
work with Archangels, just because certain
information feels good, is quoted by someone
famous, or is “channeled” doesn’t mean it’s
true for this dimension.

Additionally, the so-called divine messages
of many popular metaphysical teachings too
often get distorted through the human filters
called the ego-self and conscious mind. The
“I made millions/cured my disease/met the
perfect mate; you can do it too!” messages
beg for provisions such as, “…however,
it may not be your karma and fate to
accomplish what I did, so I can’t guarantee
the same success I’ve had…”

We respectfully and compassionately would
like to remind New Age inspirational authors
and speakers that fate, dharma, and karma must
be included in New Age communications
(even if they are just indirectly alluded to).
Otherwise, as we’ve seen, fictional inspirational
communications can unfortunately send
people down the primrose path of illusion
and leave them utterly disappointed, not to
mention further discredit the New Age
movement.

Instead of misleading people into thinking
they can erase their tough karma and create
anything they want, we feel more emphasis
should be placed on the following philosophy:
much of life is karmic and fated, the “good”
and the “bad," there’s no avoiding what is
meant to be, but there’s good news: you have
free will to react the way you choose to your
life’s predestined events and make the most
of your time here on earth.

What exactly is the benefit of working with
predictive numerology, astrology, and past
life regression aside from constantly seeing
fate in action? The benefits include
self-knowledge, spiritual growth through
awareness, wisdom, the ability to plan for
the future, the understanding that order exists
in the universe and that there are no victims,
that life is void of randomness, and that there
is meaning to everyone’s life.

In doing so, you’ll also find that the ancient
mystics and Gnostics were right: Fate cannot
be cheated, but it can be viewed in a way
that makes life a heck of a lot easier.

Why do we repeat what we do about destiny
and free will over and over? We feel these
ideas are very valuable and that it’s our duty
to share this sacred information and to expose
New Age myths and misleading practices.
We want to share what we and multitudes of
mystics throughout history have found as
truth because with awareness comes clarity.
and with clarity comes a more rewarding life.

Copyright © 2007 Scott Petullo, Stephen Petullo