I tried to google "What's Next seminars," but got such a variety of results that I didn't know which to click on.
I had never heard of it, but if it's like the other LGATs, (including Landmark, which I was in), they use "New Age," terminology and philosophy, mixed in with their own jargon. The way they use it, they make up their own definitions for that "New Age" terminology, though, and those definitions are often tweaked so that they don't exactly fit the meaning intended by the originators of those ideas. In my opinion, this "tweaking" is generally calculated to manipulate the attendees of these seminars.
Now this seems to have created a feedback loop, of sorts, as I can see that "New Age" terms are increasingly associated with LGATs, and, in turn, the characteristics of LGATs are being tranplanted, in the public mind, onto everything "New Age."
What is now referred to as "New Age" isn't actually new at all, but has been around for generations. Now people have borrowed terms from a variety of Eastern religions, appropriated ethnic religions, the occult, from authors such as Jane Roberts, and thrown in a little pop psychology, and called it "New Age."
This is all confusing enough in itself, but LGATs organizations have taken the extra step of throwing in harmful psychological tactics that were accidentally discovered during experiments such as The Milgram experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment. These experiments were stopped, and the tactics promptly labeled as unethical by the psychological community, but LGATs seem to have taken the findings and used them as tools to gain control over people. Now, some are even throwing in politics. Some have become so pushy and dogmatic that I think of them as "Nuage fundamentalists," although there was previously nothing evangelical about "New Age."
Since "New Age" beliefs were unfamiliar to most of the population, until about the past 30 years or so, most people who were new to the ideas presented wouldn't notice the "splices," but would see it as all a part of the same thing.
What I am saying is that it is essential to split hairs, IF you want to learn about "New Age." Some of what is out there is extremely harmful, some of it is not. If you are not comfortable, or don't know the difference, then I would recommend to stay away from what is now being presented as "New Age." It is painful for me to say that, but at this point in time, it is the best recommendation I can give.
Some of the current authors, and all of the LGATs, as far as I can see, have strayed as far from the origial teachings as The Inquisition and The Crusades strayed from the teachings of Jesus Christ.
I had never heard of it, but if it's like the other LGATs, (including Landmark, which I was in), they use "New Age," terminology and philosophy, mixed in with their own jargon. The way they use it, they make up their own definitions for that "New Age" terminology, though, and those definitions are often tweaked so that they don't exactly fit the meaning intended by the originators of those ideas. In my opinion, this "tweaking" is generally calculated to manipulate the attendees of these seminars.
Now this seems to have created a feedback loop, of sorts, as I can see that "New Age" terms are increasingly associated with LGATs, and, in turn, the characteristics of LGATs are being tranplanted, in the public mind, onto everything "New Age."
What is now referred to as "New Age" isn't actually new at all, but has been around for generations. Now people have borrowed terms from a variety of Eastern religions, appropriated ethnic religions, the occult, from authors such as Jane Roberts, and thrown in a little pop psychology, and called it "New Age."
This is all confusing enough in itself, but LGATs organizations have taken the extra step of throwing in harmful psychological tactics that were accidentally discovered during experiments such as The Milgram experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment. These experiments were stopped, and the tactics promptly labeled as unethical by the psychological community, but LGATs seem to have taken the findings and used them as tools to gain control over people. Now, some are even throwing in politics. Some have become so pushy and dogmatic that I think of them as "Nuage fundamentalists," although there was previously nothing evangelical about "New Age."
Since "New Age" beliefs were unfamiliar to most of the population, until about the past 30 years or so, most people who were new to the ideas presented wouldn't notice the "splices," but would see it as all a part of the same thing.
What I am saying is that it is essential to split hairs, IF you want to learn about "New Age." Some of what is out there is extremely harmful, some of it is not. If you are not comfortable, or don't know the difference, then I would recommend to stay away from what is now being presented as "New Age." It is painful for me to say that, but at this point in time, it is the best recommendation I can give.
Some of the current authors, and all of the LGATs, as far as I can see, have strayed as far from the origial teachings as The Inquisition and The Crusades strayed from the teachings of Jesus Christ.