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Surprising the Child of New Age

He called himself, The Thinker. I would review his work and he would thank me for it. If the corrections required appeared massive, he would say he‘d delete it. I would say, don’t as what were only needed are some deletion, some addition, some elaboration, and knitting the paragraphs well together to project what he had wanted to say. Some of his writings needed little corrections but they are really draining, one has to be patient in reading them. We then thought we belonged to the same pigeonhole: as thinkers.

You've been a big help. Where can I find your blog?

We're both interested in responsible communication, you with a formal PhD, mine in the school of hard knocks for 80 years. There is a difference in the way we think. I'm free of any establishment stigma, free to explore other plains. My state of consciousness is boundless.

I was thinking The Thinker was an American but nationality was out of the question; he worked borderless. He said being a writer was never his goal, but writing has come about from his bigger-than-life cause years back. He writes on “recondite subjects pertaining to the law, to religion, to science.” He believes he is writing to brainwashed masses, but admits he “assumes too much on subjects in which few are familiar [with].” He says, “It is very hard to break the habit.”

He had followed me to my blog by googling my name. He was surprised.

I went to your “blog” and read your profile, and was surprised to learn that you live in the Philippines… I thought you were probably living in some affluent American community populated by mostly intellectuals.

He liked the fact that I was giving a detailed review on his works, but he would respond to each with a long, long mail – including his thoughts for the day – and I would reel from having to follow what he means.

He described himself as a child of the New Age. There was his “life lesson number” learned from Faith Javane’s and Dusty Bunker’s Numerology and the Divine Triangle. In the long winding way he would express himself , he asked -

Would you be surprised to know that Francis Sakoian and Louis S. Acker, in The Astrologer’s Handbook, because at my time and place of birth Saturn was Trine Pluto, I was given the ability to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized, enabling me to use these laws consciously or unconsciously to work slowly to make fundamental and irrevocable changes in my own and others’ lives?

Then he goes on to discuss quantum mechanics, Heisenberg being Hitler’s atomic bomb builder, two atomic bombs dropped on Japan ending World War II and how they related to his birth. Then he says, “I have my work cut out for me.”

He continues on –

My challenge is to articulate my story in a way that self-limiting masses will want to climb on the bandwagon of the future … Every day I have a new thought, most of which are way out of the mainstream. I’m definitely a child of the New Age. I can’t explain my thinking in a few paragraphs, as you point out. I question if the connections I make, no matter how many I made, would not simply leave my readers in a maze.

For example, let me share with you my thought for the day. It’s on “perturbation theory,” the act of perturbing. It’s a scientific term, and I find basic to life, but I’m more than a number cruncher. I have a mind that thinks, and it doesn’t confine itself to one or another, the law, religion, or science, all of which are parts of the same mold.

The Thinker is thinking all right. At the same time, he is not thinking. He allows himself to be manipulated by his kind of sources. First, he does not question the materials he reads, but readily takes them in as authorities. Just by the title alone, one can grasp the sphere the topic is delving into. “Numerology and the Divine Triangle,” for one. Occult, for one. Then, by taking things hook, line, and sinker, he places himself readily into their hands in as small as his birth date to as large as his role on earth.

The Thinker wrote about how we differed. Of my blog, he said –

I didn’t find your thoughts. I found a lot of other people’s thoughts.

Well, to The Thinker, this is what I can say as my contribution in the bid for thinking -

I am a journalist, a communications specialist, and – in my coined words – a communications activist. (I have added this category in my profile at Poynter Institute but I have yet to hear of such).

I have to contribute to my science by protecting it. I believe every communication has a social responsibility - and that is taking care of its message that nobody is unrightfully dis-empowered by it. In sum, no one should ride the lines of communication to hit another without cause. Part of my fight is in reviewing works, resources, and websites.

That is my share in the bullwork for thinking.

Surprising the Child of New Age