Mind, body and spirit?

[Artoo]

While browsing in Waterstone's yesterday, looking for books on weight-training and vector calculus (preferably in the same volume), I also noticed that the 'Mind, body and spirit' section is getting dangerously large. I'm not talking yoga or healthy diet here but rather the worrying rise of mysticism and psychobabble.

Is it just moral and intellectual laziness? Easier to believe in astrology than take responsibility for oneself?

Artoo the Despairing.

[tayman]

Originally posted by Artoo
While browsing in Waterstone's yesterday, looking for books on weight-training and vector calculus (preferably in the same volume), I also noticed that the 'Mind, body and spirit' section is getting dangerously large. I'm not talking yoga or healthy diet here but rather the worrying rise of mysticism and psychobabble.

Is it just moral and intellectual laziness? Easier to believe in astrology than take responsibility for oneself?

Ar
too the Despairing.

maybe that people are begining to wonder if all that they have been taught is all there is or is there more to this world (or other worlds).

[Fear_nam_Beanntan]

Originally posted by Artoo
Is it just moral and intellectual laziness? Easier to believe in astrology than take responsibility for oneself?

It's people trying desperately to fill the hole left in society as a result of the widespread rejection of Christianity.

[Artoo]

Indeed so, but why jump out of the frying pan....

Anecdote: a by no means uneducated relative, but who has a tendency to mysticism, said to me recently, 'perhaps one day we'll know what the stars really are...'

'Eh, we've known that for some time - it just requires you to get off your arse and read some proper science'.

[Mistress]

Originally posted by Artoo
Is it just moral and intellectual laziness? Easier to believe in astrology than take responsibility for oneself?

Artoo the Despairing.

[i]lol....

Hey you guys...

What's this I'm reading here.. ? Are we now deciding to limit others to what they want to believe because it is of NOT your belief?? Am I reading this right? I am going to have to agree with Tayman on this one.. you know.. it really is just that simple... It's a exploration of ones mind.. and own belief... and Fear_nam_Beanntan... Not everything is a blatant display of disregarding ones Christianity...

C'mon.. No one can be so narrow-minded to think their way of thinking is the only way eh? lmao... aye.. Anything is possible.. and in fact no one should dare say who should believe in what...

If someone feels anything, a inner strength.. serenity.. ANYTHING from what they want to believe in then that is their choice.. "Free Will" is that not what we are given?

[Fear_nam_Beanntan]

Originally posted by Mistress
No one can be so narrow-minded to think their way of thinking is the only way eh?

Remember the law of non-contradiction. Two contradictory beliefs cannot both be true. Hence anyone who believes that their beliefs are true must necessarily believe that contradictory beliefs are false.

no one should dare say who should believe in what.

I disagree. False beliefs can imperil one's immortal soul (or lead to disastrous temporal consequences) and so should be discouraged by those who know the truth.

[ANDY-J2]

Originally posted by Fear_nam_Beanntan
It's people trying desperately to fill the hole left in society as a result of the widespread rejection of Christianity.

Or perhaps showing a greater willingness to explore alternative views to spirituality now that orthodox religious beliefs are in sharp decline.Religion is diminishing,spirituality is not.Perhaps if Christianity in the UK had reinvented itself some decades ago it would not have declined to the the level it is currently at and people would not be looking for alternative systems of belief.