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The New Age Dictionary: A Guide to Planetary Family Consciousness
by (Editor: Alex Jack)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Japan Publications (USA) (1990-11)
ISBN: 0870407872
EAN: 9780870407871
Dewy Decimal #: 200.3
Paperback: 230 pages
SKU: M121165
Condition: New
Comments: 0870407872 Book free of markings. Cover shows very minimal shelf wear. This book shows no evidence of having been used; gift quality, pretty. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Customer Reviews
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Dry dictionary. Name-dropping. No spiritual guidance.
Rating  (2)
Date: 2005-05-04
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Expectations: I was expecting this to be sort of an encyclopedia of different ideas, concepts, and organizations within the New Age movement. It'd be sort of basic, like how "Positive Magic" is for Paganism, just introducing the ideas and then telling you were to go to learn more if you're interested. I'm having to stumble my way through a variety of New Age topics, almost none of which introduce themselves. (Quite the opposite of Paganism topics, where introductions abound in greater number than any further extrapolations.) All of them seem to assume you already know how all these things connect, so they rush on foward, and by the end of the book you're still not completely sure what they meant.
Actual result: The book is... well, it is a dictionary. It has the exact same thickness, arrangement, and formatting as a college pocket dictionary, with the same briefness of entries. Many of the entries are actually people's names (authors, or characters in books.) Entries for words mentioned in many languages (such as "life energy" or "peace") are followed with a list of how various languages call it. It's... well, this book is useless to me. It has the same lack of introduction or direction that I've seen in any other New Age books.
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