Guest, thank you for your post of 12-27. I have a friend in that very same situation. Hear hear.

I don't see why there has to be a war between science and New Age communities. Each have different ways of arriving at their results.

There can be dogmatic scientists, dogmatic New Agers; there can be people in each community who are full of wonder.

Two favorite examples in science: Carl Sagan saying something to the effect that "Because you know how a sunset works doesn't make it any less beautiful."

Richard Feynman, when he said that it is ok not to know how something works; that is where all the questions come from. :)
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