Notes
NOTES
Chapter 1: Movie Making or Soul Making
1. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time (New York: Tarcher, 1987), 296.
Chapter 2: How the West Was Lost Through Its Gains
1. William Blake, “The Everlasting Gospel,” in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, ed. D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917), emphasis added.
2. Steve Turner, The Gospel According to the Beatles (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006), 188–89.
3. Sri Ravi Shankar, “The Ancient New Age,” as addressed online at http://www.parauniversal.com/2007/10/the-ancient-new-age-august-1996-santamonica-california/_.
4. Sri Ravi Shankar, Hinduism and Christianity: A Talk (Kendra, India: Vyakti Vikas, 1998), 70–71.
5. The choice of taking either that which has been offered or nothing at all. This term is named after Thomas Hobson of Cambridge, England (1544–1630), who rented horses and gave his customers only one choice: the horse nearest the stable door.
Chapter 3: Exhaling the Old, Inhaling the New
1. Elaine Woo, “Writer Was Pivotal Figure in New Age Movement,” Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2008, accessed online at http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/02/local/me-ferguson2.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Elizabeth Lesser, The New American Spirituality: A Seeker’s Guide (New York: Villard Books, 1999), 31.
7. Elizabeth Lesser, “Insider’s Guide to 21st Century Spirituality,” Spirituality and Health, Spring 2000, accessed online at http://www.spirituality-health.com/NMagazine/articles.php?id-738.
8. Ibid.
9. Ted Turner, quoted in David Friend and Life magazine, The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here (New York: Little, Brown, 1991), 73.
Chapter 4: From Oprah to Chopra
1. Bill Adler, ed., The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words (New York: Carol Publishing, 1997), 3.
2. Janet Lowe, Oprah Winfrey Speaks: Insight from the World’s Most Influential Voice (New York: Wiley, 1998), 37.
3. Ibid., 38–39.
4. Adler, The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey, 4.
5. Ibid., 7.
6. Ibid., 28.
7. Marcia Z. Nelson, “Oprah on a Mission: Dispensing a Gospel of Health and Happiness,” Christian Century, September 25, 2002, 24–25. Used by permission.
8. Kitty Kelley, Oprah: A Biography (New York: Crown Archetype, 2010), 97.
9. Ibid., 419.
10. Ibid., 49.
11. Ibid., 54.
12. Ibid., 87.
13. Ibid., 86–87.
14. Ibid., 337.
15. Ibid., 73.
Chapter 5: The Religion of Quantum
1. Deepak Chopra in “Quantum Healing,” interview by Daniel Redwood, accessed online at http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/interview.asp?PageType=Interview&Id=167.
2. “Deepak Chopra,” in The Skeptics Dictionary, accessed online at http://www.skepdic.com/chopra.html.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. See also “Alternative Health Practices,” in The Skeptics Dictionary, at http://skepdic.com/althelth.html; “Faith Healing,” at http://www.skepdic.com/faithhealing.html; and “Readers Comments: Ayurvedic Medicine & Deepak Chopra,” at http://www.skepdic.com/comments/chopracom.html. For further reading, see John Ankerberg and John Weldon, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1996); Kurt Butler, A Consumer’s Guide to “Alternative Medicine”: A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-Healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992); Heinz R. Pagels, The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982); and Douglas Stalker and Clark Glymour, eds., Examining Holistic Medicine (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1989).
7. Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams (San Rafael, CA: Amber-Allen Publishing, 1994), iv, v.
8. “Deepak Chopra,” in The Skeptics Dictionary.
Chapter 6: Go West, Young Man
1. Aseem Shukla, “Dr. Chopra: Honor Thy Heritage,” Washington Post, April 28, 2010, accessed online at http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/aseem_shukla/2010/04/dr_chopra_honor_thy_heritage.html.
2. Plotinus, quoted in Michael Cox, Handbook of Christian Spirituality (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1983), 39.
3. Albert B. Simpson, “Himself,” in Hymns of the Christian Life (Harrisburg, PA: Christian Publications, 1962), 237. Public domain.
Chapter 7: The Three Gurus
1. Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, accessed online at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_4/Lectures_and_Discourses/My_Master.
2. “Swami Vivekananda,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda.
3. Bhupendranath Datta, Swami Vivekananda, Patriot Prophet: A Study (Calcutta, India: Nababharat Publishers, 1954), 212.
4. Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.
5. Swami Vivekananda as reported by the Chicago Tribune, September 20, 1893, quoted by David L. Johnson, A Reasoned Look at Asian Religions (Minneapolis: Bethany, 1995), 106.
6. Paramahansa Yogananda, accessed online at http://www.anandapaloalto.org/joy/gurus.html.
7. Marianne Williamson, “A Spiritual Response to Terrorism,” December 17, 2008, http://blog.marianne.com/journal/archives/2008/12/a_spiritual_res.php.
8. Deepak Chopra, “The Maharishi Years: The Untold Story,” Huffington Post, February 13, 2008, accessed online at http://www.huffintonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-maharishi-years-the-u-b-86412.html.
9. Ibid.
10. H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Celebrating Love (Udaypura, Bangalore: Sri Sri Publications Trust, 2005), 35.
Chapter 8: Smiling Your Way Through Puzzles
1. Quoted in Li Cheng, Song of a Wanderer: Beckoned by Eternity (Cincinnati, OH: Foundation for Chinese Christian Authors, 2002), 88.
2. For further details of all these stories, see E. F. Wu et al., The Five Great Religions of the World (Hong Kong: Holy Literatures, 1989).
3. Isshu Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki, The Zen Koan: Its History and Use in Rinzai Zen (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1965), x1.
4. Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen: Enlightenment, Origins and Meaning, trans. from the German by John C. Maraldo (Boston: Shambhala, 2007), 67.
5. Elizabeth Lesser, The New American Spirituality: A Seeker’s Guide (New York: Villard Books, 1999), 113.
6. A crucial Buddhist doctrine of the cyclical cause and effect of suffering. Also used as a way to approach problems in daily life or forms of collective suffering.
7. David L. Johnson, A Reasoned Look at Asian Religions (Minneapolis: Bethany, 1995), 50–51.
8. Ibid., 53–54.
9. An ontic referent is that which in and of itself is objectively real, apart from anything anyone can contribute to it.
Chapter 9: Do You Really Want to Live?
1. G. K. Chesterton, Heretics, accessed online at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/470/470-h/470-h.htm.
2. Quoted in Dale Ahlquist, G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2003), 63.
Chapter 10: The Ties That Bind
1. Alec Liu, “IBM’s Watson Computer Wallops ‘Jeopardy!’ Champs in Trial Run” (January 13, 2011), accessed online at http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/13/ibm-watson-takes-jeopardy-champs/.
2. Ibid.
3. James Stewart, The Strong Name (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1972), 55, italics mine.
Chapter 12: Reshaping Jesus to Suit Our Prejudices
1. Elizabeth Lesser, The New American Spirituality: A Seeker’s Guide (New York: Villard Books, 1999), 410.
2. Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Novato, CA: New World Library, 1999), 223, 225.
3. Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, book 2 (Newburyport, MA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 1997), 74, 75, 80.
4. Ibid., 57.
5. Lesser, The New American Spirituality.
6. Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore (New York: Random House), 8, 9.
7. Ibid., 9–10.
8. Ibid., 9.
9. Ibid., 3–4.
10. Ibid., 111, 112.
11. See Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Spiritual Classics (Boston: Nicholas Brealey, 2005), 76.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., 286.
14. Francis Thompson, “The Hound of Heaven.”
Chapter 13: The Greatest of All
1. Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” accessed online at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/301/301-h/301-h.htm.
2. Story used by permission.
3. See William Blake’s poem “And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time” (ca. 1804–1810), in M. H. Abrams, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 3rd ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1975), 1,342.
4. Deepak Chopra, “The Three Maharishis,” Huffington Post, February 6, 2008, accessed online at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/the-three-maharishis_b_85432.html.
5. As quoted in EricMetaxas, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (New York: HarperOne, 2007), 37.
6. F. W. Boreham’s comments on “Wilberforce” as excerpted in “29 July: Boreham on William Wilberforce,” accessed online at http://thisdaywithfwboreham.blogspot.com/2006/08/29-july-boreham-william-wilberforce.html.
Chapter 14: False Assumptions and Magnificent Truths
1. See W. E. H. Lecky, History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, vol. 2 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890), 8.
2. See the appendix: “Suggested Bibliography on the Authority of the Scriptures,” for these and other excellent resources.
3. Gerald L. Sittser, Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997), 185.
4. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, quoted in A. W. Pink, The Attributes of God (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1975), 88.
5. Matthew Parris, “As an Atheist, I Truly Believe Africa Needs God,” Times, December 27, 2008, accessed online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece.
6. Ibid.
7. “The Lost Chord,” lyrics: Adelaide Anne Proctor (1825–1864); music: Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). Public domain.