Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Conspiração aquariana revisitada: correlações com as filosofias de Henri Bergson e William James

2008; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18065/rag.2008v14n1.10

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Azize Maria Yared de Medeiros,

Religion and Society in Latin America

Analysis of the book The Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson, which focuses on the origins of a “New Age” within western societies. Ferguson reviews aspects of the social movements that questioned the rational scientific paradigm leading to the birth of a “consciousness revolution”. After describing the confusion and crisis of belief and knowledge that occurs in post-modern societies, it is shown that Ferguson’s arguments points out that a rebirth of a new spirituality (based in the search for mystical experiences) is motivated by the idea that true knowledge comes from within the individual. There is a strong correlation between Ferguson’s assertion and the philosophical studies of Bergson and James in two primary ways: Intuition as a form of knowledge overcomes the limits of rationality and leads to the essence of what is being known, and faith is the result of the will to confirm what we have already anticipated as being real. Our conclusion presents the emergence of a real conspiracy as the foundation of a global spirituality capable of sustaining life on this planet promoted and supported by individuals.