Energetyczna więź Wodnika
The Energy Bond of Aquarius

Summary/Abstract: The author addresses the question of social bond within the New Age and Reiki Movement, presenting theses based on his own qualitative research. New Agers have a profound need to rebuild social bonds and integrate the world in all its aspects. Instrumental to this integration are all kinds of haphazardly combined spiritual-bodie practices (energotherapy, meditation, magic etc.). It is an integration rooted in the image of a vital energy connecting all people - an image which provides the foundation for a holistic vision of the "network of life". The author refers to Durkheim in stating that "New Age society worships itself in the form of an energy cult". The paper reveals the close correspondence between the phenomenon and the dynamics of postmodernity: the energy related vision of reality transcends the divisions of modernity, and combine fragments of the world ino a collage-like global network to become part of the phenomenon of glocalisation.

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