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The Truth Vibrations

A review by Mike Fuller.

Whatever the estimate of it by academic philosophers in their cloistered wisdom, it can hardly be doubted that the phenomenon known as “New Age Thought” represents to many people the most vital philosophy currently on offer. Of course, it’s also true that very few people, if any at all, understand with much precision what “New Age Thought” actually is. This need not prevent an obscure faith in it by its many aficionados, and a possibly justified feeling that it has more to do with “real philosophy” and “things that really matter” than its more academically respectable rivals: the anaemic waltzes of much analytic philosophy; the funeral marches of Marxism; and that curious mixture of esoteric serenade and bullshitter’s bop known as contemporary Continental deconstructivo-partstructured- post-pissed-off-modernism.

One of the interesting things about David Icke’s book The Truth Vibrations is that it does make a serious and pretty successful attempt to present the apparently eclectic sprawl of the New Age in terms of something approaching a logically coherent system. Icke makes a concerted effort to blend together elements which partly overlap with those of Romanticism as a historical movement and overlap even more with those of the “Hippy Era” of the 1960s.

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