This insistence that we exert exclusive, comprehensive control of our lives ignores "the social nature of human experience," anthropologist Michael Brown has observed in The Channelling Zone, his illuminating review of New Age culture. It has helped create a self-appointed spiritual elite of middle-class Americans who are disengaged politically. It also reflects what personal development experts might characterize as denial an unwillingness to admit that suffering and violent death cannot always be rationalized, a refusal to acknowledge tragedy.
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