The Universe Next Door 8-9 quiz review by Huy
Define "metanarrative"
A bigger story overreaching another
"In short, the only kind of truth there is is ___________ truth. There is no truth of ______________________"
pragmatic, correspondence
What solution does New Age give to the problem of distinction between appearance and reality?
Appearance is reality. There is no illusion
The truth about the ______________ itself is forever ____________ from us. All we can do is tell __________________.
reality, hidden. stories
What is the greatest weakness of the new consciousness?
Certainty of self-deception
Why do New Age followers read the likes of Jesus, the Buddha, or Zoroaster?
Hint at the progress that awaits all humankind
The New Age worldview is highly _________________ and _________________. It borrows from every major __________________
syncretic, eclectic, worldview
How did Jean-Francois Lyotard define "postmodern"
Incredulity toward metanarratives
What benefit do psychedelic drugs offer a New Ager?
It benefits that we will achieve full health
What is the "good" according to a postmodernist
Whatever those who wield the power in society choose to make it
When do communities begin to fall apart
When different people within them believe substantially different stories
Summarize the three points of postmodernism that Sire believes are true
a. Critique of optimism naturalism is often on target b. Postmodernism recognition that language is associated with power c. Attention to social conditions under which we understand the world can alert us to our limited perspective as finite human beings
At its foundation, postmodernism accepts what two statements from naturalism
a. Matter exists eternally b. God doesn't exist
Summarize Sire's 4 critiques on postmodernism
a. Rejection of all metanarratives is itself a metanarrative b. Deconstructive postmodernism's view of interderminacy of language c. Critique of autonomy and sufficiency at human reason d. idea that we have no access to reality and we can only tell stories about its incoherence
In the end, both modernism and postmodernism rest on what two key notions
a. The cosmos is all there is- no God of any kind exists b. Autonomy of human reason
What are the "3 Jesuses" that Deepok Chopra talks about
a. The man who lived in Palestine years ago b. Theological Jesus, the Jesus of creeds, the Jesus preached in sermons c. Jesus the "one who taught followers to reach God consciousness"
The three major difficulties in New Age thought
a. The notion of a closed universe - the absence of a transcendent God b. Worldview coming from animism: a host of demigods, demons, and guardians who inhabit the separate reality or the inner spaces of mind c. Understanding of the nature of reality and nature of truth
Basing much of their __________ on the __________ model...a number of avant-garde thinkers have been ___________________ the coming of a New _____________ and a New ______________
hope, evolutionary, prophesying, Man, Age
