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Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

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Christ consciousness” and describes it in terms <strong>of</strong> “the union<strong>of</strong> the human with the divine” which is the “center feature <strong>of</strong>all the world’s religions” (Quantum Spirituality, p. 235). Hedefines the New Light as “a structure <strong>of</strong> human becoming, achanneling <strong>of</strong> Christ energies through mindbodyexperience” (Quantum Spirituality, p. 70). Sweet says that“New Light pastors” hold the doctrine <strong>of</strong> “embodiment <strong>of</strong>God in the very substance <strong>of</strong> creation” (p. 124). In CarpeMañana, Sweet says that the earth is as much a part <strong>of</strong> thebody <strong>of</strong> Christ as humans and that humanity and the earthconstitutes “a cosmic body <strong>of</strong> Christ” (p. 124). Sweet listssome <strong>of</strong> the “New Light leaders” that have influenced histhinking as Matthew Fox, M. Scott Peck, Willis Harman, andKen Wilber. ese are prominent New Agers who believe inthe divinity <strong>of</strong> man, as we have documented in the book eNew Age Tower <strong>of</strong> Babel. Sweet has endorsed e Shack withits non-judgmental father-mother god, and he promotesRoman Catholic contemplative mysticism and dangerousmystics such as the Catholic-Buddhist omas Merton. (Fordocumentation see the book Contemplative Mysticism, whichis available in print and eBook editions from <strong>Way</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Life</strong><strong>Literature</strong> -- www.way<strong>of</strong>life.org.)Brown, Scott WesleyScott Wesley Brown (b. 1952) is a Christian rocker whoglories in the Jesus Movement <strong>of</strong> the 1970s that birthed<strong>Contemporary</strong> Christian Music. He says, “Being a part <strong>of</strong> theearly days <strong>of</strong> contemporary Christian music or ‘Jesus Music’as we called it in the 1970s was as exciting as blazing the newfrontiers <strong>of</strong> the wild west” (www.scottwesley brown.com).In 2006 he teamed up with Billy Smiley <strong>of</strong> the hard-rockingband Whiteheart to produce a series <strong>of</strong> albums <strong>of</strong>“contemporary hymn arrangements.”22

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