United Nations And The New Age - Way of Life Literature

“foster alignment with Divine Consciousness” and“attunement to higher, non-physical dimensions ofreality” through education, “heavenly rules for living,”and consciousness expanding mystical practices,including meditation.The Planetary Citizens’ prayer circles are New Agepositive confessions. “Through the power created bytheir prayers, an energy field is created, which is held inthe Sacred Oneness of the Divine. The more people thereare holding the intention, the more powerful andeffective the field is to create change” (http://www.planetarycitizens.org/prayers/index.html).The board members of Planetary Citizens are PurushaAnanda, an American meditation guru; Sharon Callahan,who treats animals with aromatherapy and allegedlycommunicates with them telepathically; and VajraMatusow, founder of the Diamond Light Center forSpiritual Awakening. At her web site, Callahan says:“When I attune to an animal, I experience an actualmerging of myself and the animal. In this merged state, Iam able to feel what the animal feels and experiencewhat it experiences. So the animal is not actually"telling" me something in the way that we usuallyperceive of "telling," but it is more that the animal allowsmy soul to merge with its soul” (http://82