United Nations And The New Age - Way of Life Literature

0308.html). It seeks to bring about “a sustainable world”through dialogue between leaders in the fields ofreligion, politics, industry, science, art, education, andjournalism.At the International Conference on Global Security andSustainable Development, held in Moscow in February2008, Matsumura said that the idea that one religion isgreater than another is an “illusion” (“Akio Matsumura’sAddress to the International Conference on GlobalSecurity and Sustainable Development:http://www.maximsnews.com/107akiomatsumuramarch09.htm).Its first Global Survival Conference, in Oxford, England,in 1988, was co-sponsored by the Temple ofUnderstanding. It featured the Dalai Lama, MotherTeresa, the very liberal Robert Runcie, the Archbishop ofCanterbury, New Age astronomer Carl Sagan, earthworshipingscientist James Lovelock, and a hodgepodgeor other “spiritual and legislative leaders.”Lovelock is the founder of the modern earth-worshipingGaia movement. His book The Ages of Gaia (1982)postulates that the earth is a living organism which hasthe capacity to heal itself under natural conditions butthat man’s technology has overwhelmed it and doomed it84