David Spangler

David Spangler ( born January 7, 1945 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American author and lecturer. He is considered one of the most influential visionaries of the early New Age Movement, and was from 1970 to 1973, a leading member of the Findhorn Foundation. In later years, however, he distanced himself from the development, which had taken the New Age Movement.

Life

David Spangler was born on January 7, 1945 in Columbus, Ohio. He spent part of his childhood in Morocco, where his father worked in the counterintelligence of the U.S. Army. According to his own later accounts he had clairvoyant experiences since his early childhood. At the age of 7 years he had therefore a classic mystical experience that would shape his life. After graduating high school, he studied biochemistry temporarily at Arizona State University. In addition, he began to give lectures on his mystical experiences. In 1965, he broke off his university studies and began a career as a lecturer on mysticism and spirituality.

1970 traveled Spangler, an inner calling, following, to the UK and stayed until 1973 at the Findhorn community in northern Scotland on. There he wrote his influential book, Revelation: The Birth of a New Age (1971 ), in which he wrote down his vision of a new age. Back in the USA, he founded in 1974 with some friends the Lorian Association. Spangler is also a member of the Lindisfarne Association.

Work and impact

In his 1971 published by the Findhorn Foundation Book Revelation: The Birth of a New Age Spangler described seven "Messages" ( transmissions ) about an upcoming new era, which he of a being that " boundless love and truth " call themselves, by channeling have received. Spangler's accompanying comments can have a strong influence of Theosophy by Alice Bailey recognize. The book came primarily in the United States with keen interest in the emerging New Age subculture and is now considered one of the most important contributions to the creation of the New Age Movement.

In Spangler's later publications the theosophical and anthroposophical influences recede, and Spangler advocates cautious and rational for the need to create a better world. Of the developments of the late New Age, as it was represented approximately by Shirley MacLaine, he distances himself, in particular of public channeling demonstrations in talk shows, which are not to be compared with it, as he himself had received his visions through " spiritual communication ".

Works

English

  • Revelation - The Birth of a New Age, Findhorn 1971, revised edition 1976
  • The Rebirth of the Sacred, London 1984
  • The New Age, Issaquah 1988
  • Channeling into the New Age, Issaquah 1988
  • Reimagination of the World - A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture ( with William Irwin Thompson ), Santa Fé 1991
  • Everyday Miracles - The Inner Art of Manifestation, 1995
  • The Call, 1997
  • Parent as Mystic, Mystic as Parent, 1998
  • Blessing: The Art and the Practice, 2001

German translations

  • New Age - the birth of a new age. The Findhorn community. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1978
  • The forest chapel. Opal, Augsburg 1983
  • The spirit of synthesis. Conversations with John. Greuth yard, Kimratshofen 1985
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