Duane Elgin is a New Ager who has been on my personal radar since discovering the Movement and its direction in 1981. John Earl Fetzer was then the owner of the Detroit Tigers and a vast network of radio and television stations in mid-size cities such as Kalamazoo, Michigan where he was headquartered. Fetzer was a former Seventh Day Adventist who completely apostatized from any semblance of orthodox forms of Christianity. He was one of the New Agers of whom Marilyn Ferguson wrote in
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980).
Duane Elgin was the author of
Voluntary Simplicity and has been a continuous and contiguous force in the "Sustainable Development" and environmental movements, including but not limited to "overpopulation" concerns.
John Earl Fetzer may have very well been a primary financier of the April 25,1982 newspaper ads run globally proclaiming "The Christ is Now Here."
At any rate, Fetzer was thoroughly on board for the "cleansing action" the 1980 through 1982 era when New Agers were prophesying doom for their Christian opposition. Files I have downloaded from the Fetzer websites conclusively prove that and I have them multiply backed up in many places in case they go back to their usual game of "now you see us, now you don't" is again played,
There has been a close working relationship between the Fetzer Institute and Duane Elgin for a very long time.
Also,interesting to my research and wonderings why Hitler's mysticism was so long concealed from all is the fact that John Earl Fetzer was in charge of media censorship during World War II. He was, per his writings, one of the first persons to enter Joseph Goebbels office after the allies took Berlin.
Duane Elgin has made two of his books available for free download from his
website. I took full advantage and downloaded
Awakening Earth (1992) and
Choosing Earth (2020).
I suggest you read the following from his Awakening Earth (pages) very carefully and with prayerful reflection on what it means to our future should the Fetzer Institute and Elgin forces get their way:
Religious Fanaticism—Because so many of humankind’s wars have been
fought between people with differing religious views and because the world is entering
a time of growing compression and proximity among people, religious differences will
present enormous challenges for humanity. Under conditions of great planetary stress,
different historical religions could coalesce around charismatic spiritual leaders and
come into conflict. The planet could then descend into religious wars, perhaps with a
new era of crusades intended to liberate the world from unbelieving infidels. Religious
fanaticism could lead to spiritual tyranny and undermine trust in a compassionate and
broadly shared spiritual ethic that can bind humanity into a single family.
Another possibility is that a significant fraction of the world may view extreme
planetary distress as a sure indication of a coming apocalypse and feel relatively little
concern for starvation, pollution, and resource depletion. If these are seen as the last
days before a miraculous spiritual transformation, then people may assume that “God”
will intervene and clean up the mess. Instead of mounting a vigorous and creative
response to the challenge of sustainability, people may simply wait for the apocalyptic
end, or abrupt transformation, of the world
Stay tuned!
Constance
