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randomfactor
I agree Unity Church tends to be very open and sometimes awfully trusting. It has become, however, a place a new cult is operating. Basically, the general beliefs of the New Age have now been codified into a single belief system, and members of this group are using the "Spiritual" churches to gain converts.
I really don't think that's accurate. New Thought and New Age are distinct and different things.
New Agers still see the power outside of tehmselves. They look for it in crystals, or psychism, or tarot, or something.
New Thought teaches that the Kingdom of God is within, that the One Power and One Presence is in you and works as and through you for your good.
New Agers believe in rituals to "get to God." New Thoughters believe in scientific prayer, affirmation, meditation, and going within.
Very different approaches.
Althouogh New Thought and New Age have some common ground, they are emphatically not the same thing. New Thought has some common ground with Catholicism, Buddhism, Taoism, Sikhism, and Hinduism, among other things. It is not any of those things either.