subject: New Age Movement On Online Shopping Shelves [print this page] Selling products, materials, and goods has been the trend for online shopping for quite many years. Be it appliances, technology related gadgets, clothes, accessories, books or DVDs online stores are lined with unlimited brands and labels for their customers to lay their hands on.But how successful will the idea of selling ideas become? With the onset of the New Age movement, which mostly incorporates ideas of Eastern philosophies such as astrology, the concept is becoming increasingly popular especially on the web. The internet has become a commercial warehouse, as self proclaimed astrologers take on the highway, advertising themselves in exaggerated ways.
These online stores offer a feast for people obsessed with past life incarnations, predictions about the future, and, in some cases, conspiracy theorists. Reading charts, manuals, crystal balls, and voodoo charts, are some of the examples that have flooded the internet market. Astrology, as well all know, has been a topic of immense controversy in the recent past. With various groups expressing their outrage towards the concept of several New Age practices, a lot of curious minded have become attracted towards it. The internet market, in turn, has, time and again, released scores of websites and New Age online shops that sell related products.
Who would not want to know what their future has in store for them? Or, how can the idea of what their past lives were not attract people? Commercialism hits places that cause maximum elicitation it is definitely true in this case. One can see a lot of websites that provide a free horoscope reading for the day, week, month, or even the year. These websites, most of which are run by self proclaimed professional astrologers and gurus, also, for a certain amount, prepare a personalized astrology chart.
The idea of astrology has led many authors and writers worldwide to publish books and articles some that provide expert opinion in criticisms for it, while some who look up to it as a revolutionary idea. Many of these books are also available at shopping stores and online shops. At the end of the line, as one can see, this whole concept is, basically, the selling of knowledge. Regardless of varying perspectives that are flying all around the world regarding New Age, it is definitely a healthy step taken up by online websites and astrological shopping sites to encourage, what can be called, this modern philosophy.
by: Mohd Zaheer
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