ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a variety of New Age soteriologies which aim to disrupt the dominant epistemological order of instrumental rationality in post-Christian societies. Focusing on the widespread dissemination of these soteriologies also helps us question common characterizations of New Age as alternative or countercultural religion. There is a complex and subtle interplay between the subjectivities of New Age practitioners on the one hand, and socio-structural conditioning on the other. Having established a context and an argument, let people return to the central theoretical issue: the relationship between soteriological practices and instrumental rationality. The soteriological epistemology underpinning guidance, meditation and healing encapsulates these indeterminacies. The practice of guidance is seminal in New Age. For example, the founders of the Findhorn community were taught how to discern guidance in everyday life by Sheena Govan. The politics of New Age healing are similarly indeterminate.
