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Local woman greets a New

YOU’VE HEARD about them from your kids, who no
doubt have probably asked you to buy them one for
Christmas, and you’ve probably seen your children wat-
ching the cartoon version of them on television.

They’re called transformers,
robots that can transform into
cars, boats, aircraft, and a host of
other assorted mechanical gadgets,
and back again into robots.

While today’s children are a part
of this toy “‘transformation’’ gen-
eration, there is another kind of
transformation out there, and it
doesn’t have anything to do with
cobats.

Caroline Sutherland, who bills
herself as a relaxation therapist, is
a leading expert on the transfor-
mation generation. But just what is
this new generation?

‘It includes those of us of all
ages who are seeking a way to
transform our old methods of cop-
ing with life into a new way of
meeting the challenges of living,
involving major changes in rela-
tionships, the environment, politi-
cal, educational, medical and eco-
nomic realities,’’ says Sutherland.

She has built a career teaching
the transformative process — or
New Age process, as it is called —
through her books, tapes and
presentations.

Sutherland concedes the New
Age concept is not new at all.

“It’s a distillation of ancient
concepts, ... eastern religions and
western thought. (But) permeating
the whole thing is a new experience

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News Reporter

we haven’t experienced before,"
said Sutherland.

She adds that a lot of people
making changes in their lives may
not realize that they are undergo-
ing a New Age experience.

“Where their fives might be
touched by the New Age experi-
ence are in the areas of holistic
health or alternative medicine. The
New Age has very much permeated
the food and health industries,’
said Sutherland.

Sutherland was introduced to
the New Age experience in 1975,
when, following a sports injury,
she signed up for a yoga class.

“Yoga seemed pretty far out
then. | was a Shaughnessy house-
wife, mother of two and a wife of
an executive. The yoga instructor
referred us to an obscure
bookstore on Fourth Ave., to
which I went in my practical Ports
dress and pearl earrings,’’ said
Sutherland.

“I pushed open the door to the
sound of chimes and the smell of
incense, and saw a gaunt, bearded
fellow with sad eves standing
behind the counter. Uncomfort-
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the book whose cover showed a
half-naked fellow standing on his
head. I grabbed the book, put my
money on the counter and vowed
never to go back."’

But Sutherland did go back. 10
years later, and admits that the
book, The Aquarian Conspiracy,
is what turned her on to New Age
thinking.

“From that book it was an
overnight awareness that there was
something different, that the world
would be a better place,’’ said
Sutherland. ‘‘f felt inside myself a
real desire to explore it.”’

Sutherland adds that no one
would have thought about the New
Age way of thinking 10 years ago
and said that now the timing is
right for thinking about making
lifestyle changes.

“We have a job to do, to save
the earth from destruction. The
New Age is a concern and love for
the planet and people feel com-
pelled to express and act upon
that.’”

Her venture into the New Age
experience has resulted in a major
change in her personal and
business life.

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CAROLINE SUTHERLAND, a leading expert in the field of New Age
thought, will give a free lecture on Wednesday at North Vancouver's Se-
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