To Dream the Non Dualistic Dream

New Agers have a common theme they return to,a leitmotif to which they constantly refer known as non dualism.We are all one with the Cosmos don't you know.Separation is an illusion,a Western conceit of self and invididualism.Passivity and accomodation with this non dual self is the goal of awareness and realisation.Phooey I say.If we took one of these new age characters and placed their hand in burning coals who would feel the pain but them? If we are all one and there is no separation we would all be burned but as this is demonstrably untrue the individual obviously exists as a self contained unit of one.Individual, does it not mean divided,separated from the other?New agers have their political agendas which are basically collectivist,environmentalist,anti capitalist,anti indivudual,anti growth.They run a cottage industry of book production,lecture circuits broadcasting,classes etc and this is all well and good as it furnishes them with a career of sorts but for those who imbibe such content what is their fate if they have to continue to function in the world as it is?An anti individual anti man anti progress agenda is hardly the sine qua non to getting ahead in life is it?