New Age ideology provides another example of ego-centric social control. It is a fundamental tenet of the New Age that you directly and personally “attract” everything that happens to you, good or bad. It is a corollary of this, and a major tenet of New Age ideologies as well as most of its seductive nature, that in some fashion you can make good things happen to you simply by changing your thoughts. Anyone who follows these tenets, like those of Christianity, cannot fail to collapse into his ego and bury his head in the sand about anything that happens in the outside world.