Enchantment and Re-Enchantment (Weber)
Hammer (2004), referring to sociologist Max Weber, writes that the new age stands for a "re-enchantment" of reality. The author takes the phenomenon of patterns in crop circles as an example: "For the new age-interested, such phenomena point to the fact that the world is good much murker, bigger and more magical than science tells us" (p. 311). "Man is no longer a deadly biological being on an insignificant small planet on the edge of one of many millions of galaxies. We have once again become heroes in a great tale of life" (p. 310).