World Religions - The New Age Movement
New Age
What do New Ager's believe?
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New Age is a generic term which covers a multitude of spiritual ideas and practices, marked by appearing "new" or contemporary in content, form or style and is a term that is not comonly used by the people who are involved in it themselves.
The New Age movement is a social and spiritual movement that seeks "Universal Truth" and the attainment of the highest individual human potential. It includes aspects of Occultism, astrology, esotericism, metaphysics, alternative medicine, music, collectivism, sustainability, and nature.
The New Age movement includes elements of older spiritual and religious traditions ranging from atheism and monotheism through classical pantheism, naturalistic pantheism, and panentheism to polytheism combined with science and Gaia philosophy: particularly archaeoastronomy, astronomy, ecology, environmentalism, the Gaia hypothesis, psychology, and physics.
It can include Yoga, meditation, astrology, hypnosis, tarot card reading, channeling and the use of crystals for healing and inner harmony.
It really is a bit of a melting pot. Inspiration is usually gained from major world religions: Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism; with particularly strong influences from East Asian religions, Gnosticism, Jainism, Neopaganism, New Thought, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Universalism, and Western esotericism.
New Agers are usually pretty accepting of all faiths and opinions, as long as your opinion or faith isn't that of Biblical Christianity and the Savior Jesus Christ.
Is Truth Really Relative?
"As a yoga teacher, I taught that all world religions were just different paths to the same God. I firmly believed that part of walking in the “True Light” involved accepting the monistic view that ‘All is One.’ However, I could not hide my eyes, nor my heart, from the evident contradictions that kept rising to the surface of my worldview. The more I studied, the more I wondered, “Was I trying to mix oil and water?” (These two liquids, when vigorously shaken, seem to blend, but within a few moments they always separate. Philosophically, was I doing the same thing: ‘forcing’ a merging of all religions, which given to themselves would automatically separate?)" Continue reading at www.thetruelight.net/acknowledgingcontradictions.htm
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> Encountering the Eternal Guru - The Story of a Young Sadhu, by Sadhu Nityananda.
> Power Web-Sample of Michael Graham's book about "Experiencing Ultimate Truth"
Other Resources
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Quotes:
"For the time will come when men will not put up with sound teacing. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4 verse 3).
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" - (John 14:6).
Are you ready for the inevitable? There is no need to be fearful of that inevitable moment, so long as you are prepared and as long as you are not taking comfort in something that sounds nice but is really just positive but wishful thinking. Make your life journey count, consider your eternal destination. Just believing in a lie wont make it truth, no matter how much you want it or how appealing that lie is. It is better to know the truth than to live in the delusion of a lie. No one likes being deceived, but in a world of political correctness, acceptance and anything goes, it is easy to side-step the truth of reality. What REALLY is true?
Can we just make up our own truth and say "well that is true for you, but my truth is something else"? Surely we can't all be right, especially when there are so many contradictory beliefs and top world religions out there.
ABSOLUTE GOLD..... Be great to get my hands on some of those.
