Why The New Age Movement Is Just Another Religion

“…We are currently living in times of great uncertainty. The world is constantly changing at a rapid pace, and now more than ever humans are looking for answers – answers to their problems, to their true identity, to the real meaning of their existence and of life itself. For generations, religion has served as a key foundation in many people’s daily lives – deemed as an authority of the highest order, and one that can essentially dictate to us what are considered to be the most ‘Divine truths’.

There is, however, a phenomenal danger in empowering such a hierarchical structure of authority – the most critical one being the giving away of one’s emotional, sovereign free will. For thousands of years, a large percentage of humanity have, to one degree or another, (unconsciously) surrendered their personal free will to religious and spiritual authorities in exchange for attaining what they believe to be promises of salvation or spiritual enlightenment. More importantly though, there has been an immense fear that humans have held concerning the idea of choosing not to accept and follow a religious or spiritual belief system of some sort – the fear of persecution and abandonment.

This fear I am talking about here is a deeply rooted emotional belief in the human being… As a society, we have believed for such a long period of time that we are separate from Love and from each other, and this has created a tremendously powerful sense of vulnerability within the unconscious human mind, and an animalistic, survival-based desire to ‘belong’ by any means necessary – even if that entails buying into and believing in ideas that one may have absolutely no ability to relate to, in comparison with their own personal, experience-based truths… It is, initially at least, a rather daunting place to be in one’s mind – the place of not knowing, or ‘the void’ as I like to call it. However, it is one that ultimately we each must courageously face at some point in our evolutionary journey as human beings…”
Read the full article…

Leave a comment