You often heard me mentioning this notion “New Age”, some
of you might be confused or lacking a clear definition of it. The term will
often be associated with the idea of futurism, aliens and flying orbs, and
other stuff that fall under this category.
What is the way of the New Age in regards to spiritual
development? First of all, the New Age
is somewhat of a blurry concept and was often used differently in certain
contexts, to get directly to the focal point of this paper, I’ll tell you all
what the New Age means to me:
1. Fluidity in thought and
action – This New Age is all about fluidity, flexibility, openness and
acceptance above all. The ”newager” isn’t the type of dude that
will be pleased with only one answer, he will search, he will stretch a
subject, he’ll cut it in to peaces, burn it and he might finally get a satisfying
answer at the end of the day. Analytical, profound and investigative, those are
the three words that define the “newager”, always being highly stimulated by
the possibility of shading a light in the unknown, by making a 0,05%
contribution towards the progress of his community and planet.
2. A renewed loved towards
nature – Beginning with the age of industrialism, people started to
distance themselves from Nature, becoming more and more frustrated with their
relations with the natural environment. In the New Age there’s no such thing,
humanity starting slowly to reconcile with its true origins.
3. An end to internal
conflicts that fragment our soul – Not more frustrations, no more
conflicts between us and ourselves, this being obtainable with acknowledging
our own sense of success in life and not trying to desperately adhere to the
ones set by others, as long as our own standards are not damaging towards
others.
4. The acknowledgment of
simplicity and functionalism at a greater scale – Detachment from
behaviors, routines and methodologies that have not real contribution towards
obtaining a better quality of life.
5. The eclectic nature of
religious beliefs – Believes are not resumed anymore to a single faith, they
are mixed, combined, eclectic …resulting from the believe that no single faith
can hold the supreme answer, rather each faith gives a chunk and we must put
all the peaces together to make sense out of them.
6. A greater sensitivity
towards the suffering and misfortunes of the ones around us – Charity,
social work, social development, community spirit…you name it, the New Age says
a big NO towards ignorance and social polarization as a result of it.
7. Detachment from
nationalistic, racist and xenophobic behaviors – we are all one, we
are all humans.
8. Not an American, not a Romanian…rather a
Global Citizen – we are all one, we are all Global Citizens as a result of our
common genetic ancestry as members of the same specie.
9. Acknowledgement of Science as a tool of
social development – Science is not only confined to school classrooms,
Science becomes a integral part of our everyday life, it becomes integrated in
our thinking mechanism, in our outlook towards life as a whole.
10. The rejection of an absolute truth, the
acknowledgment of a multidimensional perspective on truth – Truth cannot
reside in a single place, particle, corner…truth is fragmented and scattered all
across, and is our duty to find the peaces and to stick them together in order
to see the big image, only so we could actually see the world in which we life
in all of its spectacular details that make many times the difference.
As some of you might think…this list is not complete, I have no
objection in regards to your statement. The list can be extended, some of the points that
were written above can be divided in many other independent points and so on.
This idea is the following, all that was listed above was just a
reminder that the New Age really stands for some clear values, those values
essentially being just core humanistic values that were around since the early
days, some of them were forgotten in time, now is the best moment to bring them
back to life through our own will and determination to construct a better
society for us and the generation that will come from now on.
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