What is the New Age Movement? It is similar to New Age Spirituality, but different adequate to justify its ain definition. The New Age Motion is a belief that the human race is all one. It is not about equality nor diversity. It is the thought that your gender, age, religion, race, nor sexual orientation do you better or worse then anyone else. The New Age Motion is moving away from the United States against THEM mentality. It is inclusive, open, detached from labels, and above all else, it's based in love not fear.

At our deepest level, there are only two incentives - love and fear. Fear breeds hate, anger, vengeance, greed, violence, selfishness, and estranges us from truly connecting with spirit and with each other. Love breeds compassion, understanding, forgiveness, charity, gentleness, partnership, and a sense of connection with spirit and with each other. One can concentrate on either incentive and see the logic behind it. Should you take to see lack, poverty, and onslaughts towards your chap man, it's easy to go fearful. It is portion of the endurance of the fittest. Fight or flight saved many a cave man to dwell another twenty-four hours and to engender more than like himself. One can also reason that to see the beauty and tenderness that world is known to share with each other that it is logical to love thy neighbour and to turn the other cheek. There will always be intelligent statements for both sides. We as a species have got evolved enough to do our ain determinations as to which will regulate us as individuals.

The New Age Motion suggests that as a corporate people we are also able to do an educated enlightened determination as to whether we will be controlled by our fearfulnesses or by our loves. Volition we be a society of angry divided hateful individuals? Or will we be a planetary community of loving supportive people who award each other's compensate to take their ain path? Like all political, religious, and societal motions there are partisans and extremists among the New Age Movement. In the same manner that all Christians are not achromatic supremacists and all Pagans are not Shaytan worshippers, all New Agers are not aging flower people sitting around getting stoned and playing with crystals. Those who back the New Age Motion are as diverse as any other group. Their 1 common belief is that love and true spiritualty should take us as a people, not fear and hate of anything we hold as different from ourselves.

The New Age Motion embraces the instructions of Christ, the instructions of Buddha, the Native American teachings, the ancient Celtic Language Heathen teachings, and modern science's up-to-the-minute determinations and teachings. We are adventurers trying to understand spiritualty on a deeper nuts and thunderbolts level. It is not adequate to be told by our parents that one faith is right and all others are wrong. We have got a desire to understand and to take for ourselves what is or is not spiritual. The result is that many New Agers have got establish themselves holding an eclecticist position of religion. Many Native Americans have got blended the instruction of Jesus within their ain beliefs. Many Pagans can see how much they have got in common with the Native American beliefs. It is not unusual for Catholics to experience a deep connexion to the Buddhist teachings. Forgive me for omitting so many other faiths and beliefs but I am simply giving wide illustrations for the interest of making a point. The New Age Motion was birthed from this geographic expedition of each other's beliefs. How can we detest person so much like ourselves?

Christ did not learn unsighted hate nor did he learn his following to give their personal powerfulness away to the Christian churches and governments. Only when the Christian churches and authorities took over his instructions did that all go portion of being a 'good Christian.' He did not state us to detest nor to judge. Bigotry and warfare is not Christ-like, nor Buddha-like, nor in keeping with the core instructions of any religion. All Negro spiritual instructors taught the same message - love 1 another and make not harm each other nor the planet and the animate beings given to you. Take the political relation out of faith and they all come up down to the same fantastic instructions that have got got been trodden on by dogma, greed, and bigotry.

Most of United States makes not recognize what a great event we have just experienced. This election was at its root a fighting over fearfulness and love. Which would regulate us as a country? We are a state under attack. We are a state at war. It is only natural that people are afraid. One campaigner ran his full political campaign on fearfulness and hate of others not like us. The other ran his political campaign on love and fellowship. For us to come up so fold to winning during such as a awful time is marvelous! Were we not at war, I have got got no uncertainty that the American people would have chosen to be guided by a leader who takes love and family as his incentive rather then person who learns us to be afraid and to detest others. I have got never been so proud or felt that the New Age Motion was so powerful as I make today.

Do not weep and concern about the adjacent four years. Love have taken hold of this state and all volition be well. We have got covered so much land towards our ends of tolerance, acceptance, and true Negro spiritual brotherhood. During our great grandparents time, the Gays and Lesbians, the Pagans and Native Americans, the Women and Blacks never would have got been allowed to even talk out. We are no longer a minority, those of us who believe that good still bes and that the state can be ruled by human-centered rules instead of fearfulness and egoes opinion our governments. Fear is still strong, but love is finally voted as equal. Balance have been restored. All is well.

Copyright 2004, Skye Thomas, Tomorrow's Edge