| New Age Spirituality is all about getting | | | | comes love for others. The person who is |
| back your power. Not that you ever lost it. | | | | bound by a negative image, wallowing in |
| Sometimes you gave your power away, misplaced | | | | self-doubt, does not permit time or energy to |
| it, or forgot you had power in the first | | | | really care about anyone else. When we |
| place. | | | | confront ourselves, and understand the causes |
| | | | for our feelings of hatred and anger, we can |
| And why does the term: "New Age | | | | change the feelings...or even let them go. |
| Spirituality"... seem to bother some | | | | This involves taking responsibility for what |
| religious leaders, especially leaders of the | | | | we feel; becoming more consciously aware of |
| Christian faith? After all, we are in a new | | | | why we feel what we do. In doing so, we are |
| age: The Age of Aquarius. The concept of an | | | | expanding our conscious awareness. To use a |
| Age exists within ancient spiritual | | | | New Age term- we are "raising our |
| traditions, and lasts 2000 years. It denotes | | | | consciousness" about our unconscious |
| a change process, occurring during those 2000 | | | | perceptions of who we are, and how we are |
| years, for the evolution of consciousness, | | | | behaving. Peace for the world begins with |
| for the good of all. The energy which entered | | | | peace within ourselves. The biggest hurdle is |
| this plane over 2000 years ago, at the | | | | learning how to create that inner peace and |
| beginning of what astrology calls the Piscean | | | | balance. |
| Age...was Agape (brotherly and sisterly love) | | | | |
| - love of one human being for another, simply | | | | The best way to inner peace...is to go |
| because each is worthy of love and part of | | | | within. How do you go within? You meditate. |
| the same human family. That energy is only | | | | If prayer is talking to God, (Divine |
| now being accepted in any general manner. It | | | | Intelligence, Source, Creator or whatever |
| has taken us the entire Age for us to "get | | | | word you prefer to use) then "meditation" is |
| it." | | | | the art of listening to God, while in an |
| | | | altered state of consciousness. |
| Christ brought this love-energy to our world | | | | |
| over 2000 years ago, and we humans have been | | | | By going within, you connect with your |
| working on it ever since. We are just | | | | God-Source, and you can receive all the |
| beginning to open, to sisters and brothers | | | | answers to any question about your life that |
| everywhere. And now that The Age of Aquarius | | | | you might pose. This is what gives you back |
| is finally here...maybe we have developed | | | | your power. For truly, you are a child of |
| that critical mass of love-energy that is | | | | God, and as a child of God...a co-creator, |
| needed for this New Age Spirituality. This | | | | One with the Infinite. You do not need a |
| time, the message expands to, "not only are | | | | priest or a minister to intercede for you. |
| we brothers and sisters...we are one." The | | | | And that scares your religious leaders. They |
| Piscean Age taught us, we are all connected; | | | | recognize that you no longer need them in the |
| we must love one another as ourselves. The | | | | same way you did in the past. They also |
| "other" is an illusion. You and I are one | | | | recognize; they can no longer control you, |
| consciousness, reflected in an infinite | | | | through guilt or fear. Is it any wonder the |
| rainbow of seeming difference. All is one. | | | | words, or the concept of New Age Spirituality |
| | | | frightens religious leaders? |
| The Age of Aquarius is referred to as the | | | | |
| "New Age," but there is nothing new about it. | | | | There is no doubt: We have left the Piscean |
| It is simply an evolution in human thinking. | | | | Age, symbolized by the sign of the fish...and |
| "New Age" thinking, asks that each person | | | | have entered the Aquarian Age symbolized by |
| take responsibility for everything that | | | | the water bearer. It is time to take back |
| happens in life...because everything in life | | | | your power. It is time to remember you had it |
| is connected. We must learn to love | | | | all along. |
| ourselves; for out of love for ones self, | | | | |