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