Why The New Age Movement Is Just Another Religion - Reclaim Your Empowered Self

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I have been on a path of conscious ‘spiritual awakening’ for just over four years now, and while in many ways it has been a journey of learning new information, I have come to understand that it has been more a process of unlearning – of shredding the mind’s many layers of ‘knowing’. What remains at the core? Experiential truth. But that is something I will discuss a bit later on…
 

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.

Having spent countless hours reading, researching and learning new information in the spiritual field over the past few years, I have only recently come to realise that the New Age movement is, at its core, simply just another religious structure of belief systems. In saying this however, I am not implying that there is no truth to any of the material which is available out there, nor am I saying that it has been of no service to anyone on their path. Rather, what I am pointing to, is the fact that its foundations are based on abstract concepts of the mind – and typically from someone else’s mind, rather than one’s own… As much as that part of me which feels powerless and vulnerable sometimes would love to emotionally hang on to the never-ending promises of an ‘event’ that will magically change everything for the better in our society overnight, or ‘Divine intervention from our space brothers and sisters’, I know deep down that these hopes stem from a place of victim consciousness, and from a conditioned belief that we all need to be ‘saved’ by some higher, benevolent force outside of ourselves. This is also another example of the surrendering of one’s power and responsibility to an external authority, and this ultimately only serves to weaken us both individually and collectively. My heart, meanwhile, has been quietly whispering and inviting me to “come back home”. Perhaps you have been hearing a similar call from your own recently? If so, I strongly encourage you to listen to it…