New Age vs Religion

A Contemplation on New Age Spirituality & Traditional Religion

I've been thinking a lot about the impact traditional Religion has made on New Age Spirituality.

How New Ageism might be a crying out of so many who have been hurt, harmed, & betrayed by their religious upbringing. A result of being taught to love God but never truly shown how to love themselves.

It’s no surprise that our World is in a state of crisis and turmoil almost anywhere we look. We humans are searching for meaning, for joy, for love— our most natural state, so it’s no wonder we seek it out with vigor, conviction, and sometimes immense ignorance.

While it seems New Age Spirituality has offered space, breath, and allowance of seeking one’s full self, what it hasn't been able to do, from my perspective, is offer consistent stability and guidance for everyday life.

It is true, that we are our own gurus, or rather, the teacher lives within, but how does one start to grow strength in this truth without wise counsel?

Richard Rudd mentions in Gene Key 21 how it's never really the structure itself that causes harm but rather the frequency within it that fuels division, inharmonious hierarchy & control.

Throughout my studies, I've noticed that traditional Religion is dominant in structure & dogma, ultimately leading to immense ignorance and little to no individual connection to Truth.

While New Age Spirituality is rooted in self-realization but lacks the containing element that fosters communal care & heals the wounds that come from living hyper-independently.

Where is the middle way?

Where do we begin bridging this gap, the one between an exterior God and an interior God?

What's needed?

How can we erect foundations, a syllabus of sorts, rooted in a structure that isn't there to condemn us but to hold us as we study, understand, apply, accept, and live out the principles we humans hold dear to us?

We are multidimensional. Each with our own specific needs that won’t always fall cleanly into one or two buckets.

Life is complex. We are complex but complex doesn’t always have to mean destructive or desolate. It can be a pathway to Holiness.

How we seek and who we seek from will continue to expand, which I believe is actually a characteristic of God— to mutate, multiply, and inhabit fully into spaces and timelines we could barely perceive.

In this era, we have an opportunity to learn from previous missteps, to refine what has been built while keeping intact the core desires of our humanities.

Forgiveness, fellowship, goodness, and love.

Now the question is will we do it together or apart?

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