| New Age - A Paradigm Shift to Divine | | | | Philosophy.The social disturbance caused by |
| Consciousness & a Universal PhilosophyThe New | | | | the Vietnam War, the threat posed by AIDS, |
| Age Movement (NAM) is a revival of spiritual | | | | the disillusionment with materialistic ideas |
| and divine values and can be called as a | | | | and the erosion of faith in Morality & Ethics |
| Divine Regeneration Movement. New Age | | | | brought a sense of futility & meaninglessness |
| Philosophy has conquered the West | | | | in the Western psyche.The limitations of the |
| intellectually and Western culture is | | | | Western system of Chemotherapy & adverse |
| currently experiencing a phenomenal shift - | | | | side-effects of antibiotics, sedatives and |
| sociological, spiritual & ideological. It's | | | | certain other drugs and the disillusionment |
| a secular, multi-cultural, multi-religious | | | | with the promises of science & technology |
| synthesis, of the Oriental mystical | | | | made millions turn to Oriental philosophies, |
| philosophies, mainly Hinduism, Buddhism, | | | | occult practices & systems of therapy.( |
| Taoism & Western Occultism, emphasising | | | | Interest in Alternative Medicine developed to |
| Holism, the doctrine that Reality is | | | | such an extent that there are now more than |
| organically One ( now taught in American | | | | 180 systems of Alternative Medicine.Exponents |
| Universities after Einstein's Theory of | | | | of New Age Philosophy in Europe and America |
| Relativity ).Behind the evolution of the | | | | include Transcendentalists like Thoreau, |
| species, there is an evolution of | | | | Emerson & Walt Whitman, Wordsworth, Emanuel |
| Consciousness. The aim of Life is | | | | Swedenborg (1688-1772), & Theosophy |
| Self-Actualisation, to evolve to the level of | | | | introduced by Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831- |
| Unity Consciousness, defined as the 7th state | | | | 1891) & Col Olcott & the philosopher, Annie |
| of Consciousness in Transcendental | | | | Besant. |