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