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What Is New Age Philosophy

by Stephen Kerst, Author

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What Is New Age Philosophy

Old Age, New Age, What Age are you? (No judgment implied) Do you remember the old age?-full of judgment, expectation and fear! What you should do was viewed by most eyes and enforced by "Straighten up!", "You’ll get in trouble!" and much harsher encouragements. Then you could easily be shunned by your peers and degraded publicly. The atmosphere was constrained, limiting. Who really didn’t want to break out of that? Yes, the good Old Days were good for good Ol’ People. But something happened - what was it? "Something" slowly changed and seemingly everything changed - not everything, but a large part of our awareness.

Someone woke up one day asking "why can’t I do that? It’s part of being alive. I have no quilt about it!" With growing questions, demonstrations, confrontations and even litigations, the way was cleared for behavior and ideas previously not tolerated: Black = White, Woman = Man, My God = Your God, not sure about Poor = Rich yet. But much more is coming.

We change, evolve, individually and collectively. Everyone and everything is intimately connected. I affect you. You affect me. We are subtly connected. We know each other before we meet. We know much more beyond our daily awareness. Our daily awareness is the "something" that is changing. It grows to include more of what we already know beyond daily awareness. With our vast interconnectedness, all conditions may become known to our self-aware consciousness. A great you is within you waiting to be discovered.

A powerful life urge is fundamental to life. Life is ever expansive, ever more all-inclusive. Life force expresses through us. With our increasing knowledge and understanding, old ways of thinking no longer fit the world we now realize: concepts change. The information age has fostered this New Age.

From our beginning way back in time (or maybe before time) we were dipped in worldly matter to give physical existence. The body is in the mind; the mind is not in the body. Our daily consciousness focuses through the senses to the physical world. That’s how we experience our separate existence. We are finding the greater reality of our existence as our consciousness evolves into subtler sensitivities. Our light clicks brighter and brighter with each new age.

Many new ages have been and will be. The limited span of our mundane time awareness pulls our current experience out of context. Look at history as travels, as changes in consciousness. Imagine the changes the first European settlers went through when encountering this vast new land (America) of new possibilities. The yokes of the Old World no longer constrained these people. Their daily consciousness changed. Today we are rediscovering this land long taken for granted.

From the east comes the idea of the cycle of the ages: our consciousness is influenced by the rotation of the earth, the lunar cycle (water), the circuit of the earth around the sun (fire) and the 24,000 year cycle of the solar system around Alcyon in the Pleiades (air). This 24,000-year cycle goes through the stages of darkened consciousness, technological development, a mental age and finally a golden age. This circuit continues not as a circle but rather as an upward spiral. This is the DNA of our evolution.

Article, What Is New Age Philosophy, copyright (c), 2003, Stephen Kerst, Star Shape Words@aol.com

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