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What are New Age Perspectives? - resubmit with finishing touches

© Donna L. Quesinberry

In conducting some research on New Age and New Age Perspectives, I learned that there are a plethora of articles stating the New Age information is anti-religion and propaganda for the devil and/or "evil forces." That the New Ageism equates to atheism and anti-God agendas. It's difficult, at best, to review such criticism from educated and scholarly individuals as well as laypeople. It makes me curious where they derive their definitions of what is and isn't acceptable as reading material.

As the new Contributing Editor to New Age Perspectives it is my hope to develop a raport with every reader, whether of a particular religious mindset, or not of one at all. "New Age" and the "New Age Perspectives" to me, reflect the interactment of art, geography, mathematics, religion, and sciences. These great fields of study and influence are sprinkled with glitters of passion, imagination, superstition, mythology, and philosophy. Together, I do believe, they enhance the human psyche so it becomes more attuned to the highest attainment of physiological and thought goals. Their culminative effects provide us with hopes in understanding the "all" of life, rather than just the visage of what we have been instructed to know.

To wit, I say, knowledge for all systems of belief should lend validity and support to each of our own religious pursuits. Rather than detract from messages of God, creation, continuity of existence, the interactiveness of matter to spirit should all be enhanced by a thorough knowledge of all the realms of attuity as human beings.

From this baseline it is my conclusion that all of our belief systems, though differing, mesh together and are oftentimes just a variation of terminology and/or delivery-that the message being conveyed, whether Christian, Judaic, Islamic, or New Age have the same intrinsic characteristics to assist us in rising to a higher plane of existence. Albeit, the Christian message of Christ, salvation, resurrection, and eternal life, along with variants of viewpoints on the trinity (i.e.: whether God is one entity encompassing three titles, or three distinct entities encompassing one mission) are not necessarily in line with the adaptation of gnostics-still and yet gnostics do derive energy from a source and even if (i.e.: in the Christian belief system, the source is negative, which is not to say this article is in agreement or disagreement with that viewpoint) it still stands to confirm the Christian, Judaic, or Islamic systems of belief. It supports that reality that wherewithall there are spiritual forces at work representative of either good or evil.

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