There's nothing new about "the new age" except the attitude of the souls participating in it. I bet every soul who chose to incarnate into this particular historical era shook their little energy heads and said, "Oh, no! Not again!"
Spiritual enlightenment is the very purpose of life as thinking, feeling human beings here on the planet Earth. The path to spiritual enlightenment is different for every soul, in every lifetime, depending on what lessons they've already learned in other lifetimes and what lessons they hope to accomplish by being alive in this one.
In some lifetimes, for some souls, enlightenment is a very quiet and personal process - so quiet and so personal that hardly anyone (including the soul in question) realizes that spiritual growth is taking place at all. We choose lifetimes in certain historical eras or within certain cultures where spiritual truth is not an obvious issue so that we can focus our learning energies on the more subtle aspects of truth.
When we choose lifetimes in which we are comfortable with the spiritual or religious beliefs of the culture that we are born into, and we have no inner drive to question or go against that truth, we know that confirming the 'dogma' of our spiritual truth is not on our learning agenda.
When we choose lifetimes and/or cultures that put us right in the middle of religious (or spiritual) dissent, we know that confirming our denying our inner truth is a priority in that lifetime, since we are forced to choose between expressing what we really think and feel and/or going against the majority, which is usually not a healthy thing to do. Participation in these cultural learning experiences is a major aspect of soul level planning for spiritual growth.
Just as we might decide, on a conscious level, that we want to take a pottery class, so our soul might decide that we want to be a part of The Inquisition, or The Crusades, or The Salem Witch Hunts, for the experience and life lessons inherent to it. Sometimes we're looking for something new to believe in; sometimes we're looking for confirmation of what we already believe is truth. Always, we are seeking to find God's truth within us. We've all lived enough lifetimes to know that a new New Age begins each time Man as a species finds something, or someone, new to worship.
I don't imagine that early Man (Flintstone era) worshipped much of anything. Every ounce of his energy was required just to survive in his animal-level world. He probably wasn't very aware of what he was feeling at any given point, and - even if he was - he probably didn't have the brain power to give it a name or think about what it meant to his life to be feeling that way. Early Man wasn't much of a thinking, feeling human being at all, but he was certainly an important step in the right direction.
The right direction, of course, is the one that takes us ever closer to reaching our full potential as what we intended to be on this particular level of existence: thinking, feeling human beings. We choose life on this level to experience the power of thought and emotions; karmic repercussions ensure that, by the time we're done, we are fully aware that we create our own reality by the way we respond to the people, and events and situations that make up our day-to-day lives. The way we think determines what we feel, and the way we feel determines how we respond. How we respond determines our present-moment reality.
This New Age is definitively different from the New Ages that have come before. Modern technology has made the world a smaller place than it used to be. In a lifetime in medieval England , we might never have traveled more than five miles from home, or known more than two hundred people in our lifetime. Our opportunities for enlightenment were definitely limited to the present moment here and now. With modern technology, our opportunities for enlightenment become as infinite as life itself; our generation has more opportunities for spiritual awareness on all levels than any other generation before us.
What makes this New Age different is the high-tech, fast-paced environment that offers each soul unprecedented opportunity for spiritual growth. Lifetimes of accumulated karmic debt can be brought into balance by the high volume of personal interactions we experience every day; in fact, if we're a telemarketer, we may talk to more people in a single day in this lifetime than we've talked to in an entire lifetime in a quieter lifetime in a quieter era.
Our high-tech, fast paced world offers us easy access to everything we need to come in touch the purpose of our existence: we are here to live our lives as spiritual beings in physical bodies, with the potential to create our own "Heaven on Earth" through the way we think and the way we feel.
And there's nothing new about that.
Lois Grant-Holland is a Life Path Focus Counselor offering Life Path Focus Sessions, Karmic Astrology Charts, Channeled Guidance, Intuitive Readings and Classes and Workshops to spiritual seekers on all positive paths, and is the site facilitator at The A.N.S.W.E.R. - (The Seeker's Resource Guide to Alternative, New Thought, Spiritual Growth, Wellness and Enlightenment Resources.) You can visit her website at http://www.loisgrantholland.com
taxi to O'Hare Belle Rive .. Lockport Chicago limo O’HareThe more we worry about money, and who's asking for... Read More
Have you ever felt like throwing up your arms and... Read More
Continued from "Origin of Certain Thoughts, Part I"If you haven't... Read More
Charity isn't the easiest virtue to master. And with St.... Read More
Whenever, we have a task or project to carry out... Read More
Just for a moment think of what is stopping you... Read More
Matthew 2:13-15 The Flight to Egypt13 Now when they had... Read More
The word means different things to different people. Is it... Read More
Freedom....The cherished goal of humanity throughout its history.No society has... Read More
In Corrogue it is frosty.The ramp into our "acre of... Read More
"Mama, save me!"My six year old son jumped into my... Read More
In my work with clients who have physical illnesses there... Read More
Coming face to face with yourself in the space between... Read More
Heaven is a place of abundance and earth is a... Read More
Your creative gift has power.God was the first and still... Read More
"In the sixth century of the sixth millennium, the gates... Read More
There was this TV commercial a couple of years back... Read More
As we walk along our paths in life, we will... Read More
I always thought Ecclesiastes was like Proverbs. That's probably because... Read More
Before Donna was born she took with her a dollar,... Read More
The earth is wrapped in a thin, loose shell of... Read More
After first seeing my photography, people... Read More
At any given moment, there are 'things' occurring within the... Read More
The first gospel written by Matthew,who is Levi, is the... Read More
As a walked across the gym floor with perspiration coming... Read More
ohare limo service Bristol .."You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on... Read More
The deeper beauty of spring is its process. In winter's... Read More
There are many contradictions in life and none more easily... Read More
One thing that Jesus was NOT - was flashy. When... Read More
There is so much going on in the world around... Read More
Angels, those divine beings of love and light, are here... Read More
I am going to remind of some simple, yet important... Read More
Rose Ann Schwab is an internationally and world renowned professional... Read More
As you will see I the Scripture verse I will... Read More
Many of us are on an inward or outward path-to... Read More
On one side there is a dark cloud. It is... Read More
Jacob had sent his family on across the river Jabbok.... Read More
Second Isaiah, so called because his book of prophecy was... Read More
I have a long-term goal--a life-long goal really--to develop the... Read More
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.... Read More
In life, sooner or later, we come to the midnight... Read More
Perhaps one of the most wonderful assertions that can be... Read More
Carl Jung, 20th century psycho analyst and dream researcher, said:... Read More
I know eyebrows are probably raising about now, but let... Read More
An exam is a test that is given at the... Read More
Picture this state of existence in your mind by closing... Read More
Do you ever wonder about the other "YOU ?"The one... Read More
1. Identify a woman who is "like minded," who has... Read More
I am disturbed by the tendency of some people to... Read More
So I met a friend recently and we went to... Read More
Spirituality |