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