New Age music incorporates relaxing, dreamy melodic lines with a quietly harmonic background, primarily in order to promote meditation.
Beliefs found among New Agers include:
All humanity—indeed all life, everything in the universe—is spiritually interconnected, participating in the same energy. “God” is one name for this energy.
Spiritual beings exist, and will guide us, if we turn to them.
The human mind has deep levels and vast powers, which are capable even of overriding physical reality. “You create your own reality.”
Nevertheless, this is subject to certain spiritual laws, such as the principle of cause and effect (karma).
You are meant to be here on earth, in your present surroundings, because you have a lesson to learn. The most important lesson is love.
Death is not the end. The afterlife does not punish us but teaches us, perhaps through the mechanisms of reincarnation or near-death experiences.
Science and spirituality are ultimately harmonious. New discoveries in science, rightly understood, point to spiritual principles.
Intuition is a more appropriate guide than rationalism, skepticism, or the scientific method. Western science wrongly neglects such things as parapsychology, meditation, and holistic health.
There exists a mystical core within all religions, Eastern and Western. Dogma and religious identity are not so important.
The Bible is a wise and holy book. Yet many important truths are not found in the Bible, or are referred to only very obliquely.
Feminine forms of spirituality, including feminine images of the divine, are particularly appropriate at this time.
Ancient civilizations such as Atlantis once existed, leaving behind certain relics and monuments (the Great Pyramid, Stonehenge) whose nature is misunderstood by mainstream historians.
There are no coincidences. Everything around you has spiritual meaning, and spiritual lessons to teach you. You are meant to be here.
The mind has hidden powers and abilities, which have a spiritual significance. Dreams and psychic experiences are ways in which our souls express themselves.
Source: Wikipedia
I find this really interesting in some ways. However, New Age received critiques from evangelical Christians owing to different beliefs. One thought to share here: when listening to New Age music, you find yourself drifting away from real life, that is if you define life as something hectic and fast-paced and forever moving forwards or progressing. New Age music actually keep your mind free from all trouble. You feel a sense of peace, calm, tranquility and harmony as well as the mutual relationship between your physical self and spiritual self.
Disclaimer: I don't think New Age music is suitable for any pessimistic person. It kills the power and the urge in you. It soothes you, bringing you to the lowest level of angst but the highest level of emotions. That is quite dangerous to people on the verge of commiting suicide, I believe. (Hmm, did I just make it sound satanic?)
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As a Christian, I believe that we are here to do God's will. I agree with some and disagree with some (too many to elaborate). Although not all things in Bible is proven, but nothing in Bible is ever proven wrong, although how sceptical the scientists are. And one more interesting fact, science uncovered more truth about the Bible. Just my two cents. No offence. But no doubt, Nooi Hoay, you are a thoughtful person, just like me in some ways. Interesting.
eggy, u sound like my mom n her yoga lot...
(actually i like them all, haha)
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