Spiritual Trends in the US
I have been a spiritual seeker since I was a young child.
As a teenager in the 70s I remember lighting a stick of incense in my bedroom.
My mom wigged out when she smelled it because she thought I was into drugs or smoking pot! Her Sunday School mentality would not allow her to consider a sacred tool if it were anything more exotic than a bookmark with a picture of Mother Mary! I was told once that having a psychic reading was "of the devil!" Fortunately, many things have changed since then.
In the past, women tended to be more spiritually open and intuitive than men; however, both sexes today are coming out of the closet regarding spiritual experiences.
They are asking why am I here, who am I? Is there a purpose for my life? Why are an increasing number of people leaving organized religions that teach separateness from Divine Source and from one another? A wide range of seekers from young twenties through the aging baby boomer generation are disappointed with the limitations of materialism and religion.
They are seeking something that will give them substance and purpose in their existence.
Regardless of diverse religious or educational backgrounds, income, or social class these people are finding universal thoughts and common ground at some of the more than 6,000 New Age bookstores in the U.
S.
Many seekers are also drawn to New Age seminars, meditation-based retreats, the practice of yoga, spiritual groups, and products that embrace all paths to Source, and advocate reaching within ourselves for the answers to life's deeper meaning.
Writers such as Deepak Chopra and Gary Zukav address the mind-boggling science of quantum physics in everyday language through non-fiction writing.
Over the past few decade science fiction movies, TV shows, and books such as The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield have released within our culture an acceptance of planetary responsibility, and has reduced our fear of paranormal experience while piquing our curiosity regarding the possibility of parallel and other universes.
Thankfully our societal mind as a whole is not nearly as closed as it once was.
It is exciting to witness this shift in consciousness and I hope that it will continue to affect the way we view and treat one another.
There is hope that humans may one day live on this planet as a unified race-physical beings of Heavenly Light!
As a teenager in the 70s I remember lighting a stick of incense in my bedroom.
My mom wigged out when she smelled it because she thought I was into drugs or smoking pot! Her Sunday School mentality would not allow her to consider a sacred tool if it were anything more exotic than a bookmark with a picture of Mother Mary! I was told once that having a psychic reading was "of the devil!" Fortunately, many things have changed since then.
In the past, women tended to be more spiritually open and intuitive than men; however, both sexes today are coming out of the closet regarding spiritual experiences.
They are asking why am I here, who am I? Is there a purpose for my life? Why are an increasing number of people leaving organized religions that teach separateness from Divine Source and from one another? A wide range of seekers from young twenties through the aging baby boomer generation are disappointed with the limitations of materialism and religion.
They are seeking something that will give them substance and purpose in their existence.
Regardless of diverse religious or educational backgrounds, income, or social class these people are finding universal thoughts and common ground at some of the more than 6,000 New Age bookstores in the U.
S.
Many seekers are also drawn to New Age seminars, meditation-based retreats, the practice of yoga, spiritual groups, and products that embrace all paths to Source, and advocate reaching within ourselves for the answers to life's deeper meaning.
Writers such as Deepak Chopra and Gary Zukav address the mind-boggling science of quantum physics in everyday language through non-fiction writing.
Over the past few decade science fiction movies, TV shows, and books such as The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield have released within our culture an acceptance of planetary responsibility, and has reduced our fear of paranormal experience while piquing our curiosity regarding the possibility of parallel and other universes.
Thankfully our societal mind as a whole is not nearly as closed as it once was.
It is exciting to witness this shift in consciousness and I hope that it will continue to affect the way we view and treat one another.
There is hope that humans may one day live on this planet as a unified race-physical beings of Heavenly Light!
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