New Age Spirituality: A Universal Pan-Religion or a Reinvention of the Wheel? I “He who hears not me but the Logos will say: All is one.” --Heraclitus “Knowledge is virtue” --Socrates “Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.” --Baruch Spinoza
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t the end of the millennium, in the year 2000, a yearning for an age of freedom from the evils afflicting the world, the spirit of millenarianism, has returned as indeed it has so many times before. It is not a sect, a religion, a single organization, a science or a philosophy, it is not even a “conspiracy of hope,” as Ignazio Silone has aptly defined millennialism. Paradoxically, while it claims to be new and original, it is far from being new as we will endeavor to demonstrate. It is called a movement to indicate that it is a network of individuals and groups who share a world-view and a common desire to change the world. This so-called New Age movement is a cultural current that is by now global. In some way it is in tandem with the so-called post-modern historical era.
