The ageless wisdom

5. Perception of wholeness

This comprehension is also called holism, which means that the unity is considered more than the sum of the individual parts. It also implies that there is a connection between inner and outer, large and small. In this comprehension lies the basis of psychosomatic sickness and health understanding, as well as of true healing. The holism holds a comprehension of correspondence, which connects apparently separated parts. This can be said in a very simple way – and with the risk of simplism – that everything is connected. The apprehension is also that spirit and matter are two sides to every question, and that fundamentally life is a continuous, non-dualistic reality. The human being is conceived as a unity of spirit, soul and body, and the awakening to this unity is to be healed, to be holy. The holism is an energetical philosophy of life, which defines life and all phenomena in terms of energy. It is often expressed in connection with descriptions of e.g. auras, energy centres, angels and a multiplicity of paranormal phenomena.

6. The unity of life

The idea that all living is a unity is a natural extension of the perception of wholeness. This has ethical consequences, so that what you do to others, you do to yourself – and what you do to yourself, you do to the world. As life in all existing fundamentally is the same, excessive life, and as all the realms of nature in this fundamental way belong together, it is not inconsequential how we treat other living beings. We all share the responsibility and are fellow creatures, and we contribute to the affections of the world in one way or another.

7. A new age

The New Age movement is, according to the chosen grouping, quite naturally centred around an apprehension that mankind and the rest of the Earth are entering a new period or era, which is often called an age. We here refer to the idea that during evolution everything experiences time eras, each having their significance and mission. The Greek apprehension, and especially the stoic, is such a variant. The Hindu kalpa and yuga are another. The astrological zodiacal ages are a third. No matter how you perceive this, the understanding is that evolution is an ascending curve of consciousness, which periodically experiences the tide and influences of many different kinds. The cyclic principle is a recurring characteristic. The New Age concept is often centred around the idea that we are in the transition from one age to another, and that the age or cultural era, which we are about to leave, has lasted from around the birth of Christianity and till now. Astrologically this is the transition from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius . However, it is possible to describe the epoch-making phenomenon in various ways. Common to them all is that we are at a new beginning. In that sense it is the end of the world, and the birth of a new world.