Selasa, 27 Juli 2010

opening part

Abstract

The New Age is the spiritual resurrection phenomenon that supports new culture arising based on human awareness transformation. Started by the evaluation that there is an empty western spiritual value of civilization resurrection and out of Christian teachings guidance, that being dogmatic religion issues nowadays, The New Age turns away from western religiosity and then aims to eastern religiosity. The New Age mixes esoteric thought of formal religions; emphasized spirituality variety concept by digging up emotional, mystical, magical, and supernatural dimensions; within developing ' non-formal religions’.

The existence of the New Age is both a challenge and a chance for majority religions as Catholic. The existing religions are demanded to release more teaching nudge humanity values, but not having artificial, bombastic and verbalism values, that actually does not make sense. On the other hand, the religion teachings can not only obligate the followers to run rites that are obligated formally because, basically that religion teaching is meant to bloom our humanity awareness.

By anticipating the resurrection of the New Age spirituality phenomenon that decoys Christian mystical, there is a truly answer on the Christian apostolic as well. The mystical way is a step returning to unitary, that is coalitions with God, human, universe, and oneself. The person, who looks for true spiritual experience, is not only satisfied with spiritual comfort or fly-high feelings as the consequence of subjective comprehensions feeling because of sentimental stimulus even chemistry medicines aid.

The mystical thing is not an extraordinary matter, but the faithful competence of human to realize and to believe both inside and outside of his experiences. For the faithful person, these kinds of experience are stressed and clarified by implementation Gods vision in bible and God’s mercy in the heart. The faithful spiritual experience basically is not carried on by human self and even not in the first experience about human himself. In this occasion, believing in God is the most important thing to realize and interpret experiences correctly. Furthermore, this mystical experience needs authentic source and proved in real spirituality history. Those sources are: bible, worship, all common leviticus cognizance of faithful persons, prayer or individual meditation especially affection experience to followers.