Modern spirituality
Sarah Drinkwater and
Modern spirituality
Sarah Drinkwater and
“The obvious opportunity,” he said, “is to build a new religion.”
hen there is a decrease in government stability, there is an increase in religiosity in both Eastern and Western cultures.
When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, movements like Theosophy offered a kind of third way, a path toward understanding the world between science and religion. Theosophy was in conversation with both realms, using tools like magical practi
... See moreI just kind of know that there’s a Universal Consciousness, that we’re all a part of it, and that the world is more magical than we’ve been led to believe.
This is not my own idea. It’s not even a new idea. It’s a very old one. This is what Jesus was saying, and the Buddha, and Rumi. It is the Perennial Philosophy: all major religious and spiritual
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