Multiverse Minutiae

Gnosticism is, in a sense, a tradition of anti-tradition and, historically, a collection of loosely encamped seekers and syncretic movements stemming from the early Christian era and drawing upon Hellenic, Jewish, Persian, and Eastern religious currents. A major question in scholarly research is the qualification of Gnosticism as either an interreligious phenomenon or as an independent religion. Scholars have acknowledged the influence of sources such as Hellenistic Judaism and Platonism, and some have noted possible links to Buddhism and Hinduism. In that regard, the gnostic thread has much in common with the recent culture of New Age spirituality. New Age is another term that has become largely amorphous but, in my view, can be defined very simply as a radically ecumenical late-twentieth and early twenty-first culture of therapeutic spirituality. The variants of New Age spirituality, which include mystical, psycho-spiritual, and physical methods, are, in many ways, indirect but not

The New Age Movement  The so called New Age is an amorphous movement that arose during the 1960s and 70s. The phrase ‘New Age’ is used very loosely to refer to occult or other nonmainstream religious and spiritual practices and new forms of consciousness. This New Age is based upon the belief that Earth was entering a new cycle of evolution, which would give birth to a new civilization. This is the astrological Age of Aquarius. Marcia Moore and Mark Douglas promoted the view that, although no one knows when the Aquarian Age begins, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the discovery of electricity are all attributable to the Aquarian Age. A common position expressed by many astrologers sees the Age of Aquarius as that time when humanity takes control of the Earth and its own destiny as its rightful heritage, with the destiny of humanity being the revelation of truth and the expansion of consciousness, and that some people will experience enlightenment i