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The Study Of Philosophy On The New Age Movement

Posted on:2013-01-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W Y CuiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2250330398481729Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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The New Age Movement is a movement of cultural and ideological trends of the1960s originated in Europe and USA. It came to mature, and gradually spread all over the world. The New Age Movement is a rebel modern cultural roots movement.Its main content is to rediscover the ancient mysticism, a concrete manifestation of European and American culture in all aspects of mysticism and quasi-mystical phenomena. Western culture ideas of this movement showing Oriental steering, in which the new trends in the ecological turned to the mainstream culture filled with myth’, the new religious and neo-shamanism. This movement by re-examining the science and religion, Eastern mysticism and spirituality, gradually formed a new view of life and world, the impact of the clinics in the academic, religious, scientific, business, literature, art and normal life in many fields.The participants of the New Age Movement, including a group of academic and scientists, especially quantum physics researchers that have quantum worldview and post-modern scientific spirit to make a strong support of the New Age Movement. This article is based on the philosophy of science point of view, which conducted the study in depth from the scientific concept of paradigm shift and the field of quantum worldview, and tried to introduce and explain the concrete manifestation of the various fields of the New Age Movement as a whole, the preliminary summary of the philosophy of the New Age Movement ideas and influence on the future of human society, as well as the point of view of The New Age Movement that it re-examined traditional and traditional cultural resources discovered.There was a special generated ideological background in The New Age Movement. The20th century modernity worldview has been a more thorough understanding of the devastating effects of the social and spiritual. On the one hand, the modern crisis of ideas with a variety of performance of the split created by the conscious thought patterns such as binary separation and alienation of human nature, a very intellectualism and mechanical view of the world caused by the discomfort of an industrialized society, the material production the ecological crisis caused by the infinite grab of the natural ecology. The concept of market competition and consumerism majority of mental fatigue and poor in spirit. On the other hand, due to the subversion of the quantum theory of the traditional concept of material substance, the end of the metaphysics of modern philosophy, relativism and nihilism.The continuous spread of the information changes was brought about by the post-industrial era, Eastern civilization and indigenous cultures to explore, resulting in a crisis of faith, the rise of post-modern science and post-modern spirit of Western culture to show the new direction of exploration. This exploration facing to the "anti-mainstream culture", to promote people to understand and explore the post-modern worldview and way of life, to re-examine the legacy of ancient civilizations, cultural values. The paradigm revolution has been quietly rising.The New Age Movement, starting from the point of view of man and nature against man and nature, fragmented, re-Natural sacred complex Charm, discovered our inherent human inner soul of view of nature and worldview, experimental Heaven concept. The way to achieving this aim to eliminate the human consciousness of subject and object binary separation model of thinking that had been obscured with a perceptual model to re-understand the world. In this way, people will find in inner mind of human of the universe. Unified presence of the human individual as a material and sense, once considered their own spiritual awareness as a sense of inner communication and contact and the information field of the universe of material unified entity. In this way, a higher level of evolution of human consciousness and the future development will come to a trend.
Keywords/Search Tags:New Age Movement, Oriental mysticism, Spiritual culture, Post-modern science, Worldview, Paradigm shift
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