By  Govind  Kumar

 

The concepts and the principles of the New Age are very simple. One World Government, One Currency, One Religion, One God, One Universal Consciousness which all human beings can experience.  This Dictionary has been compiled so that all can understand New Age terminology and participate in the Consciousness Revolution !. 

Aquarian Age -- Based on  Astronomical Age Cycles, we are now nearing the end of the Age of Pisces. Evolution goes through cycles corresponding to the signs of the Zodiac, each lasting 2,160 years.( The Precession of the Equinoxes are calculated at 72 years per degree and hence a Zodiac Sign is 30 degrees and an Age Cycle is 72*30 = 2160 years) . Now the Vernal Equinoctial Point is preceding through Pisces and hence is called the Piscean Age. The V E P will be retrograding through Aquarius and this will be the Aquarian Age, which will be characterised by a heightened degree of spiritual or Cosmic Consciousness.

Agent -- A person sending a telepathic message  to another entity. Telepathy is the art of conversing mentally. 

Akashic Record -- Indestructible records of every person's every word, thought, or deed inscribed in the spiritual realms.Alpha -- The physical body.

                                                  

Alchemy - The scientific process by which base metals are transmuted into gold. Divine Alchemy is the process by which base metals ( human beings ) are transmuted into gold ( divine nature ) .  The Seven Stages of Alchemy are Sanctification, Purification, Fermentation, Putrefaction, Combustion, Regeneration and At-One-Ment. Combustion is Passion, combustion is Crucifixon, as the rebounding Karma catches the aspirant unawares. Passion means the Passion of the Redeemer. It is a paradoxicla state of pain and bliss, when the soul acquiesces in the Universal Will and experiences Bliss. Alchemy is a similar discipline like Yoga Philosophy. 

Alkaline Diet - Diet to neutrallise acidity. The body's ratio is 80% alkalinity and 20% acidity. Alkaline diet generally refers to fruits and vegetables. Naturopathy recommends a 100 gms fruits and 320 gms vegetables daily diet. 

Animism -- Anima means Soul and Animism is the conviction that inanimate things (such as plants) possess a soul or spirit. 

Anthroposophy -- Literally " Wisdom of Man" , attributed to the German mystic Rudolf Steiner. It instructs that Truth is in every human being, even though hidden or often latent. . 

 

Ascended Masters -- Refers to those who have reached the highest level of Cosmic Consciousness & have become guides of the spiritual evolution of mankind. 

Ascension of Christ -- Referred normally as the Ascension, it indicates the principle that man is divine and symbolises the rise of the Divine Consciousness in mankind, which is occurring now on a grand scale. . 

Astral -- Astra means star and astral body is the etheric body which survives dealth. The Astral body is connected to the physical body by a Silver Cord, an extended umbilical cord. The Astral Universe is the subtle physical universe, most proximate to the physical universe. )

Astral Body -- The etheric body capable of projection from the physical body and which survives death.

Astral Flight -- Flight of the Astral body from the physical body during trance, sleep or meditation.

Attunement --It is actually At- One- Ment , union with the Divine. One attains a spiritual consciousness of Being through Meditation referred to variously as Unity Consciousness, Nirvana, Prajna, Samadhi, etc. Various Consciousness techniques are used to cause this Union: Meditation; Guided imagery; Yoga; Hypnosis; Chanting of a Mantra; Ecstatic Dancing; Channeling of spirit guides; New Age music; and Positive Thinking or Alpha Mind techniques. This is the Seventh Stage of Alchemy, a discipline similar to Yoga, or Philosophy Vedic. 

Aura -- The Human Electro Magnetic Field - Radiated glow or halo surrounding living beings which can be photographed by Kirlian Photography. 

Avatar -- A manifestation of Divinity, of the Absolute and who initiates man into divine principles. Such a one has  progressed beyond the need to be reincarnated in another body as  there is no further bad karma to work off.

Bhagavad Gita -- The Science of the Absolute, the Upanishad sung by the Lord and the scripture on Yoga. 

Biofeedback -- A technique in which brain waves are monitored to bring normally unconscious, involuntary bodily functions under conscious, voluntary control. Biofeedback can generate altered states of Consciousness. 

Blood of Christ -- The Life Energy of the Cosmic Christ, this blood flowed from the Cross into the spiritual realms from where the Christ intends to effect the spiritual evolution of mankind. 

 

Bodhisattva -- A being having attained Self Actualisation, voluntarily turns back from that state in order to aid humanity in evolving to Godhead. 

Brahman - The Absolute, the Infinite. Not an Absolute which is  non-relative but an Absolute which takes all relativity in its embrace. Brahman, the Absolute, is omnipresent in all relativities. 

Brahma Jnana - Supreme Knowledge, a confluence of Relative, Absolute & Transcendental Knowledge.   

Buddha -- Literally The Awakened One, he who has risen from the normal three relative states of Consciousness to the Fourth - Transcendental Consciousness and the Fifth - Cosmic Consciousness.

 

Chakras -- The seven Energy points on the body. Tantra is the discipline which desribes the Seven Dynamoes of Cosmic Energy in the body. The Root Chakra is at tha base of the spine and the Crown Chakra is on top of the skull. Yoga and Meditation  are practised through these invisible energy centers and the Kundalini, the coiled feminine serpentine energy, rises to the Crown Chakra and man attains Unity Consciousness. 

 

 

(  1. The Root Chakra - Containing the Earth Principle - Muladhara

  2.  The Navel Chakra - Containing the Water Principle _ Manipura

  3.  The Solar Plexus Chakra - Containing the Fire Principle - Swadhishtana

  4.  The Heart Chakra - Containing the Air Principle - Anahata

  5.  The Throat Chakra - Containing the Ether Principle - Vishuddha

  6.  The Eyebrow Chakra - Containing the Mind Principle - Ajna

  7.  The Crown Chakra - The Thousand Petalled Lotus - Sahasrara  ) 

 

Chaos Theory - A mathematical theory advanced by Mendelbrot, which sees order in chaos.

Channeling -- A New Age term for mediumship or spiritism. With the intention of receiving supranormal information,the channeled yields control of his/her perceptual and cognitive capacities to a spiritual entity.

Clairaudience --  Psychic ability to hear mentally without using the ears.

Clairvoyance -- Psychic ability to see mentally without using the eyes, beyond ordinary time and space limits; also called "Second Sight."

Consciousness Revolution -- New Age exponents call for a Consciousness Revolution or a spiritual revolution with Life in rhythm with Natural Law. The primary focus of this Unitive Consciousness is  oneness with the Divine, with Nature, all mankind, the earth, and with the entire Universe.

Control -- The Spirit that sends messages through a medium in trance.

 

Cosmic Christ -- In Gnosticism and other mystic schools of thought, the Christ is considered to be a Universal Spirit or a Cosmic Force, guiding  the spiritual evolution of mankind to the ultimate summit of Unity Consciousness. 

Cosmic Consciousness -- Literally meaning Universal Consciousness. Becoming one with the Universal Self or Cosmic Mind, the ultimate summit of Yoga Philosophy. 

Cosmic Humanism -- Cosmic Humanism views man as having unlimited mental potential due to his innate divinity which can make him rise to the level of the Divine. Quite antithetical to normative humanism which views Man as the measure of all things (  that human conscience is the final Judge ).  

Crystals -- Possessing  healing powers, crystals are recommended by New Age exponents for the restoration of Universal LIfe Energy in the human body. 

Deja Vu -- French for reliving again after another incarnation. The doctrine of Metempsychosis or Transmigration of souls is related to this French expression. The feeling that " I have experienced this event before " when we encounter an event for the first time. 

Discarnate -- The soul of a living creature who has died, travelling in the astral realms. 

Downward Pull of the Mind. The mind is pulled towards Subsconscient, viz, the Subconscious Mind. Downward pull happening in the collective mind. Socrates is poisoned. Rimbaud flees to the Abyssinian desert. 

Dowser -- A sensitive who uses dowsing rods that points to hidden water, oil, buried money, lost articles, or people. Spiritual dowsing is one of the legal domains of study and research in Russia. 

Earth Logos -- The Spiritual Being who is the ensouling Life of our Planet Earth and this system of philosophy is called Animism. This mighty Being manifests as earth physically. 

 

Energisation - Removing negative energy and imparting Positive Energy. In Geo Biology, there are machines which effectuate this energisation like the Geopathic Stress Reverser.  

 

Eros - Life Instinct, the opposite of Thanatos, the Death Instinct.  

 

 

 

Esoteric -- The opposite of Exoteric. Meaning the inner.  The mystical. The inner meaning of different mystic schools of thought as opposed to the outer intrepretations of different religions. The outer, exoteric interpretations are often dualistic - that Man and God are different. Esoteric meaning is that the Divine is resident in man,  referred to as the Kingdom of Heaven, Self and the Divine Spark.    

Esoteric Christianity -- A mystical form of Christianity that sees its core truth as identical to the core truth of every other religion (i.e., man is divine). This form of Christianity is same as Aldous Huxley's Perennial Philosophy.  Gnosticism. 

 

ESP -- Extrasensory perception encompassing paranormal abilities such as foreknowledge, & sychic abilities like telepathy, precognition, retrocognition, clairaudience & clairvoyance.

ESP Cards -- A pack of twenty-five cards bearing five symbols, including stars, squares, circles, crosses, and waves.

Exoteric Christianity -- Theology , a form of Christianity, identified with historic or orthodox Christianity that New Agers  describe as being devoid of all spiritual authenticity.

Fall of Man -- Refers to the Fall of Man's Consciousness, which recognizes the existence of only the material realm. The Christ is believed to have redeemed man in the sense that He enabled man to perceive the Spiritual Reality behind the material world, the Noumena behind the phenomena. 

 

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Free Masonry - A Western mystical school; builders in the Spirit. A royal science and a noble art. It originated from the Vedists of the East and was greatly influenced by Pythagorus. Free Masonry intends to generate perfect Initiates. " Many are the candidate seeking initiation, but few are the perfected Initiates", said Pythagorus, one of the founding fathers of Free Masonry. 

 

Gaia -- ( Greek - Gaia -  Goddess of the earth).  The Gaia Hypothesis was a scientific hypothesis formulated by James Lovelock whereby all living matter on the earth is a single living organism. Humanity is considered the nervous system of the living earth in such a system. The Gaia Hypothesis is the base of Philosophy Vedic. 

 

 

Geobiology - The biology of the Earth; the theory that certain points of the earth have positive energy as well as negative energy. 

 

Geopathic Stress - Negative energy of the earth which causes cancer and other ailments. 

 

Geopathic Zone  - A place full of Negative Energy. 

 

Globalism --  The doctrine that the world is a celestial family,  with all as brothers and sisters  and a New Age term referring to the need for a transformation of the world  from the present nation. A Global Village is envisaged, enabled by the ICT Revolution.  sta

e divisions into a global community.

Gnosticism -- A mystical tradition going back to the second century which averrs that salvation comes through intuitive Gnosis ( experiential knowledge of the Self ) or knowledge of one's innate divinity. The Gnostic Jesus redeems Man from the sin of materiality. To the question " Why God created such an imperfect world?", Gnosticism gives the true answer. He did not create the world. The world was created by a Demi urge, a satanic spirit.  Materiality is all evil, created by the Demi urge. The Gnostic Jesus redeems Man from the evils of materiality and makes man one with the Transcendent Godhead, surpassing the Demi urge who created this world. 

 

 

God -- Universal Energy.  The sum total energy in the Universe is an absolute constant and cannot be created or destroyed. The triune aspects of Being - Immanence, Transcendence and Cosmicity are symbolised by  the Trinity, Son ( Tat ), Father ( Sat ) & the Holy Ghost ( Om ). He may have both personal and impersonal aspects and both are coexistent aspects of the Eternal !

 

 

God Consciousness - A glorified state of Cosmic Consciousness that sees the finest Relative in everything, the 6th state of Consciousness in Transcendental Philosophy.

 

Gemology - The science of gems; often Astro Gemology, the science of gems as related to Astrology. 

 

Graphology -- The science and the analysis of handwriting. Character analysis and foretelling based on handwriting.

Great Invocation -- A classic New Age prayer, invoking the Cosmic Christ on earth, whose presence will usher in an era of Unity Consciousness and Universal brotherhood. This prayer has been translated into over 80 languages. 

 

Group Guru -- With Mass Incarnations of the Cosmic Christ happening on a planetary scale, this New Age terms refers to the same idea that the Cosmic Christ is incarnate in all of humanity and all mankind is a single Guru. 

 

Guru -- He who destroys the darkness of Ignorance. Gu in  Sanskrit means Darkness and Ru menas the destroyer. The term means one who is enlightened and a bona fide Master.

 

Harmonic Convergence -- The assembly of New Age meditators gathered at the same propitious astrological time in different locations to usher in  World Peace and One-World government in the New Aquarian Age of Enlightenment. 

 

 

Holism -- The doctrine which teaches the interrelatedness and interdependence of everything. The principle that All Reality is organically One, the basis of Hinduism and Buddhism, now taught in all colleges and universities in America that followed Einstein's Theory of Relativity.  

 

Holistic Health -- Holistic health  gives priority to the Whole body and not the parts. The body as an inter-related organism. Following the doctrine that the Whole is more important than the parts, its goal is to treat the whole person (Body, Mind, and Self ) as opposed to merely treating a particular sickness. ( vide Sir William Osler " The patient who has the disease is more important than the disease of the patient " ). Plato averred that the treatment of the parts should not be attempted without treatment of the entire body. Psycho-physical medicine in direct contrast to physical medicine.  Holistic Medicine also  means Ayurveda, the medical science of the Whole.

 

Hologram -- Basically a three-dimensional projection resulting from the interaction of laser beams, its image can be reproduced from any one of its many component parts. According to New Age Philosophy, the entire Universe is one Divine Hologram and the Hologram is used to illustrate the oneness of all reality.

Homeopathy -- A system of medicine  based on the principle of " Similia Similibus Curanter " ( Like cures like ) & developed by Samuel Hahnemann. 

 

Human Potential Movement -- Man uses only 5% of his mental potential and 100% mental potential can be unfolded by psychotechnologies. A movement with roots in humanistic psychology that stresses man's essential goodness and the ability of the mind to achieve 100% potential. 

I Ching -- A mysterious Chinese book, which shows the art of divination, This book is used heavily in Red China. 

 

 

Inconscient - The Unconscious Mind. According to Freud, the most powerful element of the Mind. 

 

Initiation -- This term is generally used in reference to the expansion or transformation of a person's consciousness. Derived from the Latin " In ire " to go within. An Initiate is one whose consciousness has been transformed so that he now perceives the Inner Essence, the noumena behind the phenomena. 

 

Inner Self or Higher Self -- Often referred to as the Overself, it refers to the inner divine nature possessed by human beings. All people possess an inner Self, though man lives in ignorance of it. Conscience is Vox Dei,  the voice of this inner Self. 

 

Integralism - The philosophy which integrates both Matter and Spirit. Dialectical Integralism, propounded by the philosopher Aurobindo, which unifies Matter and Spirit as the obverse and the reverse of same coin of Being, and emphasises the omnipotence of the Mind-Overmind-Supermind Axis. 

 

Integrator - He who integrates all religions; all philsophies; all civilizations; as they come from One Universal Source. 

Interdependence or Interconnectedness -- The Universe is the Whole and we are puny parts of that great Whole and all parts of the Universe are interrelated, interdependant and interconnected.  New Age terms used to illustrate the oneness and essential unity of everything in the universe. 

 

Intelligence - Invisible Nature. Nature is visible Intelligence. Intelligence is invisible Nature. 

 

Intuition - The Eye of Wisdom, the Third Eye. 

 

Intuitive Reason - There are four faculties of the Intuitive Reason - Revealation ( Ila ), Inspiration ( Saraswathi ), Intuition ( Sarama ) & Illumination. 

 

 

Jesus -- An Avatar who attained a high level of attunement to the Cosmic Christ. This enabled him to become a bodily vehicle for the Christ and declare " I am divine, the Universal expresses through Me ". 

 

Kabala (Cabbala, Qaballah) -- Hebrew mystical lore, rich with mystical experiences of the followers of the Esoteric Kabala. 

 

Karma -- Literally meaning Action.  The Universal Law of Cause and Effect, the Law of Action & Reaction, the Law of Retributioin is this Grand Law of Causation. Same as " What ye sow, ye shall reap"  of the Bible. 

 

Kirlian Photography --Invented by the Russian electronic engineer, Seymond Kirlian, a photographic process that measures living auras. 

 

Kundalini -- The elemental serpentine energy of the human body which lies coiled at the base of the spine. Often called as the Serpent Power ( " The Serpent Power " by Sir John Woodroffe ) in Tantra & Yoga and as the Golden Serpent in Reiki.

 

Levitation -- Levity was the term coined by the German poet Goethe. The opposite of gravitation. While Newton thought how the apple fell, Goethe thought how the apple got up there. 

 

Macrocosm - The Whole; the Universe 

 

Magic Circle Ring -- A psychic protective ring, drawn by occultists to protect them from other psychic attacks. 

 

 

Mantra -- A word or phrase that is to be chanted repetitively in an effort to empty the mind and attain Cosmic Consciousness. A Mantra is a codified prayer. Divine Grace is immanent in mantras.

                                         

                                            Divine Grace is All in All
                                            Grace Divine is immanent in Mantra
                                            The Tantric knows how to use mantras
                                            He should be revered !

 

 

Mass Incarnation -- An incarnation of the Cosmic Force in all of humanity. New Age exponents say that this incarnation is presently taking place on a massive planetary scale ( referred to as the Ascension ), like the incarnation of the Cosmic Christ in the body of Jesus 2,000 years ago.

Maslow's Need Hierarchy Scale - The  Transpersonal Psychology of Maslow lists a hierarchy of human needs. The basic needs are physiological ( food, clothing and shelter ). Next comes  the Security Need which is Money. Next comes  Social & .Esteem needs.   The final Need is Self Actualisation, the Knowledge and Realisation of the Self.  

 

Medium -- A psychically sensitive being whose body-mind-intellect-complex is used as a vehicle for communicating with etheric bodies. 

Metaphysics -- The science of the Self. Beyond Physics. Metaphysics was the study of  Time, Space & Causality, the nature of the Universe and  Cosmology.

 

Microcosm - Man. " Little man's world ". Man as microcosm, wherein he copies the structure of the great Universe.