Selling positive energy at the rate of belief in God: Comparative analysis of the theology of the movement "New Age" | ||
| عرفان پژوهی در ادبیات | ||
| Volume 3, Issue 6, March 2025, Pages 75-108 PDF (848.03 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.22054/msil.2025.83387.1163 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Reza Jalili* 1; Reza Elahimanesh2 | ||
| 1PhD in Islamic Mysticism University of Religions and Religions | ||
| 2qom | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The discourse of modern spiritualism is a tool of the capitalist system and the original school of profit. This discourse is the driver of commodification and commercialization of spirituality and life. Various aspects of human life, even belief in God in spiritualism, has been transformed into a purely individual matter and personal experience and has been defeated by the changes of modernity. What does the "New Age" movement believe in terms of theology? What is the relationship between God of "New Age" and God of Islamic mysticism? In this research, with a descriptive-analytical method and with a critical approach, theology and belief in God of this new spiritual movement has been analyzed from the perspective of Islamic mysticism by referring to the theological principles and principles and the words of its spokespersons. While explaining, analyzing and comparing pantheism and the personal unity of existence, it has been concluded that "God is dead" and "man being God" in materialism caused the reduction of the concept of God. The theology of modern man arose from reductionism and pantheism in the "New Age" movement; God was reduced to positive energy that has dissolved in existence and nature. Being abstract and an artifact of the human mind, being God and the divinity of man, is the obvious deviation and damage of the theology of this spiritual discourse. All God or all in God is different from atheism and extreme materialism. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| "New Age" movement; theology; pantheism; unity of existence; Islamic mysticism | ||
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