New Age

Personal Pilgrimage “O God of wholeness, when I consider the lack of balance and wholeness in my life, the one-sided spiritualties with which I attempt to appease you, to appear good in the eyes of others, and to please myself, I come face to face with my need for a holistic spiritual life. Help me, I pray, to hunger and thirst for the wholeness you have for me in Christ. Help me to be willing to surrender to you whatever stands in the way of such wholeness” (64). Wholeness was a state that I…

Several juxtapositions dominate the relationship between the traditional academic life and a spiritual life. In a time when traditional Western thought advocates a dualistic approach of either/or, the relationship of spirituality to the academic life of a university could never be more at odds. For many, the potential ambiguity of spirituality undermines the very structure and pursuit of specific truth universities hold dear; however, the study and practice of spirituality encourages academic…

Cody Palazzola 26 October 2016 Professor John Seamons T/TH 1:30 - 2:50 ENGRD 312 Non-fictional Reading and Book Report Discover Your Psychic Type: Developing and Using Your Natural Intuition Vivid nighttime dreams can provoke our minds to engage with spiritual reality. Weather your dreams or déjà vu have triggered the desire in understanding your spiritual self, Sherrie Dillard explains in her book that everyone possess natural and psychic capabilities. Discover Your Psychic Type: Developing…

Sports can impact many aspects of a person’s performance in life. Sports involves more than physical effort and skills. They involve an individual or team effort where competition is a means of entertainment. Sports also revolves around the characteristics of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy which help a person to be competent, confident, connected, build character and have a sense of caring. Spirituality is having or being connected to something that a person believes in,…

The Poi Pounder Poi pounders are a powerful tool used in my Hawaiian culture . Poi pounders start off as an ordinary rock, like how I was born at birth. An ordinary child , The pedestal which is the bottom of the pounder , represents what holds me and my knowledge. The core represents how my family shaped me into the person I am today , and the top represents my religion. Starting from the bottom of the poi pounder , the pedestal represents my knowledge and what holds me . In my culture we…

of technology. In this new age of technology, electronic communication has distorted this united sensation by shifting society’s focus from the real world to the screen. These advanced means of communication have opened up a new format of harassment: cyberbullying. According to the article Cyberbullying, this new form of bullying is executed by spreading private or embarrassing information over the internet, which results…

The new age of inventions that started the industrial revolution were monstrous machines that would impact the way of living. The spinning Jenny was a major machine at the time as it was a textile machine that would weave thread in less time then it took a person to do individually, the invention practically stated the industrial revolution as it began the start of mass production. Although the spinning jenny was a brilliant piece of machinery it could be upgraded and made better, the spinning…

January 1, 1863, the moment Abraham Lincoln filed Emancipation Proclamation, is the milestone of a new progressive era for America. It’s an era of a new birth, an era that tremendously changed the definition of freedom. This redefinition of freedom, particularly the freedom of African Americans, was enormously changed from late 19th century to 1930s, from civil war to the Great Depression. With the purpose of civil war changed after Emancipation Proclamation, union army became an army of…

New age Cults are based on the philosophy “You are god.” Normally people would think that the leader would be “you.” But normally in these types of cults the leader is mystical-type person. This could include Mediums, Superheros and the like. Also The “Members rely on New Age paraphernalia, such as crystals, astrology, runes, shamanic devices, holistic medicine, herbs, spirit beings, or…

THE DEFINING THEME OF OUR AGE The twenty first century, or our age, is one of the first ages to come close the “future” of mankind, so far at least. Our inventions pushing us into the new age and pushing out the block phones and the tiny televisions of the 1900’s. Creating a century only to be known as the Worry age. Our children in this century are so used to the easy “hands-on” way of electronics. Not only are they able to find out the density of a certain object within seconds, but…