The New Age market is flooded with gadgets, techniques and processes for better health, each claiming its own space in the human mind and its own share in the race for consumerism. Such movements are aided by a growing dissatisfaction with current medical practice, which is an offshoot of a material and mechanistic view of life. Somehow, humanity is not able to accept this view whole-heartedly despite its ‘spectacular success’ and ‘statistical proofs’. Something in man intuitively feels that he is not matter and chemistry alone. And as this ‘something’ grows stronger he searches for other paradigms, explores other states of consciousness independent of his body and even of his mind. This pull towards a greater, unexplored unknown is the other cause of man’s search for the new, his interest in the unexplained, his fascination for the new and the unknown.
But here he must pause and tread with prudence and caution, his one foot firmly planted upon the earth while the other reaches out to the sky. He must be equally poised on the two wings of faith and doubt… a faith that nothing is essentially impossible and a doubt that prevents this faith from turning into a credulous dogma or yet another limited and fixed belief system.
But as he thus soars, man will surely reach that space where his doubts are left behind and his faith in the omnipotence of the Spirit will be justified and changed into knowledge.
Then he shall see the techniques, gadgets and processes are, like the drugs he uses for healing, merely contrivances and devices and often an excuse for the spirit’s power to act. Then he will be utterly free, free from the old and the new.
