Spiritualism is a religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living. The afterlife, or the “spirit world”, is seen by spiritualists, not as a static place, but as one in which spirits continue to evolve.

New Spiritualists believe that we can permanently free ourselves from the illusion of self through achieving enlightenment. 16. According to New Spirituality, chief among our karmic failings is seeing ourselves as divine individuals.

Spiritual beliefs include the relationship to a superior being and are related to an existential perspective on life, death, and the nature of reality. 11. Religious beliefs include practices/rituals such as prayer or meditation and engagement with religious community members.

‘New Age’ beliefs common among both religious and nonreligious Americans. But many Christians also hold what are sometimes characterized as “New Age” beliefs – including belief in reincarnation, astrology, psychics and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects like mountains or trees.

New Age movement, movement that spread through the occult and metaphysical religious communities in the 1970s and ʾ80s. It looked forward to a “New Age” of love and light and offered a foretaste of the coming era through personal transformation and healing.

There may be 2 billion atheists around the world….Adherents in 2020.

Unlike the God of the Bible, Gaia is one of those lustful, irritable and contrary gods that populate Greek mythology. As “Mother Earth”, she was the second element in the evolution of the cosmos after Chaos – the primordial void, according to ancient lore.

A nature religion is a religious movement that believes nature and the natural world is an embodiment of divinity, sacredness or spiritual power.