The New Age Spirituality: A Quest to Break Boundaries

The author tries to describe what the New Age spirituality is, how it originated and developed and how it is a challenge to organized religions. The popular appeal o f New Age Spirituality can be attributed to its serious attempts to respond to the human longing for harmony, belongingness, communion and freedom from religious and socio-cultural prohibitions leading to spiritual, psychological and physical well-being. The New Age spirituality has the grand vision of a global village but its followers are not committed to its birthing on the foundation of universal values like justice and equality. The New Age spirituality remains a challenge to the adherents of all religious traditions, revealing that the restlessness of humans and the longing for their well-being cannot be satisfied by creating new structures but by providing ways to expand the horizons of the human mind to embrace everything including the ultimate Reality