New Age Universalist

 The last years of western culture's second millennium were ripe with indication of modern humankind's potential for realizing the nature and value of Universalist ideals. Modern science has evolved to the point where science and spirituality may be seen as two galaxies, once separate, now merging, to someday create a new awareness of a singular reality. To even scratch the surface of new emerging paradigms requires unending discourse with countless implications.   

Here and now my intention is to rather briefly enshrine in your heart and mind an image of "Universalist Ageless Wisdom" which has been revealed for us though the lives and teachings of all true modern mystics. In the rarified field of highly spiritual adepts, the Universalist vision is a golden coin miraculously obtained by all the great souls of our time. Their many vessels sail the universal ocean of the infinite. Let us visit just a few of these sacred vessels.   

The great Avatars, Prophets, saints and sages of all traditions have embodied the Universalist tradition throughout the ages. The great ones never say they have a unique exclusive answer to life's mysteries, they rather say there is only one way to realize the nature of the spiritual reality. The way is by awakening to your true nature as a vessel of the unconditioned reality just as the great one's have awakened. Considering modern manifestations of Universalist ageless wisdom it becomes relatively easy to follow their line of descent throughout the historic ages beyond which lie the realms of speculation and metaphysical revelation.

Just as the present moment, with all its potentials and realizations has sprung from the previous moments of our lives, so to the current flourish of modern Universalist perception has risen from seed planted in the past. Because of this flow of continuity it's impossible to identify the beginning of Universalist traditions in that each tradition is a flowering of an eternal principle, for this reason I call these traditions Ageless Wisdom traditions in that they are founded on divine principles, which are both eminent and eternal.

Not only is this Universalist perception represented throughout ageless wisdom traditions it is also represented in different ways though many fields of endeavor such as religion, politics, science, business and social work. In order to pursue a focused reachable objective within my own area of interest this work is restricted to a consideration of certain modern streams of Universalist revelation. These streams seem to mingle and mix until, the more deeply one looks the more difficult it becomes to distinguish one from another.

Clearly all Universalist streams, are drawn by one sun, from one ocean, to which they all are bound to return. Some streams we can readily identify as being Taoist, Buddhist, Vedantic, Kabalistic, Hermetic or Gnostic. Yet all of these and even more primordial streams are interwoven one with another. During the last few hundred years there has been a modern unfolding of Universalist ageless wisdom traditions.