Comparative Worldviews: Part 2

Transcedentalism(also known as New Age, Scientology, Buddhism, and Hinduism) is a worldview that is embraced knowingly and unknowingly by many people in America today.
According to a transcedentalist, the physical world is nothing, and the spiritual world is everything. Instead of being "made in the image of God" we as humans are part of a universal force with everything in this world(god, animals).
One statement in this worldview is that "there is a little bit of good in every bad(and vise versa)". Differences to a transcedentalist are a illusion.
Here are the answers to common questions that we as humans ask from a transcedentalistic worldview:

1. Origin- Where did everything come from?
-The fragmentation of the divine oneness


2. Identity- What is a human being?
-An expression of the divine oneness
We are a expression of the universal "force". Therefore to find happiness, instead of looking to a alternate being, we only need to look at our self to find what we desire.

3. Meaning- What is the purpose of life?
-Unity of the divine oneness
After periods of time and after many "rebirths", we are united with everything(creation, gods) in unity.

4. Morality-What is  right and wrong? How do we know?
Just follow your heart. Since we are "expressions" of the universal force, everything that we desire is inside.
There is no right and wrong. Differences in these ideas are illusions that we as humans see.
("For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander." Matthew 5:19)

5. Destiny- What happens when we die?
Reincarnation and acheived unity with divine oneness
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spritual beings having a human experience."
Yoga worldview

Instead of "embracing everything", we as Christians  should investigate eveything we plan to undergo.

"When people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they believe in nothing, but that they believe in everything."
G.K Chesterton


~M