Existence ?

It's a ceremony in India called Pitrapaksha in which people tribute a worship to their dead near relatives as it is believed that by doing so makes their soul in peace. Really whenever I think about the existence of soul or life after death in imagination then I always find myself in dilemma of uncertainty. As I have never seen any evidence by myself though in various methodological stories we hear about reincarnation, souls, ghosts etc. but this theory is neither believable nor deniable. Some of the terms regarding these are as below:

• Spirit
  an animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms, the immaterial intelligent or sentient part of a person
• Soul
  the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life, the spiritual principle embodied in human beings, all rational and spiritual beings, or the universe 
• Mind
  the element or complex of elements in an individual that feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons, the conscious mental events and capabilities in an organism, the organized conscious and unconscious adaptive mental activity of an organism
• Holistic
  relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts (holistic medicine attempts to treat both the mind and the body)
  
  
  While some believe it's impossible to know whether there is life after death, belief in immortality is timeless. People of all times and places in history have believed that the human soul survives death. If there is no consciousness beyond the grave, then life has fooled almost everyone from the Pharaohs of Egypt to Jesus of Nazareth.
  When we talk about rebirth or reincarnation, some people laugh at the idea. They consider such belief is passe and obsolete. 
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• A key component of the New Age which many people prescribe to is the belief that our planet and its population are literally moving into a New Age. This New Age is one of awakened consciousness where people give up their limited third-dimensional survival mode of existence and awaken to a higher, more enlightened world.
  This coming New Age is an era of harmony, progress, knowing, and enlightenment.
• The New Age movement means different things to different people.
  However almost all New Age topics have one basic underlying theme:
  personal spiritual development. Every day there are thousands upon thousands of people around the world who are waking up to the knowledge, understanding and realization of who they really are, where they came from, and why they are here. This collective transformation of individuals can be described as the New Age movement. As a whole, the New Age movement is dynamic, rapidly-growing, and gaining momentum. The New Age movement provides the framework and the tools to assist people with their own personal growth and spiritual development.
  The New Age movement itself is somewhat of a paradox, since to organize into some kind of "movement" could be considered to be contrary to the fundamentals of individual spiritual development. That is why there is some ambiguity to the meaning of the New Age, because it can mean different things to people. But that's okay. What is important is that each individual embarks on their own journey of learning, adventure, and discovery.
  
  All religions are essentially cultural institutions, reflecting the cultures that manifest them. Thus the growth in numbers of people exploring New Age topics would suggest that as individuals and as a society, we are willing to explore alternative explanations of who we are. The New Age is simply one path to choose on the road of spiritual growth. It matters little which label we put on the path, since in the end all paths ultimately converge at the same place. Everyone is searching for the eternal truths to some of life's most challenging questions, it is simply the way that people choose to go about their own search that is different. One reason the New Age path is popular is that it is more concerned with the ultimate truths themselves, rather than the process of how they are arrived at.
  

  Common New Age Beliefs

  Here's an unofficial list of beliefs that some individuals in New Age may have in common:
• You create your own reality and destiny. This is a planet of free choice, and you have your own free will.
• You have certain challenges to face and overcome in this lifetime. If you don't learn your lessons this time, you'll get them again.
• There is no such thing as coincidence.
• There is more to life than meets the eye, much more.
• Nothing really matters in this life unless it is done for the benefit of others.
• We are not alone.
• We are multidimensional beings currently having a human experience.
• We are all receiving more help than we know, from angels, spirit guides, ascended masters and others.
• We can heal ourselves, our society, and our world.
• The ultimate transformation for mankind is ascension.

Free Will versus Destiny

This philosophical question is one of the more curious contradictions in the study of metaphysics and free will:

Some metaphysicians would argue that a rational universe is always based on cause and effect. That is, every effect is preceded by a cause, all the way back to the First Cause, that being God or the Divine.

On the other side, the act of pure, genuine, uncaused free will is considered somehow to negate the divine rational order and makes the universe seem irrational.

My interpretation: Although certain things may occur in one's life that may be destiny, we do have free will. This is important. And as time passes, our ability to manifest things and situations will accelerate so quickly that we will see that we can create and manifest results quickly and easily. To me, if we can bring about such change, this means we do in fact have free will.

New Age and Science

Many people feel that new age thinking just simply isn't rational. Traditional scientific models often include observation, analysis, testing and measurement. Quite often these things cannot be easily performed on paranormal and metaphysical phenomena. So how can someone believe in something they can't even see, measure, quantify or analyze?

It all comes down to beliefs, and often a deep inner knowing. It involves intuition and trust. It involves listening. It involves a whole lot of things that are currently beyond the scope of accepted scientific thinking.

The important thing to remember is that new age beliefs don't reject science. Modern science has brought tremendous good to our society in many ways. New age beliefs simply expand beyond accepted thinking in the exploration and search for life's eternal truths.

(Source: Andrew Lutts)