Spiritual Vibration:

There is a great deal of misunderstanding surrounding spiritual vibration in New Age. New Age teaches that people can raise their spiritual vibration through manipulating their emotions. The understanding is that spiritual vibration is connected to emotion and that people can raise their spiritual vibration simply by making themselves happy. This approach is the exact opposite of what it should be. Simply doing exercises to manipulate emotions and your state of mind has nothing to do with raising spiritual vibration. The raising of spiritual vibration comes with surrender to and aligning one’s self with God. It is derived from God’s ever deepening and more complete connection and interaction. This deeper and more complete connection with God in turn brings inner peace and joy. It also creates and supports a more expansive sense of empathy and compassion and stimulates a willingness to selflessly serve humankind. Conversely this same body of New Age teachings state that people should actively ignore everyone who is struggling and not happy. It contends that all people create their own misery. This is in direct opposition to of all of God’s scriptural teachings. By telling people to ignore all of the problems of the world and blame the victims of all social injustices it encourages selfish behavior and creates an atmosphere of elitism, apathy and insidious forms of social prejudice.

In order for something to be a “spiritual law” it has to apply to everyone. These New Age laws do not take into account, explain, or provide for two-thirds of the world's population who are born into poverty, war, strife, lack of basic needs and lack of education. Children born into starvation are not attracting bad things into their life through their negative thoughts nor are they denying their bliss and creating their own misery through their emotions. The New Age "spiritual law" states in essence that actively ignoring these children, and all of the world’s problems and focusing on making yourself happy is a valid “spiritual path.” God’s teachings state that people are responsible for each other, especially for those people who cannot fend for themselves. God teaches respect and compassion for people who are struggling and provides spiritual and moral instruction to enable people to solve the problems of the world. New Age “spiritual laws” promote further separation between the people who have riches and those who do not, and encourages people to be uncompassionate, uncharitable and to shun those in need.

As long as people, individually and as a whole, allow the problems of the world to fester all people have to share in the karmic burden of taking turns living in the deplorable conditions that selfish behavior creates and sustains.

Both of these New Age “spiritual laws” teach people to be self-centered and self-absorbed. These feel-good “make yourself happy without responsibility” teachings are seductive and appeal to the worst of human attributes. They entrap people, making them believe that they are on a spiritual path, when truly they are moving in the opposite direction by developing selfish and self-serving attitudes and attributes.

A true spiritual path has God and God’s teachings at its heart. Human derived spiritual teachings and laws are usually flawed when examined carefully and do not constitute a spiritual path.