Modern Spiritualism and Its Relation to Atheism

Abstract

Modern spiritualism is a philosophy through which the person seeks spiritual exploration and self-search about divine facts outside the religious framework. It is based on the Eastern philosophies and Sufi beliefs, and determines the spiritual guidance through self-internal sources. The most prominent manifestations of atheism in modern spiritualism include: a) the pantheism belief which means that God is the whole of this viewed world, and that creatures are manifestations of God only; and b) labeling God with descriptions such as absolutism, consciousness, nothingness, emptiness, total existence, love, etc., all of which are accidental descriptions that don’t stand alone; rather they are imaginary meanings unmaterialized outside the mind. These descriptions are regarded as one form of atheism, and they also stem from their own deification and sanctification of the human self because those people believe that the absolute means consciousness and consciousness is the god.