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Older indigenous religions as a whole will experience a revival. Europe will once more reencounter and reintegrate its pre-Christian past. The spiritual depth of ancient myths and rituals will become obvious to a deeper psychological vision. The Middle East and North Africa will have to deal with their pre-Islamic past, particularly the Egyptian and Babylonian traditions that modern archeology has once more
uncovered, and come to recognize the value of their older images and
icons.
The mystical side of all
religions will become prominent and the ritualistic and ideological
side will recede. Spiritual, yogic and occult movements of all kinds
will gain much interest all over the world. Syncretic religious
movements combining various teachings will continue. Futuristic
religious ideas will become evident with a seeking to contact the
greater reality of the mysterious universe in which we live. There
are many signs of such a new awakening. The already existing
interest in Eastern (dharmic) religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and
Taoism indicates this trend.
The upsurge of interest
in Native American traditions, Western occultism, Pagan practices,
and Shamanism is another indication. A renewed interest in the
mystical side of predominant Western religions is another. Another
is a seeking of spirituality through modern psychology or modern
science. There will be much in
this movement that will be superficial, wrongly formulated or
misleading and that will have to be rejected in the long run.
Religions may be combined superficially, the occult may be explored
from a naive or egoistic standpoint that leads to confusion or
exploitation.
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