Newage & religion are equally worthless as far as any actual connection with reality - it just depends on who's doing the presentation steve.
The reason new age is applicable to your life is because it can work in the present. Religion is based on history and appealed to people of that era in the same way new age appeals to you now. As far as which one is the most powerful, that will always be an individual's choice - as it should be.
We change every day, growing and learning, and our perception on what we believe in will change also.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.