1. New Age

    Spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s

    New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars consider it a religious movement, its adherents typically see it as spiritual or as unifying Mind-Body-Spirit, and rarely use the term New Age themselves. Scholars often call it the New Age movement, although others contest this term and suggest it is better seen as a milieu or zeitgeist. As a form of Western esotericism, the New Age drew heavily upon esoteric traditions such as the occultism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the work of Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer, as well as Spiritualism, New Thought, and Theosophy. More immediately, it arose from mid-twentieth century influences such as the UFO religions of the 1950s, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the Human Potential Movement. Wikipedia

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  2. britannica.com

    Jan 30, 2025The New Age movement spread through the occult and metaphysical religious communities in the 1970s and ʾ80s. It looked forward to a "New Age" of love and light and offered a foretaste of the coming era through personal transformation and healing. Beginning in the 19th century with the Theosophical Society, the New Age movement often merged Eastern and Western mystical concepts.
  3. britannica.com

    Dec 5, 2024Post-New Age. By the end of the 1980s, the New Age movement had lost its momentum. Although primarily a religious movement, it was derided for its acceptance of unscientific ideas and practices (especially its advocacy of crystals and channeling). Then Spangler, Los Angeles publisher Jeremy Tarcher, and the editors of several leading New Age periodicals announced that although they still ...
  4. encyclopedia.com

    Learn about the history, beliefs, and practices of the New Age movement, a diverse and eclectic collection of spiritual trends that emerged in the 1980s. Explore the origins, influences, and challenges of this postmodern phenomenon that claims to herald a new era of enlightenment and transformation.
  5. corespirit.com

    Holism is the New Age movement's preferred term for expressing the spiritual aspect of monism. Holism, in popular terminology, is the view that the whole of any complex system is greater than the sum of its parts. The person with a holistic perspective is convinced that the best way to understand anything is always by seeing it as a whole ...
  6. files.lcms.org

    The New Age Movement seeks to transform the worldview of individuals toward an understanding of self-deification, to the end that they will form a society eventually producing complete global harmony among nations and peoples. Founders: The New Age Movement as such has no specific founders. Its origin and general contours are
  7. britannica.com

    New Age movement, Movement that spread through occult communities in the 1970s and '80s. It looked forward to a "New Age" of love and peace and offered a foretaste of the coming era through personal transformation and healing. The movement's strongest supporters were followers of esotericism, a religious perspective based on the ...
  8. encyclopedia.com

    Learn about the origins, development and characteristics of the New Age movement, a revivalist movement that swept through metaphysical and occult groups in the 1970s and 1980s. Explore the ideas of channeling, astrology, holistic health and the coming of the golden age of peace and love.

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