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Apr 26, 2021 · After years spent researching new age practices, Amal Awad realised nothing about the movement was really that new Sun 25 Apr 2021 13.30 EDT Last modified on Sun 25 Apr 2021 20.41 EDT Share
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In the late 19th century Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, cofounder of the Theosophical Society, announced a coming New Age. She believed that theosophists (who embraced Buddhist and Brahmanic notions such as reincarnation) should assist the evolution of the human race and prepare to cooperate with one of the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherho...
In 1970 American theosophist David Spangler moved to the Findhorn Foundation, where he developed the fundamental idea of the New Age movement. He believed that the release of new waves of spiritual energy, signaled by certain astrological changes (e.g., the movement of the Earth into a new cycle known as the Age of Aquarius), had initiated the comi...
The New Age movement united a body of diverse believers with two simple ideas. First, it predicted that a New Age of heightened spiritual consciousness and international peace would arrive and bring an end to racism, poverty, sickness, hunger, and war. This social transformation would result from the massive spiritual awakening of the general popul...
Traditional occult practices (e.g., tarot reading, astrology, yoga, meditation techniques, and mediumship) were integrated into the movement as tools to assist personal transformation. Transpersonal psychology (an approach combining Eastern mysticism and Western rationalism to understand psychological health and spiritual well-being) and other new ...
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 announce...
New Age Movement: A Definition. Let me briefly attempt to give a working definition of the New Age Movement. Working Definition: The New Age Movement is a fusion of various spiritual and metaphysical ideas, with an emphasis on self-discovery and a holistic view of the universe with no ties to any organized group or central objectivity.
Apr 1, 2024 · J. Gordon Melton. New Age movement, movement that 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. Peruvian-born anthropologist and writer.
Oct 10, 2022 · The Old Roots of New Age. Tom Jacobs. Here’s the thing about the “New Age” movement: Most of it isn’t “new” at all. Notions such as summoning the gods or goddesses within, the power of positive thinking and finding female empowerment through witchcraft can be traced back to the late 19th century. A new exhibit at the UC Santa ...
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May 29, 2018 · The New Age Movement in a General Sense (1980s – 1990s) This New Age movement in a general sense may be defined as the cultic milieu having become conscious of itself, by the end of the 1970s, as constituting a more or less unified movement (although not a New Religious Movement in the normal sense of the word; Hanegraaff, 1996/1998, p. 17).
Apr 2, 2014 · Ayn Rand. Author Ayn Rand wrote the best-selling books 'The Fountainhead' and 'Atlas Shrugged,' and promoted the philosophy of Objectivism. Updated: Nov 16, 2021. Photo: Oscar...
