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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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Oct 10, 2022 · 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.
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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...
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.
Aug 10, 2022 · The New Age movement is a counterfeit philosophy that appeals to the feelings of individuals, leading them to think that that they are God and can enhance their lives through their own person. The reality is that we are born, grow up, live a while on planet Earth, and die.
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Apr 20, 2022 · New Age Spiritualism was given expression as ‘The Age of Aquarius’, the dawn of a new astrological age based on the Earth’s precessional slow motion, taken by the New Age movement to signal harmony of the spheres, peace and love on Earth.
The New Age movement is the cultic milieu having become conscious of itself, in the later 1970s, as constituting a more or less unified "movement". All manifestations of this movement are characterized by a popular western culture criticism expressed in terms of a secularized esotericism. — Scholar of esotericism Wouter Hanegraaff, 1996.