New Age Spirituality

An eclectic modern spirituality of self-transformation and cosmic oneness.

c. 1970s CE → · Western world · Modern & New

The New Age is a loose Western movement rather than a church, blending Eastern meditation and reincarnation, Western esotericism, Spiritualism, and psychology into a spirituality of personal growth, healing, and the felt unity of all things. Practices range from yoga and meditation to crystals, energy work, and channeling, emphasizing individual experience over doctrine.

Key figures

• Diverse teachers & channelers

Texts

• Eclectic — many sources

Beliefs

• Personal spiritual growth and healing
• Oneness of all being
• Energy, consciousness, and transformation

Rituals

• Meditation and yoga
• Crystals, energy work, channeling
• Holistic healing practices

Grew from

• Spiritualism
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Theosophy

Connections in the atlas

• Rudolf Steiner
• The Urantia Book
• Peace sign
• Sedona vortexes
• Mount Shasta
• ? Is the Bimini Road a sunken wall?
• Modern psychological and sun-sign astrology
• ▶ The contactees
• The Great Mother
• Aldous Huxley
• R. H. Naylor’s horoscope column
• Hunab Ku