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The New Age Movement
New Age spirituality; the Aquarian movement
c.1970 CE – present · Esoteric / Occult · Living · North America, Europe, Australia, Latin America
VIII. POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY — 1945 – PRESENT
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1875–1930s CE Theosophy, New Thought and Spiritualism lay the groundwork.
- 1962 CE Findhorn community founded in Scotland; Esalen Institute opens at Big Sur.
- 1967–70 CE Counterculture; Eastern teachers arrive in the West in numbers.
- 1971 CE Ram Dass publishes Be Here Now.
- 1980s CE Commercial peak; the term New Age enters general use, and Time and Newsweek cover it. Harmonic Convergence in August 1987 draws coordinated gatherings worldwide.
- 1990s CE The label falls out of favour even among practitioners; the content persists under wellness, holistic health and spirituality.
- 2006 CE The Secret sells over 30 million copies.
- 2010s–present Migration to social media and to spiritual but not religious as a census category; substantial overlap with the wellness industry.
- 2020–present Conspirituality — documented convergence between wellness communities and conspiracy movements during the pandemic, a development that has forced parts of the milieu into serious self-examination.
### Sources
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