The Origin and Development of the New Era Movement

Pursuing spirituality is an important element of the new era movement. Although western culture is dominated by Christian culture, many people are actually nominal Christians-even if they go to church every week, it is just a routine, not to mention spontaneous spiritual practice. Therefore, under the influence of materialism, Europeans and Americans in the 1960 s were generally empty. Some people will fill their inner emptiness through promiscuity, but others choose to learn the mysterious theories of the East (mainly India) in order to improve their spirituality.

Some elements of the new era seem to have appeared as early as the metaphysical movement in the nineteenth century: psychics, theosophy and the new ideological movement; There are alternative therapy, acupressure therapy's spine and natural therapy. These movements can be traced back to Transcendentalism, mesmer hypnosis, Swedish Fort Church and various early western mysticism or mysticism traditions, such as hermeneutics in astrology; And witchcraft, alchemy, kabbalah. Some works in the early 20th century also made these ideas very popular. David herbert lawrence and Ye Ci are both such writers. As far as we know, the word "new era" was first adopted by Madam blavatsky's Mysterious Credo, which was published in 1888.

As early as 1894, Christian liberalism and socialism weekly "New Times" came out. 1907, this weekly was sold to a group of socialist writers headed by Oleg Ji and Jackson. Other famous historical figures are also related to this magazine: Herbert George Welsh, Bernard Shaw and Ye Zhi; This weekly magazine has become a forum for politics, literature and art. From 1908 to 19 14, the study of avant-garde art is very helpful to explore the avant-garde thought in Britain, and the research objects range from whirlpool to imagism. After 19 14, Oleg met Ospensky, a follower of Gudev. He paid more and more attention to mysticism and other spiritual things, so he decreased his interest in literature and art. New Times Weekly was resold at 192 1. According to Brown University, "The new era from 1907 to 192 1 has played a great role in the modernism of literature and humanities." /kloc-The wave convergence movement in the mid-1980s caused many large-scale similar activities, so the word New Age was widely publicized by American mass media as a spiritual subculture, including meditation, channeling, reincarnation, crystal therapy, perception of things beyond the senses, overall health, environmentalism, belief in abnormal phenomena, or "unknown mysteries", such as UFOs, earth mysticism and crop circles. In the1980s, a large number of publications on this subject appeared in the market, including the magazine Mind Guide (later renamed Body, Mind and Spirit), Yoga Magazine and Voice of a New Era, as well as commercial publications, such as

There are all kinds of activities in the subculture of the new era: attending reading clubs, meditation groups, listening to speeches and visiting markets; Buy books, music or different products, such as crystals or incense; Buy a medical or energy pyramid; Visit fortune tellers, therapists and spiritual counselors. The key moments to attract the public's attention to the subculture in the new era are Linda Goodman's best-selling book Sun Constellation published in 1968 and Love Constellation published in 1978. 1967 10, the album "Hair" initiated by José Gullers and held in Sidona, Arizona, and its first song "Age of Aquarius" 1987, as well as the series of short films "Out on a Kidnapper" hosted by Sally McLean in the same year. This is an autobiographical work about her exploring the spiritual world in middle age. There are also many influential mediums, such as Jane Roberts (Seth) and Judy Knight (Lanza). His works include The Course of Miracles by Helen Schumann, The Celestite Prophecy by James redfield and Dialogue with God by neale walsch.

John gordon melton, Woot Hangraf and Paul Gilles emphasized the spiritual world of individuals, while for others, the New Age Movement is a social and political movement fighting for values. Mark Sa Ding, Gildo Razak, Marilyn Ferguson and Colleen McLaughlin are all such figures.