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This list of New Age topics is provided as an overview of and topical guide to New Age. New Age is a form of Western esotericism which includes a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which grew rapidly in Western society during the early 1970s.
Huna (Hawaiian for "secret") is the word adopted by the New Age author Max Freedom Long (1890–1971) in 1936 to describe his theory of metaphysics.Long cited what he believed to be the spiritual practices of the ancient Hawaiian kahunas (priests) as inspiration; however, contemporary scholars consider the system to be his invention designed through a mixture of a variety of spiritual ...
As referenced before, most of the adepts in Phaze are named after colors and each has a unique mode of magic. The Adepts and their powers: Blue Adept: Blue uses music and rhymes. More specifically, music summons his magic and words define it. Yellow Adept: Yellow uses potions. Red Adept: Red stores magic in amulets that must then be invoked.
Using sociological classifications of world-affirming and world-rejecting religious movements, York says that modern paganism and New Age represent two rival theologies, [26] and that New Agers in particular tend to underestimate the "gnostic–pagan divide", where New Age teachings are part of a gnostic tradition that de-emphasises or negates ...
These New Age Travellers had little to do with the New Age as the term was used more widely, [110] with scholar of religion Daren Kemp observing that "New Age spirituality is not an essential part of New Age Traveller culture, although there are similarities between the two worldviews". [111] The term New Age came to be used increasingly widely ...
Amber C. Snider, author of Wonderment: An Eclectic Guide to Awakening Your Divine Gifts and Inherent Potential, says that one must start by “cultivating self-love and empowerment in order to ...
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America. Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28117-2. York, Michael (2004). Historical Dictionary of New Age Movements. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-4873-3.
Madame Blavatsky makes liberal use of the term adept in her works [5] to refer to their additional function as caretaker of ancient occult knowledge. She also mentions their great compassionate desire to help humanity and also documents other powers of the adept such as being able to take active control of elemental spirits as well as the physical and astral conditions of non-adepts.