Old New

The New Age is a vast spiritual current Occident Al of the 20th and 21e centuries, characterized by an individual and eclectic approach of the Spiritualité. It is often presented like a modern regeneration of the Gnosticisme.

The French translation in New age , current in Canada, is seldom met in France where the English denomination is preferred to him. A heteroclite unit authors independent but also of groups assert this thought, sharing the vocation to transform the individuals by the awakening of the spirit and the widening of the conscience. New Age thus thinks of preparing humanity with the advent of a “new age” of universal harmony (concept sometimes evoked in astrological terms under the denomination of “era of Aquarius”).

The psychologist Marilyn Ferguson, in his book the conspiracy of Aquarius (1980), defines New Age like the “emergence of a Nouveau paradigm cultural, whose extension would be planetary, heralding one new era in which humanity would manage to carry out a big part of its physical potential, psychic and spiritual” . Old New, considered as an attempt at “réenchantement of the world” in reaction to the Materialism of the company of the beginning of the 20th century, fact part of the total phenomenon of the new religiosities born as from years 1960 vis-a-vis the crisis of the ideologies and with the refusal of the industrial growth, while basing itself on former doctrinary elements, borrowed from the Theosophy. This return to spiritual is characterized by a deepening of the religious feeling, out of any hierarchy preestablished and turned towards the action.

Ideology

Certain aspects of New Age have esoteric connotations and theosophic. Old New, in the continuation of the modern Theosophy of Helena Blavatsky, popularized in Occident certain old topics - in particular hindouists, like the former lives and the Métempsycose/Réincarnation. It is also the vehicle of more modern concepts - as the capacity of the Intuition, the Télépathie, the therapies energy, etc

The literature New Age can also approach topics like:

  • “entities”: Extraterrestrial S, “guides of light”, Ange S…
  • the will have S and the Chakra S, and the “seven bodies” (concept theosophy of the septenary ) to which they are dependant
  • the concept of “interior God” or “personal Divinity”

Old New music

cf detailed article : Old New (music)

The music known as New Age is a kind born in the Seventies with the music " planante" derived from the Ambient music of Brian Eno and influenced at the beginning by groups like Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and the type-setters Jean-Michel Jarre, Giorgio Moroder and Vangelis. It is often mystical and exalte the power of the voice: Canadian Patrick Bernard (ex-Bernhardt), Deva Premal, Robert Gass. Many type-setters devote themselves to purely instrumental musics used for relieving, like the French Michel Pépé, Thierry Morati, Logos or Music-Synthesis, by using mainly often decorated synthetizers and traditional instruments sounds of Nature (vague, songs of birds) and possibly of samples of voice (Gregorian chants, will mantras Eastern, Amerindian songs, etc). Certain labels are devoted exclusively to the New Age and the spiritual world music like " Imagine records" , " Oréade music" , Narada or " The Breath of Or". Mike Oldfield, English musician, is also a talented author, type-setter and interprets music New Age whose instrument dominating is the electric guitar with sonorities generally very astonishing accompanied by a synthetizer. The most important musician of the movement New Age is Kitaro.

History

Origins

New Age takes its inspiration first in the Années 1920 - 1930, with the books of Alice Bailey, disciple of the way traced by the Théosophie. This last advertisement the “return of Christ” and lance the idea of groupings known as “of world good will”. They are not really communities organized but rather of the periodic gatherings independent people having for goal to hasten the event hoped so much by means of a collective meditation with large scales (the Grande Invocation).

One second inspiration is the Era of Aquarius (1937) of Paul the Court on the astrological level. This one launches the concept of the “Era of Aquarius”, the new age on the Earth which will mark a transformation of the values of humanity marked by the advent of the spiritual values.

The concept of “Era of Aquarius”

The displacement of the “Not vernal” along the stringcourse of constellations called Zodiac in Astrology, is the key component used to popularize the historical theory of New Age. The passage of this point of the constellation of the Poisson to that of the Verseau indicates, in the texts of the Seventies, the one era beginning of universal peace and harmony found. In the facts, Old, pilot New of the era of Aquarius, has been there for several decades. Phenomenon of bookstore with all that touches with the new Wellbeing and the personal development, its authors are often criticized, amalgamated without being forcing quite comparable. The evolutions which it brings, in particular on the plan of the new approaches of health penetrate in the company with more or less of happiness. The original current, at the underground beginning, became fuzzier and was diluted and controlled in the modern society with which it shares a certain number of values, often comparable with values " féminines" , largely used by the advertizing executives as the search of harmony and personal autonomy.

The Poisson having been the symbol of the Christian first , the astrologers estimates that the values of Aquarius in agreement with the dominant idealist and altruist of the sign are with work in the emergence of a new form of Spiritualité, which seems to be accentuated since the rupture of the traditional values of the Western model occurred in the Années 1970. The question of the year of the entry in the “era of Aquarius” is very variable according to the various schools. For certain gnostic it started in 1962. At present the year 2012 is often quoted, not like dates from the “Era of Aquarius” but with the profit of the concept of the " ascension" of humanity. The year 2012 also corresponds at the end of the calendar of the Mayas.

For Rudolf Steiner, the Ère of Aquarius would start only into 3573, because this era would be efficient only when the vernal Point is in the middle of the constellation of Aquarius and not at the beginning.

The years 1960

The values and the Utopias of the generation “Peace and Love” also influence New Age; number of old Hippie S are interested in it.

In 1961, Michael MacMurphy creates the Institut Esalen in California, before the opening, the following year, of the Fondation Findhorn in Scotland.

The years 1970

The Années 1970 are favourable with psychic exploration, certain people experienced the consumption of psychotropic substances, like LSD, used initially like therapeutic means by Timothy Leary.

Youth is then recipient of the great protest movements of the Années 1960 (May 1968, dispute against the Guerre of Vietnam, etc). The Occident redécouvre the Spirituality and some practical like the Meditation transcendantale, often in contact with India and its traditional knowledge, with the image of artists like the poet Allen Ginsberg, Beatles and in particular George Harrison, Carlos Santana, etc

At that time are born from the Psychothérapie S tested with the Institut Esalen like the Primal scream of Janov, the Rebirth, the Rolfing of Ida Rolf, tested by John Lennon and the Bio-Energy of Alexander Lowen, in phase with work of Wilhelm Reich, raises Freud, as well as the humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. One also discovers in 1968 the Gestalt - Therapy of Fritz Perls.

The years 1980

It is in the Années 1980 that the journalist American Marilyn Ferguson theorizes the movement by publishing the Children of Aquarius .

The years 1990

During Years 1990, one attends the rise of a literature known as “of Channeling”. The works in question relate to supposed the relations between the human ones and of the entities evolving/moving on other plans of conscience: Beings of light, extraterrestrial Main Climbed, entities, etc In margin of New Age original - which carried before all the values of ecology and the universal Amour - appeared in the years 1970 and 1980 of the proselytes groups and increasingly media, which were made known general public in the years 1990.

Very many more or less popular works of mediums (channels), often American, refer to entities unknown up to that point or remained in the shade of confidential circles esoteric (Kryeon, etc) or to concepts in rupture with the old paradigms.

Concepts conveyed by the “channeling”

  • the Rise of humanity towards “the fourth dimension” (phenomenon associated with the advent with the New age)
  • the Merkabah or Body of light (that the man would have to reconquer by the Rise)
  • the existence of “Climbed” beings (Paid by Channeling S, and invested mission of helping humanity)
  • the existence of extraterrestrial intelligences, either benevolent and assisting humanity (in the subtle spheres) or seeking to limit the spiritual evolution and the interior release of the human beings by controlling those in particular on the emotional level. Certain points concerning these " mauvais" extraterrestrial approach the theories known as “conspirationnists”, which present this type of entities like known and accepted certain capacities.
  • the “indigo Enfants”, which would have a DNA different from the commun run and would be in particular more advanced spiritually.

---- In spite of that, the persistence of an growing interest of the Western public for traditional and nonspectacular spiritual values like those of the Buddhism, the Sufism or the not-duality, or even of the energy techniques of care like the Reiki, attached to old lines close to Eastern philosophies, seems to be the different one pouring knowledge and interior experiment, always snuffed by the assistantship of the New Age.

Criticisms

Certain movements concerned with philosophy “New Age” are indexed like Secte S, in the French parliamentary report of 1995 on the sects.

“That says Prevensectes, these modern partisans of a radical upheaval of the ideas and behaviors never sought to build a world direction and an organization to arrive to these finalities. The New Age is neither a movement made up, nor a sect. ”

The literature New Age is often décriée by those which see there a literature light while others grimacent in front of the concept of “energy”, abundantly declined, which gives in saddle the concepts of certain healers. In addition, because of their obstinacy “to give direction” to all the events of the individual and social life, the beliefs New Age come from there to reject the concept of chance, defying scientific rationalism for the benefit of a vision of the world close to that of the Créationnisme.

Authors

Among the principal authors who aroused the interest of the public for the various currents of ideas carried by vagueness New Age (with the nonpejorative direction of the term) as regards psychology, self-knowledge, and/or of spirituality (even of esotericism), one finds authors like:

Certain collections as I have Lu New Age also devote to this field, in its aspects psychological and esoteric. The Editions Recto-Back are devoted more particularly to the field of the massages, the energy techniques and the new forms of therapies.

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