The New Age is a term used to describe various religious movements which emerged in the 1960s on the west coast of the USA and spread throughout North America and Europe. At this time there was an upsurge of interest in inner spirituality, especially among those belonging to the counter culture who were seeking to live outside society's norms, rebelling against its organisations and traditions, and trying to find a way of life in which they could encounter and develop their spirituality. Many journeyed to India and the East, in search of gurus, and gurus began to arrive in the USA from India.
However, widespread interest in self-spirituality led also to the development of more organised spiritual paths - in 1962, the most famous and long-lasting British New Age community was established at Findhorn, which has continued to grow and develop to this day; in the same year, the Esalen Institute was founded in California, and by 1970 it had spawned over 100 centres in the USA. Others include Soka Gakkai (1960), The Church of All Worlds (1961), Silva Mind Control (1966), The Inner Peace Movement (1964), and TM as a popular technique (1968).
The counter culture waned in the 1970s, yet the New Age continued and grew, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.

 Today, there is a huge range of New Age activities on offer, from management seminars in top businesses and industries, to direct action against environmental damage, and including meditation in various forms, many types of alternative healing, massage, aromatherapy, divination, crystals, drumming, chanting, dance and music, past-life regression, how to get rich using mind power, and self-transformation through various methods, to name but a few.

And now, the typical evangelical church, growing weary of the old, old story of Jesus and the cross, are joining forces with these new age processes as to what is known as the falling away, the apostasia.





For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:


For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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