Hinduism & Western New Age

Wherefore come out from among them,

and be ye separate, saith the Lord,

and touch not the unclean thing;

2 Corinthians 6:17

"The “new age” is a movement that became popular in the West in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, it carried a clear Eastern pedigree, drawing from Hindu mysticism and Western occult teachings that appealed to the idealist counterculture then in the ascendancy. 

But over the course of the 80s and 90s New Age authors, writing for a Christian and Jewish readership, retained popular Sanskrit words in their books, such as chakra, but with a nonspecific spiritual

connection. 

New Age morphed from a quasi-religious movement to a loose spiritual philosophy with a strong marketing angle, aimed primarily at women, promoting health, beauty, inner peace and successful relationships. 

In India, It’s Just Hinduism. 

New Age cosmologies uphold a cyclical worldview wherein individuals, worlds, and the universe pass through multitudes of incarnations. 

Here the New Age borrows from the standard cosmologies of the Indian traditions, most notably Hinduism, which envision the cosmos passing through vast cosmic epochs, just as the individual moves from life to life. 

Again, this position also distinguishes the New Age from the conventional linear view of existence promulgated by the western religious traditions. This cosmology also reinforces the New Age propensity toward belief in reincarnation." 

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