NEW AGE

New Age: translation

New Age can be defined as a popularization of historical European esoteric traditions, making the pursuit of self-knowledge accessible to the contemporaryindividualized, globalized, and consumerist world. A catch phrase used by many adherents asserts, “You are god, you are god, you are god.” New Age promotes the notion that the “true self” is an inner reality in contact with a generouscosmosand in need of self-awareness and harmonious or holistic living. Many adherents interpret shamanism as a quest for this requisite inner self-knowledge, translatingjourneyingtoother worldsinto “inner journeys.” Similarly, New Age’s individualistic notion of the “soul” encourages interest in a particular,neo-shamanicandtherapeuticunderstanding of “soul retrieval.”