# List of New Age topics

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.

## Movement
### Predecessors

* Alice Bailey
* Guy Ballard
* Helena Blavatsky
* Edgar Cayce
* Aleister Crowley
* George Gurdjieff
* Aldous Huxley
* Carl Jung
* P. D. Ouspensky
* Herbert Sutcliffe

### Influences

* Counterculture of the 1960s
* Human Potential Movement
* New Thought
* Perennial philosophy
* Spiritualism
* Sun sign astrology
* Thelema
* Theosophy
* UFO religion

### Influencers

* Buckminster Fuller (Architecture)
* Anagarika Govinda (Buddhism)
* George Harrison (Gurus)
* Julian Jaynes (Bicameral mentality)
* Timothy Leary (LSD)
* Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Hinduism)
* Neem Karoli Baba (Bhakti yoga)
* Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Neo-sannyasa)
* D. T. Suzuki (Zen Buddhism)
* Chögyam Trungpa (Shambhala Training)
* Tarthang Tulku (Tibetan Buddhism)
* Yogi Bhajan (Kundalini yoga)

### Proponents

* José Argüelles
* Richard Bach
* Guy Ballard
* James Herbert Brennan
* Rhonda Byrne
* Eileen Caddy
* Fritjof Capra
* Lee Carroll
* Carlos Castaneda
* Deepak Chopra
* Paulo Coelho
* Benjamin Creme
* Marilyn Ferguson
* Shakti Gawain
* Linda Goodman
* Alex Grey
* Stanislav Grof
* Willis Harman
* Michael Harner
* Andrew Harvey
* Louise Hay
* Corinne Heline
* Oscar Ichazo
* David Icke
* John C. Lilly
* Max Freedom Long
* Shirley MacLaine
* Caroline Myss
* Claudio Naranjo
* Leonard Orr
* Ram Dass
* James Redfield
* Jane Roberts
* Walter Russell
* Mark Satin
* Rupert Sheldrake
* David Spangler
* Eckhart Tolle
* Neale Donald Walsch
* Ken Wilber
* Stuart Wilde
* Marianne Williamson

## Astrology

* 2012 phenomenon
* Age of Aquarius
* Astrocartography
* Dreamspell
* Harmonic Convergence
* Psychological astrology

## Consciousness

* Astral projection
* Cetacean intelligence
* Higher consciousness
* Reincarnation

## Cultural movements

* Dances of Universal Peace
* Hundredth monkey effect
* Indigo children
* Large-group awareness training
* Nambassa
* New Age communities
* New Age music
* New Age travellers
* Sacred travel
* Spiritual but not religious

## Earth mysteries

* Earthships
* Feng shui
* Ley lines
* Glastonbury
* Machu Picchu
* Stonehenge

## Holistic health

* Alternative medicine
* Chromotherapy
* Crystal healing
* Energy medicine
* Pyramid power
* Self-help books

## Practices

* Affirmations
* Breathwork
* Chakras
* Channeling
* Creative visualization
* Magic
* Meditation
* Neotantra

## Political movements

* New World Alliance

## Psychology topics

* Bicameral mentality
* Eight-circuit model of consciousness
* Enneagram of Personality
* Integral theory
* Personality types
* Neuro-linguistic programming
* Transpersonal psychology

## Special abilities

* A Course in Miracles
* Levitation
* Psychometry
* Remote viewing
* Seeing auras
* Synchronicity

## Spirituality

* Be Here Now
* Gaianism
* Mayanism
* Neopaganism
* Neoshamanism
* New Age Orientalism
* Panentheism
* Quantum mysticism
* Soulmates
* Yoga as exercise

## Terrestrial and extraterrestrial life

* Alien abduction
* Crop circles
* Dolphin communication
* Gaia hypothesis