The New Age
Searching for the Spiritual Self
Nevill Drury
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| ‘A cogent, persusasive argument for the seriousness of New Age thinking’ | | – The Times |
Does the New Age movement present a serious challenge to mainstream Western religion?
The New Age: Searching for the Spiritual Self offers a coherent response to this question and provides an accessible overview of the principal themes that unite New Age followers into a distinct spiritual movement in the world today.
Nevill Drury explores the origins and precursors of the New Age movement, its consolidation within the counterculture of the late 1960s, and its development into an international spiritual perspective in contemporary Western society.
He considers the influence on the New Age of metaphysicians such as Emanuel Swedenborg, Mesmer, Madame Blavatsky and Gurdjieff; pioneering thinkers like Freud, Jung and William James; and the contribution to New Age thought of Indian spiritual traditions and transpersonal psychology. He also describes the way in which the New Age paradigm has absorbed the discoveries of quantum physics and consciousness research, and explores the New Age focus on personal spiritual experience rather than formal religious doctrines.
Nevill Drury holds a Masters degree in anthropology from Macquarie University in Sydney and is the author of over forty books, including Sacred Encounters, The Dictionary of the Esoteric, The Shaman’s Quest and, most recently, Magic and Witchcraft: From Shamanism to the Technopagans which is also published by Thames & Hudson.
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