Continuing my study as to the origins of New Age...

[PoetPhilosopher]

I found this answer on Quora that I found useful as to how New Age got started, I've been trying to track the origins of New Age. I can seem to verify some parts of what this person said, and I found this post useful and insightful:

 

[epronovost]

Blavatsky was also a raging racist in an era where racism and racialism were pretty much a given, but even by the standard of the time she was considered fairly extreme. Theosophy is also at the base of "educator" and movement leader Rudolf Steiner's spiritual views called anthroposophy.

 

[Marcion]

Rudolf Steiner also spread racist ideas.
But he also created a useful natural method of agriculture and education system which are still popular.

The few New Age type of people I met were against following a fixed spiritual teacher and method and prefered following different teachers going from one commercial course to the next. They seemed to think that having a fixed teacher and system was like getting stuck in a dogmatic religious system.

 

[George-ananda]

I found this answer on Quora that I found useful as to how New Age got started, I've been trying to track the origins of New Age. I can seem to verify some parts of what this person said, and I found this post useful and insightful:

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Apparently you found a quote with a pro-Hindu and anti-Theosophical leaning. You can find quotes with any type of leaning you want.

I would consider myself under the 'New Age' umbrella term. It's actually Old Age stuff of primarily the Eastern (Hindu) tradition discovered by interested westerners starting in say the last half of the 20th century hence the 'New' term as opposed to the many centuries old established Christian tradition.

 

[Heyo]

 

[rocala]

Hi @KAT-KAT this is a very interesting subject. It is not always given the level of thought that I believe it deserves.
There was/is an excellent online essay on this very subject, but sadly I can't find it. The essay traced it to multiple roots including Romanticism, Swedenborg, various occult, artistic, literary, and environmental thinkers through to Beatniks and Hippies. There was much more, but I cannot recall the details.

 

[sun rise]

Apparently you found a quote with a pro-Hindu and anti-Theosophical leaning. You can find quotes with any type of leaning you want.

I would consider myself under the 'New Age' umbrella term. It's actually Old Age stuff of primarily the Eastern (Hindu) tradition discovered by interested westerners starting in say the last half of the 20th century hence the 'New' term as opposed to the many centuries old established Christian tradition.

I'd add Buddhism as well.