History Main / NewAge

* The original ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' comics were highly popular and influential amongst early New Agers for their heavy spiritualism and [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs funky visuals]]. There is a great deal of {{Irony}} to this, as Creator/SteveDitko was about as far away from New Age as you can get. That didn't prevent him mining old Theosophical texts for ideas, though.

* By far the most famous New Age musicians are Music/KateBush, Kitaro and Music/{{Enya}}. Music/DeadCanDance and Lisa Gerrard are probably first runners-up. Artists like Music/BrianEno (''Music/Ambient1MusicForAirports'', ''Music/ApolloAtmospheresAndSoundtracks''), Music/MikeOldfield (''Music/TubularBells'', ''Hergest Ridge'' and ''[=QE2=]''), Music/WendyCarlos, C.H. Deuter, Music/JeanMichelJarre (''Music/{{Oxygene}}''), Music/{{Cluster}}, Music/MichaelNyman, Music/KlausSchulze, Music/PopolVuh, Music/DavidSylvian, Music/TangerineDream, Isao Tomita, ''Vangelis,'' Andreas Vollenweider, and Gheorghe Zamfir have also made music that has been adapted for this purpose. It must be said, though, that not all of these musicians wish to be pigeonholed as solely making music for New Age believers. (Some who ''do'' regard themselves as New Age artists include [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYLxp4TFhDPqGIZk0JTEsQ Aeoliah]], harpist [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy_zusmaiLy1FSwjEgQhMmg Georgia Kelly]], who [[WillingChanneler channels]] most of her music, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJZbqqv6edg&t=0s&list=PLU2CReL_bYZDgwJ96sLddS8DeD0pZ_QE9&index=18 Michael Stearns]]).

* The album ''Music/SongsOfTheHumpbackWhale'', which contains nothing but the sounds of singing whales has been very popular soundtrack music to New Age fans and spawned a whole series of albums mixing sounds of nature with relaxing music. * [[https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawn Sounds of the Dawn]] collects New Age cassettes from the earliest days and presents them on a monthly two-hour online radio show and on YouTube.
* By far the most famous New Age musicians are Music/KateBush, Kitaro and Music/{{Enya}}. Music/DeadCanDance and Lisa Gerrard are probably first runners-up. Artists like Music/BrianEno (''Music/Ambient1MusicForAirports'', ''Music/ApolloAtmospheresAndSoundtracks''), Music/MikeOldfield (''Music/TubularBells'', ''Hergest Ridge'' and ''QE2''), Music/WendyCarlos, C.H. Deuter, Music/JeanMichelJarre (''Music/{{Oxygene}}''), Music/{{Cluster}}, Music/MichaelNyman, Music/KlausSchulze, Music/PopolVuh, Music/DavidSylvian, Music/TangerineDream, Isao Tomita, ''Vangelis,'' Andreas Vollenweider, and Gheorghe Zamfir have also made music that has been adapted for this purpose. It must be said, though, that not all of these musicians wish to be pigeonholed as solely making music for New Age believers. (Some who ''do'' regard themselves as New Age artists include [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYLxp4TFhDPqGIZk0JTEsQ Aeoliah]], harpist [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy_zusmaiLy1FSwjEgQhMmg Georgia Kelly]], who [[WillingChanneler channels]] most of her music, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJZbqqv6edg&t=0s&list=PLU2CReL_bYZDgwJ96sLddS8DeD0pZ_QE9&index=18 Michael Stearns]]).

Also the name for a kind of music. Very calm, peaceful, and deep, man. It often features a mix of electronic {{Ambient}} with World Music instruments and occasional vocals, singing something illegible in DogLatin, Polynesian or Lakotah. "New Age Music" is more of a marketing term than any real connection to beliefs, however. Most "new age" artists just play what music they like, and some are even angry about the term.

* The term, "educational" film ''Film/UnariusTheArrival''. If you liked the film, you'll ''looooove'' the real-life (in a manner of speaking) [[http://www.unarius.org/ Academy.]]

* The horrible mangling of quantum physics that is ''Film/WhatTheBleepDoWeKnow''.

* The ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy

* The album ''Music/SongsOfTheHumpbackWhale'', which contains nothing but the sounds of singing whales has been very popular soundtrack music to New Age fans and spawned a whole series of albums mixing sounds of nature with relaxing music.
* By far the most famous New Age musicians are Music/KateBush, Kitaro and Music/{{Enya}}. Music/DeadCanDance and Lisa Gerrard are probably first runners-up. Artists like Music/BrianEno (''Music/Ambient1MusicForAirports'', ''Music/ApolloAtmospheresAndSoundtracks''), Music/MikeOldfield (''Music/TubularBells'', ''Hergest Ridge'' and ''QE2''), Music/WendyCarlos, C.H. Deuter, Music/JeanMichelJarre (''Music/{{Oxygene}}''), Music/{{Cluster}}, Music/MichaelNyman, Music/KlausSchulze, Music/PopolVuh, Music/DavidSylvian, Music/TangerineDream, Isao Tomita, ''Vangelis,'' Andreas Vollenweider, and Gheorghe Zamfir have also made music that has been adapted for this purpose. It must be said, though, that not all of these musicians wish to be pigeonholed as solely making music for New Age believers. (Some who ''do'' regard themselves as New Age artists include [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYLxp4TFhDPqGIZk0JTEsQ Aeoliah]], harpist [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy_zusmaiLy1FSwjEgQhMmg Georgia Kelly]], who channels most of her music, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJZbqqv6edg&t=0s&list=PLU2CReL_bYZDgwJ96sLddS8DeD0pZ_QE9&index=18 Michael Stearns]]).
* New Age is also regarded as a subgenre of [[http://www.hos.com Space Music]], which encompasses all of the above but had additional origins in jazz and progressive rock. Space Music is specifically recommended by [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs LSD psychotherapists and others who use psychedelics for insight]]. If you listen carefully to Stephen Hill's explanations at the beginning of ''Hearts of Space'' programs, particularly the episodes featuring experimental electronics and progressive music, you'll hear subtle references to this.

'New Age' defines a constellation of beliefs derived from Eastern Mysticism (particularly Hinduism and Buddhism), Victorian Spiritualism and psychic research. It experienced a revival beginning in the late [[1960s]] and [[1970s]] and became extremely stylish in TheEighties. Expect lots of [[PowerCrystal crystal power]], [[PsychicPowers psychic]] dolphins, {{Atlantis}}, {{pyramid|Power}}s, [[GoodFeelsGood good vibes]], {{reincarnation}}, [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything quantum consciousness]] and, above all, the ''Age of Aquarius'', the funkiest, highest-vibration-in-the-spectrum Age of them all!

'New Age' defines a constellation of beliefs derived from Eastern Mysticism (particularly Hinduism and Buddhism), Victorian Spiritualism and psychic research. It experienced a revival beginning in the late [[TheSixties '60s]] and [[TheSeventies '70s]] and became extremely stylish in TheEighties. Expect lots of [[PowerCrystal crystal power]], [[PsychicPowers psychic]] dolphins, {{Atlantis}}, {{pyramid|Power}}s, [[GoodFeelsGood good vibes]], {{reincarnation}}, [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything quantum consciousness]] and, above all, the ''Age of Aquarius'', the funkiest, highest-vibration-in-the-spectrum Age of them all!

* The... erm, "educational" film ''Film/UnariusTheArrival''. If you liked the film, you'll ''looooove'' the real-life (in a manner of speaking) [[http://www.unarius.org/ Academy.]]

* By far the most famous New Age musicians are Music/KateBush, Kitaro and Music/{{Enya}}. Music/DeadCanDance and Lisa Gerrard are probably first runners-up. Artists like Music/BrianEno (''Music/Ambient1MusicForAirports'', ''Music/ApolloAtmospheresAndSoundtracks''), Music/MikeOldfield (''Music/TubularBells'', ''Hergest Ridge'' and ''QE2''), Music/WendyCarlos, C.H. Deuter, Music/JeanMichelJarre (''Music/{{Oxygene}}''), Music/{{Cluster}}, Music/MichaelNyman, Klaus Schulze, Music/PopolVuh, Music/DavidSylvian, Music/TangerineDream, Isao Tomita, ''Vangelis,'' Andreas Vollenweider, and Gheorghe Zamfir have also made music that has been adapted for this purpose. It must be said, though, that not all of these musicians wish to be pigeonholed as solely making music for New Age believers. (Some who ''do'' regard themselves as New Age artists include [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYLxp4TFhDPqGIZk0JTEsQ Aeoliah]], harpist [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy_zusmaiLy1FSwjEgQhMmg Georgia Kelly]], who channels most of her music, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJZbqqv6edg&t=0s&list=PLU2CReL_bYZDgwJ96sLddS8DeD0pZ_QE9&index=18 Michael Stearns]]).

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* Just about everything ever written by Creator/AlanMoore, who is big into New Age occultism and Freemasonry, and got his start at the height of its popularity. ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'' is probably his biggest example. The same can be said of Creator/GrantMorrison, who tackles many similar themes in his work.

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* ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' starts drifting into this a bit in the later parts of the game, with QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything as a major theme and increasingly trippy visuals, despite actually taking place in TheGildedAge. This mixing of time periods and realities thanks to quantum physics is [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] early in the game, when you hear anachronistic 60s/70s era songs from artists like Music/TheBeachBoys being performed by an old-timey barbershop quartet.

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* The original ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' comics were highly popular and influential amongst early New Agers for their heavy spiritualism and [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs funky visuals]]. There is a great deal of {{Irony}} to this, as Creator/SteveDitko was about as far away from New Age as you can get.

* According to authors like Barbara Marciniak and Barbara Hand Clow, the stories from Literature/TheBible, based on Myth/MesopotamianMythology, are the work of TheReptilians, who have taken on the guise of deities from different pantheons throughout history to teach and trick humanity.