NP: Q re Jung Order

[Mark Kohut]

Allan,

Good question that I do not know the answer to with much exactness. I know
some books were called
"New Age" in the later sixties, that Age of Acquarius you remember, but I
was not inside publishing companies
nor working with stores that categorized everything.

Faces on any books are usually there only when the judgment is that the
face is so recognizable---in a good way---
that the face itself will help sell books......So, there should have been
some faces on jackets if anyone was a TV
'star' whenever published but since much/most of the 'new age' books
bubbled into print from 'underground' sources,
they were first published with upbeat looks.

Mark, here in WV, dealing with lame client and waiting for the Ides of
March.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Fond of the Woo
>
> Mark Kohut -  Here are a couple of questions that only you can answer:
>
> When did "New Age" become a publisher's category?
>
> More importantly for my consideration, when did New Age book
> advertisements start featuring the smiling faces of their authors rather
> than inspirational images?
>
> Landmark dates in the evolution of inductive reasoning, I'd assume.
>
> Myself, I was an early adaptor, subscribing to mail order Rosicrucian
> teachings before I was out of High School, well before I ever heard the
> name "Sandoz."
>
> Allan in WV 'Here, here's proof: concentrate on the needle floating on the
> surface of the water in this glass...'
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hm. Well, in real point of historical dialectic, both may be, along with
>> several others. Jung is credited with the name, "New Age" and specifically
>> tied it to Aquarius as determined by the precession of the Earth's axis.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:13 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote :
>>>
>>> >I would add in Aion as being particularly relevant to >contemporary
>>> lit, as it is the founding document, if such >can be found, of the "New
>>> Age" madness that swept the West >in the 60s & 70s,
>>>
>>> Surely the founding document was 'The Third Eye' by Tuesday Lobsang
>>> Rampa published in 1956
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Rampa>
>>> <http://skepdic.com/rampa.html>
>>>
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