NP: Q re Jung Order

[Keith Davis]

Wasn't there a magazine called The New Age? Maybe a literary magazine?

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> On Feb 16, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I remember the term "New Age" as part of the vocabulary around 1970 in the Santa Cruz, CA vicinity. I hardly think it was the birthplace of the movement, but it was common among young folks. I was 13 /14. Older teens were reading auras, preparing astrological charts, and doing tarot readings--talking about the New Age and how the establishment was failing in order to make room for the coming Aquarian Age of egalitarian enlightenment, in which money would be meaningless, and people would live in harmony with the land. I moved onto a commune in 74, after dropping out of school (following the Leary directive) and the New Age was everywhere, but we had to get jobs to pay the rent on the land. The ironies in stretching the narrative are mindbending enough without all the drugs required to tolerate the lingo.
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>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My thanks to all of you for your responses. Memories, even revised ones, very much welcome.
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>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Just accessing my memories seems to wipe them out. 
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>>> There was a turn sometime in the 70's when mystical thought went from pragmatic mysticism (the sort of thought that brought us Hatha Yoga and Alan Watts on the radio) to narcissistic mysticism (like the believe that when you bend your index finger the whole planet has to accommodate you act of volition) Earlier mysticism (and the Age of Aquarius, as far as I remember) eschewed money and sought enlightenment. What became The New Age offered Power and Wealth. (Gosh, was it EST that cemented this change? It was said at the time that Werner had repurposed (ok, they didn't use THAT word) all the mystical instruction that came before him into one lecture that lasted for 3 days and worked only if you didn't have to pee) For me, the personal chronology was over the two years it took to complete my first Rolfing Series. My rolfer, who was definitely in touch the flow of with what was becoming the New Age played meditation music (yet to become New Age music as far as I recall) but by my final sessions (before 1985, best as I can recall) were accompanied by taped lectures by Reverand Ike, a man who had no doubt that Spiritual success was demonstrated by money in the bank and rings on your fingers.)
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>>> When did "New Age" music start getting it's own section in record stores (cassette tape stores, really ;--) Or in the book store, let alone being a New Age bookstore? 
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>>> Did anyone else suffer a lot of their friends believing or, much worse, becoming, channelers? 
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>>> Or advocates for the ability of crystals to cure anything AND foretell the future.
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>>> The most misleading idea, though, would have to be the idea that meditation can be a replacement for psychedelics, if you ask me.
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>>> Allan in WV who just ran across an article on GOOGLE about how to contact the spirit world without a Ouija board and is probably going to try to contact Reverend Ike right now
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>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I have been revising my memories. I think New Age was later than the late sixties as the phases
>>>> of my life merge like ice and snow. yes, woo woo hit pittsburgh in 70s, I now think
>>>> 
>>>> So, I believe wikipedia is right (although as we know from etymology re many words, may words were spoken
>>>> before we know they were spoken by the traces we can detect that they could only leave by markers, usu
>>>> print, of some kind.)
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>>>>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Alan,
>>>>> Probably a good place to look for an answer to the first, if not both your questions, would be an archive of the UK magazine Resurgence.
>>>>> The wiki article on the term 'New Age' says the debate is between the early and late 1970s. I'd guess later myself, but Resurgence started publishing in 1966 so a methodical look through would surely reveal the answer.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote :
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>>>>> > Fond of the WooMark 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 <
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