New Age Practices

What are the Practices?

The New Age engages science, religion, feminism, biomedicine, psychotherapy, environmentalism, and non-western philosophies. New Agers tend to practice holistic health where the mind, body, and spirit are given priority, not isolated medical symptoms. New Age practices such as Chinese herbal remedies, acupuncture, chiropractic spinal manipulations, and complementary medical practice are becoming more mainstream in American medical culture. Other New Age practices include acupuncture, shiatsu, channeling, color therapy, crystals, hypnotherapy, past-life therapy, reflexology, astral projection, iridology, chromotherapy, shiatsu, and pyramid power.

The goal of the New Age is to find a new way to interpret the experience of modernity. One fundamental belief of New Age adherents is that the self is divine, and if it is not, it can be made sacred through ritual or therapy. Humans are believed to be good; if they are not, it is because of their environment or circumstance. New Age beliefs stress that the individual is holy, freeing human potential to understand the self. Therefore, New Age beliefs are self-religions and encompass highly individualized interpretations of spirituality. Personal experience is the highest form of knowledge.

Truth is relative, and there are a variety of truths, not just one

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