Psychology and the New Age

PAPALINI VANINA

Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions

Springer

Lugar: Cham; Año: 2015; p. 1 - 6

Psychology is one of the most important disciplines upon which the New Age draws. As the focus of this religiosity is fundamentally subjective, psychology provides a conception of the individual that is an indispensable component of New Age cosmovision. The individual and his or her interior dimension is a crucial point in the New Age?s obligatory macro?micro articulation; it is both the location of everyday experience and the path to accessing the numinous. Given that many of the rituals and actions of New Age religions tend toward the expansion of consciousness, psychic processes are a subject of inquiry and reflection.