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I see the New Age movement as a collection of the gems from various religions and study's and experience's collected but minus most of the dogma from those institutions that have been around for so long. It's just a consortium of human experiences and Ideas which resonate with people. Much of it seems rooted in Hinduism, but there's also some things that appear to be borrowed and adapted from Paganism, quantum science, and Shamanism among other traditions and studies.
Also on 12/21/12 we entered the Age of Aquarius - thus a new Astrological Age - we'll be in this Age for a long time to come, so I think because this collection of ideas caught fire in the public mind and reached people in a way religions could no longer do and it was birthed close to the New incoming Age of Aquarius it got nick-named that.
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