New age movement - typical beliefs and common themes

Steve Bruce - the self is divine

NAMS aim to strip away the negative residue caused by the environment and circumstance, to free the real true self

Steve Bruce - everything is connected

NAMS are holistic because they see the self, the environment and supernatural world as part of a greater whole

Steve Bruce - the self in eternal authority

NAMS don’t attempt to impose absolute truth on communities, rather they give status to each person and value whatever works for the person

Steve Bruce - relative truths

NAMS stress the right of an individual as a consumer or spiritual shopper to choose and buy what they want to believe

Steve Bruce - self improvment

the ritual and ideas of NAMS are deliberatly intended to make people more succesful

Steve Bruce - online marketplace

this is mainly found on the internet and is the best place for researching NAMS

Steve Bruce - informal commitment/ casual involvement

NAMS aren’t a religion so they’re used when they’re needed the discarded when not needed like how we use doctors

Typical new age beliefs

belief in fate, belief in reincarnation, belief in natural energy ect