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Movement that spread through occult communities in the 1970s and '80s. It looked forward to a “New Age” of love and peace and offered a foretaste of the coming era through personal transformation and healing.

The movement's strongest supporters were followers of esotericism, a religious perspective based on the acquisition of mystical knowledge. At its height, the movement attracted millions of Americans, who practiced astrology, yoga, and channeling and used crystals as healing tools. Adherents sought to bring about global transformation, and in 1987 many participated in the Harmonic Convergence, an attempt to accomplish that goal.

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