Origins and prospects of "New Age

This paper analyses religious movements of the New Age. It is noted that the New Age involves many new eclectic religious movements, i.e. occult, astrology, parapsychology, and a cult of Unidentified flying objects. The paper includes discussion on the main varieties of the New Age movements in Lithuania: Lithuanian activity of confederation of Esotericism, sect of Anastasia, Raelists, followers of Roerich, followers of Sathya Sai Baba, satanists, scientologists, spiritists, sub Buddhists, sufis, extremely dangerous sect of Shamballa Ashrama, followers of Sri Chinmoy, sect of transcendental meditation, movement of The Urantia Book, followers of Vissarion, Jehovah’s witnesses, Arcane school, centre of spiritual and cultural heritage of the Balts called Kuronas, followers of Igoris Kalinauskas, IVI sect, school of Cabalists, groups of followers of Oro, and followers of Masonry, Munism and Osho, the teaching of which is considered to be a patchwork of fundamental statements of all reli...