
The New Age
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of consciousness and existence. In popular usage the word refers loosely to a number of non-traditional belief systems and spiritual practices.
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Key Figures
- James Allen (1864-1912), New Thought
- John Godolphin Bennett (1897-1974), associate of G. I. Gurdjieff
- Nona L. Brooks (1861-1945), New Thought
- Emilie Cady (1848-1941), New Thought
- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American writer & motivational speaker
- Edgar Cayce (1877-1944), American psychic
- Robert Cochrane (1931-1966), English witch
- Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), English occultist
- Umberto Eco (1932- ), Italian medievalist
- Charles Fillmore (1854-1948), New Thought
- Myrtle Fillmore (1845-1931), New Thought
- Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth) (1890-1946), Welsh occultist
- Emmet Fox (1886-1951), New Thought
- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American poet
- Thaddeus Golas (1924-1977), Hippie philosopher
- Joel Goldsmith (1892-1964), New Thought
- George Gurdjieff (1866-1949), Founder of the Fourth Way
- Manly P. Hall (1901-1990), American Freemason
- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist
- Ernest Holmes (1887-1960), New Thought
- Fenwicke Holmes (1883-1973), New Thought
- Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925), New Thought
- P. D. Ouspensky (1878-1947), Russian philosopher
- Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist
- Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-1930), Satanist
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American writer (Positive Thinking)
- Israel Regardie (1907-1985), English occultist
- Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940), New Thought
- Annalee Skarin (1899-1988), Mormon mystic
- Herman Slater (1938-1992), Owner, Magickal Childe Bookstore
- Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Founder of Anthroposophy
- Masaharu Taniguchi (1893-1985), New Thought
- Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Croatian/Serbian scientist
- Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958), New Thought
- Thomas Troward (1847-1916), New Thought
- Guido von List (1848-1919), Austrian occultist
- Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007), Discordian & Chaos magician