In 1967 the musical Hair opens off-Broadway, and its anthem joins the dawning of the Age of Aquarius to the counterculture's hopes before the largest audience the phrase had ever reached. The astrological doctrine of the ages, carried from Theosophy through Bailey, becomes a song the whole generation can sing.
Tagged: New Age
The Event
- Date
- 1967 (exact)
- Era
- The Countercultural Bloom; Standard periodization of New Age history
- Location
- New York; today New York, New York
- Traditions
- New Age Spirituality
- Streams
- New Age
- Key figures
- Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt MacDermot
- Key texts
- Hair
Primary Sources
- Ragni, Gerome, James Rado, and Galt MacDermot. Hair. Public Theater, New York, 1967.
Secondary Sources
- Hanegraaff, Wouter J. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
- Heelas, Paul. The New Age Movement. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
- York, Michael. The Emerging Network: A Sociology of the New Age and Neo-Pagan Movements. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.
Provenance: HIST-1474; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-30.
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World View
New Age Spirituality
New Age spirituality is an eclectic search for the divine within: through healing, meditation, and ancient wisdom, each person awakens to their own sacred power.