In 1984 Louise Hay publishes You Can Heal Your Life: every disease answers to a pattern of thought, and the list at the book's back pairs ailments with their affirmations. Hay, who founded her publishing house on the book, becomes the healing wing's central figure, and her table of mental causes is taped to refrigerators across the world.
Tagged: New Age
The Event
- Date
- 1984 (exact)
- Era
- The Mainstream Moment; Standard periodization of New Age history
- Location
- Santa Monica; today Santa Monica, California
- Traditions
- New Age Spirituality
- Streams
- New Age
- Key figures
- Louise Hay
- Key texts
- You Can Heal Your Life
Primary Sources
- Hay, Louise L. You Can Heal Your Life. Santa Monica: Hay House, 1984.
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-1479; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-30.
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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.