From the author: Other materials on psychology and sexology on my website New Age is a religious movement that arose in the West in the 1960-1970s. in response to the deepest spiritual crisis that befell Western society. On the one hand, Christianity by the 1960s had lost its ability to provide Western civilization with a viable model of life. On the other hand, science with a purely material worldview also failed to satisfy man’s deep needs for spiritual values. A spiritual crisis has arisen in the West, which has created the preconditions for the emergence of a completely new approach. And then the gaze of Western society turned to the East. Moreover, the time of this view fell on the era of postmodernism with its characteristic intercultural dialogue, synthesis and unification of previously incompatible areas of knowledge (quantum mechanics, K. Gödel’s theorems, cosmology, synergetics, ecology, global studies, artificial intelligence modeling, etc.) So, The New Age originated as a Western turn to Eastern practices, accompanied by an attempt to destroy the “Berlin walls” between religions, but not at the cost of losing faith in God. New Age as postmodernism in religion - this new type of thinking, different from the traditional one, led to the emergence of a constructor religion with such characteristics as a mosaic structure, the widest use of ready-made forms (ideas, concepts and techniques from different traditions, cultures and eras), large-scale borrowing , references to traditional texts, scientific ideas and religious teachings with a general rejection of traditional forms of their existence and development. The central ideological provisions of the New Age include the idea of ​​​​transformation of human consciousness, in which the unity of the real “I” is discovered throughout the Universe and all other beings, and the idea spiritual search, which involves the identification of the divine individual principle and the possibility of its merger with the Absolute.” The main components of the New Age, which were perceived by modern integral tantra: 1. Monism New Ageists believe that the diversity of the cosmos comes from one primary source. All diversity stems from a single divine energy. In "The Turning Point" (1982), New Age author and physicist Fritojof Capra suggests that the fundamental disease of the human race is its inability to discern the basic unity of all reality. Monism very naturally leads to pantheism.2. PantheismFor New Ageists, “God” is the ultimate principle identified with the Universe. God is everything, and EVERYTHING is GOD. The only true search that humanity can make is to rediscover and accept the divinity that is within every person. Separation from God is separation from the conscious and psychological recognition of the divinity within all nature. Capra leads to the idea that all human history is a movement towards the recognition of the divine. Therefore, each person must choose the sadhana (path) through which he or she will undergo the transformation that will ultimately lead to this discovery of God within.3. Universal Religion Since the discovery of inner divinity is the ultimate and monism is the basic theological belief system on which the New Age is based, there is only one religion. All the various religions of the world are simply alternative paths to the same goal. Since there are many paths that lead to the top of the mountain (some difficult, some easier), each path at the end of the path leads to the same result, reaching the top. A universal religion is a mountain with many paths, or sadhanas. No one path is the only right path.4. Personal Transformation Whatever path a person chooses, along this path he will face a “personal transformation”: personal mystical or psychic experience leads to a change from the old paradigm to a new one. The greatest contribution to the development of New Age Tantra was made by Sri Bhagwan Rajneesh