New Age communities
{{Short description|Beliefs in a certain group of people}}
{{other uses|New Age (disambiguation)}}
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New Age communities are places where, intentionally or accidentally, communities have grown up to include significant numbers of people with New Age beliefs. An intentional community may have specific aims but are varied and have a variety of structures, purposes and means of subsistence. These include authoritarian, democratic and consensual systems of internal government.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIe8JOKLeNwC|title=Seeds of Tomorrow: New Age Communities that Work|author=Oliver Popenoe, Cris Popenoe|isbn=0-06-250680-3|publisher=Harper&Row|year=1984}} New Age communities also exist on the Internet.{{Cite book|editor=Kemp, Daren and James R. Lewis|title=Handbook of New Age|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bm-7DH2bZ8QC&q=%22New%20Age%22%20communities&pg=PA175|access-date=2010-08-28|year=2007|publisher=Brill Academic Publishers|isbn=978-90-04-15355-4|pages=175–79|chapter=The Diffuse Communities of the New Age}}
Notable communities
=Australia=
=Europe=
- Glastonbury – is particularly notable for the myths and legends surrounding a nearby hill, Glastonbury Tor, which rises up from the otherwise flat landscape of the Somerset Levels. These myths concern Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail, and also King Arthur. Glastonbury is also said to be the centre of several ley lines.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
- Totnes – known as "Britain's alternative capital. A New Age nirvana of Sufis, surfers and Buddhist builders ..."{{Cite book|title=Shiny hippy people|url=http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/experts/story/0,,1623868,00.html|work=The Guardian|author=Lucy Siegle|location=London|date=2005-05-08|access-date=2010-05-20}}
=United States=
- Esalen Institute – a center in Big Sur for humanistic alternative education and a nonprofit organization devoted to multidisciplinary studies ordinarily neglected or unfavoured by traditional academia{{cn|date=January 2024}}
- Harbin Hot Springs
- Lily Dale Spiritualist Assembly
- Lindisfarne Association
- Living Enrichment Center
- Love Has Won
- Maharishi International University
Charismatic leadership
Such communities may be founded by charismatic leaders who may be credited with quasi-religious status, being considered gurus or messiahs. Such leaders inhibit the survival of these communities.{{cite journal |title=The Dominance of One and Its Perils: Charismatic Leadership and Branch Structures in Utopian Communes |first1=Christoph |last1=Brumann |journal=Journal of Anthropological Research |volume=56 |year=2000 |pages=425–451 |issue=4 |jstor=3630926 |doi=10.1086/jar.56.4.3630926 |s2cid=142032962 }}