This entry records that New Age, a broad and famously loosely bounded spiritual movement or milieu emerging particularly from the 1960s and 1970s onward, encompasses an enormous range of individually authored practices concerning prayer, meditation, channeling, energy work and related activity, drawing eclectically on Eastern religious concepts, Western esotericism, and psychological and self-help theory, without treating any single source or leader as authoritative for the movement as a whole, a structural looseness that makes generalized description of New Age prayer far more difficult than for almost any other tradition catalogued in this atlas, since New Age largely lacks the organized institutions, ordained clergy or published canonical scripture that would otherwise anchor consistent practice.
Individual New Age teachers, authors and practitioners have published an enormous volume of specific prayers, affirmations, meditations and channeled material, each individually authored and typically individually copyrighted, meaning there is no single New Age prayer text this entry could responsibly present as representative even in principle. The term New Age itself refers to an expected coming era of spiritual transformation that different teachers and traditions within the movement describe in varying, often astrologically influenced terms, a shared but loosely held expectation that gives the otherwise fragmented movement at least some minimal common thread of identity across its many individual practitioners.