Editing New Age (section)

===Groups===
[[File:New World Alliance 1980.jpg|thumb | right |alt=Twenty people sitting in a circle |The [[New World Alliance]] was one of several New Age political groups in the 1970s and 1980s.]]

Scholars have noted several New Age political groups.  Self-Determination: A Personal/Political Network, lauded by Ferguson<ref>Ferguson, Marilyn (1980).  ''The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s''.  Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc., distributed by Houghton Mifflin, pp.&nbsp;232–235.  {{ISBN|978-0874771916}}.</ref> and Satin,<ref>Satin, Mark (1978).  ''New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society''. Delta Books / Dell Publishing Co., pp.&nbsp;219, 345.  {{ISBN|978-0440557005}}.</ref> was described at length by sociology of religion scholar Steven Tipton.<ref>Tipton, Steven M. (1982).  ''Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change''.  University of California Press, pp.&nbsp;267–270.  {{ISBN|978-0520052284}}.</ref>  Founded in 1975 by California state legislator [[John Vasconcellos]] and others, it encouraged Californians to engage in personal growth work and political activities at the same time, especially at the grassroots level.<ref>Tipton, cited above, pp.&nbsp;267, 270.</ref>  Hanegraaff noted another California-based group, the [[Institute of Noetic Sciences]], headed by the author [[Willis Harman]].  It advocated a change in consciousness—in "basic underlying assumptions"—in order to come to grips with global crises.{{sfn|Hanegraaff|1996|pp=108–109}}  Kyle said that the New York City–based Planetary Citizens organization, headed by United Nations consultant and ''Earth at Omega'' author Donald Keys, sought to implement New Age political ideas.{{sfn|Kyle|1995|p=67}}

Scholar J. Gordon Melton and colleagues focused on the New World Alliance, a Washington, DC–based organization founded in 1979 by Mark Satin and others.  According to Melton et al., the Alliance tried to combine left- and right-wing ideas as well as personal growth work and political activities. Group decision-making was facilitated by short periods of silence.{{sfn|Melton|Clark|Kelly|1990|p=324}} Sponsors of the Alliance's national political newsletter included Willis Harman and John Vasconcellos.<ref>Stein,  Arthur (1985). ''Seeds of the Seventies: Values, Work, and Commitment in Post-Vietnam America''. University Press of New England, p.&nbsp;136. {{ISBN|978-0874513431}}.</ref>  Scholar James R. Lewis counted "Green politics" as one of the New Age's more visible activities.{{sfn|Lewis|1992|p=11}}  One academic book says that the [[History of the Green Party of the United States|U.S. Green Party movement]] began as an initiative of a handful of activists including [[Charlene Spretnak]], co-author of a "'new age' interpretation" of the German Green movement (Capra and Spretnak's ''Green Politics''), and Mark Satin, author of ''New Age Politics''.<ref>Ely, John (1998). "Green Politics in the United States and Europe". In Margit Mayer and John Ely, eds., ''The German Greens: Paradox Between Movement and Party''. Temple University Press, p.&nbsp;200. {{ISBN|978-1566395168}}.</ref>  Another academic publication says Spretnak and Satin largely co-drafted the U.S. Greens' founding document, the "Ten Key Values" statement.<ref>[[Greta Gaard|Gaard, Greta]] (1998). ''Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens''. Temple University Press, pp.&nbsp;142–143. {{ISBN|978-1566395694}}.</ref>