After years spent researching new age practices, Amal Awad realised nothing about the movement was really that new
When you’ve been an experimenter with new age-type stuff for a while, you start to connect the dots. Most things you will find – courses, books, orations, oracular offerings, healings, meditations and more – plug into universal human angst, anxiety and longing, and draw on various ancient practices, wisdoms or long-held beliefs.
Consider the popularity of oracle decks, which revolve around shamanistic principles (invisible spirits existing in the visible world), the occult, divinity, nature and spirituality. While it’s not unusual to see Indigenous mythologies or figures from eastern religions and traditions in card decks, I was surprised when I flipped through a deck and found my own background reflected: Rabi’a al-Adawiyya, the Sufi mystic and saint; and a veiled Fatimah, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammed.
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