Notes for a New Age is a report from the front lines of a little explored period of cultural history that influences the way we live today. The ubiquitousness of natural foods and alternative therapies; and the growing interest in nondenominational spirituality all have their roots in this period of American and international history. Notes for New Age presents a bird's eye view of the critical events, personalities and espoused philosophies of a time that is simultaneously history and ahistoric, with recurring antecedents in Romanticism and the counter-Enlightment.