It is no exaggeration to say that the highly respected psychologist, Dr. Carl Jung, is the father of neo-Gnosticism and the New Age movement, which is why Dr. Jeffrey Satinover remarked,
"One of the most powerful modern forms of Gnosticism is without question Jungian psychology, both within or without the Church." (Satinover, The Empty Self, p. 27)
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (1923) is one of the best-selling books of all time: Elvis Presley’s well-worn annotated copy of The Prophet was found posthumously among his effects. Gibran, a popular Lebanese American poet, artist, and mystic remained fixed in the collective spiritual imagination for decades; Gibran, a Maronite Christian, included other religions, Sufi mysticism, Jungian psychology, Buddhism, and Theosophy in his mix.
The lost city of Atlantis has ignited the imagination of a dedicated group of online spiritualists on TikTok, who believe that they are descendants of the sunken city