So, you think you know what the "new age" is all about? OK, then try this quiz offered by Asheville  Magazine  and sponsored by VIRATO LIVE! and New Frontier Magazine.

Complete the below quiz of 152 questions, then copy and paste the answers to us: E-Mail or snail mail, Asheville Magazine, PO Box 17397, Asheville, NC 28816

Our view of New Age encompasses body, mind and spirit. It crosses cultural and geographic boundaries. Some of quite simple, other a little tricky, some tangential, and some will have you scratching your head and Googling. Remember, we want the most correct answer.  Ready? . . . Go! 

1. She helped popularized A Course In Miracles.

___ Shakti Gawain
___ Shirley McLaine
___ Marianne Williamson
___ Hilda Charlton

2. What is believed by some to be faster than the speed of light?

___ a micron
___ a tachyon
___ a photon
___ a new age scam

3. Tantric Sex is…?

___ sex when you are really rushed, creating tension in the body
___ a celibate practice of Tibetan monks using prostitutes
___ cosmic spiritual sex
___ a tanning product that produces erotic desire

4. How to create "seitan?"

____ Knead flour dough under running water, removing the starch and bran
____ Increase your state of consciousness through a specific breath process
____ Go into an altered spiritual state through a Japanese drumming meditation
____ What Iranian Christians say new age people worship.

5. Who is the "father" of macrobiotics?

___ Lao Tsu
___ Michio Kushi
___ George Ohsawa
___ Patrice Macrosian

6. Kundalini is...?

____ Spelt pasta
____ An Indian mantra
____ cosmic bioenergy
____ a spiritual dance

7. Turtle Island is...?

___ located in the Galapagos
___ a fiction place in the book "The Nomads"
___ what indigenous tribes called North America
___ is the name of spot on Mars

8. OSHO…?

___ is a Japanese Olympic runner using new age concepts
___ stands for Occupational Safety Holistic Order
___ was the enlightened Master who had a few dozen Rolls Royces
___ a Druid mantra

9. Chi Kung is…?

___ the old name for Qi Gong, an art of connecting with universal energy
___ an ancient technique for heightening sexual awareness
___ an American brand of Chinese food
___ a new auto from Japan that runs on soy fuel

10. Who wrote Deep Breakfast?

___ John Lily, MD
___ Ray Lynch
___ Jerry Garcia
___ John Mack, MD

11. Lingam…?

___ is an acupuncture point
___ is pasta made with spelt
___ rhymes with lick or Venus
___ is the same as cayenne

12. Amethyst is best known for its...?

____ resonant frequency to Indigo children
____ magical, sensual nature
____ general healing qualities
____ connection to the Methodist faith

13. Which of these groups is generally not passive?

____ Hare Krishna devotees
____ Earth First! activists
____ massage therapists
____ pot smokers

14. Ram Dass is really...?

___ Don King
___ Richard Alpert, Ph.D.
___ Timothy Leary, Ph. D.
___ Baba Ganoush

15. A vegan is...?

___ an extraterrestrial from Pleides
___ a free radical in rancid oil
___ someone who eats no animal products
___ a vegetarian who eats eggs and cheese

16. A Chakra literally means…

___ a holy necklace
___ wheel
___ a physical location in the body
___ an Indian mantra

17. "Like heals like" most closely relates to...?

___ Herbology
___ Homeopathy
___ Holistic Health
___ Generic medicine

18. The Harmonic Convergence...

___ defines the property of resonance
___ was based upon the Mayan calendar
___ is the same a morphic genesis
___ showed a special planetary alignment in the shape of the Star of David

19. Who is most noted for his scientific work with OBE?

___ Hermes
___ Robert Monroe
___ Rupert Sheldrake
___ Peter Russell

20. Ray Moody

___ Head of a new age musical group, the Moody Blues.
___ Psychiatrist dealing with past lives
___ Writes vegetarian cookbooks
___ Alaskan shaman

21. Claims his lover has 8 hour Tantric orgasms

___ Bill Clinton
___ Sting
___ Richard Gere
___ Magic Johnson

22. Which is NOT a narcotic?

___ Kava-Kava
___ Cannabis Sativa
___ Cannabis Indica
___ Opium

23. Which does NOT fit?

___ a channel
___ J.Z. Knight
___ Jach Pursel
___ Gabriel Cousens, MD

24. Over 10,000 people gather in a forest each year, many sans clothing at...?

___ The goddess conclave
___ The Rainbow Gathering
___ The Sufi celebration
___ The Natural Mardi Gras

25. Sattvic is...?

___ an ayurvedic term associated with positive creative forces
___ the last name of a channel
___ a white healing herb
___ an Astrological term

 

26. Brain Entrainment is most closely associated with...?

___ meditation
___ transportation
___ tantra
___ loss

27. Which is NOT a Nightshade?

___ Tomatoes
___ Eggplant
___ Goddess dress
___ Potato

28. Rebirthing involves...?

___ breathing
___ past lives
___ Voodoo
___ dance

29. Susan Weed is not...?

___ a witch
___ a whore
___ a popular new age musician
___ a dyke

30. New Frontier Magazine started publishing in a Philadelphia basement in...?

___ 1969
___ 1981
___ 1995
___ 1997

31. We were not born with original sin says...?

___ Matthew Fox
___ Pope John III
___ Mother Theresa
___ Born-again Catholics

32. Clairaudient is... ?

___ clearly hearing voices in a theater
___ a psychic ability
___ Morphic Resonance
___ natural sound-proofing in the Audi automobile

 

33. Edgar Cayce...

___ channeled while in a sleep state
___ produces a special homeopathic herbal skin cream with ground quartz crystals
___ was a mystical Jewish prophet
___ discovered the hidden room in the Great Pyramid

34. 2012 is...?

___ End of the Mayan calendar
___ The year reptiles land on earth from outer space
___ The year oil is expected to run out
___ When leap years are no longer necessary

35. Asheville, NC is known as...?

___ Ash Wednesday celebration location
___ A New Age Mecca
___ A massive UFO sighting location in 1994
___ The home of Dr. Bronner's soap products

36. Bach Flower remedies ...?

___ use only the stalks of certain flowers
___ are energetically similar to homeopathic preparations
___ do not use flowers at all
___ Johann Sebastian Bach's personal remedies for hay fever

37. "Right brain" people most likely....?

___ love poetry and art
___ enjoy math and science
___ are logical and usually less intuitive
___ are very religious

38. Which of these does NOT have something in common with the rest?

___ The film Powder
___ Thomas Jefferson
___ Benjamin Franklin
___ Dannion Brinkley

39. A student of the "Fourth Way" probably understands…?

___ New Age energy balancing
___ Mt. Shasta
___ homeopathy
___ the Enneagram

 

40. We Create Our Own Reality is a...?

___ part of The Secret
___ was the essential teaching of Baba Ganoush
___ song in a Broadway play, "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, Babe!"
___ none of the above

41. Maitake is a ...?

___ is a native American ritual
___ a mushroom
___ process similar to Reiki
___ channel from Bali, Sumo Maitake

42. Which does NOT fit?

___ mantra
___ yantra
___ mandala
___ contra

43. Pleideans are...?

___ the foundation of Zuma energy
___ beings from a star cluster that some believe are now visiting our planet
___ Greek massage techniques
___ A cult based on the teachings of Gregori Pleidean, a famous Druid alchemist

44. Nothing to do with underwater birthing.

___ Igor Charkovsky
___ super-babies
___ Chris Griscom
___ Terry Bellamy

45. Musical Starstreams

___ A New Age play
___ A New Age music radio program
___ certain harmonics that create erotic feelings in some
___ Celestial sounds being picked up by NASA satellites

46. Private Music is a...

___ New Age music label
___ Channeled music for the listener only
___ Music for practicing tantra
___ Ashram music

47. Michael Toms is...?

___ founded New Dimensions, a new age radio program
___ a toothpaste company owner from Maine
___ the father of Swami Beyondananda
___ a new age outdoorsman

48. Some New Age people believed that Jesus died in...

___ Mexico
___ Kasmir
___ Reno, NV
___ Iceland

49. An ashram is...?

___ a special cloth used by Middle Eastern spiritual adepts
___ Hindu for place of worship where disciples seek spiritual knowledge
___ a natural fiber, non-chemically treated tampon
___ the native American word for land

50. Whose 65,000 acre ashram included a gambling casino, nude bathing, an airline, a city bus company and several discos?

___ Sai Baba
___ Rolling Thunder
___ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
___ Heaven's Gate

51. Known as an urban shaman...

___ Carlos Castaneda
___ Gabrielle Roth
___ Madonna
___ Peter Tomkins

52. Used to spiritually cleanse a space of unwanted spirits...

___ Patchouli
___ Liquid quartz crystal spray
___ Sage
___ Green tea

53. Ghee is...

___ an exclamation
___ a martial arts term
___ clarified butter
___ a New Age healer from Korea

 

54. Sitting for many hours, just sitting, and looking at a wall...

___ means you are doing a "sesshin."
___ sounds like Zen.
___ is both the above
___ are the opening lines from the film Alcatraz.

55. Produced three CDs with Deepak Chopra...

___ Swami Satchidananda
___ The Spice Girls
___ Bruce BecVar
___ Dr. Vijay Patel

56. What leading American publisher has had a New Age book division for over two decades?

___ Bantam
___ Random House
___ Simon & Schuster
___ Time-Life

57. He beats a big drum and was with Osho...

___ Swami Hotone
___ Kitaro
___ Olidundi
___ Mickey Hart

58. Women who play mouth organs, but have never had sex, is a sound-a-like for...

___ Producing angelic connections through mantrum
___ frustration
___ Something that happened on Aug 17, 1987
___ A beginning tantric ritual

59. A "funny-nose" physician, who heals with humor, and often answers his phone Achoo! is...

___ Bernie Siegel, MD
___ Jerry Jampolsky, MD
___ Patch Adams, MD
___ Dr. Watson

60. He was supposed to be the head of what is now Theosophy?

___ L. Ron Hubbard
___ J. Krishnamurti
___ Alfred Besant, wife of Annie Besant
___ Nicasio Theos

61. Whirling, twirling, twirling...?

___ is a New Age dance craze in Germany
___ is part of Sufi dancing
___ is the opening line from Celestine Prophecy
___ is the mantrum used in Indian rope-making

62. Peter Caddy...?

___ is a famous American comedian
___ co-founder of Findhorn, where cabbages grew to several feet in diameter
___ is the name of the character in the new age film comedy about golf
___ is the real name of the Dali Lama

63. A mystical aspect of both Druids and Jews is...?

___ Passover
___ The Kaballah
___ Kosher salami
___ a tattoo

64. The 100th Monkey Principle concept was heralded by...?

___ Ken Keyes, Jr.
___ Dr. Rupert Sheldrake
___ Both the above
___ Rachel Carson, Ph.D.

65. Magical Blend is...?

___ The psychic, Roger Blend's nickname
___ a special blend of herbs to create an altered state
___ A metaphysical magazine
___ A group of new age magicians from Transylvania county, North Carolina

66. Gentleman Without Weapons is...?

___ Energy dueling
___ A New Age rock group from England
___ An anti-environment group
___ An old tantric phrase

67. Who says Nebraska will be our West Coast?

___ The Bible
___ Armor Meat Company
___ Gordon Michael Scallion
___ US Geological Society

68. The mysterious "Brown Mountain Lights" are near...?

___ Poona, India
___ Asheville, NC
___ Is slang for highway toilets
___ Is the name of Dr. Brown's new organic ginger brew

69. The Starseed Transmissions...?

___ are forms to come out of the ground in 1999
___ is a book by Ken Carey
___ are messages coming from outer space
___ is a popular New Age psycho-spiritual group

70. Wilhelm Reich, MD...?

___ is the father of Homeopathy
___ discovered orgone energy
___ is a German past-life therapist
___ did not have his book and research papers burned in America

71. A Medicine Wheel is...?

___ A new age health cabinet
___ A formation of stones used in a native American ritual
___ A tachyon charged plate when spun that creates a healing energy field
___ An ancient Mayan depiction of the world

72. Kevin Ryerson starred as himself in...

___ Out On A Limb
___ The Kevin Ryerson Journals
___ ETs Are Among Us
___ an afterlife

73. These are actually considered healthy for humans...?

___ Positive ions
___ Negative ions
___ Free radicals
___ All mold spores

74. One is "tropical," and the other is...?

___ fruit
___ a butte
___ sidereal
___ calm

75. The previous question refers to...?

___ planetary vortexes
___ astrology
___ sacred geometry
___ nutrition

76. Which does NOT apply to energy healing?

___ Reiki
___ Acupuncture
___ Microchanneling
___ Touch For Health

7. José Arguelles is most associated with...?

___ The Fountain of Youth
___ The Mayan calendar
___ The Silva Method
___ Alchemy

78. The New Age film Mindwalk starred...?

___ Liv Ullman
___ Shirley MacLaine
___ Tom Cruise
___ Julia Roberts

79. You can deprogram a quartz crystal by....?

___ by placing it within a strong ionic field
___ burying it in Kosher salt
___ keeping it a cold dark room for 7 days
___ singing old rock ballads to it

80. Virato spent time in India with is teacher...

___ Osho
___ Sai Baba
___ Muktananda
___ Deeksha

81. Reflexology is a form of...?

___ bodywork
___ New Age mental study
___ New Age shoe design
___ Muscle tension

82. Pranayama …

___ is a fish from Japan that when touched can heal
___ involves breathing
___ was the discoverer of the meridians
___ a killer eel from South America

83. A Champion...?

___ juicer
___ channel
___ vortex
___ cereal

84. Which is NOT made from soybeans?

___ tempeh
___ milk
___ matuka
___ tofu

85. A form of "no mind" is...?

___ psychosis
___ meditation
___ guided visualization
___ not minding anything

86. Conversations With _____ is a popular new age book.

___ Myself
___ God
___ A New Age Seeker
___ Aliens

87. OBEs often come with...?

___ a silver or gold cord
___ an African shaman
___ colonics
___ deep fried sweet potatoes

88. Yoni is ...?

___ is another word for lingam
___ a Sanskrit word for the female genitalia
___ is a new age musician
___ is the first name of Yoni DeAngelis a leading California psychic

89. Acupuncture, acupressure and Shiatsu are...?

___ healing methods illegal in Canada
___ three distinct forms of medical treatment
___ work on the meridians
___ are totally different

90. Moxibustion is...?

___ sometimes used in conjunction with acupuncture
___ is burning off karma with knowledge
___ is a New Age health bra
___ a Hebrew term for "powerful engine"

91. Tony Robbins first gained his popularity by...?

___ seducing young women
___ having folks walk on fire
___ saying he was an extraterrestrial alien
___ leaving his body

92. Bilocation is...?

___ a place where new age bisexuals congregate
___ where Babaji could go
___ an New Age electromagnetic process
___ a powerful psychedelic technique

93. Which is energy healing?

___ allopathy
___ homeopathy
___ Bonsai
___ laser surgery

 

94. Rudolph Steiner is associated with...?

___ natural beer
___ Biodynamic farming
___ Freud
___ massage

95. Who was the first person to introduce Tantric sex to the new Russia?

___ Julia Roberts
___ Swami Virato
___ Brad Pitt
___ Annie Sprinkle

96. Instantaneous elimination of cancer cells came about through....?

___ the Rife generator
___ Essiac
___ Chemotherapy
___ calamine lotion

97. ACIM stands for...?

___ the American Council Investigating Metaphysics
___ A Course In Miracles
___ an acronym used in space travel
___ Alchemy Can Influence Metaphysics

98. Who said "Follow your bliss...?

___ Joseph Campbell
___ Hugh Hefner
___ Ramtha
___ Billy Graham

99. She received a Democratic US Vice Presidential nomination on New Age principles?

___ Nancy Ferrara
___ Barbara Marx Hubbard
___ Dolly Madison
___ Marilyn Monroe

100. NLP stands for...?

___ National Love Platform
___ Neurolinguistic Programming
___ New Language Paradigm
___ "Not Literally Plausible" in cyber-talk

101. Minister of Self Realization Fellowship played the following role in Gunsmoke.

___ Matt Dillon
___ Kitty Malone
___ Chester
___ Roy Rogers

102. Most known for Spectrum Suite...?

___ Yanni
___ Steven Halpern
___ Tangerine Dream
___ Dolly Lama

103. Gave millions of dollars for New Age research

___ Ford Foundation
___ Fetzer Foundation
___ King Farad
___ Arnold Schwartznager

104. She starred in the New Age film Resurrection.

___ Ally Sheedy
___ Melanie Griffith
___ Ellen Burstyn
___ Shirley McLaine

105. Roberto Assagioli is most known for...?

___ "lite" pizza
___ his work in Psychosynthesis
___ his New Age role in La Dolce Vita
___ his work in cancer research using herbs

106. Nine million died because of their spiritual beliefs between 1390 to 1740.

___ Christians
___ Witches
___ Jews
___ Pakistanians

107. Bo Lozoff is known for ...?

___ Her work with angels
___ His work with prisoners
___ Network chiropractic
___ It's contribution to enzyme development

108. Who plays the role of an angel supervisor on a CBS series?

___ Michael J. Fox
___ Della Reese
___ Scott DuBrow
___ Tammy Wynette

109. Who suggested castor oil packs for healing?

___ Bernard Mendelsohn, MD
___ Edgar Cayce
___ Barbara Brennan
___ Mazola

110. A professor who scientifically proved "Crop Circles" are genuine.

___ Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.
___ Bill Cooper
___ William Levengood, Ph.D.
___ Dr. Tom Good

111. OAHSPE: a new age bible was written in...?

___ 1969
___ 1882
___ 1989
___ 1997

112. A popular channel is...?

___ Mafu
___ Malidoma
___ Mesmer
___ Matlock

113. Who comes from Switzerland, looks like an angel, plays the harp and won a New Age Grammy?

___ Beatrice Schmid
___ Andreas Vollenweider
___ Georg Deuter
___ Enya

114. A popular New Age skeptic is...?

___ Rev. Bakker
___ The Amazing Randy
___ Marilyn O'Hare
___ Sai Baba

115. A soul can enter a body...?

___ at birth, after birth, multiple bodies
___ before birth, as a walk in, at birth
___ through channeling, through an OBE, or through a NDE
___ it never can

116. The opposite of holistic thinking in science is...?

___ intuitive thinking
___ reductionist thinking
___ logical thinking
___ focused thinking

117. Which occult art, in itself, is NOT intuitive?

___ Tarot
___ Astrology
___ using a pendulum
___ I-Ching

118. An author who live isolated in log cabin for 7 years?

___ Sunbear
___ Ken Carey
___ Patricia Sun
___ Charles Logg

119. Who started New Age Journal and the former East West Journal?

___ Leonard Jacobs
___ Eric Utne
___ Paul Zuromski
___ Rupert Murdock

120. New Frontier Magazine was started in...?

___ Moscow, Russia
___ New York, NY
___ Ambler, PA
___ Asheville, NC

121. Who destroys 3,000 trees every Sunday?

___ the Brazilian government
___ the New York Times
___ the mystical Wawas
___ Champion Paper

122. Who said that the body's fascia stores old memories?

___ Lynn Andrews
___ Ida Rolf
___ Daniel Palmer
___ Hanneman

123. Which New Age channel was involved in a controversy?

___ Jach Pursel
___ Edgar Mitchell
___ J.Z. Knight
___ Pat Rodergast

 

124. Gaia is...?

___ the first name of Gaia Patricks, the noted psychic
___ an acronym for Wiccan tradition Grand Alchemical Initiation Assembly
___ Greek Goddess for the planet earth
___ Roman for homosexual

125. Which of the following is most associated with the above?

___ James Lovelock
___ High priestess Evana of the Wiccan order
___ Havlock Ellis
___ Beevis & Butthead

127. Which is NOT involved with spirituality?

___ Transpersonal psychology
___ Psychosynthesis
___ Echinacea
___ Tantra

128. Who is Art Bell?

___ a paranormal radio show host
___ a New Age Russian scientist
___ a metaphysical prisoner
___ a peacemaker in Iraq

129. The color of healing is…

___ magenta
___ blue
___ green
___ yellow

130. Urine therapy involves…

___ applying salve from cow urine to the skin
___ drinking one's own urine.
___ does not involve the use of urine
___ none of the above

131. Iridology is…?

___ black light technology popular in the 70s
___ the art of making things glow in the dark through mind power
___ the art of detecting illness by looking at the eye's pupil
___ a bodywork technique developed by Iri Schultz, Ph,D.

132. Margo Anand…?

___ is a spiritual group wearing orange clothing
___ is into Tantric Sex
___ developed electrical discharge massage
___ stole $55 million dollars from a 61,000 acre Oregon ashram

133. Who wrote Quantum Healing?

___ Andrew Weil, MD
___ Deepak Chopra, MD
___ Philip Lansky, MD
___ Robert O. Becker, DO

134. Terrance McKenna…?

___ was the founder of Findhorn in Scotland
___ was involved mind-altering plant substances
___ is a Baptist anti-drug, anti-new age advocate
___ is a popular harpist

135. The Ashtar Command is…?

___ is a cosmic group involved with our ascension
___ is an anti-war group based in Switzerland
___ is a directive of a trance-channel
___ is a New Age mantra

136. ___ is located in Big Sur, CA…?

___ The American Sufi order
___ Esalen Institute
___ The major California vortex
___ Mt. Shasta

137. Yogaville is located in…?

___ Near Mumbay
___ Quebec
___ Virginia
___ South Africa

138. Swami Satchidananda…?

___ was the spiritual director of Yogaville
___ is a stand-up comedian from Detroit
___ played the trumpet
___ had an ashram in Poona, India

139. Who is a popular teacher of bodyenergy work…?

___ Shakti Gawain
___ Barbara Brennan
___ Nikolai Tesla
___ John Hutchison

140. Chinese medicine works with…

___ the sun
___ the five elements
___ Feng Sui
___ Bilboa oil

141. Nine things made him a millionaire

___ Mantak Chia
___ John White
___ James Redfield
___ Ross Perot

142. This German had His books were burned in the United States

___ Hans Keller
___ Adolph Hitler
___ Wilhelm Reich, MD
___ George Gurdjieff

143. Atlantis was a mystical continent that disappeared with..?

___ Pompeii
___ Bikini
___ Mu
___ Wa

144. Her name is Caisse, and a native American gave her a cure for..?

___ Rheumatoid arthritis
___ PMS
___ Cancer
___ Herpes

145. When did VIRATO LIVE! begin broadcasting in Asheville?

___ August 3, 1994
___ September 14, 2004
___ January 19, 2005
___ February 4, 2007

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146. This is...? ___ Carl Gustav Jung ___ Lou Reed ___ Tommy Chong ___ Producer of The Secret

 

147. He is called...? ___ Father of new age music ___ Robert Moog ___ Yanni ___ a spiritual Lion tamer

 

148. This guy...? ___ did US astronaut training ___ is with NORMAL ___ channels Kazan ___ produced The Secret

 

149. This is...? ___ Carl Gustav Jung ___ Igor Borysenko ___ Dr. Sandoz ___ Stanislav Grof

 

150. This depicts...? ___ Jeweled Lotus ___ Chakras ___ Enlightenment ___ Hindu Acupuncture

 

151. This is...? ___ Peter Russel ___ Dr. Richard Alpert ___ Brad Steiger ___ Einstein's brother

 

152. This holyman is...? ___ Dali Lama ___ Sogyal Rinpoche ___ Babaji ___ Satchidananda

 

153. This is...? ___ fluorosis ___ mummy's teeth still good ___ New Age art ___ Ben Laden's teeth

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