"Commenting upon the pervasive effects of what is clearly a significant change in the belief system of scores of millions of Americans, Robert Lindsey wrote in the New York Times:
Representatives of some of the nation's largest corporations, including IBM, AT&T and General Motors, met in New Mexico this summer [1986] to discuss how meta physics, the occult and Hindu mysticism might help executives compete in the world marketplace."The last time anything approaching this mass flight from reason to mysticism occurred was in the 1920's and 30's. It was very likely this great occult resurgence in Western Europe, and particularly in Austria and Germany, which helped to set the stage for Germany's acceptance of Nazism."**
... a thread of alternative thought . . . scholars say is working its way increasingly into the nation's cultural, religious, social, economic and political life. On one level, they say, it is evidenced by a surge of interest in new metaphysical religions, mediums, the occult, reincarnation, psychic healing, Satanism, "spirit guides," and other aspects of supernatural belief.
. . . Leaders [in the movement] contend they are ushering in what they call a New Age of understanding and intellectual ferment as significant as the Renaissance.[*]
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*From Robert Lindsey, New York Times, cited in Los Angeles Herald Examiner, September 29. 1986. p. B-8; as quoted by Hunt, Dave; McMahon, T.A.. America: The Sorcerer's New Apprentice (p. 6 & 323). The Berean Call. Kindle Edition.
** Hunt, Dave; McMahon, T.A.. America: The Sorcerer's New Apprentice (p. 6-7). The Berean Call. Kindle Edition.
David Charles Haddon Hunt (September 30, 1926 – April 5, 2013) was an American Christian apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author. He was in full-time ministry from 1973 until his death. The Berean Call, which highlights Hunt's material, was started in 1992.[1] From 1999 to 2010, he also hosted Search the Scriptures Daily radio ministry alongside T.A. McMahon.[2] Hunt traveled to the Near East, lived in Egypt, and wrote numerous books on theology, prophecy, cults, and other religions, including critiques of Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, and Calvinism, among others. Hunt's Christian theology was evangelical dispensational and he was associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement.[3] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Hunt_(Christian_apologist)