New Realities
New Realities
New Age magazine issued through the 1980s that presented a wide range of new age topics. It was initially issued in 1969 under the name Psychic, and quickly gained the respect of the psychic-oriented community for its coverage of parapsychology and psychic phenomena and its in-depth interviews with leading personalities in the field. It had a high standard of popular presentation without the sensationalism or vulgarity of so many of the competing periodicals dealing with the occult.
In 1977, after Vol. 7, No. 6, Psychic changed its title to New Realities, indicating its new direction as an organ serving the New Age community by its stated desire to focus upon "developments in the emergent areas of human possibilities that affect our everyday lives" in addition to psychic phenomena and new psychic research. This wider view embraces "holistic health" (total approach to human well-being on all levels), aspects of consciousness, Eastern and Western mysticism, new lifestyles and parapsychology.
In 1986 editor/publisher James Bolen transferred control of New Realities, which had been published in San Francisco, to Heldref Publications in Washington, D.C. The magazine was discontinued several years later.