New Age Teachings
New Age Teachings
New Age Teachings, one of the original New Age organizations in the United States, was founded by New Age channel Anita Afton (b. 1922). Better known as Illiana, she regularly channeled messages for more than 25 years. As a young seeker, Illiana, a Unitarian, became interested in the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. She affiliated with the Self-Realization Fellowship and began the practice of kriya yoga. She learned to meditate and became aware of her past lives in India. In 1965 she received her first channeled messages. Her early messages came from entities identifying themselves as residents of the planet Jamel. Within a few years she experienced what she described as a lifting of her own consciousness and since then the "I AM THAT I AM" has been the only voice speaking through her. After she founded New Age Teachings, she began publishing a regular bulletin containing transcripts of the messages. Illiana also became part of the original international network established in the 1960s by the Universal Link.
New Age Teachings emphasized that New Age vibrations were causing increasing light to come to Earth. The work expanded in 1976 with the addition of a Spanish edition of the bulletin, published from Houston, Texas. A music ministry began in the 1980s. Last known address: P.O. Box 346, Brookfield, MA 01506.