Among other teachers that arose during this period was the famous Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Transcendental Meditation movement. This movement was very popular among celebrities especially for a while. Also popular was the Daimoku trend ("Namu Myoho Renge Kyo") of Nichiren Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Swami Muktananda and his Siddha Yoga foundation, Swami Brahmananda Mishra of the Yoga Institutes, the miracle worker Sathya Sai Baba (November 23, 1926 - April 24, 2011), and so many other Eastern masters and teachers were active in the West during this period. Their influences continue to reverberate. The sixties and seventies were a time when spiritual masters, both real and fraudulent, were easily found. Their world views deeply impacted us all directly or indirectly as Eastern conceptions unified and entered the Western Paradigm. The New Age beliefs did not replaced Judaism and Christianity, but they did come to exist along side them as equals in the mind of many people. In many ways they surpassed the traditional beliefs among the young. These young people are now the adults.

As the late seventies gave way to eighties and nineties, the vast majority of citizens drifted back into quiet structured society. Everyone had been fundamentally altered by this period of seeking enlightenment, whether people had actively taken part in it or not. Now it was as though the nation was collectively exhausted from its search for something beyond apparent reality. The Secular Sciences and Secular Humanism had won the paradigm war. Religion came to be viewed as nothing but superstition, spirituality was an opiate and cop-out. Humans were nothing but animals. As such the ME generation was born.

Greed became the accepted social norm. Outward appearance replaced inward goodness, material possessions replaced spiritual realizations and love. The war in Vietnam was over but there was no peace. As this trend developed the economy began to crumble. It could not handle the greed of the new consumerism. With both parents working full time and children becoming optional through the Roe-V-Wade decision that legalized infanticide in 1973, the nation's children who survived birth were largely left to the Secular Humanist school systems to raise. Parents were too busy to be bothered with child rearing. This generation of children is now coming into its own and we are witness the results of this absentee parenting.

As the economy became more uncertain and the political winds blew occasional hints that things were not as they appeared, hopes were fading. Without a spiritual center people were being devastated. Apathy began replacing greed as the new norm. Drugs like Meth became epidemic. Mellow Marijuana was being bred into a serious drug that only increased the apathy. Honey oil and other forms were increasing and minds and bodies were being destroyed. With HIV Free Love became anything but, and meaningful human interaction was becoming unknown to many many people. The world was becoming a cold and lonely place without meaning. Without God in their lives people seemingly suffer and die without purpose or meaning. But the Awakening flame continued to flicker and some people held on..

The religion of Secular Humanism had won and become the dominant belief system throughout the non-Islamic world. The priesthood of the nation were now the "nerds" and "geeks" wearing white lab coats and muttering mysterious words like "gigabytes" and speaking of a mystical reality in "cyberspace." Most Americans were content to abide within this undemanding paradigm amazed by the new shiny technologies as their ancestors had been awed by the powers of the Shaman and fakirs. Relativity and political correctness had become the gauge of ethics and morality. The belief in God as historically embraced was dying on the vine and devout Christians were being recast as religious fanatics.

Through the greed-based egocentric experiences and realizations of the 1980's through 2001 the nation and planet was forever changed in tangible ways. Impersonal technology has replaced the Personal God for most Americans, whether they wish to acknowledge this or not. Today Christianity is no longer the largest nor most influential religious system in the post Judeo-Christian United States.

Throughout this period Islam was rising fast everywhere, including in the US. By the mid-1990's it was clear that Islam was the religious heir apparent for the world, other than Secular Humanism.

The nation of Israel was politically solid, and yet frequently under attack. It continued working to secure itself as the Jewish homeland while maintaining equality for all under incomprehensible near global condemnation. The United States mainly stood firmly with Israel during these years. Israeli Jews were as divided and largely non-Observant as Christians in the US. The secular population wanted little if anything to do with Torah other than essential holiday observances. The rift between the Observant and non-observant portions of the society was growing. Meanwhile the USSR, which was formally dismantled on December 26, 1991, China, and the United States of America were each actively discounting religious faith and becoming more and more similar to the Nazi regime of Germany as those few who were still protesting during this period frequently pointed out.

The People's Republic of China, already the world's real economic and military super power, was quietly developing its plans to topple the US house of cards, something that seems imminent as of this update (March 2015). U.S. independence and its Constitution is now a myth that few belief in. Most Americans are too dependant on the lower prices China offers through its slave based economy to support real capitalism. Through their buying choices Americans brought their own economy to its knees, bowing to China by transferring ever larger percentages of its wealth to the totalitarian governments.