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Here are a few statistics we have recorded:<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Age Practices:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Labyrinths:<\/strong> March 2004 &#8211; 116,000 April 2005 &#8211; 211,000 August 2006 &#8211; 1,550,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reiki:<\/strong> March 2004 &#8211; 2,630,000 January 2005 &#8211; 7,330,000 August 2006 &#8211; 12,700,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visualization:<\/strong> March 2004 &#8211; 2,800,000 April 2005 &#8211; 12,200,000 August 2006 &#8211; 138,000,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Universalism:<\/strong> April 2004 &#8211; 189,000 October 2005 &#8211; 1,666,000 August 2006 &#8211; 2,380,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yoga:<\/strong> September 2002 &#8211; 4,000 January 2005 &#8211; 19,700,000 August 2006 &#8211; 73,000,000<\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 At Lighthouse Trails Research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-new-age-movement","wpcat-95-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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