 Most prominent has been the transmission of Asian-derived practices to the West.In addition, interest in some Western-based meditative practices has been revived, and these have been disseminated to a limited extent to Asian countries.Ideas about Eastern meditation had begun "seeping into American popular culture even before the American Revolution through the various sects of European occult Christianity", and such ideas "came pouring in [to America] during the era of the transcendentalists, especially between the 1840s and the 1880s."