As far as I can see, the New Age movement is still thriving, although no one calls it that anymore.  There are still thousands of New Age stores and products and books and classes and seminars and practices and ideas lying around.  In fact, holistic/alternative spirituality is in some ways so commonplace in the culture that no one even thinks to remark on it.  And so its potential to transform society lies there, untapped.   There are millions of New Age style practitioners, but they practice alone, often lonely.  I know I have been reluctant to identify myself as a New Ager, embarrassed yes.  I’ve grown tired of that.  With their deep and grand roots in idealistic philosophy, I have every right to be proud of my beliefs.

As soon as new age poked its head up, the trampling feet and screams of fear and rage were right there to pound it down again. Contamination is a great way to corrupt anything---adding alloys is a great way of changing composition. But some things can't be changed or altered because their essence is eternal and unchanging. You can't mix oil and water. I think that the new age is even more powerful than ever, but it moves through us, around us, and over us like an unstoppable and unseen wave of light. It has affected more people than we think. Books like "The Secret" and movies like 'The Da Vinci Code' have given us more reasons to object to the status quo. The status quo is crumbling.  It's a huge battle, but I believe "new age" or whatever name it's given, will win... But the world needs all the light it can get to move things forward as fast as possible.

My work in the world is Yoga, energy healing, wellness and my finger is on the pulse of what some call "New Age." I call it life and think we are seeing a real explosion into a complete paradigm shift of how "we live and breathe and have our being" in the "one" life that lives us. We are the new age. Not only is it not lost, we are so deeply saturated in it that it is closer than our breath. Does it really matter what we name this current evolution of consciousness?

Changing oneself changes the fabric of our collective self or spiritual bodies; arguing about New Age or not seems to be missing the point. My guess is our culture is morphing into a New Beginning for sure, and that it has already been integrated into the political, educational, social networks of our culture, and that possibly the specialized grouping or naming of it became too small for the shift occurring at this time. You could call it the Golden Age; it wouldn't matter.  It has arrived, it is here, made its integration, now it is sprouting wings.

Personally, I think that the ideas that make up much of the New Age philosophy have simply become more mainstream—and do not feel as if its ideals or that the ‘movement’ has been diminished.  In fact, I believe it is stronger than ever before, and is being incorporated into the belief systems of the typical person.  Other examples of the expanded belief system of the average person are the acceptance of hands on healers, the rise in the popularity of yoga classes and meditation. 

I believe there is such a thing as a New Age movement that exists, but it doesn't appear that mainstream media recognizes it as such. When I attempt to describe a new book I've found or something else in the spiritual realm I've discovered that I'd like to share with my friends, the description that most readily seems to connect with them is when I describe it as being New Age-ish. It's at that point that they all seem to respond with, "Oh, ok! I think I'd like that too." I'm not at all offended by the term and I haven't encountered others who are. My findings have been that people who might be classified as New Age are generally in search of anything that might bring them deeper spiritual insight or understanding. We aren't concerned so much with what it's called, we just care to find it and relate to it.