I have often called myself “sorta alternative.”  I never resonated with “cultural creative,” it seemed pretentious sounding.  I don‘t like “spiritual but not religious,” it seems so marginalizing, as if it doesn’t really count as anything real or important, as if I’m so far out and “other” that it doesnt' even merit a proper noun.  I want an identity.  Why not New Age?  It is such a good cosmic hopeful sticky term.  I want it back.

To me, the words "new age" are not as important as the content of the movement of light and information itself. The name isn't as important to me as the information it offers and the resulting transformations occuring all over the planet because of it.  For me, it doesnt matter what it's called as long as the information gets out there. And if the name is getting in the way of that, a change in the name is really irrelevant. If I changed my name from Susan to Lorien, I would still be the same person.

If the term new age has become passé it may be just because it has dissolved or alchemized from an ideal into a living breathing way of being. My children, ages 20, 28 and 30, and their friends call it new age woo-woo. Why? —Because their reality IS community, wellness, sharing, co-ops, GREEN, recycling, arts and music, yoga and energy medicine.  They hear the term NEW AGE and roll their eyes. To them, it’s old school. They go about their lives, and that needs no term or idealistic nomenclature. They are busy living in this new age, not seeking a way of being, just being as the way.

I don't think we can call it The New Age Movement anymore since so much of New Age thinking is becoming main stream.  I started to notice that via films that became popular starting in the 1980's.  What had once been considered "far out" was now so acceptable that main stream movies were made about these concepts. Another example is that President Obama thinks nothing of approaching areas that would have been New Agey not that long ago.  I can't help but think that New Age should be rechristened Now Age, or something similar.