Trouble-making New Age is a troublesome subject for its researchers. It reminds more the subject of faith than the subject of knowledge. It is rather the context and the author's interpretation, that characterizes New Age. In the case of New Age we have an embarrassing mixture of high and low culture-discourses and therefore a lack of definite characteristics of the composition of participants. Some of adherents belong to the traditional elite of academic intellectuals, while others are consumers of the mass culture.
Aquarian age is a popular and exclusive culture at the same time.
A seed and a husk - as purists say. Some of the descriptions sound quite dangerous. A postmodern conspiracy I propose to treat the troubles with definition of New Age as belonging to those of contemporary culture. It can no longer be described as a subject of normative regulations. The new situation of culture relies more on new relations than on new qualities.