Graham Cray, Bishop of Maidstone, has described our culture as a ‘pick-and-mix culture’ and the New Age movement as a classic first attempt at a new worldview. The New Age movement is an umbrella term that covers various diverse and disparate movements with a seemingly limitless array of disconnected beliefs and lifestyles. It is almost impossible to define because it has so many different branches. It has no leader, no organisation, no structure and no headquarters.

Nicky Gumbel, Searching Issues, 2004 edition, Kingsway, p.55