New Age Trade Show

Definition

The New Age market is formed by the set of events, tours, shops, communities, spaces, and places where processes of cultural and religious hybridizations in a permanent state of openness are produced. Producers (therapists, facilitators, “gurus”, initiated masters) and consumers also take part in it, as well as symbolic and spiritual products and services. The places where these goods are produced/consumed are called “nodes” or landing sites of the dense network of experimenters and experiments that circulate combining, all the time, distinct religious, cultural, and scientific traditions which often diverge from each other.

Introduction

The New Age trade showdevelops in products and “spiritual” objects (crystals, tarot games, pendulums, scents, letters, musical instruments), holistic centers and alternative therapy services, shamanism and neoshamanism stores (sacred feminine, chromotherapy, holistic massage, divination cards, dowsing, angels, pranic healing, liberating...