I feel her pain. I was a member of a team that put on well-funded UFO symposiums in Atlanta. The kook density is great in and around those activities. The "New Age" group is quite a collection of unknowing people who will latch onto any preposterous idea, and then pass themselves off as a spiritual guru. They injected a lot of content that was never there, if you know what I mean. Many are sincere but just plain stupid.
On the other hand, I got to meet and converse with some major shakers and movers of UFO investigators and witnesses. There is definitely something going on; but, it sure is difficult to sift through the fluff. As one guest lecturer said, "This is a little like using an electric staple gun to fasten Jello to the wall".
The folks we talked to were not preaching New Age stuff—they just told her about what they experienced.
They were not selling anything—they just said “this is what happened to me”.
She got to hear seven or eight separate experiences from a variety of people—young and old, male and female—just normal folks.
The New Age types were some of the speakers who did sell their books—we stayed far away from them.