The New Age movement is a non-religious spiritual movement that developed in Western nations during the 1970s. Precise scholarly definitions of the movement differ in their emphasis, largely as a result of its highly eclectic structure. Nevertheless, the movement is characterised by a holistic view of the cosmos, a belief in an emergent Age of Aquarius—from which the movement gets its name—an emphasis on self-spirituality and the authority of the self, a focus on healing (particularly with alternative medicine), a belief in channeling, and an adoption of a "New Age science" that makes use of elements of what adherants call the new physics.