INDEX

Access to (Faivre), 438 Avalon, 294–295 acupuncture, 424 Avalon of the Heart (Fortune), 7 Aetherius Society, 249 After Virtue (MacIntyre), 170 “baby boom” generation, 112, 213 . See Aquarian Age “Bad Fairies,” 304–305 Agonshû, 366 Bailey, Alice A., 6–7, 43, 52–54, 62, 66, Ahlin, Lars, 110 68–71, 82, 83, 460, 463 The Alchemist (Coelho), 465 Ballard, Guy W., 82, 83 alchemy, 46–47 Baumann, Gerd, 203 Aliens Among Us (Montgomery), 87 Bayes, Thomas, 398n37 allopathic medicine, 416–420 Beaudoin, Tom, 200, 201–202 Aloha Kulanui (Denmark), 323–324 Becker, Howard, 393–394 Aloha Project, 324–326 Benedictine Rule, 189 Alternative and Complementary Health Besant, Annie, 85, 464 Research Network (ACHRN), 421 Beth, Laurie, 189 alternative medicine, 380 Beyond Prediction: The Tarot and Your Alternatives, 177n4 Spirituality (Drane), 455–456 Amaral, Leila, 352–353 biology, 225 American Metaphysical Movements, 29 Blake, William, 53 Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Blavatsky, Helena P., 6, 60–61, 387, Crucis, 83 410–411 Angel therapy, 428–431 Block Trainings GmbH, 197 animal magnetism, 383–384 Bloom, William, 235, 250, 251, 431 animism, 367–368 Body and Soul (Roddick), 185–186 , 7, 61, 391n21, Body Shop, 185–186 464 Bohm, David, 36, 259–260 apocalyptic beliefs, 27 Böhme, Jacob, 81 Aquarian Age, 9, 85, 406–407 Bok, Bart, 387–388 The Aquarian Conspiracy (Ferguson), 28, 38, Boltwood, Geoff, 240 215n2, 231n1 The Book of Fortune-Telling (Daily Express), 62 The Aquarian Gospel of the Christ book publishing, 110 (Dowling), 20 Bowman, Marion, 247, 291–314 Aquarius Now (Ferguson), 13 Braid, James, 385 Arcane School, 53, 69, 83 Britain, 59, 61, 188, 420–426, 445 Argüelles, José, 265 British Holistic Medicine Association Art of War (Sun Tzu), 196 (BHMA), 421 Arthur, King, 294–295, 305 Brooke, John, 219 Ascended Masters, 6–7, 83, 94, 249 Brown, Mick, 11 Ascension, 92–95 Bruce, Steve, 171 Asian philosophies, 196 Brunton, Paul, 64, 67 Assagioli, Roberto, 243 Bryant, Page, 276 astrology, 84, 88–89, 364, 405, 408–410 Buchman, Frank, 65 audience , 158–159 Buddhism, 61, 220–221, 361 Augustine, 383 Buddhism in England ( journal), 61 Aum Shinrikyô, 366 Buddhist Lodge, 61 Auroville, 264 Buenos Aires. See Latin America, New autonomy, individual, 346 Age in 476 index

Bund, 155–156 business and , 189 business, and New Age, 185–187 Christaquarians. See Christian New Age convergence of, 187–191 hostility to New Age, 20–21, 197–198, corporations as cultic milieu, 196–200 459–462 Generation X, 200–202 responses to New Age, 216–218, 244, psychologisation of culture, 191–196 456–459 Butler, Jenny, 415–434 Chryssides, George, 5–24 Church of Shambhala Vajradhara Caddy, Peter and Eileen, 8, 240, 463 Sangha, 302 CAM. See Complementary and Church of the New Jerusalem, 82 Alternative Medicine churches, 153–154 Campbell, Bruce, 160–161 Claigh, Roberleigh H., 323, 324, 328 Campbell, Colin, 16, 157, 209–210 Claiming Knowledge (Hammer), 211, 220 Campbell, Joseph, 255 client cults, 159 Cantor, Geoffrey, 219 Clifford, Ross, 455 capitalism, 151–152, 455 climates, 256 Capra, Fritjof, 35, 37, 207, 218–219, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (fi lm), 273 369 Coelho, Paulo, 465 Carozzi, María Julia, 341–357 Committee for the Scientifi c Investigation Carrette, Jeremy, 11, 12, 14, 187 of Claims of the Paranormal Castells, Manuel, 168–169 (CSICOP), 215, 381, 387–388 Cathedral Rock (Sedona), 272 commodifi cation, of religion, 47–48, Catholics/Catholicism, 125 235, 299, 304 Cayce, Edgar, 464 common sense thinking, 259 Celestine Prophecy (Redfi eld), 38, 95 communards, 264–265 Celtic , 294 community. See also network paradigm Celtic spirituality, 428 abstract connectedness, 127, 308–311 Centre for Psychological Astrology, 411 changing nature of, 169–175 chakra system, 418 diffuse, of New Age, 175–179 Chakraborty, S.K., 190 geography and, 167–168 Chakravarty, Ajanta E., 190 types of, 168–169 Chalice Well, 308 Complementary and Alternative Changi Airport, 186 Medicine (CAM), 416, 422–423 channelling, 32–33, 83–84, 94 Conreaux, Gongmaster Don, 247n18 Chevreul, Michel Eugène, 385 consciousness, altered states of, 88 Children of the New Age (Sutcliffe), 463 Consuming Faith (Beaudoin), 200, 203 Chinmayananda, Swami, 189 convergence, 203 chiropractic, 424 Coon, Robert, 268 Chopra, Deepak, 189–190 Corrywright, Dominic, 17, 106, 167–180 Christaquarians. See Christian New Age A Course in Miracles, 465 Christ, 70 Covey, Steven, 189 The Christaquarians? A Sociology of Christians Cray, Graham, 457 in the New Age (Kemp), 467–468 Creation Spirituality (Fox), 22 , 464 Crème, Benjamin, 85 Christian millenialism, 69–70 Crowley, Aleister, 52, 53, 80 Christian New Age, 453–455 Crowley, Vivianne, 443–444 academic studies, 108, 111, 466–468 crystals, 90 Christaquarians, 449–450, 465–466 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 198 development of, 455–459 movements, 159, 412 infl uences, 463–464 cultic milieu, 157–158, 162, 380, 447 research diffi culties, 468–469 corporations as, 196–200 Christian occultism, 7 cults. See also New Religious Movements , 82, 225, 464 (NRMs) Christianity defi nitions, 19, 30, 78, 154–157 alternative gospels, 20 typology, 158–163