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Abd al-Rahman, Umar, 275 Amway, 25 Abd Al-Salam Farraj, Muhammad, Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, 275 242 ACIM, see Course In Miracles, A Ananda Marga movement, 74 Acts, 84 Anandamurti, 73 Adam, 64 Anastasia movement, 293 adaptive movements, 17 ancient astronaut theory, 168 Adi Granth, see Granth Sahib Anglican Book of Common Prayer, Adi Shakti, 73 307 adventism, 65 Anglican Church of the Nigeria, 305 Aetherius Society, 72 Anonymous (Internet activist group), African Baptist Church, 305 38–39 African Independent Churches, 76 Anthony, Dick, 88 Afro-Brazilian religion, 303 Anthroposophy, 115 Agbebi, Mojola, 305 Anthroposophical Society, 67 Agni Yoga Society, 241 anti-cult movement, see NRMs, Aguéli, Ivan, 204 tension with surrounding society Ahmad, Ghulam, 316 Apocalypse (New Testament book), Ahmadiyya movement, 316 see Revelation (New Testament Airaudi, Oberto, 241 book) Aiwass, 115 Apocalypse (newsletter of Raelian Akashic records, 67 movement), 173 Aladura movement, 307 Applewhite, Marshall Herff, 90 Alawiyya Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ, The neo-Sufi movement, renamed 258 Maryamiyya, 206 Aquino, Michael, 222 Sufi order,204 Arabiyya order, 204 al-Banna, Hassan, 315 ARAMIS (Raëlian Association of Alexandrian Witchcraft, 159 Sexual Minorities), 177 Alice Lakwena, 309 Arcane School, 67 Alpert, Richard, see Ram Dass Argüelles, José, 259 Al-Qa’ida, 266, 267, 271, 273, 279, Arnold, Kenneth, 168 313 Arundale, George, 239 Al-Takfir wal-Hijra,275 Arundale, Rukmini, 239 al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 275 Arya Samaj, 64 AmaNazaretha, 308 astrology, 161 Amish, 141 Atlantis, 67 Amitabha Society for Collective audience cult, 118 Practice, see Li Yuansong auditing (in Scientology), 18 Amitabha Village, see Li Yuansong Aum Shinrikyo, 3

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aura, 7 Bose, Subhas Chandra, 74 Autobiography of a Yogi, 253 Brahma Kumaris, 253 ayahuasca, 105–08 “brainwashing” theory, 142 Ayurvedic medicine, 255 Branch Davidians, 18 Azande, 251 Bridge to Total Freedom, 18 Azzam, Abdullah, 277 British Israelism, 65 Bromley, David, 15 Báb, the, 86 Brotherhood of Cross and Star, Babb, Lawrence, 187 76 Bach, Edward, 254 Brotherhood of the Sun, 68 Bach flower remedies,254 Brown, Dan, 258 Baha’i, 86 Buckland, Raymond, 153 Bahá’ulláh, 86 Budapest, Zsuzsanna, 153 Baigent, Michael, 258 Buddha, 70 Bailey, Alice, 67 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 33 Bainbridge, William Sims, 118 Burnier, Radha S., 239 Ballard, Guy and Edna, 241 butsudan shrine, 103 Bamba, Ahmadu, 313 Bamidele, Abdul Salami, 314 Caddy, Peter and Eileen, 252 Bamidele movement, 314 Calvary Chapel, 16 Barker, Eileen, 14 Candide, 201 Barry, W. F., 151 Candomblé, 303 Baum, Lyman Frank, 240 canonical texts, 113 Be Here Now, 253 Cao Dai movement, 74 Beckford, James, 251 CAP (Coordination des Associations Bell, Catherine, 110 et Particuliers pour la liberté de Bereslavski, Rev. Ioann, 293 Conscience), 178 Berg, David Brandt, see Berg, Moses Capra, Fritjof, 253 David cargo cults, 76 Berg, Maria, 84 Catholic Church, 84 Berg, Moses David, 25 Cayce, Edgar, 250 Berger, Peter, 200 Celestine Prophecy, The 118 Bergier, Jacques, 168 Chabad-Lubavich movement, 73 Besant, Annie, 237 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, 68 Bhagavadgita, 25 chakras, 7 Bhagwan Rajneesh, see Rajneesh Chakras, The 254 movement Chandogya Upanishad, 248 bhakti, 100 Channeling, see also New Age, Bible, 113 channeling in Bid’a Yan Izala, 315 charisma, 5–6 bin Laden, Osama, 266, 272, 273, 276, definition of,81 –82 279 loss of, 88–89 Bjerregaard, Carl, 204 routinization of, 6 Black Muslims, see Nation of Islam Charmed, 33 Blackwood, Algernon, 240 Cherubim and Seraphim movement, Blake, William, 248 307 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 67 Chesterton, G. K., 151 Blue Star Theosophical Lodge, 241 Children of God, see Family Boisselier, Brigitte, 179 International Book of Dzyan, 117 Chopra, Deepak, 255 Book of Enoch, 256 Christ in New Religious Movements, Book of Mormon, 64 see Jesus in New Religious Bori cult, 314 Movements

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Christaquarians, 258 Dee, John, 256 Christian Mystic Lodge of the TS, 241 deism, 205 Christian Science, 65 deprogramming, 48–49 Christos, Maria Devi, 292 Dianetics, 35, 69, 122, 133, 135, 136, Church Missionary Society (CMS), 305 138 Church of All Worlds, 33 Dianic Witchcraft, 153 Church of Christ, Scientist, 65 Dievturi movement, 72 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Dinet, Etienne, 204 Saints, see Mormonism dispensationalism, 65 Church of Satan, 215 Divine Light Mission, 2, 46 Church of Scientology, Divine Principle, 74 see Scientology Dowling, Levi, 258 Church of Scientology, The 134 Drew, Ali, 305 Church of the Last Testament, 293 Durant, Will, 135 Church of the Twelve Apostles, 306 Dvorkin, Alexander, 296 Church Universal and Triumphant, 241 Eberhardt, Isabelle, 204 church–sect typology, 14 Eckankar, 242 clear (Scientology term), 18 Edda literature, 154 client cult, 248 Eddy, Mary Baker, 86 Clonaid, 172 Edison, Thomas A., 240 cloning, 172 Église de Jésus Christ sur la Terre par Coats, John S., 239 Le Prophète Simon Kimbangu, Cohen, Andrew, 253 308 commentary (textual genre), 116 Elijah Muhammad, 75 Conversations with God, 118 elohim, 18 Conze, Edward, 240 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 248 Corrywright, Dominic, 248 Emmanuel, Christianah Abiodun, 307 Coulomb, Emma, 237 engrams, 18, 138 counterculture movement, 188 enneagram, 250 Course in Miracles, A, 115 Episcopal Church of Liberia, 305 coven, 157 Episcopalianism, 16 Covenant of the Goddess, 157 Esalen Institute, 252 Craft, The 33 Esoteric Buddhism, 117 Creme, Benjamin, 241 esotericism, 99 Crosbie, Robert, 237 Essenes, 250 Crowley, Aleister, 115 est (Erhard Seminar Training), 19 Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, 305 Evangelical Christians, 126 crystals, occult properties of, 7 Evans, Warren Felt, 249 cult movement, 248 Evans-Wentz, Walter Y., 240 cultic milieu, 134 Eve, 70 cultural disembedding and re-embedding, 215 Factors, The 122 cyclic view of history, 66–69, 235 Falun Gong (Falun Dafa), 29–30 Family International, 2 Da Free John, 72 Father Divine, 77 daimoku chanting practice, 103 Fellowship of Isis, 160 Damanhur, 241 Felt, George Henry, 232 darshan, 188 Ferguson, Marilyn, 247 Darwinism, 172 Findhorn Community, 252 Da Vinci Code, The 258 FIREPHIM (Fédération Internationale Davitashvili, Dzhuna, 287 des Religions et Philosophies Dawson, Lorne, 90 Minoritaires), 178

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Firth, Violet Mary, see also Fortune, Haqqaniyya order, 209 Dion Hardy, Patricia, 223 Fishman, Steven, 36 Hare Krishna, see ISKCON Fitzgerald, Edward, 203 Hargrove, Ernest T., 237 flirty fishing,18 Harris, William Wade, 305 Fortune, Dion, 241 Hay, Louise, 255 Founding Church of Scientology vs. Hayy ibn Yaqzan, 201 United States, 138 Heathenry, 160 Fourth Way, 206 Heaven’s Gate, 26 Fraternitas Saturni, 217 Hebrew Bible, 113 Free Zone, 141 Heelas, Paul, 247 Freemasonry, 206 Heindel, Max, 241 Fundamentalist Church of Latter- Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, day Saints, see Mormon 256, see also Order of the Golden fundamentalism Dawn Hermeticism, 69 Gardner, Gerald, 152 Hesse, Hermann, 252 Gaudiya Vaishnavism, see ISKCON Hizbullah, 265 Geller, Uri, 251 Hodgson, Richard, 236 Genealogy of Morals, 217 Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, The Genesis, 169 258 Raelian understanding of, 70 Holy Grail, 258 Geniocracy, 173 Holy Spirit, 84–85 genres of religious texts, see religious Holy Spirit Mobile Forces (HSMF), genres 310 Gilmore, Peter H., 221 homoeopathy, 254 Glastonbury, 209 Horton, Robin, 304 glocalization, 199, 318 Hours with the Mystics, 234 Gnostic Church, 205 Houteff, Victor, 66 Gnosticism, 69 Howell, Vernon, see Koresh, David Gobind Singh, 86 Hozho Foundation for Wellbeing, 107 God of the Witches, The 152 Hubbard, Ron Lafayette, 25 Godianism, 313 Human Potential Movement, 247 gohonzon mandala, 103 Humphreys, Christmas, 240 Graham, James, 201 Hutin, Serge, 168 Granth Sahib, 86 Hyperboraeans, 67 Great White Brotherhood (USMALOS), 292 I AM movement, 68 Grimassi, Raven, 153 I Ching, 253 Grimes, Ronald, 110 Iamblichus, 234 Grist for the Mill, 253 Ibn Taymiyya, 276 Grubb, Randell C., 237 Idries Shah, 208 Guénon, René, 207 Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, Gumi, Al-Hajj, 315 312 Gurdjieff, Georges, 72, 206 Ijo Orunmila, 312 Guru Nanak, 86 Ikhwan al-Safa, 201 Guyard Report, 178 Imams (in shiism), 72 Initiation: Human and Solar, 250 Habermas, Jürgen, 180 Intelligent Design theory, 172 Hafez, 203 International Pagan Federation, 157 Hahnemann, Samuel, 254 Isis Unveiled, 234 Hamas, 264 ISKCON, 2, 126 Hanegraaff, Wouter J., 247 rituals in, 100–2

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Jamat-i-Islami, 316 Lamanites, 64 Jehovah’s Witnesses, 65 Latour, Bruno, 108 Jenkins, Jerry, 118 Latter-day Saints, see Mormonism Jennings, Hargrave, 233 LaVey, Anton Szandor, 217 Jesus in New Religious Movements, 6 Lawson, Thomas, 109 Jesus Lived in India, 258 Le livre qui dit la vérité, 168 Jesus Movement, 45 Leadbeater, Charles W., 238 Jihadism, as New Religious Lee, Mother Ann, 89 Movement, 267–70 Left Behind, 118 attitude to Islamic jurisprudence in, Left-Hand Path, 219 271–72 legitimization, 123–24 attitude to jihad in, 271 Lehi, 64 definition of,263 Leigh, Richard, 258 Islamism and, 264 Lemuria, 67 relation to other forms of Islam, Let’s Welcome Our Fathers from 263 Space, 174 Jinarajada sa, C., 239 Lévi, Eliphas, 256 John-Roger, see Movement of Levine, Nicholas, 143 Spiritual Inner Awareness Levine, Saul, 143 Jones, Jim, 89 Lewis, H. Spencer, 242 Jones, Sir William, 201 Lewis, James R., 134 Joseph Smith, Jr., 64 Li Hongzhi, 30 Jossot, Gustave-Henri, 204 Li Yuansong, 93–94 Judge, William Q., 237 Liber AL, 115 Jumat Imam, Al-Hajj, 314 Liberal Catholic Church, 238 Lincoln, Henry, 258 kali yuga, 68 Lobsang Rampa, T., 253 Kandinsky, Wassily, 240 Lofland, John,21 karma, 254 Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Kashpirovski, Anatoly, 288 309–10 Kelley, Edward, 256 Lotus Sutra, 102 Kemp, Daren, 258 Lovecraft, H. P., 224 Kersten, Holger, 258 Luke (New Testament book), 92 Khan, Inayat, 73 Kharijites (Islamic movement), 273 MacGregor Mathers, Samuel Liddell, Kibwetere, Joseph, 309 256 Kimbangu, Simon, 308 MacLaine, Shirley, 252 Kimbanguist Church, 308 macro-history, 63 King, George, 241 Madame Blavatsky, see Blavatsky, Kitamura Sayo, 89 Helena Petrovna Klee, Paul, 240 MADECH (Movement to Welcome Knight, J. Z., 257 the Creators of Humanity), 173 Kony, Joseph, 310 magic, 165 Koresh, David, 66, 90, 92, 93 Magick in Theory and Practice, 256 Krishna, 68 Magliocco, Sabina, 98 Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 67 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 253 Kuhn, Thomas, 251 Mahatma Letters, 115 kundalini yoga, 254 Mahatmas (of Theosophy), see Theosophical Masters La lune: clé de la Bible, 168 Mahayana Buddhism, 113 La meditation sensuelle, 174 mahdism, 72 LaHaye, Tim, 118 Mahdiyya movement, 314 Lakwena, 309 Mahikari, 73

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Maitatsine movement, 314 Mu (mythological continent), 68 Maitreya, 175 Muhammad, 70 Maitreya, The 175 Mundy, Talbot, 240 Makone, Mangena, 308 Mungiki movement, 303 Malcolm, Sir John, 201 Murid brotherhood, 303 Manson, Charles, 77 Murray, Margaret, 152 Manson, Marilyn, 224 Muslim Brotherhood, 313 Marcuse, Herbert, 180 Mwerinde, Credonia, 309 Marian apparitions, 16 mythological history, 6 Marian Faith Healing ministry, 311 Marxism, 286–87 Nadramia, Peggy, 221 Mary Magdalene: Christianity’s Nakayama Miki, 89 Hidden Goddess, 258 nam-myoho-renge-kyo, 102 Masters (of Theosophy), Nation of Islam, 75 see Theosophical Masters National Church of Nigeria, 313 Mau Mau, 313 Nazareth Baptist Church, Maududi, Sayyid Abul-A’la, 316 see AmaNazaretha Mayan calendar prophecy, 72 Nazim, Muhammad, 209 McCauley, Robert, 109 Negroponte, Nicholas, 40 Megre, Vladimir, 293 neo-Druidism, 67 Meher Baba, 73 neo-Goths, 294 Melton, J. Gordon, 15 neo-Kabbalah, 291 Mesmer, Anton, 249 neopaganism, see Paganism messiah, definition of,82 neo-Pentecostalism, 312 MEST, Scientology concept of, 133 Neoplatonism, 233 Meta Modern Era, 73 neo-shamanism, 107 Methodist Church, 267 neo-Sufism,7 Meyrink, Gustav, 240 Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Michelet, Jules, 152 247 millennialism, 6 New Age, 17 Miller, William, 65 Asian traditions and, 252–54 Milton, John, 217 channeling in, 256–57 Mind Body Spirit festivals, 260 early history of, 251–52 Miriam Simos, see Starhawk healing in, 254 Miscavige, David, 140 Jesus in, 257–59 Modern Chan Society, 93–94 magic in, 255–56 Mondrian, Piet, 240 New Religious Intellectual Montessori, Maria, 240 Movement (NRIM), 199 Moon, see Sun Myung Moon New Thought, 67 Moral panic, 46 Newton, Sir Isaac, 200 Mormon fundamentalism, 53 Nichiren, 102 Mormon polygamy, 16 Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, 21 Mormonism, 64 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 217 Moroni (angel in Mormonism), 64 Noah, 65 Moscow Patriarchate, 295–97 NOPEDO, 177 Moses, 65 Notovich, Nicolas, 257 Mother Ann Lee, see Lee, Mother NRMs Ann children in, 44 Mother of God Centre (MGC), 292 conversion to, 14 Movement for the Restoration of the definition of,14 –17 Ten Commandments of God, 309 extra-legal actions against, 48–49 Movement of Spiritual Inner financial controversies involving, Awareness, 242 44

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government action against, 46–48 Pirsig, Robert M., 252 life cycle of, 1–2 Plato, 127 membership decline in, 24 Popkin, Richard, 200 myths in, 17–18 possession, see spirit possession organization of, 19 Prabhupada, Swami Bhaktivedanta, rituals in, 18 25 scholarship on, 2–3 Practical Magic, 33 tension with surrounding society, 2 Prasanthi Nilayam, 188 typology of, 16 Precious Stone-Faith Tabernacle Nye, Malory, 110 movement, 306 Principle, The, see Divine Principle Oberon Zell, see Zell, Tim prophet, definition of,82 occulture, 218 Prophet, Elizabeth Clare, 241 Odunlami, Sophia Adefobe, 306 Prophet, Mark, 241 Okada Yoshikazu, 73 Protestantism, 99 Olcott, Henry Steel, 232 PROUT (Progressive Utilization Olumba Olumba Obu, 76 Theory), 74 Operating Thetan (OT), 137 Pure Land Buddhism, 93 Order of the Golden Dawn, 99 Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), 217 qigong, 29 Orientalism, 202–3 Quantum Healing, 255 Orthodox Church, 295 Qur’an, 85 Osho movement, see Rajneesh Qutb, Sayyid, 316 movement Otter Zell, see Zell, Tim Raël, 8 Our Lady of Endor Coven, 217 biography of, 167 Our Mother’s Loving Children, 88 Raël’s Angels, 170 Ouspensky, Pyotr, 72 Raëlian Association of Sexual Out on a Limb, 252 Minorities, see ARAMIS Raelian movement, 8 Pagan Alliance, 157 appeal to science in, 170–72 Paganism, 7 doctrines of, 169–73 altered states of consciousness in, history of, 168–259 162–63 rituals in, 175 controversies involving, 164 social organization of, 175–76 demographics of, 156–57 Rahmaniyya order, 204 history of the term, 134 Rajneesh movement, 2–25 material culture of, 163–64 Ram Dass, 253 rituals in, 98–100 Ramtha, 18 role of folklore in, 156 Rapture, 65 social organization of, 157–58 Rastafarians, 76 varieties of, 158–60 Reappearance of the Christ, The 250 Paradise Lost, 217 Reclaiming, 153 Paramahansa, Yogananda, 69 Redfield, James,118 Path, The 204 reincarnation, 137 Patrick, Ted, 48 religious genres, 113 Paulsen, Norman, 68 Religious Science, 255 Peace Mission, 77 Renunciation and Reformation, 134 Pentecost, 84–85 restorationism, 65 Pentecostalism, 298 Reuss, Theodor, 240 People’s Temple, 3 Revelation (New Testament book), philosophia perennis, 200 90 Picknett, Lynn, 258 Road to Total Freedom, The, 134

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Reverend Moon, see Sun Myung Science and Health, with Key to the Moon Scriptures, 86 Ringing Cedars of Russia, Science of Mind, 136 see Anastasia movement Scientology, 2–4 Robbins, Thomas, 88 controversies involving, 133 Roberts, Jane, 257 Sea Org, 135 Rochford, Burke, 101 Seax Wicca, 153 Roden, Benjamin, 66 second coming of Christ, 65 Roerich, Nicholas and Helena, 241 Second Letter of Paul to Timothy, 124 Romanticism, 67 Secret Doctrine, The 117–18 Rosemary’s Baby, 224 secret religious teachings, 123 Rosicrucian Fellowship, 241 Segmented Polycentric Integrated routinization of charisma, 6 Network, 248 Roy, Olivier, 265 seidr, 161 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 203 Sekai Kyusei Kyo, 317 Russell, Charles, 65 Sendy, Jean, 168 Russell, George W., 240 sensual meditation, 174 Serra, Raimundo Irineu, 106 Sadat, Anwar, 275 Set, 222 Sahaja Yoga, 69 Seth, 72 Sai Baba movement, 7 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence controversies involving, 193–94 (SETI), 181 doctrines of, 186–87 Seven Church (Misima, Papuan material culture of, 192–93 Islands), 76 membership of, 189 Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, The rituals in, 190 255 social organization of, 190–92 Seventh-day Adventism, 65 Sai Charitable Trust, 192 Shadare, Joesph, 306 Said, Edward, 6 Shaker movement, 20 Saliba, John A., 169 shamanism, 82–83 Salvation Army, 298 Share International, 241 Sanders, Alex, 159 shaykh, 198 Sankirtan, see ISKCON, rituals in Shaykhism, 72 Santhana Sarathi, 188 Shembe, Mdlimawafa Mloyisa Isaiah, Santo Daime, 105–09 308 Satanism Shirdi Sai Baba, 86–87 discourses on, 216–17 Shri Mataji Nirmila Devi, 69 esoteric, 219 Shri Shri Anandamurti, rationalist, 219 see Anandamurti reactive, 220 shruti, 113 relation to Christianity, 215 Siddhartha, 252 social organization of, 220 Sikhism, 86 varieties of, 216 Sinnett, Alfred P., 117 Sathya Sai Baba, biography of, 185–86 Skonovd, Norman, 22 Sathya Sai Seva Organization (SSSO), Sloane, Herbert, 217 188 Small is Beautiful, 251 satori, 252 Smith, Jonathan Z., 110 Schnabel, Paul, 143 smriti, 113 Schneerson, Menahem, 73 Society for Psychical Research (SPR), Schrader, F. Otto, 240 236 Schucman, Helen, 257 Soka Gakkai, 102–5 Schumacher, E. F., 251 Solar Temple, 26 Schuon, Frithjof, 206 Solara, 259

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South African Independent Churches, Theosophical Society, 7 75 in America, 237 Spalding, Baird T., 242 doctrines of, 234–35 Spangler, David, 247 history of, 235–40 spirit possession, 89 Pasadena, 231 “spiritual supermarket,” 108 schisms in, 237–38 Sri Ram, N., 239 theosophy, 7 Sri Yukteswar, 68 definition of,233 Starhawk, 33 thetan, 18 Stark, Rodney, 15 theurgy, 233 Steiner, Rudolf, 67 They Took Me to Their Planet, Stonehenge, 152 173 Stregheria, 153 Thulegesellschaft, 206 Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Tibetan Book of the Dead, 240 The 251 Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, Sufi order (SO),206 253 Sufi orders,see also tariqa Timaeus, 127 Sufi society,206 Tingley, Katherine, 237 Sufism,72 Tong Il Kyo, see Unification Church contrasted with neo-Sufism,199 Torop, Sergei, see Vissarion Summit Lighthouse, 241 Toulmin, Stephen, 124 Sun Myung Moon, 6–7 tradition as legitimating argument, role as Messiah, 120–21 124–25 Supernature, 251 Transcendental Magic, 256 Sutcliffe, Steven, 248 Transcendental Meditation (TM), 72 sutras, 115 Transcendentalism, 67 Suzuki, D.T., 252 transformative movements, 17 Swami Dayanand Sarasvati, 236 Trevelyan, George, 247 Swedenborg, Emanuel, 248 Tunolase, Moses Orinmolade, 307 syncretism, 106 Twelve Tribes, 53 Twitchell, Paul, see Eckankar Tagarab cargo cult, 76 Taliban, 265 UFO religions, 70–71 Tao of Physics, The 253 UFOland, 176 Tanakh, see Hebrew Bible Unification Church,2 –6 Tao Te Ching, 253 United Lodge of Theosophists, 231 tariqa, 198 Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, The tarot-card reading, 160–61 257 Temple of Set, 222–23 Uoann Swami, 292 Tendai Buddhism, 102 Urantia Book, 71 Tenrikyô, 89 Urantia Foundation, 71 Tenshô-kôtai-jingu-kyô, 89 Urban, Hugh B., 134 Tent of the Living God movement, 313 Vaughan, Robert A., 234 Tenth Insight, The 259 vibhuti, 186 Thannie, Grace, 306 Vincent, David, see Agbebi, Mojola The Forum, see est (Erhard Seminar virtual texts, 123 Training) Vissarion, 293 The Theosophist, 204 Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 108 The Third Eye, 253 Voltaire, 201 theism, 200 von Däniken, Erich, 70 Thelema, 115 von Sebottendorf, Rudolf Freiherr, 206 Theosophical Masters, 67 Vorilhon, Claude, see Raël

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Waco Siege, 92–93 Xenu, 69 Wade, Abdoulaye, 313 xeper, 222 Wahhabism, 315 Wallis, Roy, 16 Yahweh, 174 Walsch, Neale Donald, 118 Yeates, William Butler, 240 warrant, 123–24 Yogananda, Paramahansa, 68 Watson, Lyall, 251 You Can Heal Your Life, 255 Weber, Max, 116 yugas, theory of four, 68–69 White, Ellen, 90 Whitehead, Harriet, 134 Zar movement, 314 Wicca, 33–35 Zell, Tim, 33 Winch, Peter, 251 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Witchcraft Today, 152 Maintenance, 252 Witch Cult of Western Europe, The 152 Zen Buddhism, 252–53 Woodward, F. L., 240 Zen in the Art of Archery, 252 Work, The 72 Zen in the Art of Flower world-affirming movements, 17 Arrangement, 252 world-rejecting movements, 17 Zerby, Karen, see Berg, Maria