How Fantasy Fuelled 60s Counterculture
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How Fantasy Fuelled 60s Counterculture
It's true that the history of civil rights campaigns and revolutionary movements of the era is tightly intertwined with the proliferation of magical societies, mystery cults, Theosophical and Swedenborgian organizations, and other occult communities. The popularity of spirituality during this time is given a diversity of explanations, from the
... See moreMuch of the 1960s I experienced through the pages of Time magazine. By the time the idea of trying or not trying LSD swam into my
When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, movements like Theosophy offered a kind of third way, a path toward understanding the world between science and religion. Theosophy was in conversation with both realms, using tools like magical
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