29. The Age of Aquarius

SRI International

Marilyn Ferguson, author of the 1980 best-sellter, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s, was inspired in the choice of her title when she read about a speech by Club of Rome member, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, to the United Nations Habitat Conference in Vancouver, where he quoted a passage where synarchist Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin called for a “conspiracy of love.” Ferguson book was based on the results a survey she conducted of 185 leaders of the New Age and Human Potential Movement and found that they answered that the most influential thinkers in their lives were. Frequently mentioned were Hermann Hesse, Alfred North Whitehead, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Alan Watts, Sri Aurobindo, D.T. Suzuki, Erich Fromm, Werner Erhard and Oscar Ichazo, Buckminster Fuller, Alfred Korzybsk who developed General Semantics, and Heinz von Foerster an architect of cybernetics, and Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian philosopher of communication theory, who is also celebrated throughout Ferguson’s The Aquarian Conspiracy. Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1822 – 1862), the brother of Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller, whose lover Giovanni Ossoli was a friend of Mazzini, was the grandfather of American architect Buckminster Fuller, who coined the term “Spaceship Earth.”[1] But first place in Ferguson’s list went to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, followed by Carl Jung, Aldous Huxley, Abraham Maslow and Jiddu Krishnamurti, Annie Besant’s purported “messiah.” The American Teilhard Association was founded in 1962 at Fordham University, a private Jesuit research university in New York City, to study the work and thought of Teilhard de Chardin.[2]

Ultimately, Cybernetics, eugenics, Teilhard de Chardin’s “Noosphere,” Sri Aurobindo’s Supermind, as well as interest in modern computing, psychedelics and the occult, have combined in a modern obsession known as the Singularity, advanced by Google’s Ray Kurzweil, which, aligned with the pranksterism of Discordianism, fueled the emerging hacker culture, with the result being a disturbing political trend that swept Silicon Valley, which evolved into Transhumanism, a term first coined by the synarchist Jean Coutrot.[3] Teilhard is regarded as the “patron saint of the Internet” through his postulation that man would create the Noosphere, a supreme consciousness.[4] The organization where the twin paths of Cybernetics—the development of personal computers and the psychedelics of the CIA’s MK-Ultra “mind control” project—were united to culminate in Transhumanism, was Stanford Research Institute (SRI), later SRI International, founded in 1949 by trustees of Stanford University, to conduct research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, and private foundations.

Marilyn Ferguson, the author of the Aquarian Conspiracy, regarded as the “handbook of the New Age,” was a protégé of Willis Harman (1918 – 1997), who was listed as an influence in her book, and who from 1967 to 1984 served as the chairman of SRI. While at SRI, Harman hired Captain Al Hubbard as a “special investigative agent.”[5] Over the years, Hubbard, who had worked for the OSS during the war as a “Special Investigative Agent,” also reportedly worked for the Canadian Special Services, the US Justice Department and the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms. In 1955, Hubbard, known as the “Johnny Appleseed of LSD,” introduced both Humphry Osmond and Aldous Huxley to LSD, which considered more profound than the drugs detailed experimenting with in The Doors of Perception. Hubbard was also in contact with LSD evangelist CIA agent Timothy Leary who began privately purchasing large quantities of LSD as well.[6]

Harman was invited by astronaut Edgar Mitchell and Christopher Hegarty to join the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Sausalito in 1973, the year it was founded, together with ex-Nazi rocket scientist from NASA and Permindex member Wernher Von Braun and billionaire investor Paul Nathaniel Temple, Jr., as Chairman Emeritus.[7] Through his Three Swallows Foundation, Temple was a major funder of both IONS and The Fellowship, also known as The Family, an organization that has been foundational to the rise of the Christian Right in the United States.[8] Every year the Fellowship hosts the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, which each sitting president since Eisenhower has participated in. Mitchell, the sixth astronaut to walk on the moon, claimed to have undergone a cosmic consciousness experience on his return flight to earth. Under the inspiration of Teilhard de Chardin’s Noosphere, IONS was founded to encourage and conduct research on human potentials.

Marilyn Ferguson served on the IONS board of directors. According to Ferguson, throughout history there have been lone individuals “at the fringes of science or religion,” who believed that humanity might someday transcend narrow “normal” consciousness and ultimately transform the whole through the development of a “new mind.”[9] According to Ferguson, these traditions were first transmitted by “alchemists, Gnostics, cabalists, and hermetics,” and she names Meister Eckhart, Pico della Mirandola, Jacob Boehme, Emanuel Swedenborg and William Blake as important exemplars. “I will not cease from Mental Fight,” she quotes Blake as saying, “Till we have built Jerusalem/In England’s green and pleasant land.” She then notes that Blake, “like later mystics, saw the American and French revolutions as only initial steps toward worldwide liberation, spiritual as well as political.”[10] She notes that Swedenborg and Blake influenced the American Transcendatalists, starting with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau, and ultimately Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, John Dewey, the founders of the British Labor party (Fabians), Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

IONS plays a central role in Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol about Freemasonry. IONS, the novel claims, “conducts, sponsors, and collaborates on leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness, exploring phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor.”[11] According to Brown, these are ancient secrets that have been courageously preserved over the centuries by secret societies from persecution by the Catholic Church, and which represent latent potential in ourselves which can allow humans to become “as gods.” According to Brown, the “Lost Symbol,” the Holy Grail as it were, the great secret that has been kept from us over so many centuries, is the Bible. But, Brown explains, it’s not an traditional interpretation of the Bible, but a Gnostic one, and he quotes from occult artist and Swedeborgian William Blake who confessed, “Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.”

In May 1974, Harman had led an SRI study titled “Changing Images of Man.” The report was prepared by a team that included Margaret Mead, B. F. Skinner, Ervin Laszlo and Sir Geoffrey Vickers of British intelligence. Others involved in this project included Carl Rogers, James Fadiman, Ralph Metzner and Joseph Campbell. The stated aim of the study was to change the image of mankind from that of industrial progress to one of “spiritualism.” The report stressed the importance of the United States in promoting Masonic ideals, effectively creating the ideal Masonic state.[12] In Global Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century, a book sponsored by IONS, Harman remarked that, “we are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history—a change in the actual belief system of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.”[13] The answer, he posited, was a reconsideration of the empiricism of modern Western societies, and a return to the marriage between science and mysticism that was exemplified in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. According to Harman:

 

The essential premise of Freemasonry was that there are transcendental realms of reality in which we coexist, and of which we potentially can have conscious knowledge. While the patterns and forces of these realms are inaccessible to the physical senses, they are available for exploration through looking into the deep mind. They play important roles in shaping evolutionary and human events, and can be called upon for power and guidance.[14]

 

IONS’s list of Distinguished Advisors includes Deepak Chopra, Stanislav Grof, Michael Lerner, Russell Targ, Robert Thurman, Michael Harner and Michael Murphy, the founder of the Esalen Institute. Ralph Metzner participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Stanislav Grof, an important figure at Esalen, was one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and also interested in Shamanism. Three writers in particular are seen as promoting and spreading ideas related to shamanism and neoshamanism: Mircea Eliade, Carlos Castenada, and Michael Harner.[15] Castaneda was a close friend of a student of Idries Shah, Claudio Naranjo, who along with Oscar Ichazo, was a key figure in the Human Potential Movement. Castaneda influenced another Esalen teacher, anthropologist Michael Harner, founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and an early attendee of Anton LaVey’s and Kenneth Anger’s Magic Circle, which later became the Church of Satan.[16]

While at Berkeley, Michael Lerner, a Jewish-American political activist, became a leader in the student movement and chair of the Berkeley chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society.[17] In 1986, Lerner founded a magazine called Tikkun, named after Tikkun olam, the popular Jewish concept of “mending the world,” a term derived from Isaac Luria.[18] Lerner promotes the concept of Jewish Renewal, which endeavors to reinvigorate modern Judaism with Kabbalistic, Hasidic and musical practices. Robert Thurman and Timothy Leary’s ex-wife, fashion model Nena von Schlebrügge, were the parents of actress Uma Thurman. During her childhood, their family spent time in the Himalayan town of Almora, Uttarakhand, India, and the Dalai Lama, with whom Robert Thurman has long been close, once visited their home.

Until the CIA eventually acknowledged responsibility for them, under what is known as Project Stargate, remote-viewing experiments at SRI were funded by IONS.[19] Laser physicists and parapsychologists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff led a CIA/DIA-funded program at SRI to investigate paranormal abilities of Uri Geller, Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Joseph McMoneagle and others. At least three of the key remote-viewers at SRI—Hal Puthoff, Ingo Swann and Pat Price—were former leaders in Hubbard’s Church of Scientology. Puthoff, the SRI’s senior researcher, was once a leading Scientologist. Price, a former police chief, after being trained as a remote-viewer, went to work for the CIA. Ingo Swann, a New York artist, was a Class VII Operating Thetan and a founder of the Scientology Center in Los Angeles. Puthoff and Targ’s lab assistant was a Scientologist married to a minister of the church. When Swann joined SRI, he stated openly that fourteen “Clears” participated in the experiments.”[20] Swann went on to train remote-viewers at the Pentagon.[21]

 

Temple of Understanding

In 1975, Ewert Cousins, President of the American Teilhard Association, was one of the main organizers of Spiritual Summit Conference V of the Temple of Understanding at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the United Nations, and which included Mother Teresa, Sufi Master Pir Vilayat Khan, and Hopi Elder Grandfather David Monongye, and Sri Chinmoy offering the opening meditation of the final session in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at the UN.[22] Manhattan’s historic Cathedral of St. John the Divine, dedicated to St. John, traditionally revered by Freemasons, is replete with occult symbolism and often features unusual performances. The cathedral also hosts the Temple of Understanding, founded by Lucis Trust, ordinally Lucifer Trust, founded by Blavatsky’s successor, Alice Bailey. Held at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Temple called together leaders of the world’s religions to offer prayers, and invited the world’s leading artists to perform music, poetry and dance. Paul Moore Jr., the Bishop of New York and a secret bisexual, appointed James Parks Morton dean in 1972, who “transformed it from a religious backwater into a vibrant center for the arts, the homeless, circus performers, household pets, endangered animals and interfaith engagement.”[23] He invited in Roman Catholic priests, rabbis, imams and various leaders of other faiths. Among the guest preachers were the Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel and the Dalai Lama.[24]

The Cathedral also houses the Lindisfarne Center. Lindisfarne included Luciferian adept and New Age author David Spangler. In the 1970s, Spangler, an American student of Bailey’s literature, joined the British counterpart of the Esalen Institute, the Findhorn community, on the north coast of Scotland, which recognizes Alice Bailey as “prophet of the movement,” and developed its education program.[25] Spangler’s 1976 book, Revelation: the Birth of a New Age, became the early manifesto of both Findhorn and the New Age movement. Drawing on channeled messages received by himself and others at Findhorn, he declared that a New Age was beginning. According to Spangler, in the last half of the twentieth century, in part owing to astrological realignments, new cosmic spiritual energies were available that could bring humanity into contact with the masters of Blavatsky’s “Great White Brotherhood” and initiate a new era of light and love: the New Age. In Reflections on the Christ, to leave no doubt about true nature of these aspirations, Spangler wrote:

 

Lucifer, like Christ, stands at the door of man’s consciousness and knocks.  If man says, “Go away because I do not like what you represent, I am afraid of you,” Lucifer will play tricks on that fellow.  If man says, “Come in, and I will give to you the treat of my love and understanding and I will uplift you in the light and presence of the Christ, my outflow,” then Lucifer becomes something else again.  He becomes the being who carries that great treat, the ultimate treat, the light of wisdom....[26]

 

Like Ferguson’s The Aquarian Conspiracy, Spangler’s 1976 book, Revelation: the Birth of a New Age became regarded as the “handbook of the New Age.” Drawing on channeled messages received by himself and others at Findhorn, he declared that a New Age was beginning. It was already evident in the vast scientific advances and technological improvements that so separated twentieth-century humanity from previous generations. According to Spangler, in the last half of the twentieth century, in part owing to astrological realignments, new cosmic spiritual energies were available that could bring humanity into contact with the masters of the Great White Brotherhood and initiate a new era of light and love, the New Age. The Lindisfarne Center was founded in 1972 with funding from Laurance Rockefeller, brother to David Rockefeller, by cultural historian William Irwin Thompson, a former professor of humanities from MIT and Syracuse University.[27] Thompson said:

 

We have now a new spirituality, what has been called the New Age movement. The planetization of the esoteric has been going on for some time… This is now beginning to influence concepts of politics and community in ecology… This is the Gaia [Mother Earth] politique… planetary culture.” Thompson further stated that, the age of “the independent sovereign state, with the sovereign individual in his private property, [is] over, just as the Christian fundamentalist days are about to be over.[28]

 

Lindisfarne functioned as a sponsor of New Age events and lectures, as well as a think tank and retreat, similar to the Esalen Institute, with which it shared several members, like Gregory Bateson and Esalen founder Michael Murphy. Their aim is to participate in the emerging planetary consciousness, or Noosphere. In addition to Teilhard de Chardin, Thompson is influenced by Alfred North Whitehead, Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo and Marshall McLuhan, who is also celebrated in Ferguson’s The Aquarian Conspiracy. Lindisfarne has also been supported by the Lilly Endowment, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Rockefeller Foundation, and lists among its faculty members Amory Lovins, and Gaia theory biologist James Lovelock.[29] Mentioned as part of the Lindisfarne ideology are a long list of spiritual and esoteric traditions including yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese traditional medicine, Hermeticism, Celtic animism, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, geomancy, ley lines, Pythagoreanism, and ancient mystery religions.[30]

The Finance Director of Lindisfarne was Maurice Strong,[31] of the Club of Rome and the Aspen Institute,[32] who was also a Distinguished Advisor at IONS.[33] At a conference at the New Alchemy Institute in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Maurice Strong offered to donate land from his ranch in Crestone to Lindisfarne.[34] In about 1978, Strong and his wife Hanne Strong acquired an approximately 132,000-acre ranch in the San Luis Valley from Adnan Khashoggi.[35] A mystic had informed Maurice and his wife Hanna that the ranch, which they call “the Baca,” “would become the center for a new planetary order which would evolve from the economic collapse and environmental catastrophes that would sweep the globe in the years to come.”[36] The Strongs said they regarded the Baca, which they also refer to as “The Valley Of the Refuge Of World Truths,” as the paradigm for the entire planet.[37]

The first groups to join the Strongs in setting up operations at the site were the Aspen Institute and the Lindisfarne Association.[38] The Baca is replete with monasteries, and Ashram, Vedic temple, Native American shamans, Hindu temple, ziggurat, and subterranean Zen Buddhist center. Shirley MacLaine’s astrologer told her to move to the Baca, and she did.[39] Strong’s business, AZL Resources, reports Cyrus Mody, donated land around Baca to various religious, Indigenous, environmental, and New Age groups, while using those groups’ presence to sell lots to various elite like Robert McNamara of the World Bank, Mary and Laurance Rockefeller, and Najeeb Halaby, the former Pan-Am CEO and the king of Jordan’s father-in-law. Strong also arranged for the Aspen Institute to move some programs to Baca. In return, the Aspen Institute encouraged both its seminar participants and corporate donors to purchase Baca real estate from AZL.[40]

 

Club of Budapest

In 1993, in response to his experience with the Club of Rome, Ervin Laszlo, a member of Willis Harman’s “Changing Images of Man” project at SRI,[41] and a Distinguished Advisor at IONS,[42] founded the Club of Budapest. Other members of the Club of Budapest have included Willis Harman, Edgar Mitchell, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Elie Wiesel, Peter Gabriel, Robert Muller, Arthur C. Clarke, Peter Ustinov, Ravi Shankar, Vaclav Havel and Deepak Choprah. Sol Linowitz was also an officer of the World Future Society, where Barbara Marx Hubbard was a president, and Maurice Strong a director.[43] In 1961, Ferguson along with Abraham Maslow, renowned psychologist known for his theory of “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,” founded the Association for Humanistic Psychology, of which futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard was a past president. Hubbard has been called “the voice for conscious evolution…” by Deepak Chopra, and according to Buckminster Fuller, “There is no doubt in my mind that Barbara Marx Hubbard—who helped introduce the concept of futurism to society—is the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.”[44]

Barbara Marx Hubbard closed a section of her 1998 book Conscious Evolution with part of the “Great Invocation,” a Theosophical prayer from the Alice Bailey’s Lucis Trust: “When asked what I choose to be the outcome of the book, my answer is that it serve the fulfillment of the plan. ‘May Light and Love and Power restore the plan on Earth.’ That is my prayer.”[45] Hubbard ran for vice-president for the Democratic Party in 1984, and shared the following overt Masonic symbolism in her speech to the national convention:

 

Our forbears set for the vision. It is written on the dollar bill, as it is written in our hearts: E Pluribus Unum, “Out of Many One.” Novus Ordo Seclorum, “A New Order of the Ages.” You see the unfinished pyramid with the cosmic eye. This means, that when we combine our magnificent building power with our spirit and love, we will have a New World Order of the Ages.[46]

 

Another important personality in the field of transpersonal psychology, who collaborated with Hubbard, is Jean Houston, also a member of the Club of Rome.[47] Houston, who is notorious for her name-dropping, claimed to have been a friend of Abraham Maslow from a very young age, and that Margaret Mead was her friend and mentor.[48] She also claims that as a teenager she had gone for walks in Central Park with a “Mr. Tayer,” which she only realized later was Teilhard de Chardin.[49] After working with Timothy Leary at Harvard and his Millbrook estate in New York, Michael Hollingshead set up a New York-based project of his own together with Houston.[50] Their experiments with psychedelic drugs formed the core material for Robert Masters and Houston’s book The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience, modeled after the title of William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience. Masters and Houston were married in 1965, and soon became known for their work in the Human Potential Movement, establishing The Foundation for Mind Research, where she and Masters tested the ESP of subjects under the influence of LSD or psilocybin. Hollingshead was a contributor to the Psychedelic Review, and interviewed Discordian Robert Anton Wilson for High Times magazine in 1980.[51]

Jean Houston is also the founder and principal teacher, since 1983, of the Mystery School, now called the Renaissance of Spirit. As revealed in a book by Bob Woodward, during the Clinton presidential years, first lady Hillary Clinton became close with Houston who assisted her in communing with the deceased Eleanor Roosevelt and Gandhi.[52] In 1993, in her synthesis of political and social philosophy she was forming, Hillary Clinton included the “politics of meaning,” a concept developed by Michael Lerner, who featured her writing in his magazine Tikkun.[53]

Muller described Ferguson’s book as “A remarkable, epoch-making book. I consider it to be the Silent Spring of the next millennium.”[54] Muller developed the World Core Curriculum for which he was awarded the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 1989, based loosely based on Alice Bailey’s Education in the New Age. He also contributed to Alice Bailey’s magazine, The Beacon, and addressed Arcane School conferences.[55] Muller was the recipient of the Teilhard Foundation Award for his important contribution to shaping the UN, an “institution that functions so specifically in the spirit of the Noosphere.”[56] Muller, who served as Assistant Secretary-General of the UN for forty years, was also the former vice president of the Teilhard Center. Robert Muller wrote that, “Teilhard had always viewed the United Nations as the progressive institutional embodiment of his philosophy.”[57] He also noted:

 

…Teilhard de Chardin influenced his companion [Father de Breuvery], who inspired his colleagues, who started a rich process of global and long-term thinking in the UN, which affected many nations and people around the world. I have myself been deeply influenced by Teilhard.[58]

 

Activities of the Temple of Understanding included the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival, held in Oxford in 1988, and attended by 200 spiritual leaders, government representatives and scientists to discuss solutions to worldwide environmental problems. Speakers included the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Carl Sagan, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, and Gaia hypothesis scientist James Lovelock. As a result of the conference, the Soviet Union invited the Global Forum to convene an international meeting on critical survival issues. The Moscow conference, called the Global Forum on Environment and Development, took place in January 1990.[59]

 


[1] Michael Walzer “On Democratic Internationalism.” Dissent (Spring 2016). Retrieved from https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/democratic-internationalism-hungarian-revolution-irving-howe

[2] Winifred McCulloch. Short History of the American Teilhard Association (ANIMA Publications, 1979). Retrieved frrom https://teilharddechardin.org/wp-content/uploads/A-Short-History-of-the-ATA.pdf

[3] David Livingstone. Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Sabilillah Publications, 2015).

[4] Albert Jewell. Ageing, Spirituality, and Well-being (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004). p. 129; Ursula King, Joseph Needham. Teilhard de Chardin and Eastern Religions: Spirituality and Mysticism in an Evolutionary World. (Paulist Press, 2011) p. 413; Jeremy D. Johnson. “The Noosphere and Cosmic Christ: Happy Birthday Teilhard de Chardin.” Reality Sandwich (May 1, 2014).

[5] Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, The Sixties, and Beyond (Grove Press, 1985), p. 156.

[6] Ralph Metzner. The Ecstatic Adventure (New York: Macmillan, 1968).

[7] Jesse Hong Xiong. The Outline of Parapsychology (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2010), p. 190.

[8] Constance Cumbey. “‘The Family’ and its Hijacking of Evangelicalism.” News With Views ( August 16, 2008).

[9] Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy (Los Angeles: J.P. Archer, 1980), p. 45.

[10] Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy (Los Angeles: J.P. Archer, 1980), p. 47.

[11] Liliane Desjardins. The Imprint Journey: A Path of Lasting Transformation Into Your Authentic Self (Life Scripts Press, 2012).

[12] Picknett & Prince. The Stargate Conspiracy, p. 319.

[13] Willis Harman. Global Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century (Berrett-Koehler Publishers. 1998), p. 161.

[14] Ibid.

[15] Juan Scuro & Robin Rodd. “Neo-Shamanism.” Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions (Springer International Publishing, 2015).

[16] Lawrence Wright. “Sympathy for the Devil: It’s not easy being evil in a world that’s gone to hell.” Rolling Stone (September 5th, 1991).

[17] Richard Wright. “Whose FBI?” Open Court (1974). p. 177.

[18] Michael Kelly. “Saint Hillary.” The New York Times Magazine (May 23, 1993);  Priscilla Painton. “The Politics of What?” Time. (May 31, 1993).

[19] Jesse Hong Xiong. The Outline of Parapsychology (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2010), p. 190.

[20] Ingo Swann. “The Emergence of Project SCANATE— The First Espionage-Worthy Remote Viewing Experiment Requested by the CIA (Summer, 1973)” ms., sci.psychology.misc. newsgroup, posted January 24, 1996.

[21] Picknett & Prince. Stargate Conspiracy, p. 110.

[22] Kusumita P. Pedersen. “Thomas Berry and the Interfaith Movement.” Conference on Thomas Berry and “The Great Work” (Georgetown University, October 30-31, 2019). Retrieved from https://fore.yale.edu/files/kusumita_pedersen-georgetown.pdf

[23] Ari L. Goldman. “James Parks Morton, Dean Who Brought a Cathedral to Life, Dies at 89.” New York Times (January 7, 2020). Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/nyregion/james-morton-dead.html

[24] Ibid.

[25] Michael York. The Emerging Network: A Sociology of the New Age and Neo-pagan Movements (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), p. 35.

[26] “Who is Maurice Strong”. from Donald McAlvany’s Toward a New World Order. Retrieved from http://home.sprynet.com/~eastwood01/mstrong2.htm

[27] “The Lindisfarne Association.” Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Retrieved from https://www.rbf.org/about/our-history/timeline/lindisfarne-association

[28] William F. Jasper, “A New World Religion,” The New American Magazine (October 19, 1992).

[29] Jeffrey Hale Collins. Lindisfarne: Toward the Realization of Planetary Culture (PhD dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington, December 1982), pp. 134–136.

[30] Ibid., pp. pp. 14–18, 34–35.

[31] Charles Redenius. “The Lindisfarne Association: An Exemplary Community of the New Planetary Culture.” Journal of General Education, 37: 3 (1985), p. 254.

[32] Cyrus Mody. “ Maurice Strong, Conspiracy Theories, and the Pitfalls of Environmental Diplomacy.” NiCHE (May 21, 2024). Retrieved from https://niche-canada.org/2024/05/21/maurice-strong-conspiracy-theories-and-the-pitfalls-of-environmental-diplomacy

[33] “Distinguished Advisors.” IONS Directory. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20140701170347/http://noetic.org/directory/group/distinguished-advisors/

[34] Jeffrey Hale Collins. Lindisfarne: Toward the Realization of Planetary Culture (PhD dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington, December 1982), pp. 24–25, 43–44..

[35] Marci McDonald. Maclean’s (October 10, 1994), p. 51; cited in Henry Lamb. “Maurice Strong: The new guy in your future!” Eco-Logic (January, 1997). Retrieved from https://www.citizenreviewonline.org/august_2002/maurice_strong.htm

[36] Larry Bell. “Let's Be Very Clear Mr. Kerry: No Scientific Evidence Of 'Dangerous' Human Climate Influence Exists.” Forbes (Feb 24, 2014). Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2014/02/24/lets-be-very-clear-mr-kerry-no-scientific-evidence-of-dangerous-human-climate-influence-exists/

[37] “The Wizard Of the Baca Grande.” West (May 1990). Retrieved from http://home.sprynet.com/~eastwood01/mstrong2.htm

[38] Molly Ivins. “Expansion Blocked, Aspen Institute Is Leaving Its Namesake City.” New York Times (September 5, 1979). Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/05/archives/expansion-blocked-aspen-institute-is-leaving-its-namesake-city.html

[39] “The Wizard Of the Baca Grande.” West (May 1990). Retrieved from http://home.sprynet.com/~eastwood01/mstrong2.htm

[40] William E. Schmidt. “Some Question Aspen Institute Tie to Resort Sales.” New York Times (December 13, 1981); “Institute Needs Aspen, Should Compromise.” The Aspen Times (September 6, 1979). Barbara Haddad Ryan. “Cultural Activity Headed for Tiny Crestone.” Rocky Mountain News (September 9, 1979); cited in Cyrus Mody. “ Maurice Strong, Conspiracy Theories, and the Pitfalls of Environmental Diplomacy.” NiCHE (May 21, 2024). Retrieved from https://niche-canada.org/2024/05/21/maurice-strong-conspiracy-theories-and-the-pitfalls-of-environmental-diplomacy

[41] O.W. Markley & Willlis Harman. Changing Images of Man (Pergamon Press, 1982).

[42] “Distinguished Advisors.” IONS Directory. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20140701170347/http://noetic.org/directory/group/distinguished-advisors/

[43] “World Future Society Membership: Frequently Asked Questions.” World Future Society. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20060128101413/http://www.wfs.org/faq.htm

[44] “About Barbara Marx Hubbard,” Foundation for Consious Evolution. Retrieved from http://barbaramarxhubbard.com/barbara-marx-hubbard/

[45] Barbara Marx Hubbard. Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential (Novato, California: New World Library, 1998), p. 216; cited in Penn. False Dawn, p. 22.

[46] Barbara Marx Hubbard, 1984 Democratic National Convention Speech. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/D1FWXm-8FGs

[47] Constance Cumby, A Planned Deception (Shreveport LA: Huntington, 1983) pp. 185, 216.

[48] Scott London. “On Soul, Shadow and the American Psyche:: An Interview with Jean Houston.” Retrieved from http://www.scottlondon.com/interviews/houston.html

[49] Jean Houston. Moving Beyond the Pathology of History: Why We Need a Shift in Human Consciousness. Huffington Post (September 2, 2010).

[50] Michael Hollingshead. The Man Who Turned On the World. (New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1973).

[51] Michael Hollingshead (1980). “Robert Anton Wilson: The Author of The Illuminatus Trilogy Expounds on Multiple Realities, Guerrilla Ontology, LSD, Life Extension and Things that Go Bump in the Night.” High Times. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20090224140209/http://www.rawilsonfans.com/articles/HTinterview.htm

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