Unveils the spiritual meaning that fueled the artistic, political, and social revolutions of the 1960sHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tobias Churton is a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Freemasonry, and Rosicrucianism. Appointed Honorary Fellow of Exeter University in 2005, he holds a master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and is the author of many books, including Aleister Crowley in America and Occult Paris. He lives in the heart of England.
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Acknowledgments PART ONE ONE The Sixties--PHEW!--and Me TWO Pro and Anti: The Myth of Progress Change and Progress Seeds of ’60s Change PART TWO THREE Defining Terms: What Does “Spiritual Meaning” Mean? Spirit--What Does It Mean? How to Discern Spiritual Things FOUR As Above, So Below: Models of Spiritual Meaning in History Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803) Antoine Fabre d’Olivet (1767-1825) PART THREE FIVE Watertown SIX 1960: Dawn of the Era SEVEN Plastic Fantastic The Great Plastic, Push-Button, Robotic Space Race “We’re all going on a summer holiday . . .” EIGHT Psychology NINE Apocalypse Then Ban the Bomb Postscript . . . Far Out and Outta Sight TEN Education: Loosening the Bonds Dr. Spock Game-Change at School Education in the Movies ELEVEN Discomfiting Changes in Theology We’re More Popular than Jesus Now John “Hoppy” Hopkins and the London Free School Dame Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition TWELVE The Persistence of the Bible The Bible in Popular Culture Repression in Russia From Pilgrimages to Jesus Christ Superstar THIRTEEN Civil Rights James Baldwin A Few Generally Accepted Facts in Chronological Sequence PART FOUR FOURTEEN The Party’s Over FIFTEEN The Spiritual in Art in the Sixties: The Age of Space The Artists The Real Icon Yves Klein (1928-1962)--Prophet SIXTEEN The Spiritual in Orchestral, Film, and Jazz Music SEVENTEEN What the World Needs Now Is Love: The Spirit in Pop Music EIGHTEEN Cinema Cinema as It Was--in Just One Day Spiritual Values in Sixties Cinema NINETEEN Television Spiritual Television? A Day of TV in 1968 PART FIVE TWENTY Woman Freeing Helen “Birds” TWENTY-ONE Sexual Revolution Flower Power Pornography Homosexuality TWENTY-TWO Psychedelics Hashish LSD-25 Hip Gnosis TWENTY-THREE India Vedanta and Advaita Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (ca.1918-2008) Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) Swami Bhaktivedanta (1896-1977) TWENTY-FOUR Shiva: The Destroyer, the Uniter, the Transformer PART SIX TWENTY-FIVE The Turning Point--1965: The Aeon of the Child Made Manifest TWENTY-SIX Feeling Groovy: The West Coast The Human Be-In and Gathering of the Tribes The Levitation of the Pentagon TWENTY-SEVEN The Beast and the Six Six Sixties The Beast in Sixties America Wasserman’s Quest PART SEVEN TWENTY-EIGHT New York New York’s Art and Literature Scene Axis Bold as Love TWENTY-NINE 1969 I: No Peace for the Wicked The Amsterdam Bed-In THIRTY 1969 II: So Near and Yet So Far, or . . . What the Hell Went Wrong? Not So Easy Rider And Suddenly, It Was the Seventies THIRTY-ONE The Spiritual Meaning of the 1960s We Blew It Easy Rider Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments PART ONE ONE The Sixties--PHEW!--and Me TWO Pro and Anti: The Myth of Progress Change and Progress Seeds of ’60s Change PART TWO THREE Defining Terms: What Does “Spiritual Meaning” Mean? Spirit--What Does It Mean? How to Discern Spiritual Things FOUR As Above, So Below: Models of Spiritual Meaning in History Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803) Antoine Fabre d’Olivet (1767-1825) PART THREE FIVE Watertown SIX 1960: Dawn of the Era SEVEN Plastic Fantastic The Great Plastic, Push-Button, Robotic Space Race “We’re all going on a summer holiday . . .” EIGHT Psychology NINE Apocalypse Then Ban the Bomb Postscript . . . Far Out and Outta Sight TEN Education: Loosening the Bonds Dr. Spock Game-Change at School Education in the Movies ELEVEN Discomfiting Changes in Theology We’re More Popular than Jesus Now John “Hoppy” Hopkins and the London Free School Dame Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition TWELVE The Persistence of the Bible The Bible in Popular Culture Repression in Russia From Pilgrimages to Jesus Christ Superstar THIRTEEN Civil Rights James Baldwin A Few Generally Accepted Facts in Chronological Sequence PART FOUR FOURTEEN The Party’s Over FIFTEEN The Spiritual in Art in the Sixties: The Age of Space The Artists The Real Icon Yves Klein (1928-1962)--Prophet SIXTEEN The Spiritual in Orchestral, Film, and Jazz Music SEVENTEEN What the World Needs Now Is Love: The Spirit in Pop Music EIGHTEEN Cinema Cinema as It Was--in Just One Day Spiritual Values in Sixties Cinema NINETEEN Television Spiritual Television? A Day of TV in 1968 PART FIVE TWENTY Woman Freeing Helen “Birds” TWENTY-ONE Sexual Revolution Flower Power Pornography Homosexuality TWENTY-TWO Psychedelics Hashish LSD-25 Hip Gnosis TWENTY-THREE India Vedanta and Advaita Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (ca.1918-2008) Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) Swami Bhaktivedanta (1896-1977) TWENTY-FOUR Shiva: The Destroyer, the Uniter, the Transformer PART SIX TWENTY-FIVE The Turning Point--1965: The Aeon of the Child Made Manifest TWENTY-SIX Feeling Groovy: The West Coast The Human Be-In and Gathering of the Tribes The Levitation of the Pentagon TWENTY-SEVEN The Beast and the Six Six Sixties The Beast in Sixties America Wasserman’s Quest PART SEVEN TWENTY-EIGHT New York New York’s Art and Literature Scene Axis Bold as Love TWENTY-NINE 1969 I: No Peace for the Wicked The Amsterdam Bed-In THIRTY 1969 II: So Near and Yet So Far, or . . . What the Hell Went Wrong? Not So Easy Rider And Suddenly, It Was the Seventies THIRTY-ONE The Spiritual Meaning of the 1960s We Blew It Easy Rider Notes Bibliography Index
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