Category: New Age
Jesus Freak Documentary
A fascinating time capsule from 1971. Thirty minutes long, but watch at least the first five or so.Traveling Gaia Project
New Age Space Marbles will save the world.TRAVELING GAIA ENGLISH Ver. from TETSU-LOW on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Wed Dec 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Crafts, New Age, Performance Art
Category: Crafts, New Age, Performance Art
Summum
A visit to their site will be time well spent.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Animals, Business, Products, Death, Eccentrics, Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Pets, Religion, Lawsuits, Myths and Fairytales
Category: Animals, Business, Products, Death, Eccentrics, Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Pets, Religion, Lawsuits, Myths and Fairytales
The Elves of Iceland
Maybe the Icelandic banking meltdown can be remedied with pots of elvish gold.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Nov 10, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Cryptozoology, Fictional Monsters, Eccentrics, New Age, Paranormal, Regionalism, Religion, Foreign Customs, Europe
Category: Cryptozoology, Fictional Monsters, Eccentrics, New Age, Paranormal, Regionalism, Religion, Foreign Customs, Europe
Marilyn Ferguson, RIP
Where would WEIRD UNIVERSE be without the New Age Movement, a belief system that has supplied us with so many great wacky incidents? Let us then pause a moment to honor the passing of Marilyn Ferguson, the woman credited with catalyzing that nascent trend toward gullible goofiness.Here she is below in a 1992 interview, with a fellow who has a serious priest-wannabe look going on.
The Academy of Mystic Arts
[From Amazing Science Fiction magazine for August 1973.]The "Academy for Mystic Arts" which sponsored this ad seems no longer to exist, although there are other, newer organizations with that name. The original Academy has left very few traces behind on the internet, although one lead seems to point to a connection with the famed astrologer named Zolar.
I love the testimony at the end about how relations with the boyfriend have improved. Well, of course they have--you put a zombie spell on him!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Oct 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: New Age, Paranormal, Advertising, 1970's
Category: New Age, Paranormal, Advertising, 1970's
The Mulabhanda Cushion
But if you're not an accomplished yogi yet, you might want one of these comfy little pillows shaped just right to help you.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Oct 09, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Body, Business, Products, Human Marvels, New Age, Foreign Customs
Category: Body, Business, Products, Human Marvels, New Age, Foreign Customs
Dion Fortune
Collecting novels of the fantastic as I do, I eventually and inevitably came across those of Dion Fortune, and bought a few. To this day, they remain untracked by my eyes. Nonetheless, I was sensitized to her name, and could spot her non-fiction selection Psychic Self-Defence readily on the shelf of a used-book store and snatch it up. A bargain at $5.00, I'm sure!I haven't read it yet, but I'm much looking forward to learning how to protect myself against various types of intrusive mind assaults. Sample a few pages yourselves below.
And thanks to Google Books, you can read the whole thing online here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Sep 26, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: New Age, Paranormal, Self-help Schemes, Psychology, Books, 1930's
Category: New Age, Paranormal, Self-help Schemes, Psychology, Books, 1930's
World D
Here's another strange book I purchased but have not yet read. The real author is Joseph K. Heydon, using the pen-name of Hal Trevarthen. Time has swallowed up all details related to Heydon and his book, leaving us only with the text itself.Here's the description from the amazingly ugly dustjacket.
Here's the title page, followed by a sample of the actual bafflegab inside.
Category: Aliens, Eccentrics, Government, Inventions, Literature, Books, Science Fiction, Writers, Nature, New Age, Paranormal, Pop Culture, Yesterday's Tomorrows, Self-help Schemes, Science, Psychology, Foreign Customs, 1930's

Category: Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Drugs, Eccentrics, Family, Children, Parents, Hygiene, Nature, New Age, Pop Culture, Yesterday's Tomorrows, Religion, 1970's, Facial Hair