Tobias Churton

The Spiritual Meaning of the Sixties

The Magic, Myth, and Music of the Decade That Changed the World

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Produktbeschreibung

Unveils the spiritual meaning that fueled the artistic, political, and social revolutions of the 1960s

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 811g
• ISBN-13: 9781620557112
• ISBN-10: 1620557118
• Artikelnr.: 50910051

Autorenporträt

Tobias Churton is Britain’s leading scholar of Western Esotericism, a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Rosicrucianism. He is a filmmaker and the founding editor of the magazine Freemasonry Today. An Honorary Fellow of Exeter University, where he is faculty lecturer in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, he holds a master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and created the award-winning documentary series and accompanying book The Gnostics, as well as several other films on Christian doctrine, mysticism, and magical folklore. The author of many books, including Gnostic Philosophy, The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians, and Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin, he lives in England.

Inhaltsangabe

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