Search Results for “League for Spiritual discovery”

League For Spiritual Discovery

LEAGUE FOR SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY TIMELINE 1920 (October 22) Timothy Leary was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1960 (Summer) Leary, at the time a PhD and psychology lecturer at Harvard University, ingested psychedelic mushrooms while on vacation in Mexico. 1960-1963 The Harvard Psilocybin Project conducted a series of experiments by giving psilocybin to volunteers. 1961 Leary ingested the powerful psychedelic LSD-25 for the first time. The Harvard Psilocybin Project began to substitute LSD for psilocybin in some of its experiments. 1962-1963 Leary, his Harvard colleague Richard Alpert, and other members of the Harvard Psilocybin Project established the International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF) as a not-for-profit organization that sought to continue the group’s research on psychedelics in a mystical and religious direction. 1963 Leary and Alpert were dismissed from the Harvard faculty.…

The Neo-American Church

NEO-AMERICAN CHURCH TIMELINE 1928 (April 17): Arthur J. Kleps was born in New York City. 1960: High school and prison psychologist Arthur (Art) Kleps and his wife Sally first experimented with the psychedelic substance mescaline and had transformative experiences. 1963 (November 1): The Neo-American Church (NAC) was founded by Kleps and incorporated in California. 1963 (December): After reading an account of psychedelic researchers Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert moving to the Hitchcock estate in Millbrook, NY, Kleps wrote to Leary and was invited to visit for the first of many times. 1964 (Winter): Kleps was fired from his job as a school psychologist for distributing a memo he had written suggesting that marijuana use was not dangerous. Kleps began experimenting with LSD at this time. 1965 (April): The NAC rented…

Teaching and Learning Resources

T&L RESOURCES The resources listed in this section of the Teaching &Learning Project offer a variety of materials useful in preparing and delivering courses in the area of alternative and emerging religious and spiritual movements. Course Syllabi Authored Course Texts Edited Volumes Journals, Blogs, Websites, Academic Associations Individual Religious and Spiritual Traditions Donald Westbrook. 2022. L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Documentaries Dereck Daschke and Michael Ashcraft. 2005. New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader. New York: New York University Press. The Teaching Process In addition to the titles listed here, the American Academy of Religion sponsors a book series on Teaching Religious Studies W. Michael Ashcraft. 2019. A Historical Introduction to the Study of New Religious Movements. New York: Routledge. David G. Bromley, ed. 2007. Teaching…

Teaching & Learning Course Resources

COURSE RESOURCES The resources listed in this section of the Teaching &Learning Project represent the most recent available volumes are are intended primarily for academics organizing courses on alternative and emerging religious/spiritual movements. Recent Authored Course Texts Lorne. Dawson. 2017. Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements. Toronto: Oxford University. Joseph Laycock. 2022. New Religious Movements: The Basics. New York: Routledge. Hugh Urban. 2015. New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America. Berkeley: University of California Press. Recent Edited Volumes Eileen Barker and Beth Singler, eds. 2021. Radical Transformations in Minority Religions. New York: Routledge. Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis, eds. 2016. Sexuality and New Religious Movements. ‎ London: Palgrave Macmillan. Emily Suzanne Clark and Brad Stoddard. 2019. Race and New…

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z*** *** For an alternative directory organized by sets of related profiles, see Entries By Category *** All special projects are indexed individually. A Abramovic, Marina Adidam Adi Da Samraj A COURSE IN MIRACLES A Course in Miracles | Marianne Williamson Aetherius Society AFRICA Faith of Unity | Good News International Ministries | Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments | Redeemed Christian Church of God | Shashemene | Synagogue Church of All Nations | Zar Spirit Possession in Central Sudan | Zion Christian Church | AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITIONS African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem ! Father Divine | Moorish Science Temple of America | Mother…

Brotherhood of Eternal Love

BROTHERHOOD OF ETERNAL LOVE TIMELINE 1965 (Fall): John Griggs robbed a Hollywood producer of LSD. He used the psychedelic drug for the first time shortly thereafter. 1966 (October 11): Brotherhood of Eternal Love registered as a church in California, with LSD used as a sacrament. 1966 (December): Brotherhood would move to Laguna Beach after a fire burned down their church in Modjeska Canyon 1968 (December): The United States Senate amended the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ban LSD from use. 1968 (December 26): Timothy Leary was arrested in Laguna Beach for marijuana possession. 1969 (August 26): John Griggs died of what many believed to be an overdose; he was twenty-five years old. 1970 (September 12) Leary broke out of prison, with the help of the group the Weather Underground.…

Halcyon (California)

HALCYON TIMELINE 1893 (summer): The Syracuse Branch of the Theosophical Society formed. 1897 (January 26): Dower was initiated into the Onondaga Turtle Clan. 1897: The Syracuse Branch joined the Theosophical Society Six Nation Territorial Committee for active propaganda work in favor of supporting traditional Native American spirituality. 1898 (November 15): The Temple was founded in Syracuse, New York by Francia A. LaDue and William H. Dower. 1899 (May): The Exoteric “Temples of Brotherhood” that agitated for a model of government based on the Iroquois League was founded in 1900 and called “League of Brotherhoods.” 1899 (June): Francia LaDue “Blue Star’s” book Beacon Fires was published. 1900: The Temple published plans for the building of a new circular city. 1900 (June 1): The first issue of the group’s periodical, The Temple…

Siddha Yoga

SIDDHA YOGA TIMELINE 1908: Swami Muktananda (birth name, Krishna), known to his followers simply as Baba, was born in Karnataka State, India. 1923: At age fifteen, Muktananda, then Krishna, first saw his future Guru Bhagavan Nityananda, and soon after left home in search of a spiritual life. 1947: Muktananda received Shaktipat (spiritual initiation) from his Guru Bhagawan Nityananda. Over the next decade Muktananda spent his time living and meditating in a small hut in the village of Yeola, Maharashtra. 1956: Bhagawan Nityananda gave Muktananda a small parcel of land a few kilometres from his own ashram where Muktananda built a small hut with and cultivated a rose garden. 1961 (August 8): Muktananda’s Guru, Bhagawan Nityananda, died. The death of Bhagawan Nityananda left multiple successors, including Muktananda, to what is now…

Turing Church

TURING CHURCH TIMELINE 1957: Turing Church founder Giulio Prisco was born in Naples, Italy. 1998: The World Transhumanist Association was founded. 2002: Prisco joined the Board of Directors of the World Transhumanist Association. 2004: The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies was founded, with Prisco serving on the Board of Directors. 2008 (June 14): The first meeting of The Order of Cosmic Engineers was held at Silvermoon city in the online game World of Warcraft. 2008 (July 20): The second meeting of the Order of Cosmic Engineers was held at the Terasem Amphitheater in Second Life. 2009: Prisco collaborated with Ben Goertzel in developing Ten Cosmist Convictions. 2010 (October 1): Prisco gave a presentation about the Turing Church at the Transhumanism and Spirituality Conference. 2010 (November 20): The Turing Church…