Turn Off Your Mind by Gary Lachman
The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius
This provocative cultural history traces how the 1960s spiritual revolution—its psychedelics, Eastern gurus and search for higher consciousness—drew on older occult currents and, paradoxically, spawned new forms of authoritarianism and conformity. By following key figures and movements, it shows how yearnings for transcendence blended with narcissism, magical thinking and charismatic control, producing exploitation, cultlike behavior and the erosion of emancipatory ideals. The book argues that this dark underside helps explain why the promise of the Age of Aquarius largely dissolved into commodified spirituality, political quietism and disillusionment.
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- 2001
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