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Esalen
Esselen People
~2600 BC
Used river and hotsprings.
Mike Murphy
Grandson of first owner.
Goes to Stanford, hears lecture from Spiegelberg.
Becomes Philosophy Major
Army, Puerto Rico.
Drops out.
Goes to Oroville, likes it.
Dick Price
Wrestling scholarship in Stanford.
Goes to Harvard, hates it.
Air Force, goes to Stanford, takes classes with Spiegelberg.
Hangs out with beatniks.
Weird experiences with meditations, mental institution.
Rooms in AAoAS
Frederic Spiegelberg
Starts American Academy of Asian Studies.
The Religion of No Religion
Basic Hinduism
Brahman is Atman.
Human Potential Movement
Aldous Huxley
Mix with Eastern Religions.
Nature Spirituality
God beyond the God.
God is no "Thing"
God in nature in yourself.

Nobody Captures the Flag

No one symbol to unify group.
No one figured it out.

Synchronicity
Jung
Universe conspires to send messeges.
Life, God, Spirit is in everything.
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Californian Christianity
Mainline v. Evangelicals
Mainline: Baptist, Methodists, Presbyterian.
Evangelical: Non-affiliated with mainline.
Evangelical rising slightly over last 40years, while mainline has radica
lly shrunk.
Derivation of Evangelical
Greek Evangellion: Sharing Good News.
Active sharing of faith.

Three forms of Californian Christianity

Pentecostal, Fundamentalist, & Personal Relationship Christian.
Pentecost in Acts of the Apostles
50th day after Jesus' Death.
William Seymour
1906 starts movement after seeing minister in Texas talk about e
arly church.
Son of slaves.
Azusa Street Revival
Holy Drunkenness
Speaking in Tongues
Fundamentalism
The Challenge of Modernity
Threat of modernity--attack of credibility of the Bible.
Fundamentals, a Testimony of Truth by the Stewart bothers in 191
0.
In-errancy/infallibility of the Bible
Bible is the source of all truth.
Must be trusted.
All or nothing.
Personal Relationship Christianity
Roots of PRC in Hippies
Lonnie Frisbee
You don't know Jesus
Jesus as a counter-culture-revolutionary-hero
Jesus People
Traits of PRC
God is unconditional love.
God wants a intimate relationship with you.
God cares about every detail of your life.
Bible is a love letter to you personally.
Jesus is about relationship, and against religion.
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Scientology
Heretic v. Orthodox
Cult, Sect, Denomination
L Ron Hubbard
1911
Drops out of college, becomes a sci-fi writer.
Publishes Dianetics in S.F. Magazine.
Dianetics

Engrams
Mental memory traces that block analytical thought.
Reactive/Analytic Mind
Reactive is based on engrams.
Analytic is your true self.
The Time Track
The Clear
Free of your reactive mind full of engrams.
Auditing
Sensing engrams and removing them.
Emeter
Measures resistance, telling you where engrams are.
The ARC Triangle
Affinity--emotional response, identify:
Reality, then you can
Communication.
The KRC Triangle
Knowledge, leads to
Responsibility, leads to
Control.
The Scientology Symbol
S and two triangles.
Scientology on Psychiatry and Psychopathic drugs
Thetan
Soul.
M.E.S.T.
Our universe
Matter, Energy, Space, Time
Myths of Origin
Operating Thetan
Raise level of Thetan
Eight Dynamics
1. Individual Survival.
2. Sexual Reproduction and Family.
3. Group and Nation Survival.
4. Species Survival.
5. All Life Forms Survival.
6. Physical Universe.
7. Spirit
8. Through oneness with eternity/Supreme Being.
Symbol of 8fold Cross
Sea Org
Research.
Hubbard head in 1966.

Celebrity Center
Scientology and other religions
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Californian Cults
New Religious Movements
Non-pejorative term for cult.
Edge of society.
The Source Family
L.A. based movement.
Father Yod
James Baker
Children of God
-The Family
Huntington beach in 1968
PRC.
Socialist communes.
Protested at churches in red robes.
David Berg
Well-known minister parents.
End times coming, true believers separated.
True believers are hippies: Lost sheep of the Counter-Culture.
Went to Zerby after leaving wife.
Churchianity
Bad Christianity. Focus on Church, not Jesus.
Flirty Fishing
1974 2400 members New design
Sharing Jesus through sex.
>300 babies born. Homeschooled children.
Nannies had sex with children.
The Law of Love
Share love of God through sex.
Supersedes all other biblical commandments except homosexuality.
The Family of Love
Reforms of Stage 2 of the Family
1978 Disbands Children. Begins Family.
After Berg's death, everyone can prophecy
Heaven

s Gate
Applewhite/Nettles
Founders. Parents were ministers.
Applewhite was music professor after studying to be a minister.
Nurse to cure him of homosexuality was Nettles.
Decide the two were close in a previous life.
Decide that the two are possessed spirit beings from the next le

vel.
Decide they are the two witnesses in Revelation.
Go to jail and have visions of UFO.
In '75 get a few hundred followers.
Live in Christian Commune.
Ti & Do
Names for the two.
Away Team
Aliens have an away-team that will come and tag people.
Spiritual beings in a human body.
1985 Nettles dies.
Applewhite decides that Nettles was the Alien Incarnate Father.
Hale-Bopp Comet
Ti is coming with Hale-Bopp.
38 people commit suicide.
Jim Jones
Parents preachers in KKK
Charismatic Leader.
Feared Nuclear Holocaust.
Starts Christian commune in ukiah
The People s Temple
Socialism, all become "human".
1977 SF Chronicle names humanitarian of the year.
LA times investigates.
Moves to Guyana.
After Nuclear holocaust, humanity restarts in Guyana.
Investigations Community.
Drink the Cool Aid"