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is 378–17. It is further analyzed in Rabbi Yonassan Gershom’s From Ashes to Healing (A.R.E. Press, 1996). Martin Ebon is quoted from Prophecy in Our Time (New American Library, 1968). The extended quote from the October 18, 1923, reading for Arthur Lammers (5717–2) is from a revised but faithful adaptation of the original by Thomas Sugrue in his Cayce biography, There Is a River (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1942). Quotes from Lammers are also taken from Sugrue, who did not observe the events recorded but was an intimate of the Cayce circle. J. Gordon Melton made a comprehensive study of Cayce’s past-life readings in “Edgar Cayce and Reincarnation,” Journal of Cayce Studies (February 1999). The Elder Brother by Gregory Tillett (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982) is a helpful source on Charles Webster Leadbeater, who is also written about in Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening by Mary Lutyens (Shambhala, 1975) and Star in the East: Krishnamurti and the Invention of a Messiah by Roland Vernon (Palgrave, 2000). William Sloane is quoted from “Publishing Prophets for Profit” by Nora Ephron, The New York Times, 8/11/68. Margueritte Harmon Bro’s articles are “Explain It As You Will,” The Christian Century, 6/2/43, and “Miracle Man of Virginia Beach,” Coronet, September 1943. Life magazine’s coverage of the Bridey Murphy phenomenon is from 3/19/56. Cayce’s statements on patience and visualization are from reading 705–2. His correspondence with his cousin appears in the supplementary material to reading 1089–2, dated 12/26/35; 1/5/36; and 1/9/36. I am grateful to K. Paul Johnson’s excellent Edgar Cayce in Context for initially directing me to that material.

Epilogue: Aquarius Rising

Sources on Ray Palmer and Richard Shaver include Bruce Lanier Wright’s outstanding article, Fear Down Below, initially posted in 2000 on www.softcom.net (and presently off-line). Also helpful is Walter Kafton-Minkel’s chapter on Palmer from Subterranean Worlds (Loompanics, 1989) and Jerome Clark’s “UFO Report” column from Fate magazine (August 1991). Palmer is quoted from Mystic magazine, November 1953 and April 1956. Clark wrote a singularly excellent history of Fate in Fortean Times No. 237. Jacob Needleman is quoted from The New Religions (Doubleday, 1970). Sources on the career of Eden Gray include A History of the Occult Tarot, 1870–1970, by Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett (Duckworth, 2002); Gray’s obituary from the Chicago Tribune, 1/25/99; Mary K. Greer’s “Tarot Blog” of 3/27/08; federal census data; and Gray’s books, A Complete Guide to the Tarot (Crown, 1970) and Mastering the Tarot (Crown, 1971). She is quoted from the latter. Sources on the career of Gerald Gardner include Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton (Oxford University Press, 2001), Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler (Penguin/Arkana, 1997), An ABC of Witchcraft by Doreen Valiente (Phoenix Publishing, 1973), Gerald Gardner: Witch by J. L. Bracelin (Octagon Press, 1960), and an annotated edition of Gardner’s 1954 Witchcraft Today (Citadel Press, 2004). Useful details on the artistic influences the Beatles found on their trip to Rishikesh appear in With the Beatles by Lewis Lapham (Melville House, 2005). On the growth of Zen, I have benefited from Needleman (1970). For the holes in Castaneda’s background story, see “Don Juan and the Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” Time magazine, 3/5/73. Seligson’s account of Linda Goodman is from The New York Times, 9/28/69. Ben Bradlee is quoted from Penelope McMillan, Los Angeles Times, 6/5/85. On A Course in Miracles, I have benefited from D. Patrick Miller’s pamphlet, “A Different Kind of Miracle” (Fearless Books, 2005). Jeffrey J. Kripal’s outstanding Esalen (University of Chicago Press, 2007) explores the history of this influential growth center in a manner that exceeds my scope here. Material on the U.S. Army is from “Spiritual Concepts Drawing a Different Breed of Adherent” by Robert Lindsey, The New York Times, 9/29/86.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

An author stands on the shoulders of his editors, and I have been blessed with four at different stages