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illustrations FIGURES (All photographs by Adrian Ivakhiv, except where noted.) Figure 2.1. Contemporary discourses of nature 37 Figure 2.2. Interdiscursive relations between New Age culture, scientific/academic culture, and popular culture 40 Figure 2.3. New Age and ecospiritual discourses of nature 42 Figure 4.1. View of the “island” from Joseph of Arimathea’s alleged resting spot 66 Figure 4.2. Amid the ruins: Glastonbury Abbey 68 Figure 4.3. By the Goddess Tree outside the White Spring Café 71 Figure 4.4. Climbing the Tor 72 Figure 4.5. Hare Krishna, Hare Rama: celebrants wind their way through Glastonbury 87 Figure 4.6. Glastonbury Tor: a nice place to rest 92 Figure 5.1. Mapping of Glastonbury place-images and -myths 94 Figure 5.2. One of the “Tor burrs” (with votive offerings on tree), center point of Kathy Jones’s maze walks 117 Figure 5.3. Market Cross, High Street 127 Figure 5.4. National Trust donation box at foot of the Tor 129 Figure 6.1. Passing Bell Rock 144 Figure 6.2. Looking up to Schnebly Hill 147 Figure 6.3. “Stage Stop,” uptown Sedona 157 Figure 6.4. Capitol Butte (Thunder Mountain) looming over West Sedona 160 Figure 7.1. Celebrating the 12:12 at Cathedral Rock 179 Figure 7.2. Medicine wheel at the Airport vortex 183 Figure 7.3. Outside Enchantment Resort, Boynton Canyon 195 Figure 7.4. Satan’s knuckles? 199 Figure 7.5. No bridges here: Cathedral Rock at Red Rock Crossing 203 Figure 7.6. Mexican man with son selling rocks in the parking lot of Boynton Canyon 208 illustrations viii MAPS AND TABLES Map 4.1. Somerset County 75 Map 4.2. Glastonbury Peninsula contour map. Courtesy of Nicholas R. Mann 75 Map 5.1. “Michael and Mary” energy currents, Glastonbury Tor. Courtesy of Gothic Image Publications 109 Map 5.2. Glastonbury area, Zodiac shaded 113 Map 5.3. Glastonbury Zodiac 114 Map 5.4. Phoenix figure, Glastonbury Zodiac. Courtesy of Nicholas R. Mann 115 Map 7.1. Sedona area. Note Y formed by routes 89A and 179 182 Map 7.2. Sedona chakra association sites. Courtesy of Light Technology Publishing 190 Map 7.3. Sedona interdimensional access points. Courtesy of Light Technology Publishing 191 Table 5.1. Glastonbury place-images and -myths 95–98 Table 6.1. Sedona place-images and -myths 169–172 ...

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