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| 251 Abhayananda. See Trout, Stan Abhinavagupta, 113 absolute. See Brahman/absolute/ultimate reality abuse(s), 128; and absolute authority, 116; financial, 126; Internet’s role in exposing, 108, 128, 130, 158, 221; open discussion about, 131; physical, 104, 107, 115, 120–121, 126; sexual, 104, 107, 115, 124, 126 acculturation, 23–25 Adam, William, 24 Adams, John, 22, 23 adhikarin, 84–85 Adi Da, 8 Ahlstrom, Sydney, xi, 21, 31–32, 188 Alpert, Richard. See Ram Dass Amacchi, 155 Amrit Desai, 116–117, 169–170 Ananda Sangha, 64 Anthony, Dick, 141–142, 222, 225 archetypes, 143, 158, 165, 206 Anandamoy, Brother, 144–145 Arnold, Edwin, 25 Art of Living Foundation, 14, 235n8 Arya Mission Institution, 66 Assagioli, Roberto, 47, 175 astral body, 69, 210 astrology, 49, 68, 102, 201, 202 atman. See Self aura(s), 30, 98, 143, 223 Aurobindo, Sri, 229–230 Autobiography of a Yogi, 56, 69, 71, 138–140 avatar(s), 15, 37, 192 axis mundi, 201 Babaji, 59, 63, 65, 66, 149 baby boomers, 41–42, 122, 219 Bainbridge, William S., 186 Ballard, Edna, 31 Ballard, Guy, 31 Barnard, G. William, 179 Barnhart, Bruno, 4 Baumer, Bettina, 137 Beatles, 27, 83 Beats, 40, 43 Bellah, Robert, 41–42, 240n12 Bengali/Hindu Renaissance, 14, 17, 37; Hindu reformers in, 17, 23 Benson, Herbert, 87, 100 Besant, Annie, 30 Bhagavad-Gita, 4, 17, 25, 29, 30, 57, 58, 66, 67, 84, 195, 217, 232 bhakti, 20, 38, 61 Bhakti Yoga, 15 bias: anti-intellectual, 22; author’s, x; insider and outsider, x, xi, xii; in scientific studies, 101 Bible, 61, 67, 68, 191, 192 bioenergetics, 47 Blavatsky, Helena, 29–30, 36 Brahma, 91, 192 Brahman/absolute/ultimate reality, 7, 9, 15, 16, 18, 28, 32, 37, 39, 40, 112, 137, 142, 151, 192–193, 201, 216 Brahmo Samaj, 23, 24, 25, 34 breath. See prana Bridges, Joan “Radha,” 130–131, 158 Brooks, Douglas, 89, 123 Brown, Tina, 127 Buddhism, 43; and establishment of HIMMs, 50; and New Thought, 33; and Theosophy, 220, 225; and transpersonal psychology, 48 Butler, Levi, 104 Caldwell, Sarah, 131 Index 252 | Index caste/varna, 17, 20, 84, 86, 90, 196; Brahmin, 8, 19, 28, 65, 84, 85, 86, 109; kayastha, 84 Catholicism. See Roman Catholicism celibate. See renunciation/renuciate/ celibate Cenkner, William, 137 chakra, 16, 70, 143, 149, 171, 173, 180 channeler(s), 45, 49, 50 Channing, William Ellery, 21, 24 Chidvilasananda. See Gurumayi children (and HIMMs), 129, 218 chit. See consciousness Christ. See Jesus Christianity, 42, 65, 187–189, 223–224; conservative, 241n11; and conversion, 67; ecstatic, 22; and Emerson, 28, 29; Gnostic , 227, 228; and HIMMs practitioners, 192; and Hinduism, 4, 17, 67; liberal, 22, 23; and Ramakrishna Mission, 38; rational, 22; and sin, 37; and SRF, 61; and Vivekananda, 34. See also Protestantism; Roman Catholicism Christians, 136, 210, 211, 218, 233 Christian Science, 39 Church of Truth, 49 Clooney, Francis, x, 5, 233 Cohen, Andrew, 116–117 consciousness, 15; Christ, 32; cosmic, 91, 182; God-, 194; God as, 8; growth of, 49; guru as, 160; higher states of, 8, 46, 47, 90, 109, 178, 182–185: subtle, 187; transcendental , 100, 173, 177; of unity, 4, 94, 108, 164, 167, 183; world as, 28 contemplation, 5, 125, 216 Cook, Joseph, 34 creed (of HIMMs), 197–198 cult(s), x, 224, 236 Dalai Lama, 225 Davis, Roy Eugene, 64 Daya Mata, Sri (Faye Wright), 6, 63, 69, 75, 76 death, attitudes toward, 209–212 Deism, 22 deity(s), 16, 20, 89; chosen (ishta-devata), 65; and Tantra, 91 DeNaro, Anthony, 101 deva, 182 Devayani, 120 Devi. See Goddess Devotee/disciple, 15; and keeping secrets, 128; vs. student, 109, 125 Dhirananda, Swami, 60, 92 Dillbeck, Michael, 102 Divine Science, 49 divinity: as external, 8; of humans, 32; within, 33 dogma, attitudes toward, 21, 44, 45 Dome (TM), ix, 10, 209, 215; picture of, 95, 96 Douglas, Mary, 207 Dravidian culture, 18 drug(s): experimentation, 45–47; marijuana , 27; psychedelic, 27, 45, 85 dualism, 211; East/West, 44; political, 42 Durgananda, Swami (now Sally Kempton), 120, 238n3 Dyer, Wayne, 46 Edwards, Jonathan, 21–22 ego, 78, 95, 116, 184, 206–208, 210 Einstein, Albert, 102 Eliade, Mircea, 198, 201 Ellwood, Robert, 188, 195, 228 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 25, 26, 27, 28, 34, 38 Encinitas, CA, 62, 73, 76, 135, 230 encounter group(s), 43, 46, 47 energization exercises, 59 enlightenment (moksha/liberation/selfrealization / God-realization), 4, 8, 9, 31, 32, 44, 48, 59, 63, 66, 82, 84–5, 94, 97, 110, 194, 219, 222, 227...

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