VLVL DL and Frenesi: "It wasn't politics"

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Monroe" <monrovius at yahoo.com>
To: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: VLVL DL and Frenesi: "It wasn't politics"


> Er, not to be a wise guy, but ...
>
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a general impression that there was a whole
> > panoply of kooky "self-help" ranches and ashrams,
> > particularly in California, Colorado, Arizona and
> > so forth, which began popping up in the '70s
> > and '80s. I think the Kunoichi retreat is
> > perhaps a composite creation drawing from quite a
> > few different examples.
>
> Well, maybe a lot of things here really aren't just
> plain obvious to non-Americans here ...
>

Marilyn Ferguson
http://www.potentialsmedia.com/MarilynFerguson.html
calls California a "laboratory for transformation" in her book "The Aquarian
Conspiracy" (1980) -- I have only the translation (Sphinx Verlag, Basel
1982), but you can get used copies for 0.40$ (!) at Amazon_com, Amazon_de
lists 19 used copies of the translation for 1.40 Euro. It's a good overview
of the New Age-business back then.

Otto