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1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2019 19:54:24 EDT Nate Cull

   "Mystery" by Jeremey Gaffen and Paul Winter and sung by Susan Osborn, from the 1982 release of Missa Gaia (recorded 1981 at Cathedral of St John the Divine)

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vukjNtbNBbs

   I am finding myself very much attracted to the Lindisfarne - St John the Divine group, probably the closest to an 'inner circle' that the New Age movement ever had, and this is maybe the closest thing that exists to their anthem.

   Madeleine "A Wrinkle in Time" L'Engle was also in the StJtD circle, I believe.

   1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2019 20:00:13 EDT Nate Cull

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      I'm even wondering if St John the Divine isn't the prototypical 'scary Illuminati cathedral headquarters' that pops up in, say, the Deus Ex games. Relocated to Europe, usually, but also showing in the idea of a shadowy New York elite.

      StJtD certainly appears as a villain figure in a lot of right-wing constructions of the New Age / New World Order mythos from the 1980s right up through the 2010s.

      Lindisfarne and the idea of a coherent Green politics scared a LOT of people on the right.

      1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2019 20:03:21 EDT Nate Cull

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         What's really funny is the Lindisfarne group shared very similar concerns to the right wing of Silicon Valley. Very much worried about the potential of genetic engineering and cybernetics to give power to an elite to control the world and wanting to promote decentralisation.

         But their vision of a unified yet decentralised planetary society (and including the Lucis Trust's strong support for the United Nations) is what the Right could only read as 'a religious-Communist planetary tyranny'

      2. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2019 20:04:56 EDT Nate Cull

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         What's really funny is the Lindisfarne group shared very similar concerns to the right wing of Silicon Valley. Very much worried about the potential of genetic engineering and cybernetics to give power to an elite to control the world and wanting to promote decentralisation.

         But their vision of a unified yet decentralised planetary society (and including the Lucis Trust's strong support for the United Nations) is what the Right could only read as 'a Pagan-Communist planetary tyranny'