dark
walk-ins by
Spirituality. See New Age movement
Srfody: anthology work by
on Nettles’s death
on partnering and celibacy
on suicide theology
Srrody: castration of
conspiracy theories by
Exit Video of
naming
Stargate
Stark, Rodney
Star Trek: fans, ridicule from
as inspiration
Steiger, Brad
Stenmark, Mikael
Stmody
Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
Strangers Among Us (Montgomery)
Strieber, Whitney
Suicide: bombings
as concept of order
of former members
government inaction on
Masada
Peoples Temple. See also Heaven’s Gate suicide
Syphilis experiments, Tuskegee
Tantra
Taylor, David: cultic milieu theory of
on Heaven’s Gate organization
on Heaven’s Gate suicide
on name giving
Tddody
Technological dispensationalism
Technology. See Science and technology
TELAH. See The Evolutionary Level Above Human
TELAH Foundation
Terminology. See Language
Terrestrial crossings
Texas: Canyon Lake, renaming at
Houston, The Two’s background in
Waco, Branch Davidians of
Theology: American democratization culture and
American post-Bomb culture and
baby boomer counterculture and
bounded choice theory and
of Buddhism
Christianity’s roots of
comets in
culture and societal basis of
of dispensationalism
of Hinduism
of Islam
of Judaism
of Manichaeism
of New Age movement
pastiche in
of Protestant Christianity
study approaches to
of Tantra
of theosophy. See also Heaven’s Gate theology
Theosophy
Tholen, David J.
Thomas, Evan
Ti. See Applewhite, Marshall Herff
Tipton, Steven M.
Tllody
Total Overcomers Anonymous
Transcendental Meditation
Transfiguration
Transformation. See Self-transformation
Transpersonal psychology
Travel. See Crossing
Turner, Ted
Tuskegee syphilis experiments
Tweed, Thomas A.: on crossings
on dwellings
The Two: arrest of
background of
becoming
Demonstration vision of
as extraterrestrial walk-ins
first meeting of
leadership traits of
Los Angeles recruitment by
mission realization of
name giving by
names of
organizational shortcomings of
seeking and wandering of
Waldport recruitment by
Wyoming community of
Ufology: Art Bell show on
conspiracy in
cultural influences on
extraterrestrial biblical hermeneutics and
Hale-Bopp comet in
history of
as recruitment angle
science and technology in
Seekers group of. See also Extraterrestrials; Science fiction
UFO Missionaries Extraordinary (Hewes and Steiger)
Unabomber
“Undercover Jesus Surfaces” (Internet posting)
Unification Church
Uniforms
“Up the Chain” (Brnody)
Urban, Hugh
USA Today
UseNet. See Internet
Vegetarianism
Vehicles, body as
Venus, extraterrestrials from
Versluis, Arthur
Video lectures. See also Exit Videos
Visualization. See also Prayer
Vrnody
von Däniken, Erich
Waco, Branch Davidians of
Waldport meeting
Walking out
Walk-ins
Wallis, Roy
Wandering: as crossing practice
by The Two
Washington Post
Weaver family
Weber, Max
Website development. See also Internet
Weltanschauung (worldview)
Wessinger, Catherine
“What’s Up?” (mailing)
Wirzba, Norman
Wknody
Wojcik, Daniel
Work
Worldly dualism
Worldview. See also Heaven’s Gate worldview
Wyoming, first dwelling in
X-Files
Yoga
Yogananda, Paramahansa
Yrsody
Zacharias
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Benjamin E. Zeller is Assistant Professor of Religion at Lake Forest College, in the Chicago metro area. He researches religious currents that are new or alternative, including new religions, the religious engagement with science, and the quasi-religious relationship people have with food. He is author of Prophets and Protons: New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth-Century America (New York University Press, 2010), and co-editor of Religion, Food, and Eating in North America (2014) and The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements (2014). He is co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.
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