Now What? (Cults)

THE LAUGHING MAN VOL. 3. NO. 3

©1982 Laughing Man Institute.
Editorial:
The Seven Stages of Life.
The Cult of Cult-Snuffing.
Stage One:
Birth Is Entrance into Chaos:
Anthropogenesis:
The Creation of Man in Mythology:
And the Sun God Said: That’s Hip.
Purusha Sukta (Hymn of Man) trans by Georg Feuerstein.
Man, the Companion: a Jicarila Apache creation myth retold by
Magdalena Hurwitz.
Spirit Bones: a Modoc creation myth retold by Magdalena Hurwitz.
Stage Two:
Male & Female: “Abandoning Casual Association between the Sexes”
(TWO-A).
Love Poems.
Stage Three:
Cultism:
Cultism and Self-Transcendence by Georg Feuerstein.
‘Cultism Is the Beginner’s Level of Human Existence’ (PROOF).
Awakening from the Spell of Cultism by Ty Koontz.
Stage Four:
Conversion:
The Beginning of Spiritual Life:
‘The Subject of Religion’.
Beyond Conventional Christianity by John Theobald.
Stage Five:
Man As Hologram: A Perspective from the Life of Sri Sri Thakur
Anukulchandra by Kerry Brace.
Stage Six:
Exclusive Self-Realization: The (not so perfect) Perfect Practice by
Georg Feuerstein.
“You Cannot Practice the Perfect Practice without Becoming
God-Possessed.”
Stage Seven:
Divine Madness: Crazy Adepts by James Steinberg and Georg
Feuerstein.
“The Heart Is Not Wedded to the Face”.
Reviews:
Seraphim’s Seraphim, the Life of Pelagia Ivanovna Serebrenikova, Fool
for Christ’s Sake of the Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent.
Portrait of Perfection, A Pictorial Biography of Kirpal Singh.
The Poems of Tukaram by J. Nelson Fraser and K.B. Marathe.
Taking The Quantum Leap by Fred Alan Wolf.
Bhagavan Sri Ramana, A Pictorial Biography.
Perect Fools by John Saward.
The Divine Madman: The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley,
trans. by Keith Dowman.