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Erin Prophet, MPH, PhD, is an author and scholar who studies religious experience and narratives of self-improvement and transcendence. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida where she teaches about cults and new religious movements, nature and the environment, and spirituality and health.
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Deadline EXTENDED to Mar 8. AAR NRM section seeks proposals on discourse of “mind control” and “undue influence”; f… https://t.co/jKLs1qNH7v -
UFOs and Black religion. I've been waiting a long time for this book, finally out--and to be the topic of a class i… https://t.co/3De9fLOEIF
"It matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies."
—Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903
Like body odours, ecstasy is something that nice people don't talk about, but the hell with that.
—Robert Irwin, Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties, 2011