Download PDF by Paul Eli Ivey: Radiance from Halcyon: A Utopian Experiment in Religion and

By Paul Eli Ivey

ISBN-10: 0816680507

ISBN-13: 9780816680504

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In might 1904, the citizens of Halcyon—a small utopian group on California’s vital coast—invited their buddies to wait the grand establishing of the Halcyon inn and health center. As a part of the leisure, site visitors have been inspired to have their arms X-rayed. For the founders and participants of Halcyon, the X-ray was once an illustration of mysterious religious forces made useful to people.


Radiance from Halcyon is the tale not just of the neighborhood but additionally of its uniquely artistic individuals’ contributions to faith and technological know-how. the hot synthesis of faith and technological know-how tried by way of Theosophy laid the root for advances produced by way of the youngsters of the founding participants, together with microwave expertise and atomic spectral research. Paul Eli Ivey’s narrative begins within the Nineties in Syracuse, ny, with the emerging of the Temple of the folks, a splinter team of the theosophical move. After constructing its beliefs for an agricultural and artisanal neighborhood, the Temple bought land in California and in 1903 started to reside its dream there.


In addition to an interesting account of the way a little-known utopian non secular neighborhood profoundly inspired glossy technology, Ivey bargains a wide-ranging cultural background, encompassing Theosophy, novel therapeutic modalities, esoteric structure, local American thoughts of group, socialist utopias, and leading edge glossy music.


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