Unidentified Flying Archons: How A Global Religion Reinvented Itself For A 'New Age' (Audio)

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Unidentified Flying Archons: How A Global Religion Reinvented Itself For A 'New Age' (Audio)

Theosophy and the origins of 'extraterrestrial contact'

Feb 02, 2024

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I finally got around to recording an audio version of this essay in my series on the religious origins of flying saucer cults. Since I did not paywall the original post, which is now archived and linked below, I am releasing this audio file for free listening as well.

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Unidentified Flying Archons: How A Global Religion Reinvented Itself For A 'New Age'

Matt Osborne

December 11, 2023

Unidentified Flying Archons: How A Global Religion Reinvented Itself For A 'New Age'

The term ‘New Age’ has always been a false conceit in reference to the 1970s, or any time in the 20th century. American Christianity beheld a world of spiritual ideas during the 19th century. Across the globe, including the United States, new religions were forming around universalizing ideas of humanity. Hegel and Marx presented new revelations to explain

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