Joseph Szimhart | NRM or Cult? The Prosperos and Daughters of Bilitis @josephszimhart9431 | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Following up on last video comparing New Religious Movement with cult. Examples are The Prosperos led by Thane Walker (?1900-1989), a mix of New Thought, the Gurdjieff (died 1949) Fourth Way cult, astrology, theater, and elite teacher/student relationships. I read an article about 2 members of the first Lesbian advocacy group founded in 1955 who joined The Prosperos between 1965 -1970 and as ex members called it a “New Age sect or cult.”
(Btw, i mispronounced Bilitis that should sound more like bi-lee-tis. Also, The Ladder ceased publication in 1972, not in the 1990s as I blurted out!)
Walker’s group name was from the magician Prospero in The Tempest by Shakespeare.
theprosperos.org
amazon.com/Bodies-Evidence-Practice-History-Oxford/dp/0199742731
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
The_Ladder_(magazine)
encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/walker-thane-ca-1890
Following up on last video comparing New Religious Movement with cult. Examples are The Prosperos led by Thane Walker (?1900-1989), a mix of New Thought, the Gurdjieff (died 1949) Fourth Way cult, astrology, theater, and elite teacher/student relationships. I read an article about 2 members of the first Lesbian advocacy group founded in 1955 who joined The Prosperos between 1965 -1970 and as ex members called it a “New Age sect or cult.”
(Btw, i mispronounced Bilitis that should sound more like bi-lee-tis. Also, The Ladder ceased publication in 1972, not in the 1990s as I blurted out!)
Walker’s group name was from the magician Prospero in The Tempest by Shakespeare.
theprosperos.org
amazon.com/Bodies-Evidence-Practice-History-Oxford/dp/0199742731
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
The_Ladder_(magazine)
encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/walker-thane-ca-1890
