03 Jun Top Ten Spiritual L.A. Rockstars
Rockstars: Glamorous, charismatic, and sexually magnetic. Moving about the world with a freedom the rest of us envy; all doors are open to them. They incite massive desire, are media sensations, and command the world stage. Whew! These L.A. icons wear the rockstar mantle with royal swagger:
Sexy, hot, rumored to be caught in a love nest with her lover, up to 15,000 people a day came to hear and watch her speak, genius-level use of the media, faked her own death. (see page xxx)
Author, handsome, psychonaut, the center of a glamorous international set of intelligentsia: writers, artists, intellectuals, spiritual seekers. (see page xxx)
Carlos Casteneda
Lived with three women all reported to be his lovers, refused to be photographed or do interviews which only added to his mystique, worldwide sensation. On the cover of Time magazine in 1973, claimed to move between worlds disembodied. (see page xxx)
Cameron
Brave, beautiful, sexy, and drug addicted, the occultist Marjorie Cameron starred in her own one-woman show at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) 20 years after her death. (see page xxx)
Jack Parsons
Movie-star handsome, rocket scientist, one of the founders of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, rumored to have blown himself up during an occult ritual. (see page xxx)
L. Ron Hubbard
Created a world-wide religion from scratch, commanded his own fleet of ships, pursued by the FBI and CIA. (see page xxx)
Marianne Williamson
Author of best-selling books, conventional good looks, ran for governor, writes also about sex and spirituality, Newsweek magazine named her one of the most influential baby boomers. (see page xxx)
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Bursting with well-being, charismatic star of an international organization broadcasting services worldwide, hangs out with Oprah. (see page xxx)
Timothy Leary
World-renown poster boy for mind- expansion through the use of psychedelic drugs, considered drug use a spiritual search. (see page xxx)
Yogananda
The first celebrity guru, welcomed everywhere, by heads of state, celebrities. (see page xxx)
This is an excerpt from Catherine Auman’s book Guide to Spiritual L.A.: The Irreverent, the Awake, and the True
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