Season of the Witch : How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll (9780698143722) (33 page)

theosophy,
49
,
64
,
65
,
90
,
131
,
133

theremin kits,
184

Third Ear Band,
194

Third Mind, The
(Gysin and Burroughs),
160

33rd degree ritual,
212

This Is It
(Watts),
49

This Is Spinal Tap
(mockumentary),
229

Thompson, David,
43
–44

“Three Fates, The” (ELP),
197

Throb
,
xxv

Throbbing Gristle,
156
–57,
161
,
166
,
222

“throwing horns,”
116
,
119

Thule Society,
149

Tiberius Caesar Augustus,
28

Time
magazine,
73

Times of London,
50

Tiresias,
141

Tolinski, Brad,
92
,
93
,
97

Tolkien, J. R. R.,
xiv
,
33
,
95
,
96
,
98
,
199

“Tomorrow Never Knows” (Beatles),
xxiii
,
52
,
56

Tool,
xxv

Torah,
217

Townshend, Pete,
92

toys (horror),
106

“Train Fare Blues” (Muddy Waters),
97

Transcendental Meditation (TM),
47
–48,
50
,
51
–52,
53
,
96
,
127

transgendered themes,
141

tree of life,
124
,
125
–70

Trismegistus, Hermes,
xxvii

tritone (“devil's interval”),
109
–10

Tubular Bells
(Oldfield),
206
–7

Turman, Katherine,
112

Turner, Nik,
203

Tutti, Cosey Fanni,
155
,
157

“Tutti Frutti” (Little Richard),
21

“21st Century Schizoid Man” (King Crimson),
194
–95

2001: A Space Odyssey
(movie),
99
,
176

Tyrannosaurus Rex,
151

UFO Club, London,
40
–43,
125
–26,
128
–29,
190
,
219

UFO craze,
175
,
176

UHF,
xv
,
107

UK underground,
171
,
173

Valiente, Doreen,
117

Vallejo, Boris,
96

Vampire Chronicles
(Rice),
170

“Vampyre Love” (Slayer),
120

Vander, Christian,
203

Vedanta movement,
38
,
49
,
57
,
201

Velvet Underground,
188

Venom,
120
,
122

VHS,
79

Victorian Era,
169

Vietnam,
74
,
108

Vigilant Citizen website,
218
–19

Village Voice
,
82

Vincent, Gene,
97

Visionary tradition,
64

Vitale, Neal,
196

Vivekananda, Swami,
49

vodou/vodun,
1
,
2
,
4
,
5

“Vogue” (Madonna),
216
,
219

Von Däniken, Erich,
175

voodoo,
5
,
6
,
10
,
12

“vril” (energy),
143

Wagner, Richard,
109

Wakeman, Rick,
191
,
199

Wald, Elijah,
9

Waltdhausen, Bettina,
190

War of the Worlds, The
(movie),
180

“War Pigs” (Black Sabbath),
108
,
109

Warren, James,
106
–7

Warren Publishing,
106

Washington Post,
22
,
79
,
101
,
118

Wasserman, Jules,
22

Watts, Alan,
49

WAYE,
74

Weishaupt, Adam,
212
–13

Welch, Chris,
200

Westcott, William Wynn,
131

Wheatley, Dennis,
80

White, Jack,
97

White Album
(Beatles),
xv
,
58
,
61
,
99

Whitman, Walt,
65

Who,
32
,
54
,
77
,
172

Whole Earth Catalog
(Brand),
182

Wicker Man, The
(movie),
80
–81

Wiederhorn, Jon,
112

Wilde, Oscar,
41

Wilhelm, Richard,
36

Williams, Paul,
152

Wilson, Ann and Nancy,
118
–19

Wilson, Brian,
63

Windham Hill,
206

Wind in the Willows, The
(Grahame),
34
–35

Winston, George,
xxiv

Wish You Were Here
(Pink Floyd),
46

Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls
(Coven),
116

Witchcraft Today
(Gardner),
72

witchcraft (Wicca),
xxiii
,
xxvii
,
71
–74,
91
,
104
,
112
,
113
,
116
–18,
122
,
123

Witches' Sabbath
(Goya),
117

Witch Is Born, A
(Sanders),
117

“Within You Without You” (Beatles),
52

“Wizard, The” (Black Sabbath),
110

Wizards
(movie),
96

Wolves in the Throne Room,
225

Women's International Terrorist Corp from Hell (Witch),
73

Woodman, William Robert,
131

Woodstock,
77
–78,
172

Woodward, Edward,
80

work songs,
7
,
17
–18

World War II,
24
,
161
,
165
,
179

Worrell, Bernie,
191

WQHT (Hot 97),
214

Wünderkammer,
34

Yarroll, William,
103

Yeats, W. B.,
xxix

Yellow Book, The,
42

Yellow Submarine
(Beatles),
60

Yellow Submarine
(movie),
44

Yes,
xiv
,
xv
,
xxiv
,
156
,
191
,
200
–203

Yogananda, Paramahansa,
201

yoga/yogas,
xix
,
39
,
57
,
62
,
75
,
98
,
201
,
227
–28

Yoruban people,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

(you make me wanna) shout,
1
–29

Young, Rob,
33

YouTube,
211

Zappa, Frank,
188

Zeit
(Tangerine Dream),
190

Zelazny, Roger,
179

Zen Buddhism,
25
,
39
–40,
49
,
127

Zeus,
xxxi
–xxxii

Ziggy Stardust
(Bowie),
144
–45,
154
,
219

Zodiac, The: Cosmic Sounds
(Beaver and Garson),
186

Zohar,
217

Zorn, John,
222

Peter Bebergal is the author of
The Faith Between Us
(with Scott Korb) and
Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood
. He writes widely on the speculative and slightly fringe, and recent essays and reviews have appeared in
The Times Literary Supplement
,
Boing Boing
,
The Believer
, and
The Quietus
. He studied religion and culture at Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and
son.