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p58-59 The neuro-logical risks of long-term drug use were denied or underesti-mated: the most daring sixties questers lost the ability to articulate and transmit their spiritual legacy to posterity.
p59 Consisting of small groups of the disaffected or rootless, cults are sects that may or may not evolve into full religions.
p60 chryselephantine: Made of gold and ivory, as certain pieces of sculpture or artwork in ancient Greece.
p60 The American sixties, I sub-mit, had a climate of spiritual crisis and political unrest sim-ilar to that of ancient Palestine, then under Roman occupation. But this time the nascent religions faltered under the pitiless scrutiny of modern media. Few prophets or mes-siahs could survive the deglamourizing eye of the invasive tv camera.