Partial Cast & Chronology

The table below is a somewhat modified version of an Amazon Listmania list I recently put together. This cast of characters is only partial at present. However, it does give some sense of the rogues and miscreants with which Mystic Bourgeoisie (the book) will deal. Below the graphical portion of our program is a more complete timeline, with the dramatis personae linked to their corresponding Wikipedia pages. If you read through all the links in this post, you will be ABD-qualified for your Ph.D. in Bunkum and High Weirdness.

Emanuel Swedenborg: Essential Readings by Emanuel Swedenborg   1688-1772 Emanuel Swedenborg

Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden   1703-1758 Jonathan Edwards

Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain by Alison Winter   1734-1815 Franz Anton Mesmer

A Carlyle Reader by Thomas Carlyle   1795-1881 Thomas Carlyle

Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 by Beryl Satter   1802-1866 Phineas Quimby

The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton   1803-1873 Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson   1803-1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945: Nature as Model and Nature as Threat by Mike Hawkins   1809-1882 Charles Darwin

The Inequality of Human Races by Arthur De Gobineau   1816-1882 Arthur de Gobineau

Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton by Martin Brookes   1822-1911 Francis Galton

The Essential Max Müller: On Language, Mythology, and Religion by Jon R. Stone   1823-1900 Max Müller

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America by Peter Washington   1831-1891 H.P. Blavatsky

The Riddle of the Universe by Ernst Haeckel   1834-1919 Ernst Haeckel

Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Second Edition by Ann Braude   1836-1893 Kate and Margaret Fox

Karma by Annie Besant   1847-1933 Annie Besant

Degeneration by Max Nordau   1849-1923 Max Nordau

Rudolf Steiner by Rudolf Steiner   1861-1925 Rudolf Steiner

The Conquest Of A Continent by Madison Grant   1865-1937 Madison Grant

Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism by Donald S. Lopez Jr.   1870-1966 D.T. Suzuki

Gurdjieff's America: Mediating the Miraculous by Paul Beekman Taylor   1872-1949 G.I. Gurdjieff

Gurdjieff and Orage by Paul Beekman Taylor   1873-1934 A.R. Orage

The Science and Politics of Racial Research by William H. Tucker   1874-1949 Edward L. Thorndike

Jung: A Biography by Deirdre Bair   1875-1961 C.G. Jung

Edgar Cayce on Atlantis by Edgar Evans Cayce   1877-1945 Edgar Cayce

Psychic Dictatorship in America by Gerald B. Bryan   1878-1939 Guy Ballard

In this more complete list, the links are to Wikipedia pages.

1. 1688-1772 Emanuel Swedenborg
2. 1703-1758 Jonathan Edwards
3. 1734-1815 Franz Anton Mesmer
4. 1795-1881 Thomas Carlyle
5. 1802-1866 Phineas Quimby
6. 1803-1873 Edward Bulwer-Lytton
7. 1803-1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. 1809-1882 Charles Darwin
9. 1815-1887 Johann Jakob Bachofen
10. 1816-1882 Arthur de Gobineau
11. 1822-1911 Francis Galton
12. 1823-1900 Max Müller
13. 1831-1891 H.P. Blavatsky
14. 1834-1919 Ernst Haeckel
15. 1836-1893 Kate and Margaret Fox
16. 1847-1933 Annie Besant
17. 1849-1925 Emma Curtis Hopkins
18. 1849-1923 Max Nordau
19. 1852-1919 Paul Carus
20. 1857-1936 Karl Pearson
21. 1861-1925 Rudolf Steiner
22. 1865-1937 Madison Grant
23. 1868-1933 Stefan George
24. 1870-1966 D.T. Suzuki
25. 1872-1950 Sri Aurobindo
26. 1872-1949 G.I. Gurdjieff
27. 1872-1956 Ludwig Klages
28. 1873-1934 A.R. Orage
29. 1874-1947 Nicholas Roerich
30. 1874-1949 Edward L. Thorndike
31. 1875-1961 C.G. Jung
32. 1875-1969 William S. Sadler
33. 1877-1945 Edgar Cayce
34. 1878-1939 Guy Ballard
35. 1879-1962 Mabel Dodge Luhan
36. 1879-1966 Margaret Sanger
37. 1880-1949 Alice Bailey
38. 1881-1955 Teilhard de Chardin
39. 1885-1930 D.H. Lawrence
40. 1886-1951 Rene Guenon
41. 1887-1950 Jaime de Angulo
42. 1887-1960 Ernest Holmes
43. 1889-1971 Gerald Heard
44. 1890-1965 William Dudley Pelley
45. 1894-1963 Aldous Huxley
46. 1895-1986 Jiddu Krishnamurti
47. 1895-1971 Bill Wilson
48. 1898-1974 Julius Evola
49. 1898-1986 Georges Dumézil
50. 1900-1945 Heinrich Himmler
51. 1904-1986 Christopher Isherwood
52. 1904-1987 Joseph Campbell
53. 1905-1982 Ayn Rand
54. 1907-1986 Mircea Eliade
55. 1908-1970 Abraham Maslow
56. 1909-1981 Helen Schucman
57. 1915-2001 John Lilly
58. 1915-1973 Alan Watts
59. 1917- Miguel Serrano
60. 1919- Huston Smith
61. 1920-1996 Timothy Leary
62. 1922-1969 Jack Kerouac
63. 1925-1998 Carlos Castaneda
64. 1930- Michael Murphy
65. 1931- Richard Alpert (Ram Dass)
66. 1931- Stanislav Grof
67. 1931-1990 Rajneesh
68. 1932- Gary Snyder
69. 1933- Theodore Roszak
70. 1936- Ralph Metzner
71. 1937- Jean Houston
72. 1939- Jose Arguelles
73. 1939- Fritjof Capra
74. 1939- Elizabeth Clare Prophet
75. 1939-1987 Chogyam Trungpa
76. 1940- Thomas Moore
77. 1942- Martin Seligman
78. 1946-2000 Terence McKenna
79. 1946- JZ Knight
80. 1949- Ken Wilber

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