Season of the Witch : How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll (9780698143722) (32 page)

Raboteau, Albert J.,
6

racism,
148
–49

Radha Krishna Temple,
62

Raiders of the Lost Ark
(movie),
149

Ramakrishna,
201

Ramases,
203

Ravenscroft, Trevor,
150
,
187

Redding, Otis,
54

Red
(King Crimson),
204

Red Scare of the 1950s,
123

Regardie, Israel,
147

relax and float downstream,
28
–29,
31
–76,
192
,
201

“Religious Instruction of the Negroes in Liberty County, Georgia,”
14

Renaissance,
xix
,
xxvii
,
xxix
,
59
,
84
,
118
,
126
,
217
–18

retroactive memory,
111
–12

“Revolution 9” (Beatles),
xv
,
58

Reynolds, Simon,
155
,
168

Reznor, Trent,
165

Rice, Anne,
170

Rice, Boyd,
166

Richards, Keith,
83

ring dancing and singing,
12
–13,
15
,
16
,
17
–18,
20

Rip It Up and Start Again
(Reynolds),
155

Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, The
(Bowie),
144
–45,
154
,
219

rock and roll,
xviii
–xxvi

rock association with occult creation myth (crossroads legend),
1
–3,
4
,
9
–10,
97

See also
occult influence on rock

“Rock and Roll Suicide” (Bowie),
151

“Rock ‘n' Roll's On Way Down, Say 3 Experts,”
23
–24

Roeg, Nicolas,
139

Rolling Stone,
21
,
62
,
91
,
92
,
95
,
109
,
111
,
115
,
139
,
144
,
207

Rolling Stones,
xxiv
,
77
–79,
80
,
81
,
83
–84,
85
,
86
–87,
115
,
159
,
172
,
194

Rollins, Henry,
211

Roman myths,
xxvii
,
101
,
221
,
228

Romanticism,
35
–36,
40
,
41
,
169
,
198
–99

“root races,”
148

Rosemary's Baby
(movie),
61

Rosen, Steve,
204

Rosenkreutz, Christian,
130

Rosicrucians,
41
,
58
,
129
–30,
131
,
213

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,
91

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,
163

Royal Albert Hall,
101

Royale club, Boston,
226
–27,
228

Sabrina the Teenage Witch,
69

Sacred Book of Abramelin the Mage,
94

Sacred Songs
(Hall),
xxv

Sacrifice
(Black Widow),
116

Salome
(Wilde),
41

Salon des Rose+Croix,
41

Sanchez, Tony,
83

Sanders, Alex “King of the Witches,”
116
–17

San Francisco Oracle,
63
,
64

Sante, Luc,
28

Sant Mat philosophy,
34

“Satanic Beliefs, Criminal Actions,”
123

“Satanic Mass” (Coven),
116

Satanism,
80
–81,
86
,
89
,
90
,
103
,
110
,
111
,
113
,
114
–15,
116
,
117
,
119
,
122
–23,
124
,
165
,
174
,
210

See also
devil

Satie, Erik,
xxx
,
41
,
129

Scatology
(Coil),
164

Schaeffer, Pierre,
xxx
,
183
,
184
,
187

Scher, Paula,
59

Schmidt, Irmin,
189

“School's Out” (Alice Cooper),
138

Schuyler, Lambert and Patricia,
19
–20

science fiction,
171
,
173
,
178
–79

See also
space ritual

Scientology,
64
,
85
,
213

Scorpio Rising
(movie),
82

Scriabin, Alexander,
132
,
133

“Season of the Witch” (Donovan),
69
–70,
70
–71

Secret Doctrine
(Blavatsky),
148

sefirot,
218

Self-Realization Fellowship,
201

Semele,
xxxi
–xxxii

September 11 terrorist attacks,
219

Seventh-day Adventists,
20
–21

7UP commercial,
44

sexuality,
xiii
,
xiv
,
xv
,
xxi
,
xxii
,
xxiii
,
xxiv

devil rides out,
78
,
79
,
80
,
81
,
86
,
88
,
90
,
98
,
101
,
104
,
106
,
113
,
118
,
119
,
122

golden dawn, the,
218

relax and float downstream,
32
,
41
,
51
,
67
,
70
,
74

tree of life,
141
,
142
,
148
,
156
,
162
,
164
,
165
,
168
,
169

(you make me wanna) shout,
7
,
10
–11,
14
,
19
–20,
21
,
23
,
24
,
28

See also
occult influence on rock

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(Beatles),
58
,
59
,
60
,
84
,
91
,
193

Shadwick, Keith,
101

Shakespeare, William,
197

shamanism,
xxv
,
124
,
125
,
127
–28,
135
,
136
,
137
,
138
–39,
146
,
165
,
173
,
180

Shankar, Ravi,
54
,
55
–56,
62

shastras,
201

“Shave 'em Dry” (Bogan),
7

“Shaving of the Horn that Speared You, A” (Sunn O)))),
223

shekinah,
228
–29

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
35

“She's a Rainbow” (Rolling Stones),
84

“shew stone,”
220

“Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (Pink Floyd),
46

Shiva (Hindu deity),
66
,
229

Shock Theater
(movies),
107

shout, the,
13
,
15
,
16
,
17
–18,
19
,
20
,
21
,
28

See also
(you make me wanna) shout

Siddhartha
(Hermann),
25
–26

sigil magic,
99
–100,
162
–64

Simmons, Gene “Demon,”
137
,
138

Simmons, Sylvie,
137

Simon and Garfunkel,
54

Simon's Sanctorum
(TV show),
107

Sinclair, John,
178

Sinfield, Peter,
197
,
204

Siouxsie and the Banshees,
168
–69

Sirius Mystery, The
(Temple),
176

Sistine Chapel,
xxviii

sitar playing,
56
,
84

Skerl, Jennie,
158

“sky-people,”
175

Slave Religion
(Raboteau),
6

slaves/slavery,
xxii
,
xxvi
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
12
–17,
20

Slayer,
120

Sleep,
225

Slick, Grace,
116

“Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (Didion),
67

Smith, Harry,
26
–27,
28

Smith, Huston,
46

Smith, Michelle,
122
–23

Smith, Patti,
xxv
,
xxxiii

Smith, Ray,
25

Snyder, Gary,
25

“so above, so below,”
xxvii

Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA),
131

Soft Machine,
43
,
128

“Solomon's Ring” (Garson),
186

Sommerville, Ian,
160
–61

Song Remains the Same, The
(movie),
93
,
98
–99

“sonic attack,”
174

Sound
magazine,
137
,
173

Southern, Eileen,
20

Space Hymns
(Ramases),
203

Space Is the Place
(movie),
177

Space Oddity
(Bowie),
141
–42

space ritual,
171
–207

Space Ritual
(Hawkwind),
178
,
179

Spare, Austin Osman,
xxix
,
162
–63,
165

Spear of Destiny, The
(Ravenscroft),
150
,
187

Spender, Jon Michael,
16

Spiders from Mars,
151

Spitz, Mark,
146

Sri Aurobindo,
188

Stacia (dancer),
174
,
178

“Stairway to Heaven” (Led Zeppelin),
100
,
103

Stanley, Paul “Starchild,”
137

“Starless” (King Crimson),
204

Star Trek
(TV show),
176

Station to Station
(Bowie),
154
–55

Sting,
xxv

Stipe, Michael,
161

Stockhausen, Karlheinz,
xxx
,
188
–89,
190

Stoker, Bram,
169
–70

Stonehenge,
175
,
178
,
229

“stoner rock,”
225

Straight Theater, Haight-Ashbury,
82

Stranger in a Strange Land
(Heinlein),
154

Strawberry Alarm Clock,
69

Stritch, Samuel (Cardinal),
23

Stump, Paul,
207

Subud,
64
–65

Sufism,
64
,
135
,
160

“Suicide Solution” (Osbourne),
105

Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury,
66
–67

Summers, Andy,
xxv

Sunn O))),
223
–24

Sun Ra (Herman Blount),
176
–78

Sunshine Superman
(Donovan),
69
–70

Super Bowl (2012),
215
–16,
218
–19

“Sweet Thing” (Bowie),
145

swing,
26

Swords Against Darkness,
96

Symbolists,
40
,
41

“Sympathy for the Devil” (Rolling Stones),
77
,
85

Synchronicity
(Police),
xxv

synesthesia phenomenon,
132
–33

synthesizers,
180
–82,
183
–84,
185
–86,
186
–87,
190
–91,
192
,
200
,
206

Tago Mago
(Can),
189

Tales from the Crypt
(comic),
106

Tales from the Topographic Oceans
(Yes),
200
–201,
201
–3

Tamm, Eric,
196
,
204

Tangerine Dream,
190
–91

“Tarot” (Garson),
186

tarot/tarot cards,
xvi
,
62
,
64
,
65
,
68
,
73
,
75
,
99
,
111
,
131
,
218
,
219

Tate, Sharon,
61

Taylor, Paul Beekman,
205

teenagers drawn to rock and roll,
xxi
,
22
,
23
,
24
,
32
,
113
,
115

Telegraph,
221

Temple, Robert,
176

Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
228
–29

10cc,
203

“theatrical paganism,”
128

Thebes,
xxxi
,
xxxii

Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY),
162
,
164

Their Satanic Majesties Request
(Rolling Stones),
77
,
83
–84