Whole Earth Index

Whole Earth Review, Fall 1986

“If modern myths are cultural expressions, then their creators and adherents are social experimenters — however misguided, erratic, or uneducated — who are attempting to bridge that chasm between the visionary and the scientific in order to build a new unifying myth. At worst, they show us dead ends that we need not traverse again. At best, they provide us with clues, puzzle pieces for our Future Collective Myth, if such a thing is to be.”

Sections:
  1. Features
  2. Departments/Reviews
Whole Earth Review, Fall 1986
  1. FEATURES
      1. SPECIAL ISSUE: The Fringes of Reason Introduction by Ted Schultz
        1
      2. Reality Shopping: A Consumer’s Guide to New Age Hokum by Alan M. MacRobert
        4
      3. Introduction to The Hundredth Monkey by Ted Schultz
        18
      4. The Hundredth Monkey Debunked by Ron Amundson
        19
      5. Lyall Watson Responds
        24
      6. The Misunderstood Monkey by Michael Huffman
        26
      7. Of Myths cad Monkeys by Maureen O'Hara
        30
      8. The Blind Eye of Science by Ron Westrum
        36
      9. An Encyclopedia of Anomalies: The Sourcebook Project by William R. Corliss
        43
      10. Spontaneous Human Combustion by Kevin Kelly
        52
      11. The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers by John A. Keel
        54
      12. In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space by Douglas Curran
        62
      13. Am I Psychic Yet? by Paul Krassner
        71
      14. Your Pathway to Cosmic Truth - By Mail! by Rev. Ivan Stang, Philosophur Ekstaticus, Church of the SubGenius
        75
      15. Backstage with “Bob”: Is the Church of the SubGenius the ultimate cult? by Jay Kinney
        86
      16. Same Channel, Next Week: Spirituality sweeps the suburbs by Stanley Young
        90
      17. Bioregional Outlaw Radio by Lori Woolpert
        100
      18. Visions of Home Preserving America’s Folk Art Environments by Jocelyn Gibbs
        106
      19. You Can’t Count the Apples in a Seed Ten Years of CoEvolution Quarterly A conversation with Stewart Brand, Paul Hawken, Ken Kesey, and Gary Snyder
        127
      20. Good Movies by Sheila Benson
        132
  2. DEPARTMENTS/REVIEWS
    1. SPECIAL SECTION
      1. Scrutinizing the Paranormal: Access to Skeptical Books and Magazines by Ted Schultz
        15
      2. Anomalistic Psychology
        35
      3. Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning
        42
      4. Zetetic Scholar
        42
      5. The Journal of Meteorology
        50
      6. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies
        50
      7. Fortean Times
        51
      8. The Complete Books of Charles Fort
        51
      9. INFO Journal
        51
      10. Pursuit
        51
      11. UFO’s: A Scientific Debate
        69
      12. The UFO Controversy in America
        69
      13. UFO Newsclipping Service
        69
      14. Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions
        70
      15. Fate Magazine
        70
      16. The Realist
        24
      17. The Book of the SubGenius
        89
      18. The Stark Fist of Removal
        89
    2. COMMUNICATIONS
      1. Do Tabloids Turn Housewives Into Zombies? by Michael H. Randall
        93
      2. The New Comics by Jay Kinney
        96
      3. Cerebus the Aardvark
        98
      4. Manga! Manga!
        98
      5. Turbo Lightning
        99
      6. The IBM XT Clone Buyer’s Guide
        99
      7. CD Rom: The New Papyrus
        99
      8. The A*C*E
        102
      9. The Passion of Ayn Rand
        103
      10. The Golden Road
        103
      11. Fiskadoro
        104
      12. Riddley Walker
        104
      13. Arrows of Desire
        104
      14. Incredibly Strange Films
        105
      15. Talking Pictures
        105
    3. COMMUNITY
      1. In Celebration of Ourselves
        113
      2. Sustainable Communities
        113
    4. WHOLE SYSTEMS
      1. Tropical Rainforests
        114
      2. Biophilia
        114
    5. POLITICS
      1. With the Contras
        115
      2. The Viet Vet Survival Guide
        115
      3. Working Assets
        116
      4. The Animals’ Agenda
        116
    6. HEALTH
      1. Poison Oak & Poison Ivy
        117
      2. Inexpensive Geiger Counter
        117
      3. M.O.M. Magazine
        118
      4. NOCIRC
        118
      5. Sexual Well-Being
        118
      6. Alida: An Erotic Novel
        119
      7. Ladies’ Own Erotica
        119
      8. Pleasures
        119
      9. Tits and Clits
        119
      10. On Our Backs
        119
      11. Self-Hypnosis Cassette Tapes by Rebecca Wilson
        120
    7. LEARNING
      1. The Shape of Space
        121
      2. Gnosis
        121
      3. Fireworks: Beyond the Spectator Sport by Peter J. Sabatini, Jr.
        122
    8. LAND USE
      1. Edible Landscaping
        125
      2. Wonder Crops
        125
      3. Indoor Marijuana Horticulture
        126
      4. Peaceful Valley Farm Supply
        126
      5. Gardening by Mail
        126
    9. BACKSCATTER
      1. Echoes from readers back to WER
        133
    10. GATE FIVE ROAD
      1. Masthead
        136
      2. “Or Whole Earth Access”
        136
      3. Back Issues/Further Issues
        136
      4. Financial Report
        137
      5. Truth in Labeling: the financial report deciphered
        137
      6. Recent WER mailing list renters
        137
      7. Subscription problems/address changes
        137
      8. Gossip
        138
      9. Thank You!
        139
      10. Adopt-A-Library
        139
      11. How to submit things to WER
        140
      12. Unclassifieds
        141
      13. Explain This! by Norman Dog
        145
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