Marilyn Ferguson was an American author, editor, and public speaker. She was best known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy, which became a key text of the New Age movement. After attending Mesa College and the 카지노게임사이트 of Colorado, she began writing poetry and short stories. Ferguson developed an interest in new findings on the brain and consciousness that led her to write The Brain Revolution: The Frontiers of Mind Research (1973). She also founded a journal devoted to the subject, Brain/Mind Bulletin. She was the editor of the Leading Edge newsletter. Her work in this field inspired The Aquarian Conspiracy, in which she surveyed recent work in mind-brain studies, holography, psychotechnologies, parapsychology, holistic medicine and a host of other emerging fields that, taken together, added up to 카지노 게임 컬렉션a benign conspiracy for a new human agenda.카지노 게임 컬렉션 In the dawning new age, she said, people would exercise their talents to the fullest; war and social hierarchies would disappear; and the human race, impelled forward by thrilling new scientific discoveries, would embrace its rightful happiness. The Visionary Factor, the sequel to The Aquarian Conspiracy, was the basis of her Dunning Trust lecture. Ferguson died in 2008.
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Her lecture was held on March 6, 1984.