Cultic Studies Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1986 Page 91
Letter from the Local Church (The Church in Give).
Letter from Neil Duddy.
Index to Volume 10: January to December 1986.
Ward, C. (1986). Book review of The Cult of Information by T. Roszak. New Society, 78, 32-33.
George Washington Law Review. (1986). Fourth Amendment and Posse Comitatus Act
restrictions on military involvement in civil-law enforcement. 54, 404-433.
Weiss, A. S. (1986). Mental health and personality characteristics of Hare Krishna devotees and
sympathizers as a result of acculturation into the Hare Krishna movement. Dissertation
Abstracts International, 46, 2791.
Werner, 0. R. et al. Long-term endocrinologic changes in subjects practicing the Transcendental
Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. Psychosomatic Medicine, 48, 59-66. A three-year
study of the blood hormone levels of eleven beginning TM practitioners to show
progressive decline in thyroid- stimulating hormone, growth hormone, and prolactin, but
no changes in cortisol, triodithyronine, and thyroxine, suggesting that TM-Sidhi program
may have marked longitudinal effects on neurotransmitter control of hypothalamic
peptide release. It is suggested that the TM program may be a useful model for studying
the relationship between subjective experience, health, and neuroendocrine function.
Whole Earth Review (1986). The fringes of reason: Strange myths and eccentric science. 52.
Wright, S. A. (1986). Dyadic intimacy and social control in three cult movements.
Sociological Analysis, 47, 137-150.
Zimmer, T. A. (1985). Belief in UFO‘s as an alternative reality, cultural rejection, or disturbed
psyche. Deviant Behavior, 6, 405-419. Data from 453 tested undergraduates support the
conclusion that those who believe that UFO‘s are alien spacecraft do so because they are
caught up in the awe and excitement of possible extraterrestrial life — that UFO‘s are an
alternative reality to them — rather than because they are cultural outsiders and marginals
who express their alienation by adopting deviant beliefs, or because they are maladjusted
persons with disturbed psyches who are susceptible to primitive thinking and delusions. The
analysis also supported the hypothesis that UFO believers were much more involved with
science fiction than with mysticism.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1986, Volume 3,
Number 2, pages 274-280. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write
Letter from the Local Church (The Church in Give).
Letter from Neil Duddy.
Index to Volume 10: January to December 1986.
Ward, C. (1986). Book review of The Cult of Information by T. Roszak. New Society, 78, 32-33.
George Washington Law Review. (1986). Fourth Amendment and Posse Comitatus Act
restrictions on military involvement in civil-law enforcement. 54, 404-433.
Weiss, A. S. (1986). Mental health and personality characteristics of Hare Krishna devotees and
sympathizers as a result of acculturation into the Hare Krishna movement. Dissertation
Abstracts International, 46, 2791.
Werner, 0. R. et al. Long-term endocrinologic changes in subjects practicing the Transcendental
Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. Psychosomatic Medicine, 48, 59-66. A three-year
study of the blood hormone levels of eleven beginning TM practitioners to show
progressive decline in thyroid- stimulating hormone, growth hormone, and prolactin, but
no changes in cortisol, triodithyronine, and thyroxine, suggesting that TM-Sidhi program
may have marked longitudinal effects on neurotransmitter control of hypothalamic
peptide release. It is suggested that the TM program may be a useful model for studying
the relationship between subjective experience, health, and neuroendocrine function.
Whole Earth Review (1986). The fringes of reason: Strange myths and eccentric science. 52.
Wright, S. A. (1986). Dyadic intimacy and social control in three cult movements.
Sociological Analysis, 47, 137-150.
Zimmer, T. A. (1985). Belief in UFO‘s as an alternative reality, cultural rejection, or disturbed
psyche. Deviant Behavior, 6, 405-419. Data from 453 tested undergraduates support the
conclusion that those who believe that UFO‘s are alien spacecraft do so because they are
caught up in the awe and excitement of possible extraterrestrial life — that UFO‘s are an
alternative reality to them — rather than because they are cultural outsiders and marginals
who express their alienation by adopting deviant beliefs, or because they are maladjusted
persons with disturbed psyches who are susceptible to primitive thinking and delusions. The
analysis also supported the hypothesis that UFO believers were much more involved with
science fiction than with mysticism.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1986, Volume 3,
Number 2, pages 274-280. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write
