She popularized the walk-in theory.

George Hunt Williamson (1926 – 1986), aka Michael d'Obrenovic and Brother Philip, was an American flying saucer contactee, channel, and metaphysical author who came to prominence in the 1950s.

Are your beliefs painting you into a corner?

Memetics is a controversial theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene. It purports to be an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. A meme, analogous to a gene, The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme (from Ancient Greek "something imitated", "to imitate", "mime").

UFOs and the New Age movement phenomenon

One New Age channeling cult, above all the rest, has had a huge - if not disturbing - influence on hundreds of thousands of devotees worldwide. Known as 'The Nine', its disciples include cutting edge scientists, multi-millionaire industrialists and leading politicians.

Dorothy Martin ~ ‘Sister Thedra’

I like to play connect the dot and see where it leads me.

Enthusiastic members of her circle were Dr Charles and Lillian Laughead (who appear as Thomas and Daisy Armstrong in When Prophecy Fails [http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/07/leon-festinger-1919-1989-was-american.html]).

Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Leon Festinger (1919 – 1989), was an American social psychologist, responsible for the development of the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, Social comparison theory, and the discovery of the role of propinquity in the formation of social ties as well as other contributions to the study of social networks. Festinger is perhaps best known for the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, which suggests that inconsistency among beliefs and behaviors will cause an uncomfortable psychological tension. This will lead people to change their beliefs to fit their actual behavior, rather than the other way around, as popular wisdom may suggest.