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Word: reticuli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1997-1997
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...doctrines that mix the sacred and the tacky. The approach of the year 2000 has swelled the ranks of the fearful and credulous. On the Internet, cults multiply in service to Ashtar and Sananda, deities with names you could find at a perfume counter, or to extraterrestrials--the Zeta Reticuli, the Draconian Reptoids--who sound like softball teams at the Star Wars cantina. Carl Raschke, a cult specialist at the University of Denver, predicts "an explosion of bizarre and dangerous" cults. "Millennial fever will be on a lot of minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LURE OF THE CULT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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