History of the Inter-Cooperative Council of Ann Arbor

Items

• Back to Basics Reform Or... Skinnerian International Curriculum?
  Booklet intended for parents of schoolchildren. Iserbyt objects to the Department of Education and characterizes its reforms as applying Skinnerian psychological priming to schoolchildren in anticipation of the twenty-first century world socialist government.
• How to Be Sure Your Child is Safe from the New Age
  A booklet informing parents of "4 things you need to know to protect your child from New Age teaching." Buehrer characterizes the New Age infiltration of the classroom as a serious threat to children.
• School classes on sex, death anger parents
  Newspaper clipping detailing parents' objections to an elementary-school class teaching students about "AIDS, love, sex, and death." This class was introduced as part of an educational initiative called the Michigan Model. Parents also objected to strategies like problem-solving lessons and deep breathing exercises, characterizing them as "New Age."
• Global Education--the Esoteric Connection Keynote
  Dr. Dorothy Maver's keynote speech for the Global Education: the Esoteric Connection conference in Sydney, Australia in 1990. Dr. Maver was a member of the design team for a UN education initiative committee. Here, she advocates for education reform to prepare for the closer relationship with Shamballa which will occur in the year 2000.
• Food allergy cult forming replete with gurus, bible
  An article addressing doctors and medical professionals creating "food allergy cults"
• Proctor and Gamble Letter
  A letter to Constance Cumbey from a concerned person regarding Proctor and Gamble's president's possible involvement with the Church of Satan
• "New Age" is Old Stuff
  An article describing the evils of the New Age and their goals to push their agenda
• Pranayama Plates
  An advertisement pamphlet on the use of Pranayama Plates and its curative powers
• Planetary Healing Pilgrimage Advertisement
  A newspaper article advertising for a New Age trip to "energy centers" in Europe
• how the believer can take CONTROL over his or her MIND, HOME, BUSINESS & COUNTRY
  A book/pamphlet on how to gain control over the Devil
• Anti-Abortion Flyer
  An anti-abortion flyer comparing abortion to the Holocaust
• The "right to enslave," the "right to kill".
  An anti-abortion flyer comparing abortion to slavery
• "Tuning in on the master's 'channel'"
  An article about a New Age guru channeling a 35,000 year old ascended master
• Journeying in Wholeness: Body-Mind-Spirit in Traditional Acupuncture
  Front cover of an acupuncture conference program
• Constance Photo
• Bibliographic Sketch of John White
  John White is identified in this document as an author of Noetic Science and Mind Science writings.
• The Way to Happiness
  Front pages of a Scientology booklet.
• Ideas Have Consequences
  Flowchart listing major contributors to New Age philosophy and their connections. Figures include Karl Marx, Alice Bailey (prominent American Theosophist), Marquis de Sade, Aldous Huxley, and Charles Darwin.
• The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and Our Coming Age of Barbarism
  Cumbey's first and most famous book, detailing her researches into the New Age Movement. Cumbey characterizes the movement as actively working against monotheistic and American/Western values, and links the movement's values to those of Nazi Germany and its goals to biblical prophecy about the end times.
• 21st Century Report Card
  Sample report card for proposed modern education. Graded areas include: daydreaming/reverie, gestalt perception, listens attentively--with third ear, follows directions unless better idea occurs, and demonstrates empathy/telepathy. Teacher's comments indicate that the school psychologist suggests remedial imagination.
• A Message of Hope: Benjamin Creme on the Emergence of the World Teacher
  Overheard projector slides advertising an appearance by Benjamin Creme, who lectured extensively on the coming of Lord Maitreya, the New Age Christ. "Drawing on the Ageless Wisdom and 20 years of experience, Mr. Creme speaks with authority on the emerging New Age and its social, political and economic order."
• Have you lost a daughter, a son, or a spouse to a cult?
  Pamphlet designed to inform family members about the recruitment and brainwashing practices of cults and how to recognize the signs among family members. "We learned much of this information about cults firsthand, by losing our youngest son to a small, pernicious, local cult."
• Messages from Maitreya the Christ
  Booklet introducing Lord Maitreya, the Christ figure of the New Age movement as introduced by Benjamin Creme. Cumbey has written on the cover, rendering "Christ" as "Anti-Christ."
• Consciousness and Survival
  A pamphlet for the symposium 'Consciousness and Survival'
• Invitation of Membership from The Institute of Noetic Sciences