Marcia Moore
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Marcia Moore
(1928-1979)
Marcia Moore, an astrologer and metaphysical teacher, was born on May 22, 1928, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Robert L. Moore, the founder of the chain of Sheraton Hotels. She attended Radcliffe, where she chose astrology as the subject of her senior thesis. The heart of the work reported on the results of a questionnaire she had sent to the subscribers of a popular astrological periodical. The finished work would later be published under the title Astrology Today—A Socio-Psychological Survey (1960).
Following graduation in 1960, Moore settled into a career as a teacher and writer. After a brief first marriage, in 1966 she married writer Mark Douglas. That same year, they coauthored the first of several books, Diet, Sex, and Yoga. It was followed by additional titles on yoga, reincarnation, and astrology. Increasingly, through the 1970s, Moore became a well-known leader in the astrological world and she was a leading force in integrating it with a reincarnation perspective. Reincarnation was the subject of her work on the faculty for the 1974 convention of the American Federation of Astrologers. She developed a technique called hypersentience that enabled people to recall their previous incarnations, and through the 1970s edited the Hypersentience Bulletin.
Moore and Douglas separated in 1972, and she later married Howard Alltourian, Jr. She was at the height of her career in 1979 when she disappeared. On January 15, Alltourian returned home to find his wife missing. Nothing was heard from her. Two years later a portion of a skull was found that was eventually identified as Moore's, though the exact circumstances of her death are unknown. It was known that during her final years she had been experimenting with a mind-altering drug to expand her consciousness (the subject of her last book) and had also become involved with an obscure occult group, but the role of either in her death is unknown.
Sources:
Moore, Marcia. Astrology Today—A Socio-Psychological Survey. New York: Lucis Publishing, 1960.
——. The History of Astrology. York Harbor, Maine: Arcane Publications, 1974.
——, and Mark Douglas. Astrology in Action. York Harbor, Maine: Arcane Publications, 1970.
——, and Mark Douglas. Diet, Sex and Yoga. York Harbor, Maine: Arcane Publications, 1966.
——, with Howard S. Alltourian. Journeys into the Bright World. A Personal Account of the Ketamite Experience. Rockport, Maine: ParaResearch, 1978.
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Marcia Moore
Marcia Moore (May 22, 1928 – January 14, 1979) was an American astrologer and yoga teacher brought to national attention through Yoga, Youth, and Reincarnation by Jess Stearn in 1965. She became a proponent[1] of the drug ketamine in her 1978 book, Journeys Into The Bright World, written together with her husband anesthesiologist Howard Alltounian. The book promoted the existential richness of the ketamine-induced dissociative experience, and the possibilities for using this drug in conjunction with Jungian psychotherapy.
In the winter of 1979, Moore disappeared. Her remains were found 2 years later in the woods near her home. It has been hypothesized[2] that Moore had injected all the ketamine available to her on a winter night in the forest, became unconscious, and died of hypothermia. Her lower jaw skeleton was identified via dental records.
Marcia Moore was the sister of Robin Moore, author of The French Connection and The Green Berets.
Publications
- Reincarnation, the Key to Immortality, with Mark Douglas, Able Trust edition, ISBN 978-0-912240-02-2, 1968.
- Diet, Sex and Yoga, with Mark Douglas, Able Trust edition, ISBN 978-0-912240-00-8, 1970.
- Astrology in Action, with Mark Douglas, Able Trust edition, ISBN 978-0-912240-03-9, 1970.
- Journeys into the Bright World, Para Research Inc, ISBN 978-0-914918-12-7, 1978.
- Astrology: The Divine Science, Able Trust edition, ISBN 978-0-912240-04-6, 1978.
- Yoga, Science of the Self, with Mark Douglas, Arcane Publications York Harbor, ASIN: B0006X5POC, 1979.
References
- ^ Palmer, Cynthia; Horowitz, Michael. Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience, Park Street Press (2000), ISBN 0-89281-757-7, pp. 254-255.
- ^ Jansen, Karl. Ketamine: Dreams and Realities, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Stud (2001), ISBN 0-9660019-3-1. (Moore and Alltounian are extensively featured in this book, including quotations from Journeys into the Bright World and comments on ketamine use made by Alltounian after Moore's death.)
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