LSD and 136;
neural tuning 152–7;
oceanic eroticism 244;
plateau 90–3;
recreational users 149–1;
side- effects 143;
subcultural legitimacy 23–6;
therapeutic users 149–1;
two- year cycle 244
Megatripolis 21, 218–2
Melechi, Antonio 96
men 46–9, 54–7, 56
Merkur, Dan 276
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 106;
corporeal schema and 113–20
mescaline 123–9
Metropolis (Lang) 55
Metsogo people 129–4
Mexico 123
Middleton, R. 54
Mietzitis 174–7
millennialism 17–18, 34, 211–18;
hyper-millennialism 17, 31–4
Mind-Body-Spirit Festival 22
Ministry of Sound 35
miracles 130
missiology 218
Mission Earth 221
mixing 173, 174–80, 179n.10
modernity 63, 232
Montreal 68
Moontribe 26, 36, 117,223
Mulder, J. 56
music:
acid house 25, 49–2, 183, 184;
body 30;
centrality of 146–9;
deep house 56;
embodied awareness 154;
funk 49;
gamelan 194, 197–205;
hip-hop 49–1;
psychedelic 134–8;
spatialization of 169–4;
structure of 200;
techniques of liminality 172–8;
volume 134;
see also house music;
techno;
UK garage;
US garage
Music and Trance (Rouget) 201
Mutoid Waste Co (MWC) 226–30
Mycorrhiza 225–9
Myerhoff, Barbara 124
mysticism 74, 76, 106, 119n.4narcissism 34
neo-chiliastic faith 34
neo-Marxism 167
neo-paganism 289–4;
definitions of 290–4, 294;
Earthen spirituality 26;
healing practices 288;
New Age and 289;
post-rave and 296–298;
techno-paganism 292–8
Nepethe 24
Netherlands 148
Neu! 53
neural tuning 152–4
neutral zones 170
Neville, Richard 277
New Age:
altered states of consciousness (ASCs)
289;
as counterculture 232–9;
diversity 288–2;
healing practices 288;
inward turn 22;
limit-experiences 244–50;
MDMA (Ecstasy) 244;
neo- paganism and 289;
post-sexualities 243;
reasons for 96;
techno and 234–9, 238–3
New Time 224–9
New York 25, 49–1, 186, 187
Niman, Mike 17
nitrates (poppers) 145
nitrous oxide 150
no-man’s-land 170
‘no spectators’ rule 36
nomadism 236–44;
flexible economies 247–2;INDEX 309