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IN-MAY 1904 the residents of Halcyon - a little utopian community on California's central coast - asked their neighbors to wait the grand beginning of the Halcyon Hotel and Sanatorium. As part of the entertainment, friends were encouraged to own their hands X-rayed. For the founders and members of Halcyon, the X-ray was a demo of mysterious spiritual forces made practical to human beings. Radiance from Halcyon is the storyplot not only of the community,but also of its exclusively inventive members' contributions to faith and science. The brand new synthesis of faith and research attempted by theosophy laid the building blocks for advances produced by the kids of the founding members, including microwave technology and atomic spectral analysis. Paul Eli Ivey's narrative begins in the 1890s in Syracuse, New York, with the growing of the Temple of people: a splinter group of the theosophical activity. After producing its ideals for an agricultural and artisanal community, the Temple purchased land in California. And in 1903 it began to have its aspiration there. Ivey offers a wide-ranging cultural history encompassing theosophy, book recovery modalities, esoteric architecture, Native American ideas of community, socialist utopias, and innovative modern music.
