Aquarian Spiritual Center (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2015-001
Abstract
This collection contains archival materials and rare books related to Alfred and Bernice Ligon as the proprietors and founders of The Aquarian Book Shop and Aquarian Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, CA; their interests in African American history and culture; and studies and teaching of metaphysics, occultism and black gnostic studies. The archival collection concentrates on the operations and events of the Book Shop, curriculum of the Spiritual Center, and African American culture. The rare...
Dates:
1927-2014; undated; Bulk 1941-1996
Dadisi Sanyika Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2015-002
Abstract
This collection contains archival material and rare books related to Dadisi Sanyika and his interests in African American history and culture, African drumming and dance, and the study of astrology, metaphysics, occultism, black gnostic studies, and PermaCulture. Included in the collection are published books and periodicals, pamphlets, yearbooks, handwritten notes, study materials, lesson plans, astrology charts, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and VHS tapes.
Dates:
1940s-2005; 1970-2005
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- African American Jews 1
- African American authors 1
- African American book collectors 1
- African American dance 1
- African American women poets 1
- African Americans -- Culture 1
- African Americans -- Fiction 1
- African Americans -- Intellectual life 1
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction 1
- African Americans -- Politics and government 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions 1
- Alternative medicine 1
- American drama -- African American authors 1
- Antislavery movements 1
- Black Muslims 1
- Black nationalism 1
- Booksellers and bookselling 1
- Chapbooks 1
- Color -- Therapeutic use 1
- Cosmogony 1
- Dance -- Africa 1
- Drama -- Black authors 1
- Drum -- Performance -- Africa 1
- Geometry -- Philosophy 1
- Harlem Renaissance 1
- Hatha yoga -- Therapeutic use 1
- Houses (Astrology) 1
- Interracial marriage 1
- Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics 1
- Mythology 1
- Poetry -- Black authors 1
- Psychoanalysis and religion 1
- Race discrimination 1
- Racially mixed people 1
- Racism 1
- Symbolism of numbers. 1
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