A combination of personal biography and reflections on individual liberty, rural self-sufficiency, agrarian anarchism, comparative religion and philosophy and the reclamation of spirituality from the great religions.

Chapter I - The View from the Glen
The spirit of the Glen
the perennial peasant
the failure of consumerism
rustic cleansing since World War II
unholy religious politics
the corporate menace
the Old Game
new age astrology
clothes for emperors
Chapter II - Ages Old and New in Astrology
Millenial expectations
astrology as an art
datingof precessional ages -- Aries, Pisces, Aquarius
historical correlates
illustrations and explanations
Chapter III - Hippie Visions of the New Age
Disinherited and away to sea
summer 1967
in Boston, Massachusetts
hippies and flower power
dawning of Aquarius
Expo 67
thedrunken sailor
Chapter IV - The Legacy of Aries
A schoolboy's view
warm Greek classics
chilling Old Testament
epoch-making Aristotle
logic, common-sense and superstition
slavery andhierarchies
scene set for the Age of Pisces
Chapter V - Pisces, Age of the Cult
Two predatory fishes
a cord binds the age
pyramidal power structures
Piscean cults
Aquarian teams
organizations in transition
astrology of Pisces
the wrath of Jupiter
Tables comparing cults with teams
Chapter VI - Reclaiming the Spirit from Religion
Divisive religions threaten peace
spirituality reconciles
cultic superstition and fear
materialism's weak challenge to religion
dangers of childhoodindoctrination

author's teenage religious phase
thought supersedes belief
secular humanity takes over rites and good works
France sets example
Chapter VII - An Anarchism for Aquarius
Three experiences of enlightened living
something about anarchism
the hospitality of the communes
where have all the peasants gone?
and the farms?
the desolation of rustic cleansing at home and abroad
anarchism by evolution
travelling Circus
the hope that never dies.