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Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- THE UNICORN -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Change. . .or Exchange? -- 1. The New Age Movement -- 2. Education in the New Age -- 3. Priest or Guru? -- 4. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- 5. The New Age Mystic: Different Path, Same God? -- 6. Witchcraft, WomanChurch, and the Goddess -- 7. Close to Home -- 8. Fight It?. . .or Forget It? -- Appendix: New Age Politics, Economics and Social Change -- Suggested Reading

The article describes a set of practices & discourses of the alternative therapeutic circuit & the New Age movement in Buenos Aires that discourage & de-emphasize permanent personal relationships by framing them as the source of unhealthy or unbalancing personal or collective situations. Concurrently, ephemeral social relationships, intra-personal relationships & relations with the cosmos & nature are shown to be associated to health, well being & spiritual development. Based on these findings, it argues that both the habitual practices within the local chapter of this transnational circuit & the discourse of the activists of the New Age movement contribute to the transformation of the culture of educated, middle class Argentines by de-sacralizing lasting & significant personal relationships. It concludes that ephemeral contact with ever-changing protagonists -- even across national boundaries -- seems to be the key of disembedding within the alternative circuit & the New Age movement, more so than the mediatization of relationships that the development of communication technologies make possible. 28 References. Adapted from the source document.