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John Starr Cooke (March 1920 - August 21, 1976) was an American mystic and spiritual teacher who influenced the development of the counterculture movement that emerged in San Francisco during 1966–1967. His teachings were based on the doctrine of “One Consciousness”, which Cooke believed was communicated to him through a Ouija board in the early 1960s. He designed three original decks of Tarot cards: ''T: The New Tarot for the Aquarian Age'' (1967, 1992), the ''Atlantean Tarot'' (1992), and the ''Medieval Tarot'' (1992). ==Early life Honolulu, Hawaii 1920–1940== Cooke was born in 1920 into a wealthy family in Honolulu, Hawaii, the youngest of the eight children of Clarence Hyde Cooke and Lily Love and is a nephew of zoologist Charles Montague Cooke Jr, grandson of arts philanthropist Anna Rice Cooke, great-grandson of New England missionaries Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague, and great-great-great grandson of American military officer in the Revolutionary war and politician Josiah (Joseph) Platt Cooke. According to Brion Gysin, Cooke was in touch with the Kahunas of Hawaii from an early age.〔''Here to Go'' by Brion Gysin with Terry Wilson, Creation Books, 2001, p 42〕 In later life, Cooke knew Kahuna David “Big Daddy” Bray (1889–1968), and it is likely that this connection with Bray went back to his childhood. Cooke developed a lifelong interest in the Tarot at the age of nine when he mistakenly bought a Tarot deck instead of regular playing cards.〔(Alice Kent interview by June Morrall )〕 John travelled to mainland USA (particularly to San Francisco) many times with his mother before her death in 1933.〔Ancestry.com shipping lists〕 John's sister Alice married Democrat politician and lawyer Roger Kent in 1930. They lived at Kentfield, California in Marin County of San Francisco, and after Lily's death, Alice took on a mothering role for the young John. John continued to travel regularly from Honolulu to San Francisco through the 1930s.〔 At 19, Cooke employed the Ouija board at Kentfield with Alice Kent (who was also mystically inclined).〔 He would continue to use the Ouija board for at least the next thirty years. At this age, Cooke was also a dancer and actor in Hollywood.〔 He moved permanently away from Hawaii to California after July 1940.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Starr Cooke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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