You might find the following, which is the second part of an article that I wrote on the correlation between Judaisam, Tikkun Olam, Freemasonry, and the New World Order to be of interest, as it ties in directly to what you are referencing as Consumer Witchcraft.
You can find the first half of the article here:
http://www.occultforum.org/forum/viewto ... =7&t=36746
Outside of Freemasonry, the Kabbalistic doctrine of Tikkun Olam has manifested itself many ways throughout various other movements that have transpired within Western culture, many of which have ties to occultism and esoteric philosophy.
It was this philosophy of tikkun olam that led Jews to organize the Communist Party in the early 20th century which led to the Bolshevik Revolution, as well as their efforts to advance the cause of integration by assisting the African-American community in organizing themselves to protest against the longstanding policies of segregation that existed, particularly in the South. Tikkun olam was the impetus which led Jews such as Joel Spingarn, Lillian Wald, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Stephen Wise, and Henry Moskowitz in 1909, together with black leaders such as W.E.B. Dubois, to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
One year later other prominent Jewish and Black leaders created the Urban League. Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington worked together in 1912 to improve the educational system for Blacks in the South. Jews made substantial financial contributions to many civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, the Urban League, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. About 50 percent of the civil rights attorneys in the South during the 1960s were Jews, as were over 50 percent of the Whites who went to Mississippi in 1964 to challenge Jim Crow Laws. Jews such as Marvin Rich, a chief fundraiser and key speech writer for the Congress of Racial Equality, and Stanley Levison who wrote Martin Luther King's speeches for him, served to further the cause of tikkun olam by helping to ensure the Civil Rights movement followed its charted course that the Jewish community had laid out for it.
As a people who have a mercantile heritage and who practically created the concept of the department store from scratch, Jews naturally had a vested interest in helping blacks to become more prosperous, as wealthier shoppers make better customers. And as a people who have constantly been reminded of their Middle Eastern origins by whites Europeans; Jews were happy to have played a leading role in desegregation and racial integration, along with persuading legislators to abolish laws forbidding interracial marriage, in order to create a more blended and diverse society as part of their efforts to achieve tikkun olam.
Following their successful efforts in organizing the Civil Rights movement, Jewish activists in the 1960's began turning their attention toward encouraging American and European youths to break away from the restrictions of traditional, conservative, dogma by embracing more liberal attitudes in regard to casual sex, recreational drug use, and alternative lifestyles that revolved around free-love, communal living, nudism, exploring mysticism, the occult, acceptance of homosexuality, transgenderism and group-sex, along with organizing political protests against the war on Communism being fought in Vietnam and government prohibition of recreational drugs such as marijuana and LSD.
The counterculture movement was precipitated by a number of factors that came about as a direct result of Jews playing leading roles in their professions which would have a lasting impact on society for decades to come. Principal among these was the development in the 1950's of the birth control pill by Jewish research scientists Gregory Pincus, Carl Djerassi, and George Rosenkranz, which helped to usher in a new era of social liberation that came to be known as the Sexual Revolution.
No less significant to the development of the 1960's counterculture movement was the contribution of Jewish recording industry producers such as Jerry Wexler of Atlantic records and Clive Davis of Columbia records who helped to pioneer the breakthrough of such genres as rhythm & blues, soul, and rock n' roll into the category of popular music, while Jewish musicians such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkle, Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul & Mary, and Cass Elliot of The Mamas & The Papas, contributed to the folk music scene that would play such a prominent role in the development of hippie culture. On the political front, Jewish activists such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, with help from Allen Ginsberg, formed the controversial Youth International Party who referred to themselves as"Yippies."
When the state of California announced that the use or possession of LSD would soon be made illegal Allen Cohen, a Jewish poet and icon of the 1960s counterculture movement, turned his efforts toward organizing a protest rally against the criminalization of the drug. While working with Ron and Jay Thelin, the Jewish owners of The Psychedelic Shop located on Haight Street in San Francisco, Allen Cohen helped to publish the first issue of The San Francisco Oracle on September 9, 1966, as an underground newspaper that would serve as the primary vehicle in promoting the upcoming rally protesting California's prohibition of LSD.
Since the new law banning LSD was to go into effect on October 6, 1966, Allen Cohen and others helping to organize the protest publicized the event by relating the date of the drug's prohibition to the "number of the Beast" (666) from the Book of Revelation in Christian scripture. Known as the "Love Pageant Rally" it was held on the 'panhandle' of Golden Gate Park, the narrow section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
The 'Haight', a neighborhood of run-down Victorian houses, had become the center of San Francisco's counterculture. Among the area's Jewish residents was Howard Stanton Levey, a former carnival showman and musician, better known as Anton Szandor LaVey, who had founded the Church of Satan at his San Francisco residence on April 30, 1966, as "an organization dedicated to the acceptance of the carnal self."
The 1960's proved to be a renaissance in terms of interest in the area of metaphysics and the supernatural, leading many young people to investigate and experiment with the paranormal. In 1966, American board-game manufacturer Parker Brothers of Salem, Massachusetts, bought the rights to manufacture and distribute the Ouija Board from the estate of the Ouija Board's early developer, William Fuld, the son of a German Jewish immigrant, Jacob Fuld, who had (along with his brother Isaac) been the manufacturer who first popularized the Ouija Board as a novelty item which was used in seances by mediums in their attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
Other Jews who made substantial contributions toward popularizing esoteric studies, mysticism and the occult included bibliophile Samuel Weiser who first began selling used and rare books from his New York City storefront in 1929. By the mid 1950s Weiser, along with his son Donald and his brother Ben, had expanded his business to include a publishing company specializing in books on the occult, which by the 1970's had grown to become the second largest distributor of occult titles in the publishing industry.
Weiser's main competitor in the publication of books dealing with the occult and metaphysics, Llewellyn Publications, was purchased by Carl Weschcke in 1961. During the 1960's Weschcke, who had been elected president of the Minnesota branch of the NAACP in 1959 and vice-president of the Minnesota chapter of the ACLU in 1965, ran the company as a mail-order business from a reputedly haunted Victorian mansion he had bought in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1964. Among the books published by Llewellyn were titles such as The Tree of Life, A Garden of Pomegranates, and The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie, a noted 20th century Jewish scholar of Hermetic mysticism.
Early on, Jews had found that superstition and belief in magic among the less educated classes of both Black and White Americans was a source of great untapped financial potential that they could single-handedly capitalize on. For years, Jewish stage magicians had earned considerable fortunes entertaining audiences in America as far back as the 1700s when Jacob Philadelphia (born Jacob Meyer), captivated spectators by performing illusions by slight of hand. The Vaudeville circuits of the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw numerous Jewish entertainers such as Alexander "The Great" Herrmann and Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz) performing stage magic acts across America, while Jewish booking agents often made careers of managing the acts of other entertainers such as the African American stage magician known as "Black Herman" (born Benjamin Rucker) whose performance tours were organized by his agent, a Mr. Young, who also operated an occult supply business known as Oracle Products Company which sold various types of incense, herbs, oils and other products such as "Young's Chinese Wash" along with publishing books such as the ghost-written biography of Black Herman entitled "Secrets of Magic, Mystery, and Legerdemain" which was intended for sale at Black Herman's stage shows, along with other titles written by Mr. Young under the pseudonym "Lewis De Claremont", such as 7 Keys to Power, 7 Steps to Success, The Ancient's Book of Magic, The Ancient Book of Formulas, and Legends of Incense, Herb, and Oil Magic which encouraged readers to purchase the various items marketed by Young's Oracle Products Company during the 1930s.
By 1938, Mr. Young had fallen on hard times and in lieu of payment for a debt that he owed, he transferred the publication rights of all of his books over to Joseph W. Kay (born Joseph Spitalnick) a Jewish-American jazz musician who began publishing occult books as the founder of Dorene Publishing Company while operating an occult supply company called Fulton Religious Supply, as well as publishing various other saddle-stitched booklets under the Empire Publishing and Raymond Publishing imprints. For nearly 30 years until his death in 1967 Joe Kay continued to print and sell Young's numerous Lewis De Claremont titles through Dorene Publishing, a business that was inherited by his son, Ed Kay, who continued to market occult books to the largely African-American hoo-doo community through the end of the twentieth century.
The resurgence of interest in the occult during the 1960's was no doubt inspired in part by the many supernatural and horror-themed movies and comic books which had provided entertainment to the members of the baby boomer generation during their adolescence. Among these were motion pictures such as The Mummy, Dracula, Prince of Darkness, and The Curse of Frankenstein, produced by British film director Terence Fisher, who was born in 1904 in Maida Vale, then a predominantly Jewish middle-class district of west London.
William Gaines a Jewish-American publisher who inherited EC comics on the death of his father Max Gaines in 1947, pioneered the horror-comic genre along with Al Feldstein who came to work for EC comics as an artist in 1948 and as a writer and editor helped Gaines to develop the New Trend line of comic books which featured titles such as The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Weird Science-Fantasy. EC comics showcased the work of a number of Jewish writers such as Robert Bernstein and Harlan Ellison, often featuring stories aimed at older teens with themes that focused on the ugly underbelly of American life, dealing with issues such as racial prejudice, police brutality, drug addiction, domestic violence, rape, and child abuse; topics that older audiences of 1950s radio, motion picture and television programs were not yet ready to tolerate, yet were of interest to the younger generation.
By publishing comic books that dealt with mature subject matter, William Gaines soon found himself in the center of government investigations carried out by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, which convened to determine whether or not comic books were a contributing factor of increased violence among American youths.The public hearings took place on April 21, 22, June 4, 1954 in New York. They focused on particularly graphic "crime and horror" comic books of the day, and their potential impact on juvenile delinquency.
On the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967, some 30,000 hippies converged on San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, to attend the Human Be-In, a counterculture rally promoted on the cover of the fifth issue of the San Francisco Oracle as "a gathering of the tribes." The Human Be-In served as the catalyst for what became known as "The Summer of Love," which brought the 1960s hippie counterculture to national attention, emphasizing leftist ideals of liberal political and social values, personal activism, feminist and minority empowerment, decentralization of government authority, communal living, ecological awareness, and achieving higher consciousness through the use of psychedelic drugs.
Speakers at the rally included Jewish psychologist Richard Alpert (soon to be more widely known as 'Ram Dass') along with his his close friend and associate Timothy Leary, who set the tone that afternoon with his famous phrase "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out." Other notable Jewish counter-culture icons included Allen Ginsberg, who chanted mantras, Gary Snyder, Lenore Kandel, Jerry Rubin. Music was provided by a host of local rock bands including Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service, who had been staples of the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom since February 1966, and 'underground chemist' Owsley Stanley provided massive amounts of his "White Lightning" LSD, specially produced for the event, to the gathered masses.
Two years after the Summer of Love, four enterprising young Jews named Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, and Artie Kornfeld, set out to capitalize on the hippie movement by organizing the Woodstock Music Festival, promoted as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" which was held from August 15 to August 18, 1969, on 600-acres of property in the Catskills owned by a Jewish dairy-operator named Max Yasgur, near White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York.
Roberts and Rosenman financed the venture taking out ads in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal under the name of Challenge International, Ltd. seeking "Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities and business propositions". Lang and Kornfeld noticed the ad, and the four men got together developing the idea of an outdoor music and arts festival. Woodstock was designed as a profit-making enterprise, aptly titled "Woodstock Ventures," with Stan Goldstein being brought in as festival executive. Lang, who had previous experience organizing the Miami Pop Festival, served as the event promoter.
Tickets for the three-day event cost $18 in advance and $24 at the gate. Ticket sales were limited to record stores in the greater New York City area, or by mail via a post office box at the Radio City Station Post Office located in Midtown Manhattan. Around 186,000 tickets were sold beforehand and organizers anticipated approximately 200,000 festival-goers would turn up. After it became obvious that the event was drawing hundreds of thousands more people than the organizers had prepared for, the decision was made to allow those showing up without tickets to attend the event as a free concert.
Jewish musicians and bands performing at Woodstock included Robbie Robertson of "The Band" (Jewish father Native American mother); Jefferson Airplane (Marty Balin, Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Kantner, Spencer Dryden and David Freiberg ); Blood, Sweat & Tears (Randy Brecker, Bobby Colomby, Steve Katz, Fred Lipsuis, Jerry Weiss); Arlo Guthrie (Jewish mother); Country Joe McDonald (Jewish mother); and Sha Na Na (Ritchie Joffe, Elliot Cahn, John "Bowser" Baumann).
Concurrent with the hippie counterculture movement of the 1960's was the emergence of the feminist movement which Jews played a key role in developing. The the 1963 publication of The Feminine Mystique by leading Jewish feminist Betty Friedan proved instrumental in persuading women to explore opportunities beyond their traditional roles as wives, mothers and homemakers, encouraging them to pursue careers which would allow them to earn their own money and enjoy the freedom of a life outside of marriage and motherhood.
Gloria Steinem was another leading figure in the feminist movement who was also of Jewish heritage. Pursuing a career in investigative journalism, she had gone undercover in 1963 working as a hostess at New York's Playboy Club, an experience that she would recount in her article published in Show magazine which described the pervasive atmosphere of chauvinism and exploitation that she encountered while working as a Playboy bunny. In 1969, she published an article entitled "After Black Power, Women's Liberation", which, along with her early support of abortion rights, catapulted Steinem to national fame as a feminist leader.
Other notable Jews who were active in promoting the feminist movement include: Bella Abzug, Kathy Acker, Rachel Adler, Larisa Alexandrovna, Gloria Allred, Rebecca Alpert, Pauline Bebe, Hanne Blank, Pearl Blazer, Lisa Bloom, Judy Blume, Daniel Boyarin, David Brooks, Susan Brownmiller, Judith Butler, Aviva Cantor, Judy Chicago, Hedwig Dohm, Andrea Dworkin, Eve Ensler, Amy Eilberg, Jane Evans, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Susan Estrich, Susan Faludi, Shulamith Firestone, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ilana Gliechbloom, Emma Goldman, Elyse Goldstein, Lynn Gottlieb, Blu Greenberg, Tina Grimberg, Charlotte Haldane, Nina Hartley, Tova Hartman, Judith Hauptman, Dorothy Ray Healey, Brenda Howard, Sara Hurwitz, Paula Hyman, Elfriede Jelinek, Erica Jong, Roberta Kalechofsky, Michael Kimmel, Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, Naomi Klein, Edith Konecky, Barbara Kruger, Anna Kuliscioff, Michele Landsberg, Lori Hope Lefkovitz, Gerda Lerner, Ariel Levy, Fanny Lewald, Rosa Luxemburg, Frederica Sagor Maas, Hana Meisel, Annie Nathan Meyer, Haviva Ner-David, Martha Nussbaum, Tillie Olsen, Eleanor Pam, Judith Plaskow, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Rachel Pollack, Katha Pollitt, Virginia Postrel, Sally Priesand, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Tamar Ross, Muriel Rukeyser, Danya Ruttenberg, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Rosika Schwimmer, Mendel Shapiro, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Susan Sontag, Daniel Sperber, Annie Sprinkle, Gertrude Stein, Sandra Steingraber, Yona Wallach, Wendy Wasserstein, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, Naomi Weisstein, Ruth Westheimer, Naomi Wolf, Joel B. Wolowelsky, Elizabeth Wurtzel, and Cathy Young.
"If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand....I should deny that there is a God above.....neither have I suffered my mouth to sin."
