Also though, this was the 1970's. I was eleven years old in 1975 and can remember how much "the Age of Aquarius" had infused so much of culture. Horoscopes, biorhythms, transcendental meditation, "Chariots of the Gods?", etc.…

(And this was from the vantage point of Kansas. Christ, California must have been out of this world in the 70's.)

I'm 2 years younger than you and was in NJ. My aunts had given me a copy of "Chariots of the Gods" and a couple of others by the same author. I remember also having some books on pyramid power, reincarnation, Atlantis, and the Bermuda Triangle. Even then, it all seemed like fiction to me.