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Article: Inside the spiritual Jacuzzi: what JewBus, Unitarian Pagans, and the Hot Tub Mystery Religion tell us about traditional faiths.(amalgamated faith groups)
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- Reason
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- May 1, 2003
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THERE IS A GROUP n the Dallas area called the Hot Tub Mystery Religion. Its adherents hold to no particular spiritual dogma, borrowing freely from such sources as Jewish mysticism, Roman paganism, Islamic heresy, and experimental art. One of its founders has compiled a recommended reading list for the faithful; it includes a collection of Tantric exercises, a text on Sufism, one of Philip K. Dick's Gnostic science fiction stories, and a novel by the Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton. The group has been known to treat nitrous oxide as a sacrament and to throw Jacuzzi parties--hence the name.
In raw numbers, the Hottubbists constitute one of the smallest religions ...