Universe.
A Quarterly Magazine for the New Age.
1971? Quarterly
Fairbanks, AK.
Language: English.
Editor: Lavedi Virat; Roblyn Lafferty-Bulstrode, Lawrence Pipella, Paul Dozier, assistant editors.
Publisher: The Vortex Institute, Inc.
Succeeds: The Vortex Voice
1/1, 1971 (?)
16 pp., $3.00 a year, or included for free in $15.00 membership dues.

This was a product of the small Vortex Institute in Alaska and later in Colorado. It claimed it was "dedicated too teaching awareness of Universal Consciousness and the Oneness of humanity in Spirit" -- in other words, a rather typical blend of New Age Self-Development with a strong bent toward astrology. The institute claimed to offer courses in metaphysics, dream analysis, and basic and advanced astrology, but seems to have survived by running a bookstore in Fairfax, and by selling the journal in stores and beauty salons. The editor, the unknown Lavedi Virat, was the instructor on astrology at the institute and in the issue of the journal for Winter 1973, announced her move to Denver, Colorado, where she and her husband were perfecting their astrological computer program -- in 1973, remember. One product of this was an "Astro-Guide Astrological Analysis" for $28.00, an analysis of the customer's horoscope that came in a bound volume with his "name embossed in gold on the handsome black cover." The inquirer was to include with his payment the answers to a checklist of questions on illnesses, accidents, height, weight, hair and eye color, etc. The journal featured articles on "Universal Vibrations," "The Music of the Spheres," "Love, The Key to Creative Communication," etc., and carried advertisements (probably exchanges) for tiny occult and New Age journals like The Pagan! (St. Louis), Cosmos-Express (Quebec), Insight Magazine (Bournemouth), Psychic Spectrum (Anchorage), Foresight (Birmingham), and Astral Projection (Albuquerque).