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••► In 1970, University of Michigan doctoral candidates Karen and Gerald de Groot founded the Dharma Initiative with financial backing from the Hanso Foundation. Dharma brought together scientists and free thinkers from around the globe at a "large-scale communal research compound to conduct research in various disciplines, including meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism, and a sixth discipline that the film begins to identify as utopian social . . . . before being cut off. American psychologist and Walden Two author B.F. Skinner is cited as an influence on the de Groots' work. |