Eroto-comatose lucidity is a technique of sex magic known best by its formulation by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley in 1912, but which has several variations and is used in a number of ways by different spiritual communities.
 A common form of the ritual uses repeated sexual stimulation (but not to physical orgasm) to place the individual in a state between full sleep and full wakefulness as well as exhaustion, allowing the practitioner to commune with their god.
The Association for Global New Thought, or AGNT, is an organization of ministers, lay people, heads of other , and people of all faiths dedicated to "conscious co-creation".
 Its New Thought member churches and centers number between 600 and 700, and include Unity churches, Religious Science, Divine Science centers, and nondenominational New Thought spiritual communities.
Eileen Caddy MBE (26 August 1917 – 13 December 2006) was a spiritual teacher and new age author, best known as one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, near the village of Findhorn, Moray Firth, in northeast Scotland.
 The commune which she started in 1962 with her second husband, Peter Caddy, and Dorothy Maclean was an early New Age intentional community; as of January 2009 it has been home to over 400 residents and thousands of visitors from over 40 countries, and is one of the UK's largest alternative spiritual communities, nicknamed "the Vatican of the New Age".
Grace Ndiritu is an international visual artist.
 At the age of 22 she was taught art in Amsterdam by Hollywood film director Steve McQueen.
 In 2009 her art had entered into the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection in New York, gaining a place in Phaidon's The 21st Century Art Book published in 2014.
 In 2014 she was named one of the "ten most important and influential artists under 40" by Apollo Magazine.
 In 2012, she took the decision to spend time only in the city when necessary, and to otherwise live in rural, alternative and often spiritual communities, while expanding her research into nomadic lifestyles and training in esoteric studies such as shamanism, which she began over 16 years ago.
 Ndiritu has also written an online book project on youth culture, "Dissent Without Modification" a Post-hippie, Skate, Surf, Street, Neo-Tribal Fashion book project.
World Brotherhood Colonies are an idea for self-sustaining spiritual communities envisioned by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi and author of "Autobiography of a Yogi" and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.
 Yogananda envisioned that communities for “plain living and high thinking,” would develop as a natural culmination of the spread of his worldwide teachings.
La Reforma (English: The Reform ) or the Liberal Reform was initiated in Mexico following the ousting of centralist president Antonio López de Santa Anna by a group of liberals under the 1854 Plan de Ayutla.
 From the liberals' narrow objective to remove a dictator and take power, they expanded their aims to a comprehensive program to remake Mexico governed by liberal principles as embodied by a series of Reform laws and then the Constitution of 1857.
 The major goals of this movement were to undermine the power of the Catholic Church in Mexico, separate church and state, reduce the power of the Mexican military, and integrate Mexico's large indigenous population as citizens of Mexico and not a protected class.
 Liberals envisioned secular education as a means to create a Mexican citizenry.
 The liberals' strategy was to sharply limit the traditional institutional privileges ("fueros") of the Catholic Church and the army.
 The law prohibiting the ownership of land by corporations targeted the holdings of the Catholic Church and indigenous communities - confiscating Church land.
 Indigenous community lands were held by the community as a whole, not as individual parcels.
 Liberals sought to create a class of yeoman farmers that held land individually.
 No class of individualistic peasants developed with the Liberal program emerged, but many merchants acquired land (and tenant farmers).
 Many existing landowners expanded their holdings at the expense of peasants, and some upwardly mobile ranch owners, often mestizos, acquired land previously held by communities.
 Upon the promulgation of the liberal Constitution of 1857, conservatives refused to swear allegiance to it and, instead, formed a conservative government.
 The result was a civil war known as the Reform War or Three Years' War, waged between conservatives and liberals for three years, ending with the defeat of the conservatives on the battlefield.
 Victorious liberal president Benito Juárez could not implement the envisioned reforms due to a new political threat.
 Conservatives had sought another route to regaining power, resulting in their active collaboration with Napoleon III's plans to turn the Mexican Empire into a part into the main American ally of the French empire.
 Mexican conservatives offered the crown of Mexico to Hapsburg archduke Maximilian.
 The French invasion and republican resistance to the French Intervention in Mexico lasted from 1862-67.
 With the defeat of the conservatives and the execution of Maximilian, Juárez again took up his duties as president.
 In this period from 1867 to 1876, often called the "Restored Republic" liberals had no credible opposition to their implementation of the laws of the Reform embodied in the 1857 Constitution.
Sunburst began as an intentional spiritual community in the late 1960s, inspired by an idea for self-sustaining World Brotherhood Colonies envisioned by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi and author of Autobiography of a Yogi and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship.
 It was founded and led by Norman Paulsen, one of the direct disciples of Paramahansa Yogananda.
 As a child, Norman repeatedly experienced visions of a long-haired man with lustrous dark eyes.
 When he met the yogi, he felt that here was the man of his visions.
New Monasticism is a diverse movement, not limited to a specific religious denomination or church and including varying expressions of contemplative life.
 These include evangelical Christian communities such as "Simple Way Community" and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's "Rutba House," European and Irish new monastic communities, such as that formed by Bernadette Flanagnal spiritual communities such as the "Community of the New Monastic Way" founded by feminist contemplative theologian Beverly Lanzetta, and "interspiritual" new monasticism, such as that developed by Rory McEntee and Adam Bucko.
 These communities expand upon traditional monastic wisdom, translating it into forms that can be lived out in contemporary lives "in the world."
William B. Strang Jr. (1857–1921) was an American railroad magnate who platted Overland Park, Kansas and is considered the founder of the community.
 In 1905, Strang purchased 600 acres south of Kansas City and adjacent to present day Metcalf Avenue and 80th Street.
 "Strang envisioned a "park-like" community that was self-sustaining and well planned.
 He also sought strong commerce, quality education, vibrant neighborhoods, convenient transportation and accommodating recreational facilities."
Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (January 5, 1893–March 7, 1952) first published in 1946.
 Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali family.

Question: Who  envisioned self-sustaining spiritual communities and wrote an autobiography?
Answer: Paramahansa Yogananda