Krishnamurti
Annie Besant, An Autobiography
Annie Besant, Australian Lectures
Edumund Garrett, “Isis Very Much Unveiled, Being the Story of the Great Mahatma Hoax.”
Pupul Jayakar, Krishnamurti: A Biography (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986)
Charles Knowlton, The Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question, ed. Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh
Jiddu Krishnamurti, At the Feet of the Master (Chicago: Rajput Press, 1911)
Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom (Harper Collins, 1954).
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti on Education (Krishnamurti Foundation India, 1974)
Charles W. Leadbetter, The Masters and the Path (Adyar: Theosophical Publishing house, 1925)
Mary Lutyens, Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening (Avon, 1975)
Peter Washington, Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon (New York: Schocken, 1993)
Cults that Aren’t Cults
Lewis Yablonsky, The Tunnel Back: Synanon
Rod Janzen, The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia
Joseph Laycock, Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
DND Satanic Panic at Dicebreaker
Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Robert J. Lifton, “Cult Formation” in Cultic Studies Journal
“Assessment of Psychological Abuse in Manipulative Groups” in International Journal of Cultic Studies
Jon M. Taylor, “The Case For and Against Multilevel Marketing”
Len Kasten, Dark Fleet: The Secret Nazi Space Program
Druids and Celtic Lore
Peter Berresford Ellis, The Druids
Anne Ross, Pagan Celtic Britian
John Arnott Macculoch, Celtic Mythology
Angelique Gulermovich Epstein, “The War Goddess: The Morrigan and her Germano-Celtic Counterparts” (Diss. University of California, Los Angeles)
Ancient Mystery Cults
April D. DeConick, The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion From Antiquity to Today
Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels
The Gnostic Gospels Collection (Noah Press)
Leon Davalos, The Cult of Dionysus
R. Gordon Wasson, Carl A. P. Ruck, and Albert Hofmann, The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
Marvin W. Meyer (ed), The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Ancient Texts
Lucius Apuleius, Metamorphoses (or the Golden Ass)
Ron Barrett, Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India
Robert Svboda, Aghora: At the Left Hand of God
The Garden of Eden
Augustine, The City of God
Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis
Origen’s Commentaries on the Old Testament
Anonymous, The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve
Paschal Beverly Randolph, Pre-Adamite Man: Demonstrating the Existence of the Human Race Upon This Earth 100,000 Thousand Years Ago!
A H Lester, The Pre-Adamite or Who Tempted Eve?
Anonymous, The Gospel of Philip
Anonymous, The Apocryphon of John
George MacDonald, Lilith: A Romance
Judith Plaskow, The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003
https://archive.org/stream/RabbaGenesis/midrashrabbahgen027557mbp_djvu.txt
https://www.doreenvaliente.com/doreen-valiente-Doreen_Valiente_Poetry-11.php
Wojciech Kosier, “A TALE OF TWO SISTERS: THE IMAGE OF EVE IN EARLY RABBINIC LITERATURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE PORTRAYAL OF LILITH IN THE ALPHABET OF BEN SIRA,” Nashim (vol 32): 112-130.
Geoffrey Dennis and Avi S. Dennis, Vampires and Witches and Commandos, Oy Vey: Comic Book Appropriations of Lilith,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol 32 no. 3 (Spring 2014): 72-101.
Occultists By Request
Andrew Jackson Davis
Andrew Jackson Davis, The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice for Mankind
Andrew Jackson Davis, The Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse
Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Eliphas Levi
Christopher McIntosh, Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival
Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic
Ida Craddock
Ida Craddock and Theodore Schroeder, Heavenly Bridegrooms: an unintentional contribution to the erotogenic interpretation of religion, reprinted and retitled 1918.
Ida Craddock, Right Marital Living
Inez Schaecterle, Speaking of Sex: The Rhetorical Strategies of Frances Willard, Victoria Woodhull, and Ida Craddock, Ph.D. Diss, Bowling Green State University, 2005.
Aleister Crowley, “Heavenly Bridegrooms Review” in the Equinox, Vol. 3, no. 1
Rasputin
Joseph T. Fuhrmann, Rasputin: The Untold Story
Maria Rasputin, Rasputin: The Untold Story and My Father
The Brotherhood of Saturn
Stephen Flowers, The Fraternitas Saturni: History, Doctrine, and Rituals of the Magical Order of the Brotherhood of Saturn
Gregor Gregorius, Sexual Magic
Erik Kurlander, “A Song of Ice and Fire: World Ice Theory and the supernatural imaginary of the Third Reich”
Jack Parsons
Erik Davis, Babylon Rising: Jack Parsons’ Witchcraft Prophecy
Jack Parsons (Frater Belarion), Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword
Jack Parsons, Book of Babalon
Jack Parsons, The Book of the Anti-Christ
George Pendel, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
Occult Christianity
Charles Leadbetter
Charles Leadbetter, The Christian Creed
Charles Leadbetter, How Theosophy Came to Me
Charles Leadbetter, Science of the Sacraments
Peter Washington, Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon
The Urantia Book
Martin Gardner, Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery, 2008
The Urantia Book
Anna Kingsford
Alan Pert, Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford
Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, The Key of the Creeds, 1875
Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, The Perfect Way; or, the Finding of Christ, 1882
Christian Sex Education
Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body in Simple Language, Philokalia Books, 2008
Ed and Gaye Wheat, Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage, 1977.
Juli Slattery, Rethinking Sexuality: God’s Design and Why it Matters, 2018
Heather Thieneman, What’s Up with the Fig Leaves?: The Pinciples and Purposes of Modesty Uncovered, 2016.
Bromleigh McCleneghan, Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity isn’t the Only Option And Others Things the Bible Says About Sex.
The Prosperity Gospel
Russell H. Conwell, “Acres of Diamonds.”
Charles Fillmore, Prosperity.
Gordon Lindsay, God's Master Key to Prosperity
Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: Seven Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Peter Mundy, “The Prosperity Gospel and the Spirit of Consumerism According to Joel Osteen” in Pneuma.
Mary Wrenn, “Consecrating Capitalism: The United States Prosperity Gospel and Neoliberalism,” in the Journal of Economic Issues, June 2019.
A Christian Theocracy
Gregory Bahnsen, Theonomy and Christian Ethics
Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political ower in the United States
Pat Robertson, The Secret Kingdom
Dangerous Cults
Neo-Nazi Occultism and Klan Christianity
Mattias Gardell, Gods of the Blood: Pagan Revival and White Separatism
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity
https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/order-nine-angles
Esoteric Hitlerist: An Interview with Miguel Serrano.
Savitri Devi, “The Last Man Against Time” from The Lightning and the Sun
Malcolm X
Mark Doeden, A Marked Man: The Assassination of Malcolm X (Twenty-first century books, 2013).
Vibert L. White, Inside the Nation of Islam: A Historical and Personal Testimony by a Black Muslim.
Stephen Tuck, The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union.
Adil Ahmed, “Islam and Black America: The Religious Life of Malcolm X,” Journal of African American Studies (2020).
Les and Tamara Payne, The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity
Falun Gong
Maria Hsia Chang, Falun Gong: The End of Days
BLOODY HARVEST Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China By David Matas, Esq. and Hon. David Kilgour, Esq. 31 January 2007
Aum Shinrikyo
Robert Jay Lifton, Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Cult Brainwashing
James R. Lewis, “Apostates and the Legitimation of Repression: Some Historical and Empirical Perspectives on the Cult Controversy” Sociological Analyis 1989 (49: 4: 368-389).
Elizabeth Aileen Young, “The use of Brainwashing Theory by the Anti-cult Movement in the United States of America, pre-1996.” revues.org.
“Brainwashing and Cults: The Rise and Fall of a Theory,” J. Gordon Melton for the Center for Studies on New Religions. https://www.cesnur.org/testi/melton.htm
Anson D. Shupe, Jr. and David G. Bromley, “The Moonies and the Anti-Cultists: Movement and Countermovement in Conflict,” Sociological Analysis 1979 (40, 4: 325-334).
Female Life Among the Mormons: A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience by the Wife of a Mormon Elder recently from Utah. Philadelphia: J. Edwin Potter, 1863.
You're not Alone: The Journey from Abduction to Empowerment, US Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquincy Prevention.
Pagans and Persecution
Pagan Saints of Mexico
Regnar Albaek Kristensen, “How did Death become a Saint in Mexico?” Ethnos, Vol. 81:3 (2016): 402-424.
Laura Rousch, “Santa Muerte, Protection, and Desamparo: A View from a Mexico City Altar,” Latin American Research Review, vol. 49.
Robert J. Bunker, “Santa Muerte: Inspired and Ritualistic Killings” in FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.
Tituba in Salem
Benjamin C. Ray, Satan and Salem: The Witch-hunt Crisis of 1692
George William Ellis, King Philip's War
The University of Virginia's Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
Elaine G. Breslaw, “Tituba's Confession: The Multicultural Dimensions of the 1692 Salem Witch Hunt,” Ethnohistory 44, no. 3 (summer 1997)
The Tainos and Columbus
Kathleen Deagan and J. M. Cruxent, Columbus’s Outposts Among the Tainos: Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498
L. Antonio Curet, “The Taino: Phenomena, Concepts, and Terms” in Ethnohistory (Summer 2014)
Letter of Dr. Chanca on the Second Voyage of Columbus
The Journal of Christopher Columbus during his First Voyage
Jose R. Oliver, Caciques and Cemi Idols: The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
The Great Witch Hunt
Norman Cohn, Europe’s Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom
The Baltic Crusades
Anit Selart, Livonia, Rus and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century
Michael North, The Baltic : A History
The Pope and the Barbarians
Christina Ricci, “Gregory's Missions to the Barbarians” in A Companion to Gregory the Great
Miriam Adan Jones, “ CONVERSION AS CONVERGENCE: GREGORY THE GREAT CONFRONTING PAGAN AND JEWISH INFLUENCES IN ANGLO-SAXON CHRISTIANITY” in Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire
Claude Evans, “The Celtic Church in Anglo-Saxon Times,” in The Anglo-Saxons : Synthesis and Achievement
Constantine
David Potter, Constantine the Emperor
Raymond Van Dam, The Roman Revolution of Constantine
Doppelgängers
Secret Clones
https://donaldmarshallrevolution.com/#secretcloning
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/79357/djs-fired-for-spearstimberlake-crash-rumor
https://www.altereddimensions.net/2019/dulce-base-underground-new-mexico-alien-research-facility
Jim Yoakum, “The Man Who Killed Paul McCartney”
Ukraine’s Witches and Demons
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol translated and edited by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokohonsky
Nikolai Gogol by Vladimir Nabakov
Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials by Katarina Dysa
Parallel Universes
Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos, New York: Doubleday, 2005.
Peter Byrne, The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Muutal Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family
John Barrow and Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
Frank Tipler, The Physics of Immortality
Ghost Photographs and Auras
Nicolas Pethes, Psychicones: Visual Traces of the Soul in Late Nineteenth-Century Fluidic Photography in Medical History 2016 July vol. 60 no. 3, 325-341.
Michael Nahm, The Sorcerer of Cobenzl and His Legacy: The Life of Baron Karl Ludwig von Reichenbach, His Work and Its Aftermath in Journal of Scientific Exploration 26, no. 2, 381-407.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case for Spirit Photography (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923).
Harry Price, Cold Light on Spiritualistic ‘Phenomena’ (London: Kagan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, 1922).
Hippolyte Baraduc, The Human Soul: Its Movements, Its Lights and the Iconography of the Fluid Invisible (Paris: Librarie Internationale de la Pensee Nouvelle, 1913).
Phantasms of the Living
Gurney, Myers, and Podmore, Phantasms of the Living, the Society for Psychical Research, 1886.
Tulpas
Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbetter, Thought-forms
Alexandra David-Neel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet
David V. Fiordalis, “Miracles and Superhuman Powers in South Asian Buddhist Literature” PhD disseration, University of Michigan, 2008.
Ben Joffe, (13 February 2016). "Paranormalizing the Popular through the Tibetan Tulpa: Or what the next Dalai Lama, the X Files and Affect Theory (might) have in common". Savage Minds.
Thompson, Nathan (2014-09-03). "The Internet's Newest Subculture Is All About Creating Imaginary Friends". Vice.
The Doppelgänger
Sigmund Freud, “the Uncanny”
Otto Rank, Double: A Psychoanalytic Study, trans. Harry Tucker Jr.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Morella” and “William Wilson”
Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
Sex and Spirituality
Orgone and Orgasm
Wilhelm Reich, The Sexual Revolution translated by Theodore P. Wolfe
Wilhelm Reich, “The Orgone Energy Accumulator: Its Scientific and Medical Use”
James Strick, Wilhelm Reich, Biologist
Phillip W. Bennett, “The persecution of Dr. Wilhelm Reich by the government of the United States in the International Forum of Psychoanalysis 2010 (19:51-65).
Sex Worship
Hargrave Jennings, Phallic Worship: A Description of the Mysteries of Sex Worship of the Ancients with the History of the Masculine Cross (London: Privately Printed, 1880)
Hargrave Jennings, Phallicism: Celestial and Terrestial, Heathen and Christian, its Connexion with the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics and its Foundation in Buddhism with an Essay on Mystic Anatomy (London: George Redway, 1884)
Casanova
Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Phillip Sollers, Casanova the Irresistible, translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer
Christian Celibacy
Pelagius, On the Christian Life
Jerome, On Jovinian
Stephen Greenblatt, “How St. Augustine Invented Sex,” in the New Yorker
Helen Parish, Clerical Celibacy in the West: 1100 to 1700
Tantra Parts 1 and 2
Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion
Hugh B. Urban, The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality, and the Politics of South Asian Studies
M. C. Joshi, “Historical and Iconographic Aspects of Sakta Tantrism” in The Roots of Tantra edited by Katherine Anne Harper and Robert L. Brown
Geoffrey Samuel, The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century
Gavin and Yvonne Frost, Tantric Yoga: The Royal Path to Raising Kundalini Power
Ethan Doyle White, Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
The Fictional Occult
The Snake Priests of Atlantis
“Ka nama kaa lajerama”
Robert E. Howard, “The Shadow Kingdom” and “Delcarde’s Cat”
William Scott-Elliot, The Story of Atlantis
The Necronomicon
The Necronomicon, edited and with an introduction by Simon
Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon by Simon
Joseph L. Flatley, The cult of Cthulhu: real prayer for a fake tentacle; the strange story behind the real-life followers of H.P. Lovecraft's 'Necronomicon,’ the Verge 12 November 2013
Conny Lippert, “Lovecraft’s Grimoires: Intertextuality and the Necronomicon” in Working with English: Medieval and Modern Languages, Literature and Drama.
John Engle, “Cults of Lovecraft: The Impact of H. P. Lovecraft’s fiction of contemporary occult practices,” in Mythlore 33.1.
Yeats and the Pagan Apocalypse
W. B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica
W. B. Yeats, A Vision
Susan Johnston Graf, Talking to the Gods: Occultism in the works of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune
Dal-Yong Kim, Mystical Themes and Occult Symbolism in Modern Poetry
General Hitchcock’s Alchemy
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Remarks upon Alchemy and the Alchemists
Ethan Allen Hitchock, Fifty Years in Camp and Field
Mary Ann Atwood, A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery
Paschal Beverly Randolph
Paschal Beverly Randolph, Ravalette and His World
Paschal Beverly Randolph, Dealings with the Dead
Paschal Beverly Randolph and Maria da Naglowska, Magia Sexualis
John Patrick Deveney: Paschal Beverly Randolph
Vril or the Magical Underground Frog People
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Vril or the Coming Race
Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment
Life of Edward Bulwer, First Lord Lytton London: MacMillian and Co. 1913 (Vol. 2) by his Grandson the Earl of Lytton Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton
Ritual Evil
The Satanic Panic Returns
Matthew R. X. Dentith, Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously
Nazi Mind Control
Douglas M. O'Reagan, Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science After the Second World War
Brian E. Crim, Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State
Walter H. Bowart, Operation Mind Control
Douglas Mesner at Greyfaction
The CIA’s Original Pin-Up Slave
Donald Bain, The CIA's Control of Candy Jones
Long John Nebel, The Way Out World
Michelle Remembers a Satanic Cult
Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, Michelle Remembers
David Pratten, The Man-leopard Murders : History and Society in Colonial Nigeria
Philip Jenkins, Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America
Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker, Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witchhunt
National Registry of Exonerations
The Manson Myth
Ed Sanders, The Family
Jeffrey Melnick, Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the many lives of America’s most famous family
Bill Ellis, Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media
Peter-Robert Koenig, “History of the Solar Lodge of the O. T. O.: Charles Manson and the Occult”
The Black Mass
Norman Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom
Hannah Johnson, Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History
Thomas of Monmouth, Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich
Joseph Jacobs, “Little St. Hugh of Lincoln: Researches in History, Archaelology and Legend,” in Alan Dundes, The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore
Jakob Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum
Jules Michelet, La Sorciere
Maria Monk, Awful Disclosure of Maria Monk as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice and two years as a black nun in the hotel dieu nunnery at Montreal (London: Truslove and Bray, Ltd.) n.d.
David Reese Meredith, “Article VIII. Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Roman Catholic Controversy” in the Literary and Theological Review, Vol. 3 (1836).
Chaos Magic(k)
Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth
Daniel Siepmann, “Unholy Progeny: Psychic TV and Witch House at the Crossroads of Occultism in the Information Age” in the Journal of Musicological Research, 37, no. 1 (2018): 81-104.
Andrew Wilson. Art Monthly. Apr 2020, Issue 435, p25-26
Danielle Kirby, “Transgressive Representations: Satanic Ritual Abuse, Thee Temple of Psychick Youth, and First Transmission” in Literature and Aesthetics 21, no. 2 December 2011, pg 134.
An Introduction to Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth
Founders of Chaos
Peter Carroll, Liber Null
Ray Sherwin, Book of Results
Discordians and SubGeniuses
Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia
Arise! Church of the SubGenius Recruitment Video
Austin Osman Spare
Phil Baker, Austin Osman Spare
Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival
The Writings of Austin Osman Spare produced by Green Book Publications
Evil Spirits
Night-mares
Shelley R. Adler, Sleep Paralysis: Night-Mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection.
Sleep Paralysis, a Medical Condition with a Diverse Cultural Interpretation in the International Journal of Applied and Basic Medical Research 30 July 2018.
Quartz News (youtube)
Wendigos
“The Windigo in the Material World,” Robert Brightman in Ethnohistory Fall 1988.
The Wendigo, Algernon Blackwood
Louis Bird on ourvoices.ca
Djinn
Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar, Robert Lebling
“Essay on the Jinn,” Ibn Taymiyah
Vampires
Carmilla, Sheridan le Fanu
“Getting to Know the Undead: Bram Stoker, Vampires, and Dracula,” Elizabeth Miller in Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
“Dead Man Walking: The Historical Context of Vampire Beliefs,” Darren Oldridge in Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
“Evidence for the Undead: The Role of Medical Investigation in the 18th Century Vampire Epidemic,” Leo Ruickbie in the Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolutions of a Legend
“Biomedical Origins of Vampirism,” Edward O. Keith in the Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolutions of a Legend
“Draugula: The Draugr in Norse-Icelandic Saga Literature and His Relationship to the Post-Medieval Vampire Myth,” Matthias Teichert in the Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolutions of a Legend
Sex Demons (Succubi and Incubi)
Demoniality or Incubi and Succubi, Ludovico Sinistrari
The Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches), Heinrich Kramer
Daemonlogie, James I and VI
Hermes and the Alchemists
Chinese Alchemy
Chinese Alchemy, Jean Cooper
Alchemists, Mediums, and Magicians: Stories of Taoist Mystics, translated and edited by Thomas Cleary
Great Clarity: Taoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China by Fabrizio Pregadio
Occult Art
Amy Kingsmill, Performance Artist
Henry Hablack, Visual Artist and Tattoo Artist
Nikki Hiller, Actor and Collage Artist
Flora Leask, Poet
John Dee
Autobiographical Tracts of Dr. John Dee edited by James Crossley
Robert Barone, A Reputation History of John Dee
William Sherman, John Dee: the Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance
Nicholas Clulee, The Monas Hieroglyphica and the Alchemical Thread of John Dee’s Career from the journal Ambix
Stephen Bowd, John Dee and the Seven in Lancashire: Possession, Exorcism, and Apocalypse in Elizabethan England
John Dee, Monas Hieroglyphica at http://www.esotericarchives.com/dee/monad.htm
Faustus and the German Alchemists
Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
“Albertus, Magnus or Magus? Magic, Natural Philosophy, and Religious Reform in the Late Middle Ages,” David J. Collins
Book of Minerals by Albertus Magnus translated by Dorothy Wykoff
http://trithemius.com/steganographia-english/
Trithemius and Magical Theology, Noel L. Brann
The Occult World, edited by Christopher Partridge; chapters by Florian Ebeling, Wouter J. Hanegraaff, and Andrew Weeks
The Legend of Hermes Trismegistus
Florian Ebling, The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus
The Emerald Tablet
Isaac Newton, Gail Christiansen
Isis Unveiled, H. P. Blavatsky
“Turning Toward Earth: Themes, Sources, and Influences in the Emerald Tablet” in Psychological Perspectives, Kyle Lee Williams
The Occult Conspiracy and Plague Specials
CIA Mind Control and Satanic Ritual Abuse
TRANCE-Formation of America, Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips
Mind-Controlled Sex Slaves and the CIA, Tracy R. Twyman
Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes, and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives, Aaron John Gulyas
Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper
Thanks for the Memories, Brice Taylor
John Todd and the Illuminati Witch Cult
Jesse Walker, The United States of Paranoia
Edward E. Plowman "The Legend(s) of John Todd". Christianity Today. (February 2, 1979). 23: 38–42.
Jess Walter, Every Knee Shall Bow
Gary Metz, “The John Todd Story” in Cornerstone Magazine volume 48, 6 October 2006
Trott, Jon; Hertenstein, Mike (1992). "Selling Satan: The Tragic History of Mike Warnke" Cornerstone Magazine.
Fritz Springmeier, Bloodlines of the Illuminati
Jeffrey Melnick, Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Jack Chick’s “Spellbound” and the “Broken Cross” volumes 10 and 2 of the Crusader series
Transcripts of John Todd’s lecture to the Elkton Maryland Baptist Church in 1978, compiled by Campbell M. Gold (2009)
John Todd on youtube
Lucifer’s Covert Operations
The Two Babylons: Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and his Wife by Alexander Hislop
“The Two Babylons” by Ralph Woodrow for the Christian Research Institute
THE CONFESSION OF LEO TAXIL, Translated from Le Frondeur, April 25, 1897 by Alain Bernheim, A. William Samii, and Eric Serejski Reprinted from Heredom The Transcations of the Scottish Rite Research Society vol. 5, 1996, pp. 137-168.
Occult Theocrasy by Edith Starr Miller, Lady Queenborough
Devil Worship in France by A. E. Waite at
https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/miller_e/miller_e.html
Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper
The Plagues of Egypt
“Origin of the Old Testament Plagues: Explications and Implications,” by N. Joel Ehrenkranz, MD and Deborah A. Sampson, PhD in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
The Structural Paradigm of the Ten Plagues Narrative and the Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart by Jonathan Grossman in the journal Vetus Testamentum from 2014.
Carol L. Myers' commentary on Exodus.
The Exodus Syndemic: The Epidemiology of the Tenth Plague by Ira Friedman and John Marr in Jewish Bible Quarterly.
The World Health Organization's page on Rift Valley Fever
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion translated from the Russian original by Victor E. Marsden
The Lie that Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Hadassa Ben-Itto
The History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Benjamin W. Segel in A Lie and a Libel
The Medieval Roots by Jeffrey R. Woolf in A Hundred Year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion edited by Richard Allen Landes and Steven T. Katz
Stephen J. Whitfield, The Persistence of the Protocols
Julian and the Black Death
The Shewings of Julian of Norwich, Introduction by Georgia Ronan Crampton
Denys Turner's Julian of Norwich, Theologian
Marian Maskulak, “Julian of Norwich and the God of No Blame and No Wrath”
History Guide: Black Death by Steven Kreis
Juliana of Norwich at the Catholic Encyclopedia
The Rosicrucians
Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt, Emily Teeter
Questions and Answers with Complete History of the Rosicrucian Order, H. Spencer Lewis
The Rosicrucians, Christopher McIntosh
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, Frances Yates
Rosicrucian History and Mysteries, Christian Rebisse
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz translated by Joscelyn Godwin with a commentary by Adam McLean
Plague and Pandemic
Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge, David Koplow
Thucydides on the Athenian Plague (Smallpox)
Plagues in World History, John Alberth
Prosciupius on the Justinian Plague (Bubonic)
Cholera: The Victorian Plague, Amanda J. Barnsley Thomas
Dr. John Snow, Modes of Communication of Cholera
Knights Templar
The Templars: The History and the Myth, Michael Haag
Knights Templar in England, Evelyn Lord
“A Heresy of State. Philip the Fair, the Trial of the 'Perfidious Templar,' and the Pontificalization of the French Monarchy” by Julien Thery in the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures Volume 39, no. 2 (2013)
Black Magic Illuminati
Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, Nesta Helen Webster
A Culture of Conspiracy, Michael Barkun
Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives, Aaron John Gulyas
“An Introduction to the Toledot Yeshu,” Ancient Jew Review
Apocalypse
A Digital Doomsday Cult
Washington Post
The Daily Beast
The New Republic
Sherry Shriner on Youtube
More Shriner Tube
Cargo Cults
The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of Cargo Cults in Melanesia by Peter Worsley
“Naked Cult in Central West Santo,” J. Graham Miller in the Journal of the Polynesian Society
“Cargo Cult Horror” by Lamont Lindstrom in Oceania
Waiting for John directed by Jessica Sherry
Extraterrestrial Armageddon
End of Days and The Twelfth Planet, Zechariah Sitchin
“Presumed Immanent: the Raelians, UFO Religions, and the Postmodern Condition,” by Bryan Sentes and Susan Palmer in Nova Religion October 2000
The Book of the Damned, Charles Fort
Worlds in Collision, Immanuel Velikovsky
Tesla’s Death Ray
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, Carlson W. Bernard
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, Richard Munson
The BBC's Story of Electricity
Popular Radio, August 1924
Sex and the Second Coming
Shakerism: Its Meaning and Message by Anna White and Leila S. Taylor (Northern Family of Shakers in New Lebanon)
Two Years Experience Among the Shakers by David R. Lamson
The Burned Over District, Whitney Cross
“John Humphrey Noyes as the New Adam,” Ernest R. Sandeen in Church History
Rapture and Revelation
The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire, Leonard Thompson
Approaching the Apocalypse: A Short History of Christian Millenarianism, John M. Court
American Apocalypse, Matthew Avery Sutton
The Mystery of the Book of Revelation, Cameron Azfal
Jesus is Coming, William Blackstone
Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
Countdown to Armagedon, Hal Lindsey
Kali the Demon Slayer
Encountering Kali, ed. Rachel McDermott
Inner Meaning of the Devi Mahatmyam
Mayan Apocalypse
13 Baktun, Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez
The Mayan Factor, Jose Arguelles
A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, Michael Barkun
2012: Decoding the Counter-cultural Apocalypse, ed. Joseph Gelfer
Spiritual Healing
Chinese Medicine
The Web that has No Weaver, Ted Kaptchuk
American Healers
Americans and the Unconscious, Robert Fuller
Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America, Rennie B. Schoepflin
Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling, ed. Cathy Gutierrez
Spiritualist Ritual and the Performance of Belief: Spirit Communication in Twenty-first Century America (PhD Diss.), Robert C. Thompson
Exorcism
The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West, Brian P. Levack
Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, Gary Waite
The Life of St. Martin, Sulpicius Severus
The Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century, John Latimer
Demonology
The Religion of Babylon and Syria, J. Morris Jastrow
The Lesser Key of Solomon, Mathers and Crowley
Jesus of Nazareth
Morton Smith, Jesus the Magician
John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus
Philostratus, The Life of Appollonius, translated by F. C. Conybeare
Wendy Cotter, Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Machine Elves
Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival
Documentary, DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010)
Documentary, The Last Shaman (2016)
Andrew Montieth, “The Words of McKenna: Healing, Political Critique, and the Evolution of Psychonaut Religion since 1960” in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Shamans
Joan Halifax, Shamanic Voices
Margaret Stutley, Shamanism
Merete Demant Jakobsen, Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing
Richard Schechner, Performance Theory
Magical Warfare
Cold War Psychic Spies
F. Holmes Atwater, Captain of My Ship, Master of my Soul
Joseph McMoneagle, Mind Trek
Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies
Paul H. Smith, Reading the Enemy’s Mind
Dale Graff, Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness
The Magical Battle of Britain
Dion Fortune, The Magical Battle of Britain, ed. Gareth Knight
Dion Fortune, The Training and Work of an Initiate
Susan Johnston Graf, Talking to the Gods
The Romance of Arthur, ed. James Wilhelm
The Battle of Britain in Photos
Aleister Crowley Goes to War
Richard Spence, Secret Agent 666
Eugene K. Bird, The Loneliest Man in the World
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
Chinese Secret Societies
B. J. ter Haar, The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History
Carl S. Kilcourse, “Son of God, Brother of Jesus: Interpreting the Theological Claims of the Chinese Revolutionary Hong Xiuquan,” in Studies in World Christianity
Bamber Gascoigne, The Dynasties of China
The Livonian Werewolf
William de Blecourt, “A Journey to Hell: Reconsidering the Livonian ‘Werewolf ’” Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (Summer 2007)
Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-wolves
Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles
Blavatsky’s Mahatmas
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine
Henry Steel Olcott, Old Diary Leaves
Sylvia Cranston, HPB
Peter Washington, Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon
Henry T. Child, “Narratives of the Spirits of Henry Morgan and his Daughter”
Henry Steel Olcott, People from the Other World
AP Sinnett, The Occult World
Lawrence James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
K. Paul Johnson, The Masters Revealed
Alice Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar
Black Magic
Walter B. Cannon, “Voodoo Death”
James L. Mathis, “A Sophisticated Version of Voodoo Death”
Clifton K. Meador, Symptoms of Unknown Origin
Mbgoni, Human Sacrifice and the Supernatural in African History
James Frazer, The Golden Bough
Georges Bataille, The Trial of Gilles de Rais
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
Alex Owen, The Place of Enchantment
Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, ed. Martin Starr and Henrik Bogdan
Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism
Jeffrey S. Victor, Satanic Panic
Gary Cartwright for Texas Monthly, “The Work of the Devil”
Guy Garcia for Rolling Stone, “Believers: Cult Murder in Mexico”
Immortal Mind: The Mystery of the Soul
Alfred Russel Wallace, My Life
Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos
Alva Noe, Out of our Heads
David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind
Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Authors of the Impossible
Frederic Myers, Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death
Quantum Physics in Neuroscience and Psychology, Stapp, et. al.
Lady Magic
Pagans and Witches
Euripides, The Bacchae: http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/bacchan.html
Vestal Virgins: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Vestales.html
Malleus Maleficarum: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/mm/
Joan of Arc
In Her Own Words: https://www.amazon.com/
Lisa Kay Mercer, "'Where Airy Voices Lead: Joan of Arc's Auditions in Historical Debate," Magistra 22, no. 1
Daniel Hobbins, The Trial of Joan of Arc
Marie Laveau
Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men
Marie Laveau: The Mysterious Voodoo Queen by Ina Frandrich: http://www.amazon.com/
Voodoo Queen: https://www.amazon.com/
McGee's Voodoo in Popular Culture: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/
The Fox Sisters
Marilyn Awtry's Spiritualist Perspective: https://www.amazon.com/
Ann Braude's Academic Perspective: https://www.amazon.com/
Victoria Woodhull
Biography by Theodore Tilton: http://www.victoria-woodhull.com/tiltonbio.htm
Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly: http://www.iapsop.com/archive/materials/woodhull_and_claflins_weekly/
Wicca
Margaret Murray's Witch-Cult in Early Modern Europe: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/wcwe/index.htm
Ronald Hutton, Pagan Britain: https://www.amazon.com/
Julia Phillips, History of Wicca: http://www.geraldgardner.com/History_of_Wicca_Revised.pdf
Poltergeists
SPR Overview: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/poltergeists-overview
Colvin's Andover Report: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/
Smurl Family Haunting: https://news.google.com/
Enfield Poltergeist: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/enfield-poltergeist
The American Occult
Ghost Land
Read the Chevalier's story yourself: https://archive.org/details/ghostlandorrese02britgoog
Emma Hardinge Britten
Mark Demarest's Archive: http://www.ehbritten.org
Modern American Spiritualism: https://archive.org/details/modernamericansp00brit
Nineteenth Century Miracles: https://archive.org/details/nineteenthcentur01brit
P. B. Randolph
Paschal Beverly Randolph by John Patrick Deveney: https://www.amazon.com/
Dealings with the Dead: https://archive.org/details/DealingsWithTheDead
Helena Blavatsky and Henry Olcott
Blavatsky Archive: https://archive.org/details/HPBlavatskyTheSecretDoctrineVol3
Henry Olcott's Old Diary Leaves: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.200637
Henry Olcott's People from the Other World: http://www.iapsop.com/ssoc/1875__olcott___people_from_the_other_world.pdf
India
Caves of Ellora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellora_Caves
Jacolliot's Occult Science in India: http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/osi/index.htm
Psychology
Philip Cushman's Constructing the Self, Constructing America: https://www.amazon.com/
W. B. Carpenter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Benjamin_Carpenter