Suggest books for me.

[semper occultus]

would any one be able to inform me of the best ( ie juiciest, most defamatory & best informed ) books on Scientology & the Moonies ?

... many thanks in advance...

[Stephen Morgan]

Oi! That me in the thread title was me! But, as you ask, Gorenfeld's Bad Moon Rising for the moonies and Bare Faced Messiah and Messiah or Madman? about Scientology. Those last two probably a bit out of date now, the first is a biography of L Ron himself, the second is an inside story by a former franchise holder and the man formerly known as L Ron Hubbard Jr..

[Montag]

Hope I'm not hijacking the thread... Anyone read any Manly P. Hall, and if so what's the best stuff?

[stefano]

I've read The secret teachings of all ages. Interesting but very long. It's a good reference work to look things up in, but there has to be a more concise overview of the material somewhere.

[semper occultus]

Oi! That me in the thread title was me!

ha ! on behalf of the community I declare this thread a common resource..... ( thanks for the heads-up btw....Bad Moon Rising..like it. )

[Nordic]

I'd like to find a good biography on Tesla, if anyone knows of one they'd recommend.

[Stephen Morgan]

Curses! Foiled again. But while we're at it, how about books about the Eleusinian mysteries, the Ku Klux Klan, archaeology in the Tarim Basin, the Graeco-Bactrians, Nazi Gold or sub-Roman Britain?

[Stephen Morgan]

Incidentally, going back to the first page, I did buy JFK and the Unspeakable.

[stefano]

books about the Eleusinian mysteries

Yeah me too, I got 100 pages in to The golden bough and couldn't get any further...

[jingofever]

books about the Eleusinian mysteries

Yeah me too, I got 100 pages in to The golden bough and couldn't get any further...

Can't help with that but I can recommend a book on the Mithraic Mysteries. The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World. It's short, it's interesting, it might be complete bullshit.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

I'd recommend "A Criminal History Of Mankind" by Colin Wilson. It's not very deep or academic, but as an entertaining overview of human history, concentrating on the bad side, it can't help but also give some insight into "the continuation of ancient cults into the modern world". Other useful books along such lines would be the Bible, the Torah, the Gita, and the Quran. All of those have very good reader reviews on Amazon.

You've read The Ultimate Evil, so that cuts down on occult or conspiracy books I can recommend. Since you're interested in possible Masonic connections to the British deep state, you might like Martin Dillon's "The Dirty War" about the secret conflict (conducted beneath and above and contiguously with the obvious one) in Northern Ireland. It's a mainstream history book, but since it concentrates on such little-reported stuff as the "Four-Square Laundry" operation, the background of Robert Nairac, the Shankill Butchers (and who paid them), and the Pitchfork Murders, you should find much of interest.

"The Strange Death of David Kelly" is something I'll never stop recommending to everyone I meet, so try that too.

Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) is a great book too, but you might not like it. Some of the ideas expressed in it might strike you as a bit too post-modern.

[Joe Hillshoist]

I'd recommend Knees Up Mother Earth.

But you probably read it 9 weeks ago.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Jesus... that's a real book.

The plot centers on the efforts of Jim Pooley and John Omalley to save Brentford F.C.'s football ground from demolition as part of a satanic conspiracy to awake the serpent from the Garden of Eden. Many of the events in the book are based on a real campaign, in which Rankin himself was involved, to save the ground from being purchased by property developers.

Heh. The reason us Brits never get caught out on our satanic conspiracies is because we are the only people in the world who can make satanic conspiracy sound boring. Brentford F.C. FFS.

[semper occultus]

Since you're interested in possible Masonic connections to the British deep state, you might like Martin Dillon's "The Dirty War" about the secret conflict (conducted beneath and above and contiguously with the obvious one) in Northern Ireland.

Ahoy Ahab !

thanks for the idea re Dillon's book
I've got Paul Foot's Who Framed Colin Wallace on the shelf - still need to get round to reading it ( ...need...more...time..) . Have you read it ?...guess it's well worth the effort aswell ?

[Joe Hillshoist]

Pooley and Omalley rule the world. Well, they should.

If I ever have kids they'll be their role models. I'd say they were mine but I was already doing that shit when I first read them.