1. Rede des Reichsführer-SS im Dom zu Quedlinburg, no credited author (Berlin: Nordland Verlag, 1936).
2. See, for example, Heather Pringle’s interesting article, “Heinrich Himmler: The Nazi Leader’s Master Plan” at http://www.historynet.com/heinrich-himmler-the-nazi-leaders-master-plan.htm (accessed August 9, 2011).
3. Lynn H. Nicholas, Treasure Hunt, http://www.museum-security.org/quedlinburg-hoard.htm (accessed August 9, 2011).
4. J. H. Brennan, Occult Reich (London: Futura, 1974).
5. Heinz Höhne, The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS, trans. Richard Barry (London: Classic Penguin, 2000).
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians, trans. Rollo Myers (London: Souvenir Press, 2007).
9. Ibid.
10. Psalm 96:5, Septuagint (LXX).
11. Exodus 12:23, KJV.
12. 1 Chronicles 21:1, KJV.
13. Numbers 22:22–35, KJV.
14. Job 1, KJV.
15. Luke 4:1–2, KJV.
16. Matthew 8:32, KJV.
1. Quoted from Everard F. Im Thurn’s 1883 account in Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley (eds.), Shamans Through Time (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001).
2. Ibid.
3. From Thévet’s book, The Singularities of Antarctic France, as quoted in Narby and Huxley.
4. Ibid.
5. Quoted from de Oviedo’s 1535 account in Narby and Huxley.
6. From Gmelin’s four-volume account quoted in Narby and Huxley.
7. From Lafitau’s 1724 account quoted in Narby and Huxley.
8. See http://www.shamanism.org/ (accessed September 10, 2011).
9. Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman (New York: HarperOne, 1990).
10. Ibid.
11. Mircea Eliade, “Shaman,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
12. Ibid.
13. Bonnie Horrigan, “Shamanic Healing: We Are Not Alone—An Interview of Michael Harner,” Shamanism 10, no. 1 (1997).
14. James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion <http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3623.> (accessed November 28, 2008).
15. S. G. F. Brandon, “Animism,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
16. As quoted in Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry (New York: Basic Books, 1970).
17. David Leeming and Jake Page, God: Myths of the Male Divine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
18. Jean Clottes, “Paleolithic Art in France,” the Bradshaw Foundation <http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/clottes > (accessed November 26, 2008).
1. Named for the village of Al-Ubaid, where their remains were first discovered.
2. See “Sumer,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
3. Rudolf Steiner had a similar theory, postulating a time when the spirit world was more visible than it is today, but dated the beginning and end of this development quite differently from Jaynes.
4. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (London: Black Swan, 2007).
5. Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976).
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Father Joseph de Acosta, The Natural and Moral History of the Indies (London: Hakluyt Society, 1880).
11. Quoted in Jaynes, op. cit.
12. Ibid.
13. See http://www.blacksacademy.net/content/4791.html (accessed January 15, 2013).
14. Jaynes, op. cit.
15. H. W. F. Saggs, The Greatness That Was Babylon (New York: Mentor Books, 1962).
16. Quoted in Jaynes, op. cit.
17. Matthew 27:46, KJV.
18. “Heaven,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
1. “Egypt, ancient,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
2. Jeremy Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2005).
3. An aquatic flowering plant (family Araceae) native to central and western Africa.
4. For most people, their reflection undergoes profound changes when they gaze intently at it by the light of a single candle. For some, the changes are believed to show how they appeared in previous incarnations.
5. Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic, online edition at http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ema/index.htm (accessed September 15, 2011).
6. As a divinity himself, Pharaoh was believed to have the ear of his fellow gods.
7. Budge, Egyptian Magic.
8. The text on the stele relates it was the god himself who carried out the rite, but it seems more likely it was the priest Khonsu who did so, probably using the god’s statue.
9. “Middle Eastern religion,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
10. Budge, Egyptian Magic.
11. Ibid.
12. Bob Brier, Ancient Egyptian Magic (New York: Perennial, 2001).
13. http://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/translation.html (accessed September 20, 2011).
14. Naydler, op. cit.
15. Harner, op. cit.
16. http://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/translation.html (accessed September 20, 2011).
17. Harner, op. cit.
18. J. Assmann, “Death and Initiation,” in W. K. Simpson, ed., Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989).
19. Pyramid texts online, op. cit.
20. “Moses,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
21. Rabbinical tradition places the total at around six hundred thousand.
22. Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews, available at http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/loj/index.htm (accessed January 1, 2012).
23. Or possibly two. A Jewish tradition holds that Aaron, Moses’s brother, was abandoned with him in the ark.
24. The Egyptian Mose means “is born” and is the root of the Hebrew name Moshe anglicized to Moses. The form Tutmose, a popular name in ancient Egypt, translates as “[The god] Thoth is born.”
25. Ginzberg, op. cit.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Exodus 3:6, KJV.
29. Ginzberg, op. cit.
30. See page 108 of the present work.
31. Exodus 24:1–18, KJV.
32. “Moses,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
1. Pliny the Younger, “The Haunted House” <http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/159/534/17353/1/frameset.html> (accessed November 26, 2008).
2. Average air temperatures at Eleusis during September–October, when initiations were held, range from 24.2ºC to 19.5ºC (75.6ºF to 67.1ºF). In the later period when preliminaries took place in Athens during February–March, conditions were a little easier: candidates would only have had to endure temperatures in the range 10.6ºC to 12.3ºC (51.1ºF to 54.1ºF).
3. N. J. Richardson, “Eleusis,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
4. One gift of the goddess was that air currents became visible to the recipient. I came across a remnant of this ancient belief in rural Ireland only a few years ago while chatting with a master thatcher. During a wide-ranging conversation, he remarked that “they say pigs can see the wind.”
5. See Richardson, op. cit.
6. Harold Rideout Willoughby, Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World (Charleston, SC: Forgotten Books, 2007).
7. Matthew Dillon, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece (London: Routledge, 1997).
8. E. D. Phillips, “Healing Gods,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
9. Or, in some sources, the fumes of barley, hemp, and bay leaves burned over an oil flame.
10. The picturesque description is from the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.
11. Livy, The Early History of Rome, trans. Aubrey De Sélincourt (London: Penguin Classics, 2002).
12. Robert Hughes, Rome (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011).
13. A meteoric stone discovered in the Roman citadel is believed to have been used to cast the auspices for Numa’s succession to the throne following the death of Romulus.
14. Despite extensive investigation, I have been unable to determine what differentiates a sacred from a profane chicken. Multiple accounts of the practice suggest that to the Romans, chickens were chickens but became sacred automatically if used for divination.
15. “Augury,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
16. Ezekiel 1:1–28, KJV.
17. Today, by contrast, it denotes one of the most popular tanks in the Israeli army.
1. George Buhler, The Laws of Manu (Charleston, SC: BiblioLife, 2009).
2. Those listed in the ancient Bhagavata include bhutas (spirits of the dead), pramathas (mystic spirits), dakinis (female imps), pretas (ghosts), and kushmandas (demons), among many, many others. See http://bhagavata.org/downloads/bhagavata-compl.html (accessed January 9, 2012).
3. Louis Jacolliot, Occult Science in India, trans. William L. Felt (London: William Rider & Son, 1919).
4. Ibid.
5. “Fu Xi,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
6. See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070402214930.htm (accessed October 19, 2011).
7. Quoted in Richard Wilhelm, The I Ching or Book of Changes (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969).
8. The mythologies of many other countries show variations of this theme, while the past fifty years have seen maverick scientists present evidence for the existence of an advanced prehistoric civilization with global cultural spread. For a fuller discussion, see my Atlantis Enigma (London: Piatkus Books, 1999).
9. Jou Tsung Hwa, The Tao of I Ching (Taiwan: Tai Chi Foundation, 1984).
10. C. G. Jung in his Foreword to the Wilhelm translation of the I Ching, op. cit.
11. William Seabrook, Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today (London: White Lion, 1972).
12. Gary Lachman, Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life and Teachings (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2010).
13. Ibid.
14. For details of color and other associations with the five elements of Chinese occultism, see Ilza Veith, trans., The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972).
15. J. H. Brennan, The Magical I Ching (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000).
16. Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-’dzin-rgya-mtsho, Freedom in Exile: Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet (London: Abacus, 1998).
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
1. William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).
2. Ibid.
3. Ian Moyer, “Thessalos of Tralles and Cultural Exchange,” in Scott Noegel et al., eds., Prayer, Magic and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003).
4. 1 John 4:1, KJV.
5. Leviticus 19:31, KJV.
6. Leviticus 20:6, KJV.
7. 2 Kings 21:6, KJV.
8. 2 Kings 23:24, KJV.
9. Exodus 22:18, KJV.
10. 1 Samuel 28, KJV.
11. Luke 10:20, KJV.
12. Datura Stramonium, or “thorn apple,” is a highly toxic plant that, if it does not kill, can produce intoxication in which it is impossible to differentiate reality from fantasy. Historically, it has been used as a mystic sacrament in North America and Southern Asia, while in Europe its use is believed by some to explain the prevalence of stories about flying on broomsticks to Sabbat meetings.
13. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997).
14. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (London: George Redway, 1889) revised by Joseph H. Peterson, 2005, and available at http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/ksol.htm#chap7 (accessed November 29, 2001).
15. Thomas, op. cit.
1. Kurt Seligmann, Magic, Supernaturalism and Religion (St. Albans, UK: Paladin, 1975).
2. Martin Lings, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (Santa Fe, NM: Inner Traditions, 1987).
3. Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti, The Name & the Named: The Divine Attributes of God (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2000).
4. “Muhammad,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
5. Now the site of Islam’s greatest mosque, the Dome of the Rock.
1. http://joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_biography.html (accessed December 13, 2011).
2. Ibid.
3. http://www.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_life_summary_visions.html (accessed December 14, 2011).
4. M. Lassois was named by Joan as an honorary uncle: he was in fact a more distant relative by marriage.
5. It was not unusual for women to travel in male garb at the time as a precaution against assault or rape. Transvestism was held to be a sin, but the Church routinely issued special dispensations in cases of necessity.
6. http://www.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_life_summary_chinon.html (accessed December 16, 2011).
7. http://www.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_poitiers_conclusion.html (accessed December 16, 2011).
8. “Joan of Arc, Saint,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
9. The demand was refused.
10. Charles VII proved less loyal to Joan. He made no attempt to save her at any point, probably because he was trying to reach an accommodation with the Duke of Burgundy.
1. J. H. Brennan, Nostradamus: Visions of the Future (London: Thorsons, 1992).
2. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus (accessed December 2, 2011).
3. Quoted in James Laver, Nostradamus; or The Future Foretold (Maidstone, UK: George Mann, 1973).
4. Edgar Leoni, Nostradamus and His Prophecies (New York: Wing Books, n.d.; retitled reprint of Nostradamus, Life and Literature, 1961).
5. Ibid.
6. Laver, op. cit.
7. Alexander Wilder, trans., Theurgia or The Egyptian Mysteries by Iamblichus (London: Rider, 1911). Online edition edited by Joseph H. Peterson, 2000, available at http://www.esotericarchives.com/oracle/iambl_th.htm#chap4 (accessed December 2, 2011).
8. Quoted in Laver, op. cit. See also Joseph H. Peterson’s 2007 corrected transcription of De Daemonibus at http://www.esotericarchives.com/psellos/daemonibus.pdf (accessed December 2, 2011).
9. John Hogue, Nostradamus and the Millennium (London: Bloomsbury, 1987).
1. Meric Casaubon, ed., A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for many Yeers Between Dr John Dee and Some Spirits (London: T. Garthwait, 1659).
2. Benjamin Woolley, The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. Dee (London: HarperCollins, 2001).
3. Peter French, John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus (London: Routledge, 2002).
4. Ibid.
5. Woolley, op. cit.
6. Ibid.
7. French, op. cit.
8. See Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2000).
9. Robert Mathiesen, “A Thirteenth Century Ritual to Attain the Beatific Vision from the Sworn Book of Honorius of Thebes,” in Claire Fanger, Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998).
10. Dee, op. cit.
11. Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993).
12. French, op. cit.
13. Ibid.
14. Woolley, op. cit.
15. Quoted in Woolley.
16. Ibid.
17. Quoted in French.
18. Ibid.
19. Woolley, op. cit.
20. Thomas, op. cit.
1. Joseph H. Peterson, ed., The Lesser Key of Solomon (York Beach, ME: Weiser Books, 2001).
2. Stephen Skinner and David Rankine, The Goetia of Dr. Rudd: The Angels and Demons of Liber Malorum Spirituum Seu Goetia Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (London: Golden Hoard Press, 2007).
3. See Lon Milo DuQuette, My Life with the Spirits (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1999); Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ceremonial Magic and the Power of Evocation (Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 2006); Carroll “Poke” Runyon, The Book of Solomon’s Magick (Silverado, CA: Church of the Hermetic Sciences, 2004).
4. J. Kent Clark, Goodwin Wharton (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1984).
5. Thomas, op. cit.
6. Jane Williams-Hogan, “Swedenborg,” in Wouter J. Hanegraaff et al., eds., Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
7. Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell. From Things Heard and Seen (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1867).
8. Quoted by John Selwyn Gummer, “Swedenborg,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
9. Robert Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968).
10. Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry (New York: Basic Books, 1970).
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. At this point, it may be as well to note that from the days of Gassner onward, spirit contact became progressively less concerned with angels and devils (although some such contacts did persist) and more involved with the souls of the dead.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Alan Gauld, A History of Hypnotism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Justinus Kerner, The Seeress of Prevorst: Being Revelations Concerning the Inner-Life of Man, and the Inter-Diffusion of a World of Spirits in the One We Inhabit (London: Patridge & Brittan, 1845) <http://www.spiritwritings.com/SeeressOfPrevorst.pdf> (accessed December 18, 2008).
23. Ibid.
24. Gauld, A History of Hypnotism.
25. Ibid.
26. Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998).
27. Ibid.
1. As a novice in the Benfratelli of Cartegirone, Cagliostro substituted the names of notorious prostitutes for the names of the saints while giving a Scripture reading at supper.
2. The ability to gather information about someone by means of subtle clues in their reactions.
3. http://www.faust.com/index.php/legend/cagliostro/letter-to-the-french-people/ (accessed December 3, 2011).
4. Eliphas Lévi, The History of Magic, trans. Arthur Edward Waite (London: Rider & Son, 1922).
1. E. M. Almedingen, The Romanovs (London: The Bodley Head, 1966).
2. Colin Wilson, Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (London: Panther Books, 1978).
3. Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (London: Vintage Classics, 2008).
4. Quoted in Colin Wilson, Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs.
1. http://www.controverscial.com/Paddy%20Slade.htm (accessed December 4, 2011).
2. Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984).
3. A. H. Z. Carr, Napoleon Speaks (New York: Viking Press, 1941).
4. Judy Hall, Napoleon’s Oracle (London: Cico Books, 2003).
5. Paul Brunton, A Search in Secret Egypt (New York: Weiser, 1992).]
1. James 1:5, KJV.
2. The phrase is Smith’s own, although copies of the plates show a script that appears to bear little resemblance to Egyptian hieroglyphic or demotic.
3. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith (accessed January 17, 2012).
4. See http://lds.about.com/od/mormons/a/church_membership.htm (accessed January 19, 2012).
5. Richard N. and Joan K. Ostling, Mormon America: The Power and the Promise (New York: HarperOne 2007).
1. Ruth Brandon, The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983).
2. “Spiritualism,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica 2009 Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2009).
3. Quoted in Brandon.
4. Brandon, op. cit.
5. Ibid.
6. Ronald Pearsall, The Table-Rappers (London: Michael Joseph, 1972).
7. Montague Keen, Arthur Ellison, and David Fontana, “The Scole Report,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 58, pt. 220 (November 1999).
8. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, “Cooke, Grace,” in Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991).
9. Fran Rosen-Bizberg, Orion Transmissions Prophecy: Ancient Wisdom for a New World, vol. 1 (Jordanów, Poland: Fundacja Terapia Homa, 2003).
10. The most sympathetic of the white community were Utah’s Mormons, who were familiar with the concept of visionary revelation.
11. The idea has much in common with the Mormon belief in “endowment garments,” which protect pious wearers from evil. Some scholars have even argued that the Mormon doctrine was the inspiration of the Native American belief. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance (accessed January 21, 2012).
1. A similar phenomenon occurred a century later with the publication of Stephen Hawking’s Brief History of Time.
2. Eliphas Lévi, The History of Magic, trans. Arthur Edward Waite (London: Rider & Son, 1922).
3. Lewis Spence, The Occult Causes of the Present War (London: Rider & Co., n.d.).
4. I was to hear the same argument, half a century later, from a member of Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement.
5. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011).
6. Once again we have an echo of Jaynes’s theories, but again dated differently.
1. Arthur J. Magida, The Nazi Séance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
2. By, for example, the Society for Psychical Research.
3. Magida, op. cit.
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jan_Hanussen (accessed December 11, 2011).
5. http://www.steinschneider.com/biography/hanussen/page18.htm (accessed December 11, 2011).
6. Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks: A Series of Political Conversations with Adolf Hitler on His Real Aims (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2006).
7. John Toland, Adolf Hitler (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976).
8. Henry Ashby Turner Jr., ed., Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985).
9. Trevor Ravenscroft, The Spear of Destiny (New York: Weiser, 1982).
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Johannes_Stein (accessed December 12, 2011).
11. See, for example, the training program offered by the Jersey-based Servants of the Light (http://www.servantsofthelight.org) or the writings of Dion Fortune, who founded the Society of the Inner Light (http://www.innerlight.org.uk) based in London.
12. Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008; Kindle edition).
13. Ernst Schertel, Magic: History/Theory/Practice (Boise, ID: Cotum, 2009).
1. Birgit Menzel, “The Occult Revival in Russia Today and Its Impact on Literature,” The Harriman Review, published online at http://www.fb06.uni-mainz.de/inst/is/russisch/menzel/forschung/00786.pdf (accessed November 22, 2012).
2. Peter Popham, “Politics in Italy: The Séance That Came Back to Haunt Romano Prodi,” The Independent (London), December 2, 2005.
3. See, among other works, my own Astral Doorways (London: Aquarian Press, 1972).
4. Samir Khan, “Expectations Full,” http://publicintelligence.net/expectations-full-jihadi-manual/ (accessed November 22, 2012).
5. Ibid.
1. The term derives from Spiritualism where it describes the appearance of small objects in the séance room out of thin air.
2. In Ivan Cooke, The Return of Arthur Conan Doyle (Hampshire, UK: White Eagle Publishing Trust, 1975).
3. Ibid.
4. Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg: Aleister Crowley’s Magical Brother and Lover (Oxford, UK: Mandrake of Oxford, 2005).
5. Aleister Crowley, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley (New York: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1987).
6. Fuller, op. cit.
7. Israel Regardie The Golden Dawn (Chicago: Aries Press, 1940). Quoted in translation.
8. Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley: The Biography (London: Watkins Publishing, 2011).
9. Ibid. Other sources suggest her message was that “they” were waiting for Crowley.
10. Ibid.
11. Quoted in Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010).
12. In reality a simple room in their apartment designated for magical purposes.
13. Quoted in Kaczynski, op. cit.
14. Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law: Liber AL vel Legis, available at http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/engccxx.htm (accessed January 28, 2012).
15. Ibid.
1. The account that follows draws on Elizabeth M. Butler, Ritual Magic (Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998).
2. H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, vol. 2 (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1972).
3. My version of the Inquiry’s findings also draws on Butler, op. cit.
4. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, a well-known English playwright, poet, and novelist with a considerable interest in the occult.
5. Eliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual, trans. Arthur Edward Waite (London: Rider & Co., 1896).
6. Elizabeth M. Butler, op. cit.
7. Gerald Brittle, The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2002).
1. As W. E. Butler.
2. He later lost his second leg to the same condition.
3. Dolores has also claimed health benefits, notably a strengthened immune system.
4. She died on November 26, 2010.
5. 1 Kings 10, KJV.
6. Song of Solomon 1:1, KJV.
7. Ibid.
8. Emma Hardinge Britten, Nineteenth Century Miracles: Or Spirits and Their Work in Every Country of the Earth (New York: Lovell & Co., 1884).
9. Ruth Brandon, The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983).
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dunglas_Home (accessed, January 31, 2012).
11. Britten, op. cit.
12. See http://www.victorzammit.com/book/chapter12.html (accessed January 17, 2013).
13. Britten, op. cit.
14. Revelation 12:7–9, KJV.
15. From Canon H. R. Charles, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, UK: The Clarendon Press, 1913).
16. Ibid.
17. Although it is probably true to suggest the New Age movement has carried these beliefs to a wider Western audience than at any other time in history.
18. G. R. S. Mead, trans., “The Corpus Hermeticum,” Internet Sacred Text Archive <http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/herm/hermes1.htm > (accessed January 19, 2009).
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
1. James Randi, The Supernatural A-Z: The Truth and the Lies (London: Headline, 1995).
2. http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia (accessed February 2, 2012).
3. Randi, The Supernatural A-Z, op. cit.
4. Jasper Maskelyne, White Magic (London: Stanley Paul & Co, n.d.; probably late 1930s).
5. Ibid.
6. Jim Steinmeyer, Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible (London: William Heinemann, 2003).
7. John Gordon Melton, “Spiritualism,” in Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica 2009 Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2009).
8. http://unleashyourdreams.co.uk/Unleash_Your_Dreams/_Box_Of_Delights_Seance_Kit_.html (accessed February 3, 2012).
9. http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/ (accessed February 3, 2012).
10. January 2012.
11. James Randi, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, op. cit.
12. http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Facts_on_PostConviction_DNA_Exonerations.php (accessed February 5, 2012).
13. http://www.ghost-science.co.uk/2010/08/spiritualism-the-birth-of-a-lie (accessed February 5, 2012).
14. William Crookes, “Notes of an Enquiry into the Phenomena Called Spiritual During the Years 1870–1873,” Quarterly Journal of Science (January 1874).
15. Robert McLuhan, Randi’s Prize (Kibworth Beauchamp, UK: Troubador, 2010).
16. McLuhan, op. cit.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
1. Jaynes, op. cit.
2. Quoted by Jaynes.
3. Eugen Herrigal, Zen in the Art of Archery (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953).
4. Jaynes, op. cit.
5. Martian Genesis (London: Piatkus Books, 1998) and The Atlantis Enigma (London: Piatkus Books, 1999).
1. Ellenberger describes it as “vaguely resembling a mixture of Italian and French.”
2. Back on Earth, the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine was not made by the Wright brothers until the end of 1903.
3. Jung’s family history claimed illegitimate descent from Goethe.
4. Ellenberger, op. cit.
5. Then generally believed to be caused by physical lesions of the nervous system resulting from the original trauma.
6. Theodore Flournoy, From India to the Planet Mars, trans. Daniel B. Vermilye (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900).
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ellenberger, op. cit.
10. C. G. Jung, Psychology and the Occult (London: Ark, 1987).
11. Ibid.
12. Butler, op. cit.
13. Ibid.
14. Paschal Beverly Randolph, Seership: Guide to Soul Sight (Quakertown, PA: Confederation of Initiates, 1930).
15. Butler, op. cit.
16. Ibid.
1. http://theshadowlands.net/places/uk.htm (accessed February 7, 2012).
2. In a private conversation with the present author.
3. Some sources put the figure as high as twenty-seven thousand.
4. Accounts vary. In some, the armies appeared in the sky overhead; in others, the apparitions fought across the fields and hills of the original battle.
5. Eric Maple and Lynn Myring, Haunted Houses, Ghosts and Spectres (London: Usborne, 1979).
6. J. H. Brennan, Time Travel: A New Perspective (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1997).
7. Colin Wilson, Beyond the Occult (London: Bantam Press, 1988).
8. Brennan, Time Travel, op. cit.
1. An East Frankish historical text composed by monks in the tenth century CE and covering a period between the reigns of Louis the Pious (died 640 CE) and the accession of Louis III in 900 CE.
2. Survey quoted in http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/p/poltergeist.html (accessed February 9, 2012).
3. Which stood on the site of the present Zouch Manor.
4. Richard Cavendish, ed., Encyclopedia of the Unexplained: Magic, Occultism, and Parapsychology (London: Penguin, 1995).
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist (accessed July 16, 2012).
1. Joseph H. Peterson, ed., The Lesser Key of Solomon (York Beach, ME: Weiser Books, 2001).
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Joseph H. Peterson, ed. and trans., Grimorium Verum (Scott’s Valley, CA: CreativeSpace Publishing, 2007).
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 2001).
15. Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Ceremonial Magic (New York: University Books, 1961).
16. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, trans., The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage (Chicago: de Laurence, 1948).
17. Frank Klaassen, “English Manuscripts of Magic, 1300–1500: A Preliminary Survey,” in Claire Fanger, Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998).
18. Flournoy, op. cit.
19. Blake W. Burleson, Jung in Africa (London: Continuum, 2005).
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (London: Fontana, 1971).
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Richard Noll, The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement (London: Fontana, 1995).
29. Richard Noll, The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Gustav Jung (London: Macmillan, 1997).
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. C. G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (London: Routledge, 2008).
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Eliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual (Twickenham, UK: Senate, 1995).
38. Ibid.
39. Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993).
40. J. H. Brennan, Astral Doorways (London: Aquarian Press, 1972).
41. Eliphas Lévi, The History of Magic, trans. Arthur Edward Waite (London: Rider & Son, 1922).
42. C. J. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (London: Routledge, 2008).
43. Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Highways of the Mind: The Art and History of Pathworking (Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1987).
44. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
45. Ibid.
46. Robert A. Charman, “Conjuring Up Philip,” Paranormal Review: The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research, no. 48 (October 2008).
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. Sourced from conversations with participants.
1. Stanislav Grof, The Cosmic Game (Dublin: Newleaf, 1988).
2. Quoted from a speech delivered by Leary in 1967.
3. Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (New York: Harper & Row, 1954).
4. Grof, op. cit.
5. Ibid.
6. Jung was self-contradictory on this area and much of his work points directly toward the idea of the Collective Unconscious as a single entity. It seems likely that with an academic reputation to protect, he took care to hedge his bets rather than present ideas so outlandish that they were unlikely to gain acceptance.
7. A principle of logic that states, in effect, that the simplest explanation of any phenomenon must always take precedence.
8. Grof, op. cit.
9. As do several recent cosmological theories.
10. “Mark,” channeled through Jacquie Burgess, 1997, The Way of Laughing, http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/barneyhill/184/ (accessed March 5, 2012).
11. Source: a private letter to the present author.
1. Fred Gettings, Ghosts in Photographs: The Extraordinary Story of Spirit Photography (New York: Harmony Books, 1978).
2. See, for example, Lon Milo DuQuette, My Life with the Spirits (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1999) and Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ceremonial Magic and the Power of Evocation (Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 2006).
3. Carroll “Poke” Runyon, The Book of Solomon’s Magic: How to Invoke Angels into the Crystal and Evoke Spirits to Visible Appearance in the Dark Mirror (Silverado, CA: C.H.S. Inc, 2004).
4. Barbara W. Lex, “Neurobiology of Ritual Trance,” in Eugene G. d’Aquili, Charles D. Laughlin Jr., and John McManus, The Spectrum of Ritual: A Biogenic Structural Analysis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979).
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
9. “Poltergiest—Research, Major Hypotheses, Examples, Famous Alleged Poltergeist Infestations, Poltergeists in Fiction,” Cambridge Encyclopedia, vol. 59 <http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/17660/poltergeist.html> (accessed February 21, 2009).
10. Norman H. Horowitz, “Roger Wolcott Sperry,” Nobel Prize Org <http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/articles/sperry/index.html> [accessed February 26, 2009.]
11. Ibid.
12. Anthony Peake, The Daemon (London: Arcturus, 2008).
13. Ibid.