3.1 The Memetics of Religion (Chapter)
Brodie, Richard. Virus of the Mind: Exploring the New Science of Memetics, Integral Press, 1996, pp. 187-198.

An accessible description of the evolution and battle between major religious viruses.

3.2 Designer Viruses: How To Start A Cult (Chapter)
Brodie, Richard. Virus of the Mind: Exploring the New Science of Memetics, Integral Press, 1996, pp. 199-211.

Analysis of multi-level marketing schemes and similar trickery disguised as religion.

3.3 Successful Cults: Western Religion By Natural Selection (Chapter)
Lynch, Aaron. Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society, Basic Books, 1996.

Lynch offers a strong analysis (more scientifically detailed than Richard Brodie) of the cultural evolution of various major religious belief and faith systems, and cults. Much material for further in-depth research.

3.4 Fragments From The Mouravieff Workings (Working Notes)
Burns, Alex. The Mouravieff Codex, Unpublished.

An unpublished fragment dealing with the Temple of Set, artificial mythologies, and postmodern Black Magic responses to the virulent spread of militaristic and fanatical strains of Judeo-Christianity. Discussion of the decline of Judeo-Christianity into a sociopolitical manipulation tool (Feuerbach), and considerations of how to revitalise Western Culture.

3.5 Techgnosis, Memory, and the Angels of Information (Chapter & Endnotes)
Davis, Erik in Dery, Mark, ed. Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture, Duke University Press, 1994, pp. 29-60.

A landmark piece by cultural critic Erik Davis examining the Work of Renaissance magicians (particularly Dr. John Dee) in the light of culture shifts and computer processing innovations.

3.6 Hubbard's Ladder: The Technology of Transformation (Article)
Joyce, Tom in Kinney, Jay ed. Gnosis, #12 Summer 1989, The Lumen Foundation, pp. 8-18.

A provocative and intelligently argued article on one of the most effective propagating artificial mythologies of the Common Era.

3.7 The Three Faces of Satan (Article)
Clifton, Chas in Kinney, Jay ed. Gnosis, #12 Summer 1989, The Lumen Foundation, pp. 36-42.

Written at the height of the Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) hysteria, author Chas Clifton manages to lucidly dissect the Satanic subculture and the myths being propagated by various religious and socio-political factions. Includes authoritative coverage of the Temple of Set.

3.8 Satanic Ritual Abuse (Chapter & Endnotes)
Showalter, Elaine. Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media, Columbia University Press, 1997, pp. 171-188 (chapter) & pp. 228-230 (endnotes).

Showalter is Professor of English at Princeton University, and this book garnered both critical praise and derision for its analysis of viral-like mass hysterias such as recovered memories, alien abductions, and the Gulf War Syndrome. This chapter is a feminist de-construction of the Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) cycle and its impact upon the psychotherapy profession. Some different viewpoints and arguments not usually mentioned in occult-debunking literature.

3.9 Wrestling With Angels: The Mystical Dilemma of Philip K. Dick (Introduction & Endnotes)
Kinney, Jay in Sutin, Lawrence ed. In Pursuit of VALIS: Selections from the Exegesis, Underwood-Miller, 1991, pp. xvii-xxxi.

On 3rd February 1974 the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick had an encounter with an entity he termed a Vast Active Living Intelligence System (VALIS), which was to change his life, and become the subject of his last four novels. Dick's penchant for theories and knowledge of Graceo-Roman philosophical schools and Gnostic Christianity sects also led him to write a rambling Exegesis of over 1000 pages exploring this experience and its relationship to his published work. After his death, Dick's biographer Lawrence Sutin released excerpts in two volumes. This Exegesis must rank as one of the most detailed, lucid, and intelligent explorations of noetic experiences outside the Temple of Set, and has spawned several artificial mythologies since Sutin's publication. This preface from the first volume was written by Gnosis magazine editor Jay Kinney, giving background on Dick's experience, exploring its relationship to Gnostic Christianity and his impact upon subsequent modern scholarship, and the similarities with Dr. Carl Jung's Seven Sermons to the Dead (1916).

3.10 Two Self Examinations (Chapter)
Dick, Philip K. in Sutin, Lawrence ed. In Pursuit of VALIS: Selections from the Exegesis, Underwood-Miller, 1991, pp. 241-247.

These scathingly self-critical examinations of Philip K. Dick's VALIS experience not only debunk frequent criticisms that Dick was just a minor drug-addicted SF writer who had weird acid flashbacks and no training in reductionist or critical methods, but serve as an example of the kind of guerilla de-construction that should become second nature to the postmodern Black Magician (Spiral Wizard).

3.11 Selections From The Exegesis - Circa 1975-1980C (Chapter)
Dick, Philip K. in Sutin, Lawrence ed. The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings, Vintage Books, 1995, pp. 317-350.

Selections from the second volume of Exegesis extracts published by Lawrence Sutin, including a rare lengthy titled extract on the VALIS/Gnostic Christianity cosmology.

3.12 I Understand Philip K. Dick (Afterward)
McKenna, Terence in Sutin, Lawrence ed. In Pursuit of VALIS: Selections from the Exegesis, Underwood-Miller, 1991, pp. 253-261.

A counterpoint to Gnosis Magazine editor Jay Kinney's Introduction, this Afterward by ethno-botanist Terence McKenna explores Dick's VALIS encounter in the light of McKenna's 2012 Singularity Point/Timewave theories and 1971 Amazon Basin encounter with supra-rational entities.

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