n.p. n.pub. [1990]. [6p.], 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled together at upper left corner, very good. No publisher given, but issued by a member of the Peace and Freedom Party in California as part of the effort to resist NAP infiltration in 1990. After cover sheet, includes reprints of letters to... More about Is the New Alliance Party pro-gay?
Cat.No: 206658
San Francisco: Laughing Man Institute, 1976. Two issues of the magazine affiliated with the institute led by Bubba Free John; 88 and 86 pages, very good. More about The Laughing Man [nos. 1 and 2
Cat.No: 237517
Los Angeles: Velle Transcendental Research Association, Inc., 1971. 12p., tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, paper toned, otherwise very good with minor edgewear. This issue is devoted primarily to the legal troubles of the Association, formerly the Solar Lodge of the OTO, inspired by Aleister Crowley. A visitor to the group's... More about Midnight Press. Vol. 1, no. 3 (December 1971
Cat.No: 228782
[California]: n.pub. 1990. 3p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled together at upper left corner, very good. Describes NAP as a front for Fred Newman's Marxist psychotherapy cult. Outlines the group's history of attempting takeovers of political groups, its murky source of funds, and its disruption of targeted organizations. More about "The New Alliance Party is sending a large delegation to the 1990 convention of the Peace...
Cat.No: 206660
Guam: University of Guam Press, 1992. Paperback. vi, 476p., alkaline paperstock, not illustrated, printed double-column (Hong Kong printery) and softbound in 11x8.5 inch decorated glossy wraps. Massive item, a clean sound unmarked copy. More about Pacific History; Papers from the 8th Pacific History Association Conference
Cat.No: 237606
Tabuse, Japan: Tensho Kotai Jingu-kyo, 1954. 183p., very good in slightly scuffed stiff wraps, frontispiece portrait of the sect's founder Sayo Kitamura, known as Ogamisama. "She is the Savior sent by God to pass final judgment on this degenerate world." One of the "New Religions" of postwar Japan, this sect... More about The prophet of Tabuse
Cat.No: 177050
[China]: n.pub. [199-]. 27p., 7.5x10.25 inches, text in Chinese, stapled white wraps mildly worn, red stamp on cover of a life sciences institute in Changsha. Not found in OCLC. Collection of materials, including short articles and speeches, on Qigong and the paranormal. Title may be translated as "New directions in..... More about Qigong yu teyi gongneng yanjiu xin dongxiang. Cankao ziliao
Cat.No: 179207
n.p. Maum Meditation, 2008, 2009. Two staplebound booklets, both with the main title "Cleansing Mind and Body," with leaflets laid in announcing seminars in the San Francisco Bay Area. More about Two brochures for Maum Meditation
Cat.No: 223339
Chicago: Saint Germain Press, 2003. 48p., staplebound booklet, very good. Single issue of the publication that continued in print decades after the Ballards took a leaf from the Dudley Pelley script of fascist mysticism. This issue includes incantations to protect the USA as the "Permanent atom in the heart of... More about The Voice of the "I Am." (November 2003
Cat.No: 222088
n.p. Hunan Jianshen yangsheng jishu peixun zhongxin [Hunan province center for the training of health-building, life-nourishing techniques], 1997. 46p., pamphlet, front cover has some spots of soil, blank rear cover is stained. Text in Chinese. Cover notes "Observe secrecy," warns "reproduction prohibited." Also included is a pair of personal notebooks... More about Zhonggong kangfu baojian jishu xuan pian [Selected essays on Zhonggong's techniques for...
Cat.No: 218603
New York: The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, 1979. viii, 271p., numerous documents in facsimile, 9x6 inch plain printed buff wraps; unobtrusive accession label on the front cover (letterhead cover text laid in). More about Our response to the report of October 31, 1978 on the investigation of Korean-American relations...
Cat.No: 150020
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1982. xiii, 241p., illus., first edition, very good hardcover with dj, back panel of dj crinkled at top with closed tears. More about Beloved son; a story of the Jesus cults
Cat.No: 34427
[Cologne]: The Rebel Publishing House GmbH, August 1987. 90p., trade paperbound, 8.25 x 5.75 inch glossy pictorial wraps. Gift inscription from a devotee to her mother, otherwise very good. Published while the Bhagwan was still alive, this is a valedictory review of his accomplishments. Concludes with a list of diplomatic... More about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ
Cat.No: 77325
Kyoto: Horii Printing House, 1941. viii, 150 pages, very good hardcover, stated to be one of 400 printed, but without handwritten number; in original slipcase, which is toned but otherwise very good. Arai, a former samurai, came to the United States and joined Thomas Lake Harris' Brotherhood of the New... More about Inward prayer and fragments
Cat.No: 225824
Clearlake CA: The Free Daist Communion, 1993. Paperback. 183p., several b&w photoportraits of guru, softbound 11x8.5 inch glossy color-portrait wraps; somewhat edgeworn with corner-tip creasings, several pages underlined in ballpoint, a good-only copy. More about The Seven Gifts of Sri Da Avabhasa's Grace An Introductory Course of Study on the Way of the Heart
Cat.No: 183720
Kilauea, HI: The Source Foundation, 2004. Paperback. 199p., wraps, illus., very good condition. More about Liberation. 6th printing
Cat.No: 228033
Chicago: Ares Publishers Inc., 1975. 116p., trade-size white wraps, slight edgewear, clean and sound, a very good copy. More about Cults and Creeds in Graeco-Roman Egypt being the Forwood Lectures for 1952 [Unchanged reprint of...
Cat.No: 178721
Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986. xi, 216p., photo section, trade-size wraps; mild signs of handling. Symposium series volume 19. More about The odyssey of new religious movements, persecution, struggle, legitimation. A case study of the...
Cat.No: 150212
Boston: Beacon Press, 2012. Hardcover. xviii, 258p., prologue, epilogue, notes on Scientology resources, signed by the author; smudge on front free endsheet, remainder dot bottom edge, otherwise a very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. "The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church... More about A queer and pleasant danger: a memoir
Cat.No: 208056
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1975. 264p., first edition, slightly shelfworn dj. Novel about an activist whose daughter becomes involves with a Manson-like commune. More about The underground woman
Cat.No: 141932
Kingston, Montreal, London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. [xxi], 230p.,. illustrated with a few b&w exhibit photos, first edition hardbound in dust jacket. A nice clean copy. More about Catholic Cults and Devotions, A Psychological Inquiry
Cat.No: 225727
Paris: Centre de documentation, d'éducation et d'action contre les manipulations mentales, 1984. Pamphlet. 56p., wraps, 6x8.25 inches, very good condition. Back cover wraps decorated with a collage of headlines: "Les zombies de Krishna;" "Moon: La prison pour siege social;" &c. More about Les Sectes; que sont-elles? comment agissent-elles? comment s'en défendre? ce qu'il faut en savoir
Cat.No: 220655
San Jose, CA: CARP in solidarity with the 4th of July Movement, 1981. Leaflet. 8.5x11 inches printed on one side only with text and a small portrait of Cleaver. CARP was campus movement - Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) founded by Sun Myung Moon. More about 4th July Movement emergency meetings, America is in danger, help save America, come and hear...
Cat.No: 205953
Lenox, MA: Moksha Press, 1997. Magazine. 95p., 8.5x11 inches, perfectbound glossy magazine, illus., very good. Issue theme: The Modern Spiritual Predicament. Ken Wilber, Georg Feuerstein, Deepak Chopra, Andrew Cohen, and other deep thinkers abound. More about What is Enlightenment? issue 12, Fall/Winter 1997
Cat.No: 206833
Lenox, MA: Moksha Press, 1998. Magazine. 191p., 8.5x11 inches, perfectbound glossy magazine, illus., very good. The Dalai Lama, Swami Dayananda, Frances Vaughan, Andrew Cohen, and other deep thinkers abound. More about What is Enlightenment? issue 14, Fall/Winter 1998
Cat.No: 206835
