Disinformation’s "wicked warlock" Richard Metzger gathers an unprecedented cabal of modern occultists, magicians and forward thinkers in Book of Lies. Whereas past Disinformation volumes like "You Are Being Lied To," "Everything You Know is Wrong" and "Abuse Your Illusions" focused on secrets... read more
Preface - Grant Morrison
Introduction: Operation Mindwarp - Richard Metzger
SECTION 1: MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Pop Magic! - Grant Morrison
The Executable Dreamtime - Mark Pesce
Thee Splinter Test - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Memento Mori: Remember You Must Die - Paul Laffoley
Joe Is In The Details - Joe Coleman
Are You Illuminated? - Phil Hine
SECTION 2: CHEMOGNOSIS
Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness - Terence McKenna
An Extended Excerpt from Breaking Open the Head - Daniel Pinchbeck
SECTION 3: ICONS
Kick That Habit: Brion Gysin-His Life & Magick - Michael Goss
Who is There William Burroughs - John Geiger
Magick Squares and Future Beats: The Magical Processes and Methods of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Austin Osman Spire: Divine Draughtsman - Nevill Drury
Virtual Mirrors in Solid Time: The Prophetic Portals of Austin Osman Spare - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Calling Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft's Magick Realism - Erik Davis
Excerpt from The Road of Excess - Brian Barritt
Leary and Crowley: An Excerpt from Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
SECTION 4: THE GREAT BEAST 666
Six Voices on Crowley - Tim Maroney
Aleister Crowley as Guru - John S. Moore
The Enochian Apocalypse - Donald Tyson
The Crying of Liber 49: Jack Parsons, Antichrist Superstar - Richard Metzger
SECTION 5: SCARLET WOMEN
Cameron: The Wormwood Star - Brian Butler
Ida Craddock: Sexual Mystic and Martyr for Freedom - Vere Chappell
Rosaleen Norton: Pan's Daughter - Nevill Drury
SECTION 6: SECRET SOCIETIES
Magical Bliztkrieg: Hiter and the Occult, Peter Levenda Interview: Tracy Twyman
That Which Has Fallen - Boyd Rice
Halo of Flies - P.R. Koenig
The Secret History of Modern Witchcraft - Tau Allen Greenfield
SECTION 7: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
Anton LaVey: A Fireside Chat with The Black Pope - Michael Moynihan
Season of the Witch - Gary Lachman
SECTION 8: OCCULT WAR
The Advent of Ahriman: An Essay on the Deep Forces Behind the World-Crisis - Robert Mason
Julius Evola's Combat Manuals for a Revolt Against the Modern World - Michael Moynihan
On the Magical View of Life - "Ea"
Serpentine Wisdom - "Iagla"
The Occult War - Julius Evola
Secret of the Assassins - Peter Lamborn Wilson
Sorcery - Hakim Bey
Media Hex: The Occult Assault on Institutions - Hakim Bey
The Secret of the Gothick God of Darkness - Dr. Stephen Edred Flowers
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