Sinister Forces
A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft
Book Three: The Manson Secret
Peter Levenda

"The Manson Secret" completes Peter Levenda's epic "Sinister Forces" trilogy with insight, clarity and wit, expanding our understanding of arcane subjects, exploring neglected history, entertaining and intriguing us along the way.

An intuitive understanding, a mental flash while reading an article during the Watergate Scandal, entitled "Patriotic Witchcraft," in the "Village Voice," plus more than twenty-five years of research, study and experience has engendered a magnum opus: "Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft."

Peter's earlier, critically-acclaimed "Unholy Alliance: A history of Nazi Involvement with the Occult" began as a question that is treated more fully in "Sinister Forces:" "how and to what degree does mysticism (including that of occultists, religions, and secret societies) influence politics?"

This final book of the "Sinister Forces" series reveals many previously hidden relationships, daring to traverse the realms of quantum mechanics, consciousness, and synchronicity, amongst others. "The Manson Secret" exposes submerged links between our popular culture and our very political reality, ably demonstrating that the potent mixtures of Blood and Eros, of terror and sex, may be used to promote fascism through psychological warfare. A program of propaganda, mass trauma, celebrity-worship and murder... reconstituting our cultural archetypes into malleable imprints, nervously awaiting the next shock.

Levenda shows us that nurturing Charlie Manson's growth into national bogeyman were hidden hands, using tools developed in the dark, and releasing into society someone who has become a personification of evil.

"The Manson Secret" superbly caps a whirlwind esoteric ride that transcends our current slouching shadow play.

The "sinister forces" of our title were identified as Nazism by Nuremburg Trial Lawyer Robert Jackson, and as coming from "some other planetary galaxy" by General Douglas MacArthur.

All the traditions tell us that some "experts" go the wrong way: the "brothers of the left-hand path" or "black magicians." They use their hard-won knowledge and insight to further their own, very personal, and often very sinister, ends.

Do we confront forces that exert power derived from the very mental states studied and manipulated by the mind-control experts of the past fifty years? Has this struggle contributed to the phenomenon of the serial killer, the mass murderer, and to the present state of world affairs?

This perspective may be disturbing... But, does not the state of the world today require us more than ever to seriously consider these strange arguments, which offer an explanation for modern events that no other, less controversial, course of study so far has been able to provide?

— Peter Levenda

Table of Contents

Foreword: Charlie's Devils by Paul Krassner
Prologue

Section Five: Magic in Theory and Practice
16. Psycho
17. Voluntary Madness
18. Hollywood Babalon
19. An American Dream
20. Communion
21. The Machineries of Joy

Section Six: Hungry Ghost
22. Haunted House
23. The Manson Secret

Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

492 pages, 6 x 9, Hardback, Illustrated

Price - $29.95