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After over a year of writing this manuscript, I have decided to release my next book, Hunt Manual: 21st Century Demonology & Forteana on Halloween 2021. Special thanks to Martin Ferretti (host of The Alchemical Mind) for editing the book, and to Eric Millar (of Outlet Press) for creating the cover art that I love so much.
For those that are familiar with Dive Manual, it will follow the same sort of fourth-person narrative through a strange collage of nonfiction topics taken to the outer limits of our scientific understanding. The book essentially tries to tackle three major motifs and goes down many different avenues of investigation.
Firstly, what truly is good and evil? I wouldnโt claim to know all the answers, but I can certainly say that good and evil get confused with dogma far too often. To understand the dichotomy, we must understand the metaphysics of light and dark as thermodynamic allegories of the psyche. Then we have to consider the various vantage points between a hunter and prey. Where is the tipping point between survival and villainy? Rather than dogma, I look through brain sciences, psychology, comparative religion, and anthropology to consider this continuum of the human condition.
Secondly, what can the mythologies, superstitions, and folklores of cultures past tell us about our demons? Untangling a serious ratโs nest of dogma, Jungian psychoanalysis, and unexplainable phenomena, I look into the strong medical underpinnings of demonology throughout the ancient culture, demonstrating that demonology helped to bridge a heuristic gap in medical scienceโalbeit often crudely and without much help. But not all of it was crude and useless, and the proverbial demons of the psyche for ancient people are still very much the same demons in the modern psyche. Sifting through the components of the natural, psychological shadow-complex proposed by Jung is a necessary protocol for keeping your psychological house clean. We all have an existential responsibility to quell the darker aspects of our psyches.
But thirdly: what happens when the demons arenโt merely proverbial or allegorical? Assuming that anything that is not โdivineโ or outright helpful is then considered โdemonicโ (whether this demonic archetype be evil, prankish, or both), the realms of 21st century demonology do not just entail possession, poltergeists, and hauntings, but also the realm of cryptozoology and other fortean phenomena like the UFO โ even touching the outer limits of psychology to consider the nuanced and broken minds of historyโs most notorious cult leaders and serial killers. Rather than relying on folklore and superstition, however, I make concerted effort to focus specifically on heavily documented cases, including but not limited to the:
possession of Anneliese Michel
Ernie Rivers Poltergeist
Church Street Poltergeist
Enfield Monster
case of Teresita Basa
โNarco-Satanistโ cult
Hopkinsville Goblins
Murphysboro Muddy Monster
Richard โThe Night Stalkerโ Ramirez
While all of these things arenโt so much directly related in the physical environmentโhow they affect the experiencer activates the same type of primordial components of fight, flight, confusion, even surrealism and hysteria. All these things provide the proper soil for the viral exchange of the meme, whether it is โdivineโ or โdemonic,โ and whatever any one of these terrifying things may be in the long run, we find that no matter how explainable or unexplainable, these encounters leave indelible impressions of horror upon the human psyche.
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I hope you find the topics interesting and decide to give the book a chance! Itโll be around 150 pages or so, and here is the first look at the manuscriptโs table of contents:
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PART I: The Hunt
I. The Only Survivor Was Miraculously unharmed
[Good & Horror]
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ย II. Campfire Shadow Puppets
[Gods, Devils, & Hunting Rites]
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III. Make Bones & Cut Teeth
[Poltergeists & Oppression]
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IV.ย Two Psychederelicts Walk into a Lounge
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V. Handshakes with shadows
[Possession & Anomaly]
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PART II: The Deathbird
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ย VI. โGeminiโ Method, Part I
[Serial Killers & Some Cult Leaders: Obsession]
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VII. โGeminiโ Method, Part II
[Cult Leaders & Some Serial Killers: Obsession]
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VIII. Extra-Dimensional Palate Cleanser
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IX. Red-Eyed Zaroff Hounds, Part I
[Mysticism, Monsters & UFOs]
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ย X. Red-Eyed Zaroff Hounds, Part II
[Fortean Folklore & Heuristic Truth]
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ย XI. Smoke โEm if Ya Got โEm
[Chaos Theory & Catharsis]
Written by: Anthony Tyler
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