Este es uno de cuatro libros de referencia de una serie acerca de algunas de las sectas de la actualidad escritos por el mismo autor. Este libro vierte luz sobre el mormonismo, los Testigos de Jehova (ruselismo), la Iglesia de la Unificacion (seguidores de Moon), la meditacion trascendental y muchas sectas mas."

Blurb: This book brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story - that of a witch-hunt and 'ninja' craze that swept a region of Java, Indonesia, in 1998. Nicholas Herriman shows, on the basis of first-hand accounts, how killings occur when neighbours, family members and friends believe that one among them is a sorcerer. The usually sporadic killings of 'sorcerers' turned into an outbreak in 1998. Muslim organisations attributed the killings to conspirators, alleging that 'ninjas' had been responsible. In response, a paramilitary group (Banser NU) began preparing and training for an onslaught while anxious residents throughout East Java established road-side guards. Dozens of suspected ninjas were caught and some were tortured and killed. Herriman provides a detailed context and history of these events and analyses their development in terms of the interplay of local culture and dynamics (gossip, suspicion of 'sorcerers', violence) and national institutions (the state, political parties, NGOs and the press). About the author Nicholas Herriman is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at La Trobe University. His podcasts on iTunesU, including the Audible Anthropologist and Witch-hunts and Persecution have tens of thousands of listeners. He also regularly contributes opinion pieces to the mainstream media. Based on more than one year's fieldwork, he has written a number of significant and award-winning publications on East Java, including his PhD dissertation - the Australian Anthropological Society's "Best Thesis" in 2008. This book represents the culmination of researching witch-hunts for more than a decade.

Dianetics: The Original Thesis is L. Ron Hubbard's
first description of Dianetics. Originally circulated
in manuscript form to a few friends, it was soon
copied and passed hand-to-hand until it literally
circled the globe. But the resultant word of mouth
only fueled the fire. With thousands of letters requesting more
information, Ron concluded the only way to answer all inquiries
was with a book. That book was Dianetics: The Modern Science
of Mental Health, now the all-time bestseller on the mind. Find
out what started it all. For here are the bedrock discoveries and
equations of Dianetics, including:
- The Primary Axioms of Dianetics -- axioms upon which
the entire subject is built
- The discovery of the Dynamic Principle of Existence that
drives all life forms -- SURVIVE!
- The Four Dynamics by which life is compartmented and
which determine one's survival
- The discovery and anatomy of the Reactive Mind
- Engrams, the single source of all irrational behavior
- The powerful command in every engram which
prevented their discovery and handling before Dianetics
- The Analytical Mind, its function and operation
- The first description of the state of Clear, its attributes
and potentials
- And, most important, the Laws of Returning --containing
the explanation of both how and why auditing works
Here, then, are the fundamental breakthroughs Ron used
to make the first Clears -- breakthroughs which made possible the
development of technology for use by every individual to begin the
clearing of a planet, breakthroughs only containedin Dianetics:
The Original Thesis.

Dictionary of Witchcraft is a must-have resource for anyone interested in witchcraft, pagan religions, and the occult. This historical dictionary was the first reference work to seriously document superstitions, manifestations, magic, and superstitions. The author s interest was to compile a vast amount of matter that would interest, entertain and instruct others. This dictionary was consulted by some of the greatest Romantic writers, notably by Hugo. Collin de Plancy followed the tradition of many previous demonologists of cataloguing demons by name and title of nobility, as it happened with grimoires like Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and The Lesser Key of Solomon among others. It is considered a major work documenting beings, characters, books, deeds, and causes which pertain to the manifestations and magic of trafficking with Hell; divinations, occult sciences, grimoires, marvels, errors, prejudices, traditions, folktales, the various superstitions, and generally all manner of marvelous, surprising, mysterious, and supernatural beliefs. This edition was translated and introduced by occultist Wade Baskin. Collin de Plancy (1794 1881) was a French occultist, demonologist, author, and translator. His best-known work, Dictionary of Witchcraft (Dictionnaire Infernal), was published in 1818 but didn t receive wide acclaim until 1863 when a set of 69 illustrations by Louis Breton were added. Later in life, de Plancy converted to Catholicism and focused his studies on Catholic histories and mysticisms.