But Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses haven’t bought into that date, so why should we?

Process Media’s 2012 catalogue has just appeared, and is easily downloaded HERE. This is evidence of our belief that many people will be curious and functional enough to read Process Media books, both in their Gutenberg-style physical form as well as in the etheric bits and bytes that can be purchased online and consumed on a Kindle or iPad device.

This is also the magical year that Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos will release their phenomenal documentary The Source, based on the Process Media book.

This year you will also find a new and enlarged edition of The Secret Source by Maja D’Aoust and Adam Parfrey which returned from the printer this week. It is now an unusual looking hardcover in gold and white. You can find more information on this HERE.

The Process Media and Feral House catalogues are also available in their physical form, and we’d be happy to snail mail them to you if you send your requests to info@processmediainc.com.

We are excited about many of the titles that will soon be published, so please have a look! We’d love to hear from you.

Whence did the “Law of Attraction” emerge?

Here’s a fascinating and easy-to-understand breakdown on esoteric metaphysics and its odd path to modern day cult.The Secret Source is enhanced by striking visuals largely taken from rare sources housed at The Philosophical Research Society of Los Angeles.

The new clothbound edition of The Secret Source includes a new chapter highlighting The Law of Attraction as promoted by secret societies through the ages, including Albert Pike for Scottish Rite Freemasonry, and new images from the fraternal brotherhoods.

“Picking up where Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret left off, coauthors D’Aoust (lecturer, Philosophical Research Soc.) and Parfrey (Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind) explain how believers and visionaries from a variety of teachings have improved their well-being using mental powers. They guide readers through several Hermetic teachings, shed light on the New Thought spiritual movement, explain how the Christ mythos and Jewish kabbalistic texts borrowed from the Hermetic tradition, and reveal how many of today’s get-richquick schemes have roots in Hermetic laws. While not for everyone, this book provides an unbiased view of the teachings of secret societies and will interest many patrons. Recommended for all libraries.” —Library Journal

“In The Secret Source, authors Maja D’aoust and Adam Parfrey break down the ancient Hermetic teachings that have led to the recent outbreak of self-help ideas and schools of New Thought that are taking over the gullible masses. Though the subject matter is at times a little deep and the philosophies can be somewhat esoteric, the authors have done a good job of laying everything out in terms that are understandable without being dumbed down. I highly suggest that you make this book your next selection.” — Elizabeth Headrick, Book Fetish

The film was directed by Process Media Co-founder Jodi Wille and commercial director Maria Demopoulos, who will both be in attendance at the screening. Also attending will be Process Media/Feral House founder Adam Parfrey and very special guests Source Family members Electricity, Isis, Magus and Pan Aquarian, and more, who will be doing a Q&A after the screening.

There have also been rumors that YaHoWha 13 might make a surprise appearance and performance!

Follow The Source Doc on Facebook:
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Twitter:
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Wille, Parfrey, and Isis and Electricity Aquarian will be appearing before the premiere on Thursday March 8 for a book signing of The Source and Parfrey’s new Feral House book Ritual America, at Austin’s Domy Books.

Details for the signing and show are as follows:

A multi-media presentation about The Source will occur at 6 pm sharp, and will culminate at 7 pm, when Jodi Wille, Isis and Electricity will sign books. At 7:30 Adam will carry on with his image-enhanced lecture about American secret societies.

Here is a brief description of the movie:

It’s 1971 and communes and new religions are on the rise. The Source Family are an “Aquarian tribe,” a secretive ?but outlandish group of 140 beautiful young people who stroll Los Angeles? in colorful robes, devotees of “Father Yod,” a controversial restaurateur-turned-spiritual leader with fourteen wives and his own psychedelic rock band.
The Family lives in a mansion and operates a popular restaurant on the Sunset Strip, serving vegetarian cuisine to musicians and movie stars, pioneering a national trend. But their radical lifestyle instigates the authorities. Their demise is dramatic and painful, but Yod’s spirit lives on.

Hope to see you there!

Peace and Love,

Process Media and Feral House

One of the most popular titles in Process’ Self-Reliance series, Getting Out is a smartly designed and easy-to-navigate compendium about your best options for a new homeland, and how to navigate a myriad of hurdles before and after you get there.

Here are the rules, resources, and experiences of dozens of expat Americans on every continent, including author Mark Ehrman, who moved from Los Angeles to Berlin after publishing Getting Out. The updated and expanded edition contains new information on taxes, healthcare, food, drink, drugs, security, and suggestions about how to start a business or make a living in foreign lands.

After Feral House released Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr., in 1992, many readers got quite excited. Practically nothing was actually known about Wood’s life; author Rudolph Grey spent more than a decade tracking down the amazing stories, and I helped Rudolph stitch them together as an oral biography in the style of Edie. Richard Corliss wrote a full page appreciation in Time magazine. A hundred ‘zines did Ed Wood appreciations. Rhino released videos of Wood’s oeuvre. Documentary films were made, and producers, actors, and writers called Feral House frequently asking about rights.

The most persistent caller was Denise DiNovi, trying to secure rights for Tim Burton. Unlike most Hollywood projects, what became the Ed Wood film shot up to the head of the list, a big NY agent negotiated rights for us, and author Rudolph Grey made a small bundle. For reasons unknown, we were told that the screenwriters insisted that we not receive front credits. After Ed Wood was released we discovered that the “Based Upon Nightmare of Ecstasy” credit was shifted to the very end of the end credits, near the crewmen who provide the toilet facilities.

Press material released by the studio had screenwriters Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander discussing how they did the true research for the movie. The Feral House book was disguised by its non-significance in the credits and this promo material.

Just after Ed Wood was filmed, Larry Karaszewski flew up to Portland, and bought lunch for me and my ex, Lisa Everett. At that lunch I could do nothing but talk about a subpoena I had just received from Larry Flynt’s people regarding an article I had written for Hustler magazine about all the “How To Kill” books. An Oklahoma district attorney blamed my article for inspiring the killing of a five-year-old boy. This DA circulated the subpoena to right-wing “journalists” nationwide, and as a result my article and Larry Flynt became a small cause celebre in the right-wing press. Eventually it was discovered that the DA’s info was entirely false, and the threatened trial was shut down. Some months later Karaszewski and his partner Scott Alexander wrote the film The People Vs. Larry Flynt.

Another coincidence, and yet one more to come.

When we released the Ed Wood book, I wrote a creepy cover story for The San Diego Reader about the Keanes, the progenitors of the kitschy Big Eye art that was hugely famous in the ’60s, and the dispute that got them in court. I was really pleased with myself for securing crazy interviews and court transcripts. Margaret Keane was a painfully nice woman who sent me personally inscribed Jehovah’s Witness books while the ’70-something Walter Keane strangely made passes at my girlfriend and tried to give me tips on oral sex. Later Walter claimed that the “Citizen Keane” story I wrote was the result of being paid off “at least a  million dollars” by the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It seems that my Keane article started a wave of interest. Juxtapoz magazine reprinted the article and it later appeared in my collection called Cult Rapture.

A huge question was how to fit all the titles and covers into a 16-page Feral House catalogue and 8-page Process Media catalogue.  The answer for the FH catalogue was this: to simply list titles, author info, trim size, and ISBN numbers for several dozen backlist titles, with the hope that interested parties will browse our website for further information.

We also wanted to address the issue of publishing’s expansion into eBooks and print-on-demand. As we mentioned in the catalogues, “Like an overweight Kiwi bird, the digital age has landed awkwardly on the publishing world, and after initial resistance we’ve decided to convert most Feral House titles into electronic books readable by Kindle, Nook, iPad, and other eBook devices. You can find and order them on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and elsewhere, including Apple’s iBookstore.”

In the future we would like to develop apps for books, so that we can address the best aspects of digital integration. But if you want a toteable Kindle version of any of our books, this is indeed possible.

Feral House’s first print-on-demand book is now available: The Manson File: Charles Manson as Revealed in Letters, Photos, Stories, Songs, Art, Testimony, and Documents. This is the first title in Feral House’s newResurrection series, created to bring in demand and previously out of print books back into the hands of readers. Now anyone can order The Manson File HERE.

The Manson File was originally released in 1988 by Amok Press, a now-defunct company of mine, in which I teamed with Kenneth Swezey, who later published as Blast Books with his mate Laura Lindgren. The Manson book led me into addressing cult phenomena in an unorthodox way. I asked myself whether we all needed another moral lesson, as if any reader really needed to know that killing is wrong? Or a perspective from a District Attorney climbing the ranks, or a cult member looking for a lighter prison sentence? Could we learn more from the cult itself in unapologetic terms?  The Manson File offers that different perspective.

The new Process Media and Feral House titles will be posted quite soon. Keep an eye out!

Feral Wishes,

Adam Parfrey

Friends were calling my attention to various YouTube posts from various countries that present strange and unsettling boomy and distant sounds. Pranksters love posting things like this to laugh at the gullibility of the public.

I now gladly add to this virus.

Here are some of the posts:

A roundup of strange sounds internationally

An aficionado of ancient prophecy ejaculates his thoughts

Believers of the apocalypse think they’ve heard the trumpets calling Revelation

A conspiratorial and also Christian skeptic mulls over the possibilities

A news program on a Costa Rica television station reports this as high news

I think we’ll be getting a lot more of this kind of thing this year. The Mayan prophecy calls!

Does it matter that images are reproduced much more sharply on a book than a computer screen?

Has it made much of a difference to the public-at-large that listening to an MP3 file rather than a live performance is like listening to sewage in a tunnel rather than a rushing river?

Like many other publishers, Feral House and Process Media don’t want to appear like killjoys and have given into the ebook hype. Many of our titles are now available for a wide variety of E-Book devices in formats like ePub, PDF and Kindle-friendly PRCs. And the selling point of the Kindle and other devices is the ability of the reader to reformat their reading material, which is all well and good for text-only books, but for tomes meticulously formatted by designers for printed books, the ebooks can look crushingly wrong.

Don’t get me wrong, it makes perfect sense to have some ebook device for the purpose of wasting one’s time on throw-away novels, or often changing travel guides. Better bits and bytes than crushed trees for this sort of thing. It makes sense to me that the best-selling ebooks are genre fiction: romances, mysteries, detective novels.

Does anyone know or care that supposedly innovative and progressive Apple corporation refuses to carry ebooks like Feral House’s Voluptuous Panic, which can otherwise be found in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum? Perhaps that’s all for the best. The 9 x 12 sized Voluptuous Panic should really be seen in printed offset form.

I’m curious to see when people finally give up on the antiquated form of the printed book.

On this same day seven Republicans appearing in the final flatulent “debate” prior to the Iowa election argued for the mega-inflation of military expenditures. Apparently a thousand dollar wrench is more necessary than social security  or medicare.

Welcome to the Police State my friends. And may I refer you to the Updated and Expanded Edition of Getting Out: Your Gude to Leaving America, which is going to the printer next week.http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Out-Leaving-Expanded-Self-reliance/dp/1934170291/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Check out the first edition HERE