Book: The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
In response to junk science and superstition, cosmologist Carl Sagan created, if you’ll pardon the term, a bible for skepticism.
Book: The Witches, Stacy Schiff
Certain ideas have always haunted America: fear of the devil, fear of outsiders, and most of all fear of invisible but sinister conspiracies.
Book: The Origin of Satan, Elaine Pagels
A primer on how and why ancient Jewish and Christian groups created Satan and who they used him against–then and now.
Book: Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
A story about how the mind of a child exercises the unruly but empowering essence of the ego–and by extension, how we can too.
Book: Good Omens, Pratchett & Gaiman
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman parody “The Omen,” the Cold War, the Bible, witch hunting, and Millennium apocalypse scares.
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