Episode · Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin · 2026-10-14
Mark Booth on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin: every book mentioned
Mark Booth is an author, editor, and publisher who also writes under the pen name Jonathan Black. He studied philosophy and theology at Oxford and built a publishing career working with authors including Rupert Sheldrake, Graham Hancock, and Lorna Byrne.
Mark Booth discussed The Iliad, The Odyssey, Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard W. Anderson and others, The Book of revelation by Rupert Thomson, The Book of Enoch, Genesis by Bernard Beckett, Psalms by John Goldingay, Angels in My Hair by Lorna Byrne, and The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Iliad
Discussed“And then if you move on to the Odyssey, we see the seeds of change because the great hero of the Iliad is Achilles”
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The Odyssey
Discussed“And then if you move on to the Odyssey, we see the seeds of change because the great hero of the Iliad is Achilles”
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Understanding the Old Testament
Discussed“On the question of conceptual thought, if you consider angelic communications as they come in visions, in the Old Testament or in the book of Revelation”
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The Book of revelation
Discussed“On the question of conceptual thought, if you consider angelic communications as they come in visions, in the Old Testament or in the book of Revelation”
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The Book of Enoch
Discussed“And of course the story of the watchers and the mighty men of renown in the book of Genesis and the book of Enoch”
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Genesis
Discussed“And of course the story of the watchers and the mighty men of renown in the book of Genesis and the book of Enoch”
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Psalms
Discussed“If you look at Greek myths or the Old Testament, the Psalms, there's no idea of heaven there.”
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Angels in My Hair
Discussed“Yes, I commissioned her book called Angels in My Hair, which was a huge international bestseller. It's her autobiography, and I feel blessed to have known her.”
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The Secret History of the World
Discussed“I met her just as I was finishing The Secret History of the World, and she told me that everything in it is true.”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Secret History of the World
“If you look at the extraordinary lives of the scientists that I describe in the secret history of the world, they were all deeply interested in the esoteric and the occult.”
Plugged The Secret History of the World
“The secret history of the universe is a result of having written the secret history of the world. I was working in publishing in London at the time”
“The secret history of the universe is a result of having written the secret history of the world. I was working in publishing in London at the time”
Plugged The Secret History of the World
“Well, I think I think that it's certainly true that large sections of the secret history of the world kind of downloaded themselves.”
“Well, the book begins by saying that most people want to believe there is something beyond the material world, but we have been bought up to believe that science is a barrier to that.”
“One of the reasons I've written this new book is because I think that the belief in materialism will prove to be just a temporary blip because of what is happening in physics and information technology.”