Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-09-22
Books mentioned on Part Two: The Racist Cult Behind Herbal Tea
Robert is joined again by Ty aka HeyShadyLady - one of the hosts of the Boss LVL podcast to continue to discuss the Urantia Book and Sleepy Time Tea. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed The Mind at Mischief by William Samuel Sadler, Introduction to World Religions by Christopher Partridge, Let God Talk to You by Becky Tirabassi, and The Urantia book by Urantia Foundation.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Mind at Mischief
Discussed“The first writing that we have by Sadler on the matter was published in a 1929 book, The Mind at Mischief, which is mostly a debunking of mediums and psychics.”
Where to get it
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Introduction to World Religions
Discussed“At any rate, this write up from the root text UFO religions edited by Christopher Partridge tells the next part of the story.”
Where to get it
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Let God Talk to You
Discussed“So more detail on the contact commission comes from the book God talk which describe and that's by our buddy the Gu which describes it as quote a tightly interwoven incestuous family unit.”
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The Urantia book
The Urantia Book is a massive, pseudonymous foundational text that outlines a complex cosmology, alternative history, and theology dictated by celestial beings.
Discussed“So according to the revelations given by the subject to the contact commission uh which are eventually bundled into a collection of writing called the Arantia papers, the center of the universe um is a perfect well the center of the multiverse”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Green Man
“The chief instigator is an author named Harold Sherman. Uh he's a sci-fi writer whose 1976 book, The Green Man, is the origin for the phrase Little Green Men from Mars.”