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Peter Bebergal is the author of Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood and The Faith between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God (with Scott Korb). He writes widely on music and books, with special emphasis on the speculative and slightly fringe. His recent essays and reviews have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Quietus, BoingBoing, and The Believer. Bebergal studied religion and culture at Harvard Divinity School, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Season of the Witch is Here in Paperback!

The leaves are falling, the days are shortening, and the old gods are emerging! It's time again for the Season of the Witch!

So where can you buy Season of the Witch? Click on one of these links and it will magically appear at your home, spirited there by ancient forces, best left otherwise alone:

Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll is available at Amazon, and Barnes & Nob Read more of this blog post »

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	Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll 3.46 avg rating — 929 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons by Peter Bebergal (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ann VanderMeer (Afterword) 4.17 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural 3.60 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood by Peter Bebergal (Goodreads Author), Peter Coyote (Foreword) 3.67 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God by Peter Bebergal (Goodreads Author), Scott Korb (Goodreads Author), Stephen J. Dubner (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.98 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Appendix N: Weird Tales from the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons, Revised and Expanded Edition by Peter Bebergal (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ann VanderMeer (afterword) 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creature Comforts: Monster Movies in an Age of Anxiety 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Carl Jung, in a letter to the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Watson, remarked that the Latin for “alcohol” is spiritus, which is also the word for “soul,” and that the abuse of alcohol was fueled by a desire to know God, to transcend daily drudgery for a glimpse of a greater reality.”
― Peter Bebergal, Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood

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“Huxley’s mescaline trip, reported in his 1954 book, The Doors of Perception, is probably the most poetically realized of its kind. It underscored an idea that shifted the English schoolteacher’s son’s entire spiritual outlook. This notion was that the brain and the central nervous system, rather than being the seat of awareness and perception, are actually filters that prevent human beings from being overwhelemed by what Huxley calls Mind at Large.”
― Peter Bebergal, Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood

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“Moorcock believes, like Arthur Brown, that when art takes on the function of myth, it can actually transform consciousness: “I believe that the artist is a shaman, in that you provide your public (tribe) with images, resonances, stories which symbolise their relationship with the physical world and its questions.”
― Peter Bebergal, Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll

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