...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.

My father could argue two sides of a Möbius Strip.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.