How do you break out of stale patterns of thought? We dive deeper into the dark heart of American Mayhem, exploring the sinister alchemy of Charles Manson moving to Los Angeles. Are there living demons of regional America? Did the Sharon Tate murders have a symbolic, occult effect on the country?


“I’ve Got a Crush on You” by Charlie Watts


The Orange Julius Demon


Ashland Burial Mounds


Sinister Forces by Peter Levenda


Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein


“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane


“The Sound of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel


“Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson


“Dickens’s Dream” by Robert William Buss


“Aja” by Steely Dan