Great summary; it’s a shame that I have not heard about Lee but several friends have told me about how great Gaiman is. I did not know that he is a Scientologist but it makes perfect sense; a predatory gamma male formed by a predatory religious group. Better to refer to it as a legal group as you do, since the bloom is long off the rose as far as any genuine religious belief. I sincerely hope that the leader ends up in jail where he belongs.
There are a couple of sayings (imprecisely remembered) by Bob Jones, Sr. which occasionally come back to me to remind me of the path to being a better man. One of them is: Gratitude is the flower that lives the shortest in the heart of man. The other, less applicable to this article is: Do right, even though the stars fall, do right!
"How could he possibly acknowledge Tanith Lee as creating what he had to view as his self creation?"
Thanks, Herald. You insights are much appreciated.
Great summary; it’s a shame that I have not heard about Lee but several friends have told me about how great Gaiman is. I did not know that he is a Scientologist but it makes perfect sense; a predatory gamma male formed by a predatory religious group. Better to refer to it as a legal group as you do, since the bloom is long off the rose as far as any genuine religious belief. I sincerely hope that the leader ends up in jail where he belongs.
In a way, the reality of the hollow man is darker that what either author ever wrote.
There are a couple of sayings (imprecisely remembered) by Bob Jones, Sr. which occasionally come back to me to remind me of the path to being a better man. One of them is: Gratitude is the flower that lives the shortest in the heart of man. The other, less applicable to this article is: Do right, even though the stars fall, do right!
Excellent move to Substack.
"born into a cult that believed a person could become super-powered by channeling former lives"
Wouldn't you want to channel the ones who weren't strapped to volcanoes and blowed up?
Tanith Lee is one of those I need to look into.