Five files · one full book · 29 August 2026
A mixed handful: one substantial book, one lyric booklet, two short text files, and a duplicate. Each one identified first, then outlined to the depth it can support rather than to a uniform template.
Second pass, 29 August 2026. These outlines describe the files, so none of it is postable on its own. The claims are pulled out into 99 standalone, cited facts at Five File Tweetables.
Three of the five carry real content. One is a ripper's tag file with nothing in it. One is a byte-identical copy of a book already outlined last pass.
| File | Format | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Occult America | PDF, 160pp, 92,049 words | MINE IT | A real book with a clean 11-chapter structure. The only item here that rewards a full outline, and it gets one below. |
| In Rainbows digital booklet | PDF, 15pp, 1,570 words | CREDITS ONLY | A lyric booklet. Ten songs across pages 3 to 13, then one credits page. The credits are the mineable part and they are reproduced in full below. |
| Over-nite sensation.txt | TXT, 31 lines | CROSS-REFERENCE | Steve Huey's AllMusic album review plus William Ruhlmann's AllMusic Zappa biography. Short, and it carries one fact the two Zappa books did not. |
| Album Info - By The Sacred Monster.txt | TXT, 24 lines | NOTHING TO MINE | A ripper's tag file. Album title, year, bitrate, genre, tracklist, and a dead promo URL. No editorial content at all. |
| Freak Out! My Life With Frank Zappa | EPUB, 134,492 words | ALREADY DONE | Byte-identical to the copy outlined last pass. SHA256 70229278a4e0db93 on both. The outline is already live. |
Mitch Horowitz · Bantam / Random House, 2009 · ISBN 9780553385151
The secret history of how mysticism shaped the nation, told through people rather than doctrines. Eleven chapters plus an introduction, an epilogue, and a chapter-by-chapter source essay. Horowitz's argument is that American occultists broke from the European lodge tradition and turned mystical ideas into instruments of social reform and self-help.
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| Chapter | What is in it | Mine for |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction: What Is the Occult? | Opens in 1693 with Johannes Kelpius leading forty German pilgrims out of the Rhine Valley to a log tabernacle on the Wissahickon Creek outside Philadelphia, where they studied astrology, alchemy, Kabala and number symbolism and scanned the stars through a roof telescope. Sets Horowitz's thesis against the Crowley stereotype: American occultists turned mystical ideas into tools of social progress and self-help. Sections Sons of Frankenstein · The Silver Moon · Of Dime Horoscopes | Kelpius and the Tabernacle in the ForestJemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend, first American-born woman to preach publiclyAndrew Jackson Davis, the Poughkeepsie SeerWallace D. Wattles and the line to The SecretMarcus Garvey and mind power |
| 1. The Psychic Highway | The longest chapter. Upstate New York's Burned-Over District as the incubator of American religious invention. Runs from the last Western witch trials and Cagliostro's 1791 Vatican death sentence through Mormonism, Millerite apocalypse, Shaker settlements and the Fox sisters. Sections The Burned-Over District · Apocalypse Postponed · The Universal Friend · Pioneer Prophetess · The Lost Tribe · The Widow's Son · Paradise Found · The Poughkeepsie Seer · Mesmer's Children | Why one corridor of New York produced so many faithsFreemasonry and the Morgan affairMesmerism arriving in AmericaSpiritualism's founding events |
| 2. Mystic Americans | Occultism goes urban and international. Opens on West 47th Street in Manhattan as an unlikely birthplace of a spiritual revolution, then follows Blavatsky, Olcott and the Theosophical Society, the Transcendentalists reading Eastern scripture, and Spiritualism reaching into the Lincoln White House. Sections The Journey East · Transcendental Magic · Mystical Europe · The Spiritualist Tide · Mysterious Numbers · Mary Todd Lincoln, Spiritualist · Supernatural Politics · Spirit Journeys | Blavatsky and the founding of TheosophyEmerson, Thoreau and Eastern textsMary Todd Lincoln's seancesSpiritualism's links to abolition and suffrage |
| 3. Don't Try This at Home: Ouija and the Selling of Spiritualism | The shortest chapter and the most self-contained. A commercial history of the Ouija board, from the Baltimore investors who patented it to the 1960s teenagers using one in a suburban bedroom. Horowitz credits historians Robert Murch and Eugene Orlando in the notes for tracing the investor relations. Sections Spiritual Telegraphs · Baltimore Oracles · True Origins · Ancient Ouija? · Ouija Boom · Ouija in Winter · Creepyville | Who really invented and patented the boardWilliam Fuld and the million-dollar Baltimore Sun claim of 1920Debunking the ancient-origin storyJames Merrill, David Jackson and the board as literary method |
| 4. The Science of Right Thinking | The New Thought chapter, and the origin story for the whole positive-thinking industry. Opens on a bleak Christmas in LaPorte, Indiana in 1896 at the home of Wallace D. Wattles, a Methodist minister and Christian socialist whose episcopate was moving to dismiss him. Sections A Science of God · Healthy Thinking · The Secret of the Ages · The Reluctant Organizer · The Problem of Evil · Behind the Power | Wattles, whose writing later drove The SecretPhineas Quimby and mental healingChristian Science and its splitsNew Thought as wealth redistribution rather than personal enrichment |
| 5. The Mail-Order Prophet | A single-figure chapter on Frank B. Robinson, an Idaho druggist who built a mail-order religion called Psychiana out of newspaper, magazine and radio advertising, running from the start of the Depression to just after the Second World War. Sections The Gathering Storm · A Wandering Prophet · A Search Bears Fruit · The Psychiana Method · Of Money and Spirit · American Spiritual Awakening · Remains of the Day | How a faith was sold by direct mailThe advertising copy itselfMoney and doctrine entangledWhat survived him |
| 6. Go Tell Pharaoh: The Rise of Magic in Afro-America | Tied for the longest chapter. Opens with Frederick Douglass, who had no use for folklore, and works through hoodoo and root work, the overlap between Black folk magic and Jewish mystical publishing, the stage magician Black Herman, Marcus Garvey, and Noble Drew Ali's Moorish Science Temple. Sections The Magic Root · Mojo Bags and Menorahs · Professor Black Herman · Poor Man's Psychologist · Black Moses · Circle 7 Koran | Douglass and the magic root storyHoodoo supply houses and their cataloguesBlack Herman as performer and healerThe Circle Seven Koran |
| 7. The Return of the "Secret Teachings" | Manly P. Hall. Opens with librarians growing used to a hulking young man with long hair requesting old occult works daily in the New York Public Library reading room. Follows him to The Secret Teachings of All Ages and the Philosophical Research Society. Sections A Philosopher's Progress · A Fitful Idealist · A Private World · The Mystic in Decline · The Enduring Value of The Secret Teachings | How a self-taught twenty-something produced the standard occult encyclopediaFunding and publishing the 1928 folioHis long declineWhy the book outlasted him |
| 8. New Deal of the Ages: Politics and the Occult | The occult inside American government. Opens on Truman Capote in the summer of 1968 speculating about a link between the King and Kennedy killings, then moves to Henry A. Wallace, the Great Seal on the dollar bill, Nicholas Roerich, and the mystical fringe of American fascism. Sections A Searcher for the Infinite · The Eye and the Pyramid · Seven Minutes in Eternity · Prophet of Hate · Fascism and the Occult | Henry Wallace, Roosevelt's vice president, and his correspondenceHow the eye and pyramid reached the one dollar bill in 1935William Dudley Pelley and the Silver ShirtsThe occult strand in 1930s American fascism |
| 9. The Masters Among Us | Ascended masters and the people who claimed contact with them. Opens at the Unity Metaphysical Center in Helena, Montana over Baird Spalding's Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, then follows Guy and Edna Ballard's Mighty I AM movement. Sections Invisible College · The Book of Gold · The Camera of Past Events · Darkness Falls · A Real Phony · Black Magicians | Spalding and the Far East masters booksThe Ballards and the I AM movementThe federal mail-fraud case against I AMWhere sincerity ends and fraud begins |
| 10. Secrets for Sale | The American break with European lodge secrecy. Opens on Annie Besant's endless inner orders and the Golden Dawn's initiation requirements, then contrasts them with American occultists who sold the material openly by catalogue and boardwalk. Sections Occult Rebel · A Magician's Legacy · Try! · The Religion of the Stars · Go West, Young Magician · The Magic Boardwalk · Have You a Problem??? | Paschal Beverly RandolphC. C. Zain and the Church of LightZolar and popular astrologyOccult mail-order advertising as a business |
| 11. "The Greatest Mystic Who Ever Lived in America" | Edgar Cayce. Opens with a broken man arriving for a reading who had been business manager for the Silver Shirts and a Pennsylvania Klan organizer, and who had helped build the Ballards' I AM movement. Ties chapters 8, 9 and 11 together in one scene. Sections The Occult Philosophy · The Power of Past Lives · The Esoteric Healer · Come as You Were | Cayce's readings and their contentReincarnation entering American popular beliefThe healing practiceHis afterlife as an institution |
| Epilogue: Aquarius Rising: The New Age Dawns | How the occult became the New Age. Jet propulsion and spaceflight redirect the American imagination outward in the 1950s, flying-saucer contactees fuse with the Masters of Wisdom, and by the mid-1970s New Age Journal has named the thing. Sections In the Cards · The Spiritual Invasion · The Revolution Will Be Published | Tarot's American popularisationEastern teachers arriving after 1965New Age publishing as the delivery systemThe naming of the movement |
| Notes on Sources | A discursive bibliographic essay running chapter by chapter rather than a numbered endnote apparatus. Names archives, thanks individual historians, and gives full citations inline. Useful as a reading map on its own. Sections Chapter-by-chapter source essays | Which claims rest on which archiveNamed historians to follow upPrimary newspaper citations with dates |
| Acknowledgments | Short. Publisher, editor and family thanks, plus an About the Author note. |
Radiohead · 2007 · QuarkXPress 6.5, 15 pages
This is a lyric booklet, so the ten interior pages carry song lyrics and nothing else. The lyrics are not reproduced here. The credits page is the part worth having, and it is given in full below.
| Page | Contents | Words | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| p1 | Cover | 0 | Blank in the text layer. Artwork only. |
| p2 | Title and tracklist | 63 | Band name, album title, and the ten song titles in running order. |
| p3 | 15 Step | 91 | Lyric page. |
| p4 | Bodysnatchers | 171 | Lyric page. The wordiest of the early pages. |
| p5 | Nude | 64 | Lyric page. |
| p6 | Weird Fishes / Arpeggi | 92 | Lyric page. |
| p7 | All I Need | 149 | Lyric page. |
| p8 | Artwork | 0 | Blank in the text layer. |
| p9 | Faust Arp | 208 | Lyric page. |
| p10 | Reckoner | 74 | Lyric page. |
| p11 | House of Cards | 118 | Lyric page. |
| p12 | Jigsaw Falling Into Place | 249 | Lyric page. The longest in the booklet. |
| p13 | Videotape | 111 | Lyric page. |
| p14 | Dedication and credits | 180 | The only page with mineable data. Reproduced in full below. |
| p15 | Back matter | 0 | Blank in the text layer. |
| Role | Credit |
|---|---|
| Dedicated to | Jesse, Salvador, Agnes Mair, Omri, Asa and Oona |
| Radiohead are | Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway and Thom Yorke |
| Written by | Radiohead |
| Produced and mixed by | Nigel Godrich |
| Engineered by | Nigel Godrich, Richard Woodcraft, Hugo Nicolson and Dan Grech-Marguerat |
| Preproduction by | Graeme Stewart |
| Strings | The Millennia Ensemble, led by Everton Nelson, conducted by Sally Herbert |
| Studio crew | Plank, Tim Greaves, Kathryn Birnie and Richard Young |
| Mastered by | Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering |
| Artwork by | Stanley Donwood and Dr Tchock |
| Management | Bryce Edge, Chris Hufford, Julie Calland and Brian Message at Courtyard Management |
| Catalogue | DL_X_X001, P and C Xurbia Xendless Ltd, published by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd |
| Notable thanks | Johnny Marr, credited for guitars and counsel. Also Kieran Hebden, Jason Evans, Rafael Lloyd, and all at W.A.S.T.E. |
| In memory of | Allegra 'Lola' Katan and Thea Selway |
Steve Huey and William Ruhlmann for AllMusic · plus one rip note
The Sacred Monster file is a tag stub with a tracklist and a dead promo URL. The other file holds two AllMusic pieces: Huey's album review and Ruhlmann's Zappa biography. Both are short, and both are worth a pass because they either add to or independently confirm what Benac and Watson say on the same album.
| Point | Detail | Against the books |
|---|---|---|
| It was Zappa's first gold album. | Steve Huey calls Over-Nite Sensation the watershed where the post-sixties aesthetic was established, and names it his first gold record. Neither Benac nor Watson states this outright. | NEW |
| The post-accident voice is the storytelling instrument. | Huey ties the growling new voice directly to the Rainbow Theatre fall, and makes it the thing that carries the songs. | NEW ANGLE |
| Tina Turner and the Ikettes, uncredited, on 'Montana'. | Same fact Benac and Watson both carry. Three independent sources now agree. | CONFIRMS |
| The misogyny charge, and Zappa's answer to it. | Huey lays out the defence that the satire targets male stupidity, then argues the glee in Zappa's delivery undercuts it. A sharper critical position than either book takes. | NEW ANGLE |
| Verve insisted on adding 'of Invention' to the band name. | Ruhlmann's biography note. Watson says the addition disguised the intended connotation. | CONFIRMS |
| Zappa's band as a training ground. | Ruhlmann compares it to Miles Davis's role in jazz. A framing neither Zappa book uses. | NEW ANGLE |
| Three chart albums in 1968. | We're Only In It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy and Cruising with Ruben and the Jets all charted in the same year. | CONFIRMS |
| Six months at Chaffey College in Alta Loma. | Ruhlmann's detail on the schooling, and on Zappa using film-score money to buy a studio. | NEW |
| The Havel appearance was the exception after 1988. | Ruhlmann notes the 1988 tour ended live performance apart from isolated dates like Czechoslovakia at Havel's invitation. | CONFIRMS |
| Born 21 December 1940 in Baltimore, died 4 December 1993 in Los Angeles. | Base biographical dates, useful as a spine. | REFERENCE |