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Dr. Mark Mirabello, maverick academic, author, and a Professor of History at Shawnee State University in the USA, has served as a Visiting Professor of History at Nizhny Novgorod University in Russia. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow [1] and an M.A. from the University of Virginia [2]

Mirabello's area of expertise is the "outlaw" history on the "frontiers and margins" of human civilization. He lectures on Alternative Religions and Cults, Terrorism and Crime, "Banned Books," Intellectual History, and other subjects. According to Mirabello, "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

His publications deal with the supernatural (The Odin Brotherhood and The Crimes of Jehovah), the unnantural (The Cannibal Within), and the natural (the forthcoming "Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws")

Published Works

The Odin Brotherhood [[3]]

The Cannibal Within [[4]]

Il Cannibale Dentro (An Italian-language version of The Cannibal Within}, translated by Stefania Marchini, from Editioni Clandestine [5]

The Crimes of Jehovah [6][[7]]

"Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws" (Forthcoming)

The Odin Brotherhood

• "When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed."

• "When the gods made man, they made a weapon."

• "Strength is that which promotes thought and daring."

• "Beware of gods who cannot laugh."

• "Magic is the technology of gods."

• "Let my violent thrust into the future begin!"

• "Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!"

• "Repentance is an act of cowardice. Remember, only the terrorized repent."

• "Most mortals can wish--only extraordinary mortals can will."

• "The destruction will stop when there is nothing left to violate."

• "Behold the hero! Even as the wild flowers return in the spring, so shall he return!"

• "Nothing dies forever."

• "Hail to the gods that are dead! They are the future race of lords!"

The Cannibal Within

• "The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth."

• "Ingestion is the ultimate act of domination. The victim is absorbed by the eater--body and soul are absorbed--and all that remains is excrement."

• "You must torture it first, she whispered, with perverse logic. "Terror-stricken animals taste better."

• "Man needs lies like children need toys."

• "In this reality of ours, gods are simply expert players who move grotesquely carved pieces in a game without rules."

• "Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness"

• "Had not the great Yukio Mishima killed himself with a dagger? Thrusting and wet--his hand one with the weapon--Mishima called suicide the 'ultimate masturbation.'"

• "Crawling into your soul, we can brutalize you without even touching you."

• "Nailed to the crosses were two thieves. Naked except for crowns of thorns, they were called 'Perverted by Wealth" and 'Degraded by Poverty.'"

• 'Error is like sin,' hissed a voice in the dream. 'The deeper it is, the less the victim suspects its existence.'"

• 'In the next world--as in this world--beauty and danger, seduction and torment, are indissolubly linked."

• "Devoted to wicked science--the hostile domination of nature--the complex is composed of thousands of gloomy laboratories. Here, legions of amoral researchers--greedy for knowledge--commit crimes against bodies and ideas."

• "In my dreams I kissed her in a playful and amorous way, and then we made love--in the fresh air--the way wild animals do."

The Crimes of Jehovah

• "The 39 books of the Old Testament are an interesting dispensation--even though Christ claimed: 'all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers.'" (John: 10:8)

Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws

• "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

Attributed:

• "As a force in history, beliefs are more important than facts."

• "Always--in every era and civilization--the function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power."