The Prisoner of San Jose

AMORC Unmasked

Endorsements

"The Devil, we're told, can quote scripture, and in a world filled with false religions that imprison followers' minds and souls, there isn't one that doesn’t contain a grain of truth and true spiritual seeking. That is how mind-control groups that call themselves religions attract members and enslave them: through the use of techniques that work because they contain distorted traces of real knowledge, but pervert them for the sake of profit and power.

AMORC Unmasked achieves the near impossible. By describing and analyzing the inner rituals and secrets of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, whose prestigious history may well be rooted in mysteries long lost and forgotten, Pierre Freeman sifts out the grains of truth while exposing the falsity of what are essentially techniques of self-hypnosis, and the culture of unfreedom that they make possible: something he understands well because he was its prisoner for almost a quarter of a century.

For seekers and prisoners alike (and aren't we all a little of both?), this beautifully written, eminently practical, and unflinchingly honest book belongs on the short shelf of wisdom literature where true freedom through loving union with God may still be found."

— Bill Krohn/critic (Cahiers du Cinéma), historian (Hitchcock at Work),  and documentary filmmaker (It's All True)