Conspiracy theory checklist

[venta]

I'm reading "The Search for the Grail", a book which could well contain a lot of rubbish.

So far, the checklist for conspiracy theory goes as follows:

Page 2 - First mention of King Arthur (since it's on the grail, I'm prepared to cut them a certain amount of slack there...)
Page 4 - first occurrence of the phrase "seems too close a comparison to be mere coincidence"
Page 4 - First mention of Kinghts Templar (Hurray!)
Page 7 - First citing of Geoffrey of Monmouth in support of a theory
Page 13 - First occurrence of 2 consecutive paragraphs blatantly contradicting each other (always a good sign, this)

Plus, of course, the usual crop of arguments ex silentia and leaps of deduction.

Looking good so far :)

Comments

Re: Yup :)

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's great. He's Andy Collins' best mate, the person he did all the Seventh Sword stuff with all those years ago, the co-founder of the Psychic Questing movement. He always seems like such a nice guy. This year at the psychic questing conference he was saying how strange it was that whatever he quested for he always seemed to find it just down the road froom his house...

Have a look at his website for examples: http://grahamsphillips.users.btopenworld.com/

Oh *him*

[venta.livejournal.com]

I hadn't registered the name properly.

According to the front of this book, he has a book called "The Shakespeare Conspiracy". Do you know anything about this ? Seems like a bit of a departure from canon, which intrigues me...

Re: Oh *him*

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

I do: I read it a long time ago, and can't remember much. I believe my copy is currently in Amanda Rick and Conall's bathroom. I have a feeling he decided Shakespeare was a spy, like Marlow, and that's why there's not much evidence about him.