Joseph L. Flatley is an author and investigative journalist living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania whose "beat" is conspiracy theories and fringe subcultures. In his books and articles, he has chronicled internet con artists, doomsday preppers, Satanic Panic pseudo-therapists, and Julian Assange, to name a few. His stories have appeared in The Verge, The Outline, Postindustrial, and CounterPunch.
New Age Grifter moves along at a brisk clip, providing a clear
background for understanding a controversial guru within the
context of New Age religious movements. Joseph Flatley's account of
the prophet from Pittsburgh is provocative, informative, and
engaging.
Frequently provocative, New Age Grifter is always informative and
entertaining. Yet Joseph Flatley also exposes the dangers that
exist within abusive new religions. His book illuminates the
controversies that surround a controversial New Age guru, all in an
engaging style." - Rebecca Moore, Ph.D., Co-Director, The Jonestown
Institute
"Part detective/part bemused spectator, Joseph L. Flatley deftly
follows the trail of an aging hippie who somewhere along the line
got dosed with a heavy hit of the Urantia Book and ultimately
became known to the world (or at least to some residents of Tucson)
as Gabriel, a wannabe rock star-turned-new age avatar and father
figure to the flock of fawning supplicants who heeded his crazed
clarion call." - Adam Gorightly, author of Saucers, Spooks and
Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius
"What Joseph L. Flatley has done here with New Age Grifter is to
not only paint the portrait of a moment in time, imbue it with life
and the appropriate madness and animate the characters, but to dig
deep into where power, spirituality, and greed intersect and
transform into something different, something terrifying." - Jared
Yates Sexton, political analyst and author of American Rule: How a
Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People.
"With New Age Grifter, Joseph L. Flatley has produced a work of
immersion anthropology worth scaling the compound walls for. But he
did it the hard way, by talking his way past the desert gates into
the center of a mystery more comic than cosmic. Give yourself a
break from the nostalgia tours around Manson and Koresh and take
this contemporary trip to the New Age Arizona community built
around Gabriel of Urantia, aka TaliasVan, the most successful and
least likely guru to ever emerge from under the industrial skylines
of Flatley's hometown of Pittsburgh." - Alexander Zaitchik,
journalist and author of The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through
Donald Trump's America
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