Tal Brooke is the President and Chairman of SCP and the author of eight books. His work has been recognized in Marquis Who's Who in the World (Vols 12 & 13), Contemporary Authors (Vol. 93-96), and The International Who's Who of Authors. Tal is also the recipient of an EPA first place award in the critical review category--SCP's first EPA award. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Princeton, Tal has spoken at Cambridge (7 times), Oxford (4 times), Princeton, Sorbonne, Berkeley, the University of Virginia, and the University of Edinburgh.

Tal Brooke grew up in an American diplomatic family and spent the major part of his childhood and youth abroad in England, Europe, and the Middle East. For most of that time Tal intently explored the occult, an ongoing quest that ultimately landed him in the heart of India. There he underwent an extraordinary experience that was later written up in Lord of the Air. This 400 page book, the only full version ever published (an 800 page manuscript that took six years to write), rocked India before it was banned in India. After he returned to the West as a Christian convert, Tal Brooke started writing critiques of Eastern, New Age, and occult thought from an insider's perspective.

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Avatar of Night has been published in its full edition in the West for the first time. Copies are now here at SCP. It is over 400 pages and includes over 180 photographs and graphic illustrations. Below is a brief description.

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As Woodstock and the Apollo moon landing lit up the skies of history, Tal Brooke flew to New Delhi, quickly becoming immersed in the vast subcontinent of India as he pursued a radical pilgrimage of consciousness. After quickly exhausting the "Grand Tour" of landmarks popularized by the spiritual tourists of the West, Brooke plunged into wilderness India, and the journey shifted into high gear.

From their first meeting, Brooke was heralded by Sai Baba, India's greatest miracle-working godman, as the inner-circle disciple who, like Oppenheimer at Los Alamos, would help trigger the explosion of India's ancient mystical tradition into the Western world.

Within Baba's enchanted realm, Brooke saw and experienced things that seemed to obliterate all Western conceptions of reality as his journey vectored further into an alien universe. What had appeared as the prized state of godlike enlightenment, which seemed just within reach, became a precipice—not of enlightenment—but obliteration, even possession. Brooke was becoming a captive soul of an ancient inner transformation, while Baba's outward divinity concealed a timeless, demonic presence.

After two years of surrender to a Being who claimed to be God on earth, something remarkable happened. The end-game of spiritual powers ensnaring one man's soul turned abruptly and miraculously. Poised on the edge of a precipice, Brooke was rescued from above.

With hauntingly vivid images, unexpected humor, and a profound passion for truth, Brooke lays bare the powerful reality of good and evil and of things beyond the familiar realm of the senses, in a book that will not be easily forgotten.