12th-house -
Helpful Score: 1
Interesting, and good starting point for each of the topics included in its diverse chapters, somehow all loosely connected, I suppose, via this "synchronicity" Nichols experiences, though I thought the synchronicity no more remarkable than strings of connections I've experienced a few times in my own life. I'd consider it more a jumping off point for anyone more seriously interested in the topics offered.
I found it a bit irritating that Nichols' attitude seemed to be a naive awe about his 'adventures.' Players (human and otherwise) and the havoc they wreak in recklessly dabbling with occult powers, such as boys being apparently 'taken' somehow during the seventies for mind-control experiments at Montauk; the Philadelphia Experiment, that left men dead or otherwise permanently damaged; and the dark activities of Crowley should instead arouse outrage, or at least a critical opinion. Blind awe at the 'marvels' of science and occult activity, with no moral judgments about their affects simply has no place in this day and age. We've been aware for decades of the dark uses that technology has been put to, and any thoughtful inquirer knows that only a tip of the dark iceberg is generally revealed to the masses. Nichols being so close to these subjects, and yet portraying such naivety is quite suspicious.
The character 'Stan Campbell' refers to Stewart Swerdlow (who has since told his own story--see his books), a survivor of severe mind-control abuse, and subject to training to become a programmer of others. Activity in his years afterward is included, specifically his efforts to reclaim his mind and avoid efforts by 'handlers' to reclaim him.
I found it a bit irritating that Nichols' attitude seemed to be a naive awe about his 'adventures.' Players (human and otherwise) and the havoc they wreak in recklessly dabbling with occult powers, such as boys being apparently 'taken' somehow during the seventies for mind-control experiments at Montauk; the Philadelphia Experiment, that left men dead or otherwise permanently damaged; and the dark activities of Crowley should instead arouse outrage, or at least a critical opinion. Blind awe at the 'marvels' of science and occult activity, with no moral judgments about their affects simply has no place in this day and age. We've been aware for decades of the dark uses that technology has been put to, and any thoughtful inquirer knows that only a tip of the dark iceberg is generally revealed to the masses. Nichols being so close to these subjects, and yet portraying such naivety is quite suspicious.
The character 'Stan Campbell' refers to Stewart Swerdlow (who has since told his own story--see his books), a survivor of severe mind-control abuse, and subject to training to become a programmer of others. Activity in his years afterward is included, specifically his efforts to reclaim his mind and avoid efforts by 'handlers' to reclaim him.
