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"Grey matter expander... 8/10." -- The Voice Files, October 2000.
M.P. Somerset, UK
Dear David
"I was with Zecharia Sitchin . . . when you talked about Avebury-Silbury and the complex on Mars. I have since read Two-Thirds with great enjoyment."
"I was with Zecharia Sitchin . . . when you talked about Avebury-Silbury and the complex on Mars. I have since read Two-Thirds with great enjoyment."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Yes, this is a BIG book, over 800 pages. Actually, I read it about a year ago but didn't feel I'd got a good enough grasp on it to review it properly. It's taken me all this time to realise that, since I usually "get it", this wasn't necessarily my failing.
I normally get through books quite quickly, but this one, although written in story-style, seemed to take forever. It was both weird and somehow repetitive, apparently meant to be fractal.
I persevered because there were some challenging and intriguing concepts presented in the early part of the book (I was an ardent science fiction fan for a couple of decades, reading all the classics and many fringe novels, still keeping up a bit, as a nephew has inherited my addiction - and always appreciating new/weird/challenging views about lifestyles/cultures/belief systems as SF is particularly well-suited to introduce these; unfortunately, in this case "weird" means there were odd lifestyles presented but without anything particularly new or radical to relish).
Somehow, I felt, somehow, surely these early and intriguing concepts will be expanded upon, explained further in the remaining several hundred pages? No, the book just droned on and on, not really saying much that was new but saying it in many, many, many words.
The book does indicate sacred geometric relationships between objects in the galaxy, solar system and on our planet. It also purports to explain oddities such as the face on Mars, and why it was abandoned. The appendix includes drawings and graphics of how antigravity spaceships supposedly work, the alignment and building of megaliths, the meaning of some crop circles, and many other curiosities, but none of it made much sense to me.
If it did say anything of value or note, I missed it. I really wanted to understand something new from this book, which clearly took many years to create, but failed entirely. This may well be my own failing, but it doesn't seem that many others have gleaned much from it, either.
later note: much more interesting and believable (to me, anyway) is the alien/hybrid origins of mankind explained in Shannon Dorey's three books, starting with "The Master of Speech"
I normally get through books quite quickly, but this one, although written in story-style, seemed to take forever. It was both weird and somehow repetitive, apparently meant to be fractal.
I persevered because there were some challenging and intriguing concepts presented in the early part of the book (I was an ardent science fiction fan for a couple of decades, reading all the classics and many fringe novels, still keeping up a bit, as a nephew has inherited my addiction - and always appreciating new/weird/challenging views about lifestyles/cultures/belief systems as SF is particularly well-suited to introduce these; unfortunately, in this case "weird" means there were odd lifestyles presented but without anything particularly new or radical to relish).
Somehow, I felt, somehow, surely these early and intriguing concepts will be expanded upon, explained further in the remaining several hundred pages? No, the book just droned on and on, not really saying much that was new but saying it in many, many, many words.
The book does indicate sacred geometric relationships between objects in the galaxy, solar system and on our planet. It also purports to explain oddities such as the face on Mars, and why it was abandoned. The appendix includes drawings and graphics of how antigravity spaceships supposedly work, the alignment and building of megaliths, the meaning of some crop circles, and many other curiosities, but none of it made much sense to me.
If it did say anything of value or note, I missed it. I really wanted to understand something new from this book, which clearly took many years to create, but failed entirely. This may well be my own failing, but it doesn't seem that many others have gleaned much from it, either.
later note: much more interesting and believable (to me, anyway) is the alien/hybrid origins of mankind explained in Shannon Dorey's three books, starting with "The Master of Speech"
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is an extraordinary, and enlightening, voyage through the annals of creation. It is written in a captivating, detailed and compelling format. The contents of the book emerge in what can be construed, at one level, as a science fiction story of epic dimensions. Indeed the book is a thoroughly good read on that level alone. It is, however, far more! It is in the great tradition of Swift and others who wrote on numerous levels. The reader is constantly given clues, both explicit and implicit, that engender a powerful urge to think about the deeper significance of what is disclosed and to evaluate the information and detail given in the light of historical and mythological records.
As the story unfolds, and links are made with factual sources and esoteric writings, so the reader is stimulated to embark upon a veritable tidal wave of exploration and intellectual challenge. The need is to engage with and to delve deeply into ancient texts and modern philosophical thought in order to set the unfolding tapestry of knowledge in a meaningful paradigm.
The realisation begins to dawn that what we have been taught in contemporary education as epistemological orthodoxy is not entirely derived from either Empiricism or Rationalism. Instead, the nature and purpose of the contemporary educational process is fundamentally one of obfuscation to further political and religious ends and to deny the dissemination of profound revelations.
This is a challenging book. It is an important book that should be widely read.
The authors are to be congratulated on their prodigious achievement.
As the story unfolds, and links are made with factual sources and esoteric writings, so the reader is stimulated to embark upon a veritable tidal wave of exploration and intellectual challenge. The need is to engage with and to delve deeply into ancient texts and modern philosophical thought in order to set the unfolding tapestry of knowledge in a meaningful paradigm.
The realisation begins to dawn that what we have been taught in contemporary education as epistemological orthodoxy is not entirely derived from either Empiricism or Rationalism. Instead, the nature and purpose of the contemporary educational process is fundamentally one of obfuscation to further political and religious ends and to deny the dissemination of profound revelations.
This is a challenging book. It is an important book that should be widely read.
The authors are to be congratulated on their prodigious achievement.
10 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I got this book on the strength of 'Dark moon' expecting a factual book containing the hard science behind the claims made in the latter half of 'Dark Moon' - alternative propulsion systems, geometry, and gravity. It is nothing of the sort.
This really should have been sold as a science fiction book as the ideas are very good however it is written in a very tedious way often mentioning numbers to n decimal points - possibly to re-inforce that it is a "factual" account. It is asking a lot of people in this day and age to simply believe the content - more questions are raised than evidence is provided. One might as well believe in fairy tales.
If the author really wanted to "infuse" (an often used word in the text) people with these ideas would it have not been more effective and certainly more entertaining if it were written as a no-holds barred SF classic?
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