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Reading the Enemy's Mind : Inside Star Gate--America's Psychic Espionage Program by Paul Smith
This is an interesting, and surprising, history of the government's involvement in pscyhic phenomena--as far as one can tell. Who knows, maybe it's merely propaganda, and the government isn't letting on. In a culture where Big Science enforces dogmas about the human mind, and normal human experiences in this field are dismissed as those of 'flaky new agers', it is almost odd to be reading this, an almost matter of fact account. It is actually helped by a dose of skepticism, and unlike the usual 'trash' peddled in this field. Actually, psychic powers and military motives/research is an unwholesome combination and our 'flaky new ager' is as likely as not to discover the facts of the case here by avoiding it (?!) As with the warnings in the celebrated Patanjali, some stumble into this on the way to something else. Best to pass on. Good that it be so. But if so-called spiritual types exploit these domains for nefarious purposes under the cover of saintliness, we can hardly begrudge dot.gov the wish to protect themselves. Who knows what spyware is lurking in Bush's brain. The disaster of governmental bodies 'controlled' by an invisible cadre here is nothing to be written off, consider Tibetan history and the hypocrisy of deceptions there, and for their next assignment they might penetrate the sufi mafia or the Tibetan gang. Those raised in scientific culture enter this realm blind, can get eaten alive by the 'bad guys' and would do well indeed to be wary of the dangers. Current scientific thinking here is about as far off the mark as you can get.