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terrorism is nothing more than a form of psychological warfare, as acts of terrorism have no intrinsic military value aside from their effects on the psyches of the target populations.
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And, finally, what about the reality of spiritual experience? Are saints and madmen equally deluded? Are witches' sabbats the same as alien abductions? Is exorcism merely a form of psychotherapy, or is it something more? Something... other? What is evil? Can everything we experience as human beings be explained away by a tranquil, Carl Sagan-like belief in science? Was Carl comforted in his final moments by reciting the Second Law of Thermo..
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Is science a "candle in the dark"?... Or is it simply whistling in the dark?"
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It was Lippmann who gave us the concept of the "stereotype" (1922), which was basically a continuation of the Jungian concept of the archetype (1919) by other means. To Lippmann, the world outside our borders exists in a different space, consciously, from our own. We develop notions about life in those countries, their cultures, attitudes, and values, without ever going there. Yet, their political situation affects our own; they exert a pol..
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one of the famous shew stones of the Elizabethan magician and spy, John Dee, was of Aztec obsidian brought back from the New World by Spanish conquistadores. The Aztecs used the obsidian shew stone in an identical fashion to that used by Dee (and, later, Joseph Smith), as a kind of crystal ball.
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Elizabethan magician and spy, Dee also became convinced that a Welsh prince had "discovered" America centuries before Columbus.24"
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Halloween (known among European pagans as Samhain, pronounced "sa-wen") is traditionally the day when the dead return to visit the living, similar to the Asian "Wandering Souls" festival mentioned above. It is the day when the gate between the living and the dead is open, a favorite day for evocations of spirits and demons. Candlemas, on the other hand, is the day of "quickening," when the earth begins to wake from its slumber, a day of pro..
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Jack Parsons was born Marvel Whiteside Parsons on October 2, 1914 in Los Angeles, California. His father was a captain in the US Army. His name was also Marvel Parsons. That's right: his father was Captain Marvel.
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Levenda's study is broad and deep, a life's work that runs to volumes. What distinguishes it from other efforts, such as those of Pasolini, is not merely its comprehensiveness. Rather, it is Levenda's realization that a matrix of politics and violence is incapable of explaining the demented century that shuddered to an end in Manhattan, not so long ago. What's needed is a third dimension, and that dimension, he tells us, is "the occult." By..
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It is better to rely on one's self alone. In my cat-life, all our training is founded on suspicion. I can see that it is just the same in the life of men. Those who confide in others are only betrayed. It is better to keep silent and to be treacherous one's self.
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Perception like a Gestapo boot in the middle of a crystal night. He saw a
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The physical world has its boundaries; only the psychic is 'oceanic,' as the author of Civilization and its Discontents puts it. That is why mankind's next bold step must be the materialization of the psychic." -- "General von Greehahn" (General Reinhard Gehlen) in Agent of the Devil by Hans Habe 23"
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The involvement of intelligence agents in the field of Egyptian archaeology, the UFO phenomenon, and other odd pursuits will be discussed in a later chapter. For now, it suffices to point out that psychological warfare, literature, archaeology, and the paranormal not only make for strange bedfellows: in the war years of the last century it was positively an orgy.
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Using selective evidence out of context and ignoring evidence that doesn't fit in with basic assumptions, it is possible to attack virtually everything and sound knowledgeable doing it.
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