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Book SynopsisA text examining modern-day accounts of UFOs, alien abductions and psychism, to uncover a century-long program of psychological fragmentation, collective indoctrination and covert cultural, social, and mythic engineering.
Whether it is the forces of God, government, aliens from outer (or inner) space, or the incalculable effects of childhood sexual trauma on the human psyche, premature contact with these forces compels us to create "crucial fictions." Such semi-coherent mythic narratives make partial sense out of our experience, but in the process turn us into the unreliable narrators of our own lives.
Taking UFOS and the work of "experiencer" Whitley Strieber as its departure point, Prisoner of Infinity explores how beliefs are created and perceptions are managed in the face of the inexplicably complex forces of our existence. While keeping the question of a non-human and/or paranormal element open, the book maps how all-too-human agendas (such as the CIA's MK Ultra program) have co-opted the ancient psychological process of myth-making, giving rise to dissociative, dumbed-down Hollywood versions of reality. The New Age movement, UFOs, alien abductions, psychism, psychedelic mind expansion, Transhumanism, the Space Program - what if they are all productions devised by committee in dark rooms to serve social, political, and economic goals that are largely devoid of true substance or meaning?
Through an exacting and enlivening process of social, cultural and psychological examination and excavation, Prisoner of Infinity uncovers the most deeply buried treasure of all. The original, uncredited author of all mystery and meaning: the human soul.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction - Conditioned to believe
PART I: PASSPORT To MANCHURIA
CHAPTER I - Heaven Stormers
CHAPTER II - An archetypal traumatogenic agency
CHAPTER III - A life full of holes: daimonic defense and national security
CHAPTER IV - The infinite infant: the singularity & the resurrection of the body
CHAPTER V - The secret guardian
CHAPTER VI - Martian dreams
CHAPTER VII - All work and no play: “Pain” & Strieber’s missing summer of ’68
CHAPTER VIII - A wound in the soul: the Master of the Key & the oedipal Project
CHAPTER IX - Padre nostro castrato: the name of Whitley’s game
CHAPTER X - Whitley’s baby: the unholy junction of 1968
PART II: CRUCIAL FICTIONS
CHAPTER XI - The ones who must lie: alien abduction & MKULTRA
CHAPTER XII - Finding the ground/leaving the ground: “Mind at Large” & the overview Effect
CHAPTER XIII - Old seers, death defiers, open doors, & machine intervention
CHAPTER XIV - Transhumanism, space travel, galactic religion & The key
CHAPTER XV - The Lost Boys
CHAPTER XVI - New skin for old ceremony: community building & space industrialization
CHAPTER XVII - Skywalkers and Starkillers: the open conspiracy
CHAPTER XVIII - Close encounters of the carnal kind
AFTERWORD
APPENDIX - Delivering the Poison Secret: A Review of Whitley Strieber & Jeffrey Kripal’s The Super natural
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
