What are you reading these days?

[PostmanBitesDog]

After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights Part II) by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman.

Quite a hefty tome, but at least it keeps me entertained while a new hire in our Royal Mail delivery office preps my frame, gathers the day's Specials, sorts out the Tracked items I'll deliver, and fetches my morning coffee.

Noam Chomsky, a renown philosopher, social critic, linguist, and political activist, teamed up with economist and media scholar, Edward S. Herman to write a series of books including this one published in 1979.

After the Cataclysm analyzes the aftermath of the Vietnam & Cambodia conflicts, the refugee problems that followed, and the brutal Pol Pot regime.

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[tomtallis]

Space Time Transients And Unusual Events by Michael Persinger

[Chelseablue]

Grazia magazine and elle

[blue1873]

Waging Heavy Peace / Neil Young

[Norfolk 'N' Chance]

Space Time Transients And Unusual Events by Michael Persinger

Interesting title im intrigued.... a brief summary about it please?

[tomtallis]

Theorises that areas of tectonic stress can produce paranormal/UFO experiences and collating these events can be used as a warning of earthquakes. The mechanism possibly being geomagnetic and piezoelectric. Interesting stuff. I have read other pieces by Persinger where he hypothesises religious/mystical experiences may be linked to events in the temporal lobes of the brain exposed to similar electric/magnetic stimuli.
Some of it is a bit dry and probably old hat by now as the book is from 1977

[PostmanBitesDog]

Space Time Transients And Unusual Events by Michael Persinger

Interesting title im intrigued.... a brief summary about it please?

Theorises that areas of tectonic stress can produce paranormal/UFO experiences and collating these events can be used as a warning of earthquakes. The mechanism possibly being geomagnetic and piezoelectric. Interesting stuff. I have read other pieces by Persinger where he hypothesises religious/mystical experiences may be linked to events in the temporal lobes of the brain exposed to similar electric/magnetic stimuli.
Some of it is a bit dry and probably old hat by now as the book is from 1977

Well, my interest is piqued.

[tomtallis]

Well, my interest is piqued.

Hey have some respect, the guy was head of Spaceology at the Correspondence University of Tampa!

[PostmanBitesDog]

Well, my interest is piqued.

Hey have some respect, the guy was head of Spaceology at the Correspondence University of Tampa!

No, I'm being serious, tomtallis. My interest in that book you mentioned is piqued. I'm going to try and find a copy and the time to read it.

A short time ago I was reading the Wikipedia article on Michael Persinger (June 26, 1945 – August 14, 2018). He was an interesting fellow.

Here's his 2005 résumé:

MAP CV 2005.pdf

And a lecture he gave at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada in 2011:

[tomtallis]

Love a bit Persinger me. He appeared on a few documentaries on UK TV normally with his God Helmet, in reference to abduction scenarios, religious experiences and once Anomalous Light Phenomena. Fortean Times have featured him several times too.

RiP M Persinger.

[PostmanBitesDog]

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[tomtallis]

Related reading
Earth Lights Revelation Paul Devereux
Circles of Silence Don Robins


Reading atm



Lots of the usual suspects from the acid psyche folk rock world

[PostmanBitesDog]

Woah! A new book about Donald Trump from legendary investigative reporter and Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.

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In his third exposé on the U.S.'s worst president in modern history (following 2018's Fear: Trump in the White House and 2020's Rage), he teams up with the Washington Post's national political reporter, Robert Costa, to glean from more than six thousand pages of transcripts from two hundred interviews.

I can't wait to grab a copy when it's released in the UK next Tuesday.

The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history.
This classic study of Washington takes readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened.

'Peril' is supplemented throughout with never-before-seen material from secret orders, transcripts of confidential calls, diaries, emails, meeting notes and other personal and government records, making for an unparalleled history.

The Guardian (Sept. 14, 2021) ~ Top General Feared Trump Would Launch Nuclear War, Woodward Book Reports

[PostmanBitesDog]

Woah! A new book about Donald Trump from legendary investigative reporter and Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.

I can't wait to grab a copy when it's released in the UK next Tuesday.

Yes! Picked up a copy of Peril from W.H. Smith today. Last one in the bookstore, too.

[blue1873]

Eye Of The Tiger (The Jock Shaw Story) by Ian Stewart