by Gouda » Mon Oct 17, 2005 3:03 am
I read SC last year but have been re-reading sections since Jeff started working with it. I can’t offer much in comment on the subject matter they explore because SC was really quite an intro for me, and I have still not read any of the books by the central figures that P & P examine, such as Hurtak, Hancock, Bauval, Temple etc. OK, now that I have disqualified myself from a meaningful review...<br><br>Despite that, I think P & P are convincing in exposing and documenting the background and agenda(s) of these guys (if not so convincing about the Conspiracy itself). If P & P were posting on this board in a thread called “stargate conspirators exposed!”, they would do a dreams end and proldic number on the racist, authoritarian underpinnings of the CIA-backed “New Age” orientation of discussion board users “Puharich”, “Bauval”, “Hurtak” etc. vis-à-vis Alice Bailey / Edgar Cayce psychic totalitarianism, for example. That was valuable. P & P call them out as disinfo agents and worse. Thus, Jeff would lock that thread. So better to keep it in book form at Borders. Seriously though, the book is compelling and I think does right in its analysis of these trends, these claims, these agendas. This was helpful for me. <br><br>One thing I noticed is that P & P were writing as if the conspiracy they were investigating was/is at the threshold of worldwide fulfillment, something that would soon matter to and absorb the psyche of everyone from the retail clerk in Kentucky to the bus driver in Guatemala to the sweat shop laborer in China. The book reads as if even my granny could be directly taken in, and soon!! Hell, she has no idea what the CIA really is. She is not so sure which planet Mars is from the sun. (Love her to pieces). The Nine? They are gonna get my granny? <br><br>I was not convinced of the immanency of the conspiracy at hand. (Though that is easy for me to say in hindsight – I was fairly looking forward to a Y2K meltdown way back when). The “plot” in all senses of the word, gripped me, that was the thing; but not as if it would grip all. <br><br>Another thing: it smacks of esoteric elite infighting even as it exposes such infighting and crafty maneuvering. Is this merely a little pre-emptive maneuvering between esoteric researchers to foil each other’s zeitgeist? Are they contributing to the forging of the zeitgeist; are they just part of the zeitgeist; or are they also victims of the zeitgeist? <br><br>I am not saying P & P are (wittingly) involved in such infighting or intrigue - and it is at least clear they were working feverishly to spoil the stargate conspiracy (which is still in the works). Cheers to that regardless of immanancy. <br><br>Or: could it also be that the urgency of getting this book out before the 2000 (non)events at Giza had as much to do with marketing as with forestalling a possible sinister agenda via published warning? I do not know enough about the integrity of P & P to determine if they are driven by market timing as much as the desire to expose these clowns. Regardless, I did not let my education get in the way of their exigency.<br><br>There is undoubtedly an urgency enveloping us all (my granny feels it – though she is one for the revelations of St. John of Patmos), and so I guess that is understandable, since we do not know the day or hour, and by the fact that there are doings behind the scenes not in our interest - but I think what P & P were looking at, what is going on here, is/was not something that would have been “ready to serve” to the world that quickly. I'd think conspiracy/conspiracies of this nature and magnitude and weirdness would need incubating a while longer – millions, millions more chinese whispers of "the nine" needed before anyone could be taken in by them - or defend against them. <br><br>Agree w/ Jeff about the silly title. Read the book anyway. Looking forward to more of Jeff’s posts on this. <br> <p></p><i></i>
