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Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan

The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan

[Contact was pretty damn good as well..]

here's some comic book material that comes to mind. Most of this stuff is in print in nice collected formats, except for the Moore SwampThing and MiracleMan and the Moebius/Jodowrosky stuff, which is well worth seeking out.

Alan Moore - The Watchmen
V for Vendetta
From Hell (highly recommended)
Lost Girls
Promethea
The Saga of the SwampThing
MiracleMan

Charles Burns- Black Hole

Moebius and Jodowrosky- The Incal (series)

Grant Morrison- The Invisibles

Neil Gaiman- The Sandman

Chris Ware- Jimmy Corrigan Smartest Boy on Earth

Jim Woodring- Frank

Will Eisner - The Spirit

The Complete Books of Charles Fort

Wow this is great, keep them coming. Im like a kid in a candy store here. Lots of great choices!

The Devils Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle by Anthony Read. Just finished it up, good book.

Also the Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, edited by Gordon Stein is a really neat book, quite pricely, however.

Anyone who is into Grail/Romance studies would want to check out:

Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft
Mark of the Beast by Trevor Ravenscroft

and the authoritive: Ninth Century and the Holy Grail by W.J. Stein

It would probably be helpful to first read:

Parzival by Wolfram Von Eschenbach

The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyes by de Troyes Chretien

Those two books are very difficult reading and take an intense amount of focus to really understand them but they contain what are believed to be many many secrets within the symbolic eosteric language they were written in. The above books by Ravenscroft and Stein cover this idea precisely.

We are not talking about Divinci Code crap here either, these books, especially the Stein book are serious scholarship.

Carroll Quigely- Tragedy and Hope
Arnold Toynbee- A Study of History
John Marks- The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
Various Authors Edited By Bishop Timothy Ware - The Philokalia Vol 4.
Terry Reed- Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA

The Quigley book is an important read, I agree. He was Clinton's professor at one time. He admits quite openly that an elite group runs the world.

On July 14, 1992, during his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, then candidate Bill Clinton told the American people that he knew there was an "international network" at work in the world, and that "he had no aversion to it."

He said that he owed his start in politics to a professor that he had at Georgetown University named Carroll Quigley. Professor Quigley wrote a 1348 page book entitled TRAGEDY AND HOPE while Clinton was a student there (1966) in which he said:


"There does exist an international Anglophile network which operates in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists and frequently does so. I HAVE NO AVERSION TO IT."

Quigley tells the reader how this network plans wars years in advance.

It's worth tracking anything down that was written by members or associates of the round table groups.

I pick up an issue of Foreign Affairs ( Journal of the CFR) every once in while as well. It's generally very on the mark as to what the media is going to be hung up over the following months after the issue comes out.

A definate voice to be familiar with is the late Jim Keith

Some of the works by him I've read:

Secret and Suppressed -1993

-collection of his own essays as well as Adam Gorightly's "Is Paranoia a form of Awareness" and John Judge on "the Black Hole of Guyana". Published by Feral House and as such is a more "cospiracy" focused
book though it is similar in style and perspective to the publisher's own
distopian anthologies, Apocalypse Culture (revised edition), Cult Rapture, and Apocalypse Culture 2, all of which are highly recommended as well.

The Octopus (The Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casalaro) - 1996, 2003 (revised ed.)

-written with Kenn Thomas of Steamshovel Press (all conspiracy-no theory). One of the first investigations into the mysterious first investigation of the PROMIS software saga by Danny Casalaro who was brutally "suicided". From the backrooms of the Reagan/Bush adminstration comes a story of data piracy, drug running, and the creation of the global surveillance network that still continues to bear relevance today.

Mind Control/World Control -1998

Mass Control (engineering human consciousness) - 2003

Mind Control and UFO's: A Casebook on Alternative 3 - 2005

The Ultimate Evil -Maury Terry

Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror -David Hoffman

Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets -Barbara Walker

The Chalice and The Blade - Riane Eisler

The Language of the Goddess -Maria Gimbutas

Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare - Micheal A Hoffman

SemioText(E) USA -Jim Fleming, Peter Lamborn Wilson

Semiotext(E) SF - Rucker, R.A.Wilson, Acker, Gibson, etc.

T.A.Z. -Temporary Autonomous Zone - Hakim Bey

Ong's Hat: the beginning -Peter Moon

LiberNull and Psychonaut- Peter J. Carroll

Liber Kaos- Peter J. Carroll

Turn Off Your Mind (the dark side of the 60's) - Gary Lachman

The Fourth Turning - William Strauss, Neil Howe

The Social Construction of Reality ( a treatise in the sociology of knowledge) - Peter L Bergman, Thomas Luckman

A people's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

The Sinister Forces Trilogy - Peter Levenda

Kooks - Donna Kossey

Dumbing Us Down -John Taylor Gatto

Lockdown America - Christian Parenti

Virtual Government- Alex Constantine

Psychic Dictatorship: USA -Alex Constantine

The Covert War Against Rock -Alex Constantine

The Prankster and The Conspiracy -Kerry Thornley

Just finished up Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Will read The Fountianhead next.

Here's a few more -


Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison - Michel Foucault

Trading with the Enemy - Charles Higham

Mind Control - Peter Schrag

The Enlightened Heart - Edited by Stephen Mitchell

On Becoming a Person - Carl Rogers

The Extremely Unfortunate Skull Valley Incident - Donald W. Scott

One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter - Diane Leigh and Marilee Geyer

Almanac of the Dead - Leslie Marmon Silko

Red Earth, White Lies - Vine Deloria Jr.

The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham

Woman and Nature - Susan Griffin

Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Centuries - Thomas Traherne

If it's all just about stories, it must be said, some stories approach closer to the truth than others.

Theadore Roszak - The Making of a Counter Culture

Edit: Ok ok, maybe I was a bit too enthusiastic in my praise with this one - it's patchy, and dated - it only offers a passage here and a chapter there of discussion which is useful for today. But it, and probably more-so his Where the Wasteland Ends are still good books for getting a feel for the shape of things in the past, from the perspective of the sociologist-mystic. It's what they'd give to high school kids to read if they wanted us to live in a sane society.