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Can you handle the truth ?, 24 Sep 2008
David Icke is ridiculed by many who haven't even read any of his works , but this book is one that everyone should make an attempt to read. It is like a summary of all of the major ideas and theories outlined in Icke's extensive back catalogue of books. For anyone wishing to get to know about these persuasive conspiracy theories "The Guide" is probably the best place to start. For many, the hardest part of Icke's worldview to swallow is that of the "Reptilians" and their nefarious connection with world leaders, but if you replace the word "Reptilian" with "other dimensional entity" or "demon" then it all becomes much more user friendly and "acceptable".The highlight of this book is Icke's analysis of the 9/11 events and if anyone after reading it is left believing the official version of events of that day , then they should consider mowing the lawn wearing nothing but a string of pearls .Clearly it was an inside job by US government agencies, hard though that is to digest for a brain dead public. Once the reader accepts that this is the case then all of Icke's other theories make more or less perfect sense.Another one of Icke's controversial theories is that global warming is not caused by carbon based emissions;instead it is being caused by excessive sun spot activity. The elitists are using the global warming scare to further centralise ,globalise and control. Icke indicates that there is nothing to be worried about by global warming at all.There is definitely some alien force driving globalisation,centralisation of power and multi-culturalism and Icke tells us exactly what it is. However ,where Icke falls somewhat short is with his prescription on how to "fight" this imminent global tyranny.He merely recommends spreading his exposure of the plot worldwide, rather like proselytising the gospel I guess, with each person relying heavily on their intuition rather than accepting "fact" .People should refuse to seek power over others and should work to create a utopian Brotherhood of Man.I,for one , dont think this is going to be enough to overcome the scumbags who are covertly setting up a Prison Planet while the people are distracted by circuses. After having read most of Icke's books , I find myself frequently switching between the "real" world and Icke's world when reacting to world events and watching the latest news. What is really happening behind the plausible facade presented to the world by an anodyne media ? Questions, questions, questions ! Don't ask too many and you might get on in life . Ask too many awkward ones and the "Reptilians" might try to make you work in the janitorial profession as a reward. Read this book but dont expect your belief system to be the same after doing so.
Your view of the world you thought you knew will be shaken to it's core by this magnificent book, 15 Sep 2008
For anyone who has an enquiring mind and has somehow always had suspicions of how certain events happened and more importantly "why" but you couldn't make any sense of the "why" this book will help you to understand the "why" and the complex mechanics of how the world actually works explained with great clarity. Quite simply it's magnificent and will change your perspective of how you "thought" the world worked, forever.
Not only does he explain in great detail how apparently unconnected people and organisations around the globe ARE connected and all to serve a common goal of "One World Government" but the disturbing implications of such an idea which was so vividly portrayed in George Orwell's book 1984 was because Orwell worked in government and he knew exactly what was planned for the future.
The topics covered in the book are not of someone's highly developed imagination in order to sell more books but years of journalistic research over the last 20 years and actual documented evidence including government documents and think tank documents that advise governments on policies that can be freely read on the internet. These think tanks dictate to governments what policies in their view should be pursued. Which begs the question who really is in control of the direction of World Affairs, Governments or Think tanks?.
He quotes interviews with people which gives his work extra credibility. These people he has interviewed for his book have had access to classified information that was fundamentally at odds with their moral principles and felt that somehow the general public needed to get to know this information somehow, so basically they had to at great risk to themselves for obvious reasons try to get the public informed of the true motives for world events. The book focusses on events like 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq but many other topics as well.
The information is too detailed and glaringly obvious that the topics covered in this book can no longer be regarded as conspiracy theories but undeniable conspiracy facts. For any super sleuths out their who can piece together information and make a conclusion from it, it should make perfect sense but in an imperfect world there will still be some people who say Uhhh! I just don't get it?. You will have to read it for yourselves to see which side of the fence you are. I know which side I am on for sure!!.
Amazing research, astounding results..., 19 Aug 2008
I have read a few of books from David Icke and they are all equally fascinating. This book is more then that. I recommend this to every person alive today, even a slight interest in the subject matter and you will be hooked. His delivery and his research are second to none. This man is Britains number one journalist. If not the world. I will be writing more once i have finished the book, lol.
David Icke is simply the world's leading reporter.., 01 Jul 2008
'All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident...' (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher)... Having read all off Icke's works, I can clearly say it has changed my life. The man's method is clear: Tell the truth, no matter where the evidence takes you. Nobody can afford to go through life without reading one of his books. Enough said.
His best yet!, 17 Jun 2008
I have his previous book - Tales from the Time Loop which at the time I thought was brill, but after I read this one I h ave to conced that this is the best book he's written yet!
Hes earlier books tended to be bogged down in wishywashy statements and a slight uncertainty about thim, with this book he writes clearly, concisely and with conviction and puts across his arguments really succinctly. For Style alone Ill give you 10/10 David!
But for content Id have to give you 20/10, yep it was brilliant, right down to the con that is 'Global warming.' and the vaccines that contain chemicals, metals and cancer causing agents and other fatal diseases.
If we all went to the David Icke school of learning I reckon we'd get a proper education instead of becoming mindless proles living off the crass entertainment that is 'prolefeed.' George Orwell had never been more right in his vision when he wrote 1984.
Let me know when you write your next one David, ill be there at the front of the q!
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Customer Reviews
Can you handle the truth ?, 24 Sep 2008
David Icke is ridiculed by many who haven't even read any of his works , but this book is one that everyone should make an attempt to read. It is like a summary of all of the major ideas and theories outlined in Icke's extensive back catalogue of books. For anyone wishing to get to know about these persuasive conspiracy theories "The Guide" is probably the best place to start. For many, the hardest part of Icke's worldview to swallow is that of the "Reptilians" and their nefarious connection with world leaders, but if you replace the word "Reptilian" with "other dimensional entity" or "demon" then it all becomes much more user friendly and "acceptable".The highlight of this book is Icke's analysis of the 9/11 events and if anyone after reading it is left believing the official version of events of that day , then they should consider mowing the lawn wearing nothing but a string of pearls .Clearly it was an inside job by US government agencies, hard though that is to digest for a brain dead public. Once the reader accepts that this is the case then all of Icke's other theories make more or less perfect sense.Another one of Icke's controversial theories is that global warming is not caused by carbon based emissions;instead it is being caused by excessive sun spot activity. The elitists are using the global warming scare to further centralise ,globalise and control. Icke indicates that there is nothing to be worried about by global warming at all.There is definitely some alien force driving globalisation,centralisation of power and multi-culturalism and Icke tells us exactly what it is. However ,where Icke falls somewhat short is with his prescription on how to "fight" this imminent global tyranny.He merely recommends spreading his exposure of the plot worldwide, rather like proselytising the gospel I guess, with each person relying heavily on their intuition rather than accepting "fact" .People should refuse to seek power over others and should work to create a utopian Brotherhood of Man.I,for one , dont think this is going to be enough to overcome the scumbags who are covertly setting up a Prison Planet while the people are distracted by circuses. After having read most of Icke's books , I find myself frequently switching between the "real" world and Icke's world when reacting to world events and watching the latest news. What is really happening behind the plausible facade presented to the world by an anodyne media ? Questions, questions, questions ! Don't ask too many and you might get on in life . Ask too many awkward ones and the "Reptilians" might try to make you work in the janitorial profession as a reward. Read this book but dont expect your belief system to be the same after doing so.
Your view of the world you thought you knew will be shaken to it's core by this magnificent book, 15 Sep 2008
For anyone who has an enquiring mind and has somehow always had suspicions of how certain events happened and more importantly "why" but you couldn't make any sense of the "why" this book will help you to understand the "why" and the complex mechanics of how the world actually works explained with great clarity. Quite simply it's magnificent and will change your perspective of how you "thought" the world worked, forever.
Not only does he explain in great detail how apparently unconnected people and organisations around the globe ARE connected and all to serve a common goal of "One World Government" but the disturbing implications of such an idea which was so vividly portrayed in George Orwell's book 1984 was because Orwell worked in government and he knew exactly what was planned for the future.
The topics covered in the book are not of someone's highly developed imagination in order to sell more books but years of journalistic research over the last 20 years and actual documented evidence including government documents and think tank documents that advise governments on policies that can be freely read on the internet. These think tanks dictate to governments what policies in their view should be pursued. Which begs the question who really is in control of the direction of World Affairs, Governments or Think tanks?.
He quotes interviews with people which gives his work extra credibility. These people he has interviewed for his book have had access to classified information that was fundamentally at odds with their moral principles and felt that somehow the general public needed to get to know this information somehow, so basically they had to at great risk to themselves for obvious reasons try to get the public informed of the true motives for world events. The book focusses on events like 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq but many other topics as well.
The information is too detailed and glaringly obvious that the topics covered in this book can no longer be regarded as conspiracy theories but undeniable conspiracy facts. For any super sleuths out their who can piece together information and make a conclusion from it, it should make perfect sense but in an imperfect world there will still be some people who say Uhhh! I just don't get it?. You will have to read it for yourselves to see which side of the fence you are. I know which side I am on for sure!!.
Amazing research, astounding results..., 19 Aug 2008
I have read a few of books from David Icke and they are all equally fascinating. This book is more then that. I recommend this to every person alive today, even a slight interest in the subject matter and you will be hooked. His delivery and his research are second to none. This man is Britains number one journalist. If not the world. I will be writing more once i have finished the book, lol.
David Icke is simply the world's leading reporter.., 01 Jul 2008
'All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident...' (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher)... Having read all off Icke's works, I can clearly say it has changed my life. The man's method is clear: Tell the truth, no matter where the evidence takes you. Nobody can afford to go through life without reading one of his books. Enough said.
His best yet!, 17 Jun 2008
I have his previous book - Tales from the Time Loop which at the time I thought was brill, but after I read this one I h ave to conced that this is the best book he's written yet!
Hes earlier books tended to be bogged down in wishywashy statements and a slight uncertainty about thim, with this book he writes clearly, concisely and with conviction and puts across his arguments really succinctly. For Style alone Ill give you 10/10 David!
But for content Id have to give you 20/10, yep it was brilliant, right down to the con that is 'Global warming.' and the vaccines that contain chemicals, metals and cancer causing agents and other fatal diseases.
If we all went to the David Icke school of learning I reckon we'd get a proper education instead of becoming mindless proles living off the crass entertainment that is 'prolefeed.' George Orwell had never been more right in his vision when he wrote 1984.
Let me know when you write your next one David, ill be there at the front of the q!
Fascinating, 16 Jul 2008
Although written for the lay man, this book does take some concentration for those of us who have never studied physics. That said, it is well worth the effort. A fascinating read that will make you look at life, the world and the whole universe in a completely new way
wrong end of the trumpet...hmm?, 01 Jul 2008
I came across this book some years ago and, with a grounding in arts and only a couple of years of very elementary science, I cannot possibly comment on the current veracity of the ideas in it. The word 'science' is somewhat misleading deriving as it does from the Latin 'to know' whereas 'to guess' would provide a more honest root to this ever changing discipline.
It is some time since I read McTaggart but I recall it was an intersting read which triggered a tentative foray into Quantum Theory which sounded to me pretty much what the ancients and mystics had 'known' all along - although from my point of view McT was looking at things down the wrong end of the trumpet.
What Quantum seems to tell us is that there are no absolutes and that our thoughts, emotions and intentions form our experience of the 'material world'. Those still hooked on the idea of an 'absolute' (as I understand even Einstein was - spending the rest of his life trying to disprove his equation) will find refuge in religion of one sort or another... including science which has, for many, replaced older faiths.
So... having written this review of the book and talked it up, I suppose I'd better read it again to see if I agree with myself. Hey, ho...
Interesting, but not a particularly easy read , 13 May 2008
This book is full of interesting information, and cutting edge ideas based on new research into physics. However, I found it quite hard-going at times - the author's style isn't particularly readable. I often had to grit my teeth in determination just to make it to the end of a chapter - and unfortunately I gave up about two-thirds way through the book. I think this would be a great book in the hands of a more entertaining writer.
The Field on CD, 25 Mar 2008
I opted to purchase the Field on CD and I loved every word! What was more for someone like me who knows little of Quantum Physics but am eager to understand it, I found that I understood the book (CD) completely.
As a Reiki healer used to receiving and sending distant healing I was thrilled to learn how this is achieved. The book impressed me so much that I am currently ordering extra copies for my family and friends. Everyone should know about this. It should be taught in schools and I hope in time that it will be so that positive thinking will heal our earth and all those who live on it both man and beast.
It didn't just change my life, it made sense of things I've pondered fr some time.
Thank you Lynne, you did a great job with this book, as well as with The Intention Experiment.
Informative , 08 Mar 2008
Lynne McTaggart gives a very detailed picturesc and journalistic coverage of these extremely interesting experiments. It does cover the same old subjects as some other books that are around at the moment but it is relatively unbiased and very clear about them. It is left entirely for the reader to decide what to make of the facts. What I make of it so far is that if 99.9% of the universe is made of 'dark matter' and 99.9% of matter is empty space, and all empty space is thoroughly ridden with 'virtual' particles, that arise from fluctuations in the 'zero-point energy field', only to anihilate each other almost immediately after coming into being, then what else could this 'dark matter' be, if not the combined mass of this unimagineably vast number of 'virtual' particles that exist temporarily everywhere all the time? It would explain why they've not found any yet. This book gives full details of experiments in psychokinesis, remote viewing, and precognition/premonition, and advice that anyone doing these experiments themselves can pick up on. The amount of research that has gone into this book makes it a real gem, even if you have already read other books on the same subject.
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Customer Reviews
Can you handle the truth ?, 24 Sep 2008
David Icke is ridiculed by many who haven't even read any of his works , but this book is one that everyone should make an attempt to read. It is like a summary of all of the major ideas and theories outlined in Icke's extensive back catalogue of books. For anyone wishing to get to know about these persuasive conspiracy theories "The Guide" is probably the best place to start. For many, the hardest part of Icke's worldview to swallow is that of the "Reptilians" and their nefarious connection with world leaders, but if you replace the word "Reptilian" with "other dimensional entity" or "demon" then it all becomes much more user friendly and "acceptable".The highlight of this book is Icke's analysis of the 9/11 events and if anyone after reading it is left believing the official version of events of that day , then they should consider mowing the lawn wearing nothing but a string of pearls .Clearly it was an inside job by US government agencies, hard though that is to digest for a brain dead public. Once the reader accepts that this is the case then all of Icke's other theories make more or less perfect sense.Another one of Icke's controversial theories is that global warming is not caused by carbon based emissions;instead it is being caused by excessive sun spot activity. The elitists are using the global warming scare to further centralise ,globalise and control. Icke indicates that there is nothing to be worried about by global warming at all.There is definitely some alien force driving globalisation,centralisation of power and multi-culturalism and Icke tells us exactly what it is. However ,where Icke falls somewhat short is with his prescription on how to "fight" this imminent global tyranny.He merely recommends spreading his exposure of the plot worldwide, rather like proselytising the gospel I guess, with each person relying heavily on their intuition rather than accepting "fact" .People should refuse to seek power over others and should work to create a utopian Brotherhood of Man.I,for one , dont think this is going to be enough to overcome the scumbags who are covertly setting up a Prison Planet while the people are distracted by circuses. After having read most of Icke's books , I find myself frequently switching between the "real" world and Icke's world when reacting to world events and watching the latest news. What is really happening behind the plausible facade presented to the world by an anodyne media ? Questions, questions, questions ! Don't ask too many and you might get on in life . Ask too many awkward ones and the "Reptilians" might try to make you work in the janitorial profession as a reward. Read this book but dont expect your belief system to be the same after doing so.
Your view of the world you thought you knew will be shaken to it's core by this magnificent book, 15 Sep 2008
For anyone who has an enquiring mind and has somehow always had suspicions of how certain events happened and more importantly "why" but you couldn't make any sense of the "why" this book will help you to understand the "why" and the complex mechanics of how the world actually works explained with great clarity. Quite simply it's magnificent and will change your perspective of how you "thought" the world worked, forever.
Not only does he explain in great detail how apparently unconnected people and organisations around the globe ARE connected and all to serve a common goal of "One World Government" but the disturbing implications of such an idea which was so vividly portrayed in George Orwell's book 1984 was because Orwell worked in government and he knew exactly what was planned for the future.
The topics covered in the book are not of someone's highly developed imagination in order to sell more books but years of journalistic research over the last 20 years and actual documented evidence including government documents and think tank documents that advise governments on policies that can be freely read on the internet. These think tanks dictate to governments what policies in their view should be pursued. Which begs the question who really is in control of the direction of World Affairs, Governments or Think tanks?.
He quotes interviews with people which gives his work extra credibility. These people he has interviewed for his book have had access to classified information that was fundamentally at odds with their moral principles and felt that somehow the general public needed to get to know this information somehow, so basically they had to at great risk to themselves for obvious reasons try to get the public informed of the true motives for world events. The book focusses on events like 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq but many other topics as well.
The information is too detailed and glaringly obvious that the topics covered in this book can no longer be regarded as conspiracy theories but undeniable conspiracy facts. For any super sleuths out their who can piece together information and make a conclusion from it, it should make perfect sense but in an imperfect world there will still be some people who say Uhhh! I just don't get it?. You will have to read it for yourselves to see which side of the fence you are. I know which side I am on for sure!!.
Amazing research, astounding results..., 19 Aug 2008
I have read a few of books from David Icke and they are all equally fascinating. This book is more then that. I recommend this to every person alive today, even a slight interest in the subject matter and you will be hooked. His delivery and his research are second to none. This man is Britains number one journalist. If not the world. I will be writing more once i have finished the book, lol.
David Icke is simply the world's leading reporter.., 01 Jul 2008
'All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident...' (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher)... Having read all off Icke's works, I can clearly say it has changed my life. The man's method is clear: Tell the truth, no matter where the evidence takes you. Nobody can afford to go through life without reading one of his books. Enough said.
His best yet!, 17 Jun 2008
I have his previous book - Tales from the Time Loop which at the time I thought was brill, but after I read this one I h ave to conced that this is the best book he's written yet!
Hes earlier books tended to be bogged down in wishywashy statements and a slight uncertainty about thim, with this book he writes clearly, concisely and with conviction and puts across his arguments really succinctly. For Style alone Ill give you 10/10 David!
But for content Id have to give you 20/10, yep it was brilliant, right down to the con that is 'Global warming.' and the vaccines that contain chemicals, metals and cancer causing agents and other fatal diseases.
If we all went to the David Icke school of learning I reckon we'd get a proper education instead of becoming mindless proles living off the crass entertainment that is 'prolefeed.' George Orwell had never been more right in his vision when he wrote 1984.
Let me know when you write your next one David, ill be there at the front of the q!
Fascinating, 16 Jul 2008
Although written for the lay man, this book does take some concentration for those of us who have never studied physics. That said, it is well worth the effort. A fascinating read that will make you look at life, the world and the whole universe in a completely new way
wrong end of the trumpet...hmm?, 01 Jul 2008
I came across this book some years ago and, with a grounding in arts and only a couple of years of very elementary science, I cannot possibly comment on the current veracity of the ideas in it. The word 'science' is somewhat misleading deriving as it does from the Latin 'to know' whereas 'to guess' would provide a more honest root to this ever changing discipline.
It is some time since I read McTaggart but I recall it was an intersting read which triggered a tentative foray into Quantum Theory which sounded to me pretty much what the ancients and mystics had 'known' all along - although from my point of view McT was looking at things down the wrong end of the trumpet.
What Quantum seems to tell us is that there are no absolutes and that our thoughts, emotions and intentions form our experience of the 'material world'. Those still hooked on the idea of an 'absolute' (as I understand even Einstein was - spending the rest of his life trying to disprove his equation) will find refuge in religion of one sort or another... including science which has, for many, replaced older faiths.
So... having written this review of the book and talked it up, I suppose I'd better read it again to see if I agree with myself. Hey, ho...
Interesting, but not a particularly easy read , 13 May 2008
This book is full of interesting information, and cutting edge ideas based on new research into physics. However, I found it quite hard-going at times - the author's style isn't particularly readable. I often had to grit my teeth in determination just to make it to the end of a chapter - and unfortunately I gave up about two-thirds way through the book. I think this would be a great book in the hands of a more entertaining writer.
The Field on CD, 25 Mar 2008
I opted to purchase the Field on CD and I loved every word! What was more for someone like me who knows little of Quantum Physics but am eager to understand it, I found that I understood the book (CD) completely.
As a Reiki healer used to receiving and sending distant healing I was thrilled to learn how this is achieved. The book impressed me so much that I am currently ordering extra copies for my family and friends. Everyone should know about this. It should be taught in schools and I hope in time that it will be so that positive thinking will heal our earth and all those who live on it both man and beast.
It didn't just change my life, it made sense of things I've pondered fr some time.
Thank you Lynne, you did a great job with this book, as well as with The Intention Experiment.
Informative , 08 Mar 2008
Lynne McTaggart gives a very detailed picturesc and journalistic coverage of these extremely interesting experiments. It does cover the same old subjects as some other books that are around at the moment but it is relatively unbiased and very clear about them. It is left entirely for the reader to decide what to make of the facts. What I make of it so far is that if 99.9% of the universe is made of 'dark matter' and 99.9% of matter is empty space, and all empty space is thoroughly ridden with 'virtual' particles, that arise from fluctuations in the 'zero-point energy field', only to anihilate each other almost immediately after coming into being, then what else could this 'dark matter' be, if not the combined mass of this unimagineably vast number of 'virtual' particles that exist temporarily everywhere all the time? It would explain why they've not found any yet. This book gives full details of experiments in psychokinesis, remote viewing, and precognition/premonition, and advice that anyone doing these experiments themselves can pick up on. The amount of research that has gone into this book makes it a real gem, even if you have already read other books on the same subject.
Terrific Stuff!, 02 Oct 2008
If the last Diana inquest bored you to tears, or you are sick of listening to crap 9/11 conspiracies, get hold of this brilliant book now.
Conspiracy theories, along with quack medicine, fake history and bogus science, all form "Counterknowledge" - that is, `misinformation masquerading as fact.'
The problem is huge, and Thompson powerfully argues that the 21st century faces a `pandemic of credulous thinking' when, conversely, our ability to evaluate claims made about science or history is better than ever before.
With the arrival of the scientific enlightenment, ideas that no longer held their ground were banished to the fringes of society. Now, with internet communication, they have a larger following than ever before.
But it's not all turtle-neck wearing novelists and bible-crazy wackos - the City of Westminster University offers, astonishingly, a degree in homeopathy.
Readers of the Guardian's Bad Science column will love this book. Damian Thompson fights Counterknowledge tooth and nail using reason and, crucially, systematically tested evidence. With his razor-sharp prose, he not only rubbishes the credulous world we live in, but calls on us to challenge the `guardians of intellectual orthodoxy' and waken them from greedy, slothful indolence.
Without doubt, this is my book of the year.
An odd combination of sneering and alarmism, containing numerous misconceptions and errors., 21 Sep 2008
Young-earth creationists in the US have built a museum containing mechanised tableaux showing dinosaurs and humans in Flintstone-style coexistence. `Alternative' therapies of no more medical value than sugar pills are available on the British National Health Service, with homoeopathic hospitals well-established and degree courses available in one of the new universities. In US academia, some `Afro-centric' historians play fast and loose with facts in their attempt to construct a distinctively `black' history which, according to at least one proponent, is teachable only by black people. Meanwhile, postmodernist literary and cultural theorists take it upon themselves to develop ill-conceived philosophical doctrines about the nature of truth and reality - and even in some cases to offer criticisms of such specialised fields as quantum physics.
Damian Thompson criticises all these trends, with copious footnotes and some theoretical discussion. He alerts the reader to many other putative instances of 'counterknowledge' - glossed: "misinformation packaged as fact" (p1) - and decries the "casual approach to the truth"(pp12, 44) that underlies and sustains them. This seems a worthwhile project, and in reviews it attracts descriptions such as `timely' and `much-needed'. These epithets are somewhat hyperbolic: this is only the latest addition to a substantial body of debunking literature, which goes back at least to Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, first published in 1841.
To adapt a remark of Dr Johnson, while one expects to see it done, one is surprised that it is not done better. While many of Thompson's points are correct as far as they go, the book's defects are so numerous and glaring and themselves betray such a `casual approach to the truth' that the reader could be forgiven for thinking that the word `Counterknowledge' embossed across the front categorises its contents rather than defining its subject matter.
One cannot avoid the suspicion that Thompson chose his title first and only then attempted to construct an entity corresponding to the catchy `counterknowledge' label. Many of the book's failings can be traced back to the assumption of a simplistic, polarised view of the intellectual landscape. Insiders, those engaged in a scarcely-examined `enlightenment project', have knowledge: a steady accretion of certainties, irrevocably established by academic consensus. Outside lies knowledge's evil twin, counterknowledge: not only untrue, but to Thompson, obviously so. The interesting - but potentially controversial - middle ground is simply ignored.
In delimiting the contours of his invented category, Thompson sides with orthodoxy and with the powerful, granting a latitude to supposed political and technical authorities which he denies to those on the intellectual or social fringes. Such facile deference betrays the enlightenment ideals he professes. Knowingly or not, he also includes among the enemies of reason a number of views which don't belong there. These views are caricatured or exaggerated, either by Thompson himself or by others whose reports he casually adopts.
The book is not aimed at changing minds: few of its significant targets will come as news to its self-selecting audience. There is nothing wrong with that in itself, but Thompson affects a gravitas which leads one to expect something a little more edifying than the opportunity to bay and jeer, as an assortment of intellectual freaks and outcasts is paraded by. Still, Thompson does his best to foster a certain siege mentality. His readers may be assured of the triumph of reason and the rightness of their opinions, but, crucially, they are offered a frisson of danger and flattered with the role of tough-minded hero standing, with Thompson, against the forces of chaos.
In the first three pages, Thompson's vocabulary sets the tone: "pandemic" (p1); "disturbingly", "alarming" (p2); "threatened", "vulnerable", "[not] immune", "converts", and more subtly, "outlandish"(p3). According to the synopsis on the inside cover, Thompson demonstrates that "unless the defenders of enlightenment values fight back soon, the counterknowledge industry has the potential to create new political, social and economic disasters". On the back cover, reviewer Nick Cohen joins the fray, projecting his own preoccupations onto Thompson's sketchily apocalyptic canvas: "Thompson shows how apparently harmless pseudo-science breeds nationalism, race hatred and disease".
Finally and perhaps most perniciously, Thompson swaddles his banalities, biases and non-sequiturs in an impenetrable tangle of junk philosophy and sociological verbiage. Even those astute enough to detect that something is wrong in Thompson's approach may well be baffled, browbeaten or bored into conceding that Thompson has a point - whatever exactly it is.
You can download my full detailed review - which is too long to post here - at mediafire.com/?mdyewdkdyw1.
A searing indictment of woolly thinking, 24 Aug 2008
This book must be read by the people who very earnestly insist that you "be more open-minded". Yes, Princess Diana may have been assassinated on the orders of the British Royal family, who may be lizards in human skin - however this is unlikely, in fact extremely unlikely. This book is a testament to the power of logic and common sense. All the usual suspects in the conspiracy theory game are picked apart, bit by bit, and revealed to be the total and inveterate nonsense that they are. We need more books like this for the people whose minds are so open, their brains have fallen out.
Shooting fish in a barrel, 06 Jul 2008
Generally I am with Mr R A Davies who gave the book two stars, but perhaps that is a little harsh.
Thompson is quite selective in his choice of targets, and treats them largely the same (despite his repeated points about what is and is not "counterknowledge"). That is, he attempts not only to oppose their arguments and their evidence but also to undermine their motives, and to treat them as charlatans. In most cases that may be legitimate, but not always.
The blurb says he has a PhD in the sociology of religion from LSE (presumably supervised by David Martin?). I would have expected that someone who had worked in that very nuanced area, which poses interesting questions about the validity of knowledge, to have been able to distinguish between positions better than he does. Take complementary medicine (CAM) as an example. He is very rude about it, relying heavily on one of its severest critics. That's fine (and I tend to agree with him).
However, he extends his condemnation beyond the science to the business, including pharmacists in Boots who refuse to assert that a product on sale is useless. This is not the same world. Placebo is a potent treatment, not entirely reliant on conscious belief but upheld by it (Evans D [2004] Placebo London; HarperCollins). The discourse has shifted, but Thompson has stuck with his positivism.
And it does not help that he castigates some proponents as "batty". Assertions like that are sloppy playground name-calling; they detract from his very sound analyses in many areas.
Pity; I heard him on "Start the Week". I was looking forward to reading the book, and to a sociologist's eye on these phenomena. All I found was some predictable debunking of fairly obvious targets.
Read Francis Wheen's "How Mumbo-Jumbo conquered the World" instead.
Irresistible, opinionated assault on dishonesty, 02 Jul 2008
Thompson seems genuinely angry at the dishonesty he encounters among those who would prey on our gullible natures. And there's also a sort of impish glee in the way he demolishes sloppy thinking. Thompson is a very funny writer and he's completely in command of his material. It's a mixture - decisive, pellucid argument, humour and savage indignation - that makes Counterknowledge a delight to read. I honestly think it should be a bestseller.
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Can you handle the truth ?, 24 Sep 2008
David Icke is ridiculed by many who haven't even read any of his works , but this book is one that everyone should make an attempt to read. It is like a summary of all of the major ideas and theories outlined in Icke's extensive back catalogue of books. For anyone wishing to get to know about these persuasive conspiracy theories "The Guide" is probably the best place to start. For many, the hardest part of Icke's worldview to swallow is that of the "Reptilians" and their nefarious connection with world leaders, but if you replace the word "Reptilian" with "other dimensional entity" or "demon" then it all becomes much more user friendly and "acceptable".The highlight of this book is Icke's analysis of the 9/11 events and if anyone after reading it is left believing the official version of events of that day , then they should consider mowing the lawn wearing nothing but a string of pearls .Clearly it was an inside job by US government agencies, hard though that is to digest for a brain dead public. Once the reader accepts that this is the case then all of Icke's other theories make more or less perfect sense.Another one of Icke's controversial theories is that global warming is not caused by carbon based emissions;instead it is being caused by excessive sun spot activity. The elitists are using the global warming scare to further centralise ,globalise and control. Icke indicates that there is nothing to be worried about by global warming at all.There is definitely some alien force driving globalisation,centralisation of power and multi-culturalism and Icke tells us exactly what it is. However ,where Icke falls somewhat short is with his prescription on how to "fight" this imminent global tyranny.He merely recommends spreading his exposure of the plot worldwide, rather like proselytising the gospel I guess, with each person relying heavily on their intuition rather than accepting "fact" .People should refuse to seek power over others and should work to create a utopian Brotherhood of Man.I,for one , dont think this is going to be enough to overcome the scumbags who are covertly setting up a Prison Planet while the people are distracted by circuses. After having read most of Icke's books , I find myself frequently switching between the "real" world and Icke's world when reacting to world events and watching the latest news. What is really happening behind the plausible facade presented to the world by an anodyne media ? Questions, questions, questions ! Don't ask too many and you might get on in life . Ask too many awkward ones and the "Reptilians" might try to make you work in the janitorial profession as a reward. Read this book but dont expect your belief system to be the same after doing so.
Your view of the world you thought you knew will be shaken to it's core by this magnificent book, 15 Sep 2008
For anyone who has an enquiring mind and has somehow always had suspicions of how certain events happened and more importantly "why" but you couldn't make any sense of the "why" this book will help you to understand the "why" and the complex mechanics of how the world actually works explained with great clarity. Quite simply it's magnificent and will change your perspective of how you "thought" the world worked, forever.
Not only does he explain in great detail how apparently unconnected people and organisations around the globe ARE connected and all to serve a common goal of "One World Government" but the disturbing implications of such an idea which was so vividly portrayed in George Orwell's book 1984 was because Orwell worked in government and he knew exactly what was planned for the future.
The topics covered in the book are not of someone's highly developed imagination in order to sell more books but years of journalistic research over the last 20 years and actual documented evidence including government documents and think tank documents that advise governments on policies that can be freely read on the internet. These think tanks dictate to governments what policies in their view should be pursued. Which begs the question who really is in control of the direction of World Affairs, Governments or Think tanks?.
He quotes interviews with people which gives his work extra credibility. These people he has interviewed for his book have had access to classified information that was fundamentally at odds with their moral principles and felt that somehow the general public needed to get to know this information somehow, so basically they had to at great risk to themselves for obvious reasons try to get the public informed of the true motives for world events. The book focusses on events like 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq but many other topics as well.
The information is too detailed and glaringly obvious that the topics covered in this book can no longer be regarded as conspiracy theories but undeniable conspiracy facts. For any super sleuths out their who can piece together information and make a conclusion from it, it should make perfect sense but in an imperfect world there will still be some people who say Uhhh! I just don't get it?. You will have to read it for yourselves to see which side of the fence you are. I know which side I am on for sure!!.
Amazing research, astounding results..., 19 Aug 2008
I have read a few of books from David Icke and they are all equally fascinating. This book is more then that. I recommend this to every person alive today, even a slight interest in the subject matter and you will be hooked. His delivery and his research are second to none. This man is Britains number one journalist. If not the world. I will be writing more once i have finished the book, lol.
David Icke is simply the world's leading reporter.., 01 Jul 2008
'All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident...' (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher)... Having read all off Icke's works, I can clearly say it has changed my life. The man's method is clear: Tell the truth, no matter where the evidence takes you. Nobody can afford to go through life without reading one of his books. Enough said.
His best yet!, 17 Jun 2008
I have his previous book - Tales from the Time Loop which at the time I thought was brill, but after I read this one I h ave to conced that this is the best book he's written yet!
Hes earlier books tended to be bogged down in wishywashy statements and a slight uncertainty about thim, with this book he writes clearly, concisely and with conviction and puts across his arguments really succinctly. For Style alone Ill give you 10/10 David!
But for content Id have to give you 20/10, yep it was brilliant, right down to the con that is 'Global warming.' and the vaccines that contain chemicals, metals and cancer causing agents and other fatal diseases.
If we all went to the David Icke school of learning I reckon we'd get a proper education instead of becoming mindless proles living off the crass entertainment that is 'prolefeed.' George Orwell had never been more right in his vision when he wrote 1984.
Let me know when you write your next one David, ill be there at the front of the q!
Fascinating, 16 Jul 2008
Although written for the lay man, this book does take some concentration for those of us who have never studied physics. That said, it is well worth the effort. A fascinating read that will make you look at life, the world and the whole universe in a completely new way
wrong end of the trumpet...hmm?, 01 Jul 2008
I came across this book some years ago and, with a grounding in arts and only a couple of years of very elementary science, I cannot possibly comment on the current veracity of the ideas in it. The word 'science' is somewhat misleading deriving as it does from the Latin 'to know' whereas 'to guess' would provide a more honest root to this ever changing discipline.
It is some time since I read McTaggart but I recall it was an intersting read which triggered a tentative foray into Quantum Theory which sounded to me pretty much what the ancients and mystics had 'known' all along - although from my point of view McT was looking at things down the wrong end of the trumpet.
What Quantum seems to tell us is that there are no absolutes and that our thoughts, emotions and intentions form our experience of the 'material world'. Those still hooked on the idea of an 'absolute' (as I understand even Einstein was - spending the rest of his life trying to disprove his equation) will find refuge in religion of one sort or another... including science which has, for many, replaced older faiths.
So... having written this review of the book and talked it up, I suppose I'd better read it again to see if I agree with myself. Hey, ho...
Interesting, but not a particularly easy read , 13 May 2008
This book is full of interesting information, and cutting edge ideas based on new research into physics. However, I found it quite hard-going at times - the author's style isn't particularly readable. I often had to grit my teeth in determination just to make it to the end of a chapter - and unfortunately I gave up about two-thirds way through the book. I think this would be a great book in the hands of a more entertaining writer.
The Field on CD, 25 Mar 2008
I opted to purchase the Field on CD and I loved every word! What was more for someone like me who knows little of Quantum Physics but am eager to understand it, I found that I understood the book (CD) completely.
As a Reiki healer used to receiving and sending distant healing I was thrilled to learn how this is achieved. The book impressed me so much that I am currently ordering extra copies for my family and friends. Everyone should know about this. It should be taught in schools and I hope in time that it will be so that positive thinking will heal our earth and all those who live on it both man and beast.
It didn't just change my life, it made sense of things I've pondered fr some time.
Thank you Lynne, you did a great job with this book, as well as with The Intention Experiment.
Informative , 08 Mar 2008
Lynne McTaggart gives a very detailed picturesc and journalistic coverage of these extremely interesting experiments. It does cover the same old subjects as some other books that are around at the moment but it is relatively unbiased and very clear about them. It is left entirely for the reader to decide what to make of the facts. What I make of it so far is that if 99.9% of the universe is made of 'dark matter' and 99.9% of matter is empty space, and all empty space is thoroughly ridden with 'virtual' particles, that arise from fluctuations in the 'zero-point energy field', only to anihilate each other almost immediately after coming into being, then what else could this 'dark matter' be, if not the combined mass of this unimagineably vast number of 'virtual' particles that exist temporarily everywhere all the time? It would explain why they've not found any yet. This book gives full details of experiments in psychokinesis, remote viewing, and precognition/premonition, and advice that anyone doing these experiments themselves can pick up on. The amount of research that has gone into this book makes it a real gem, even if you have already read other books on the same subject.
Terrific Stuff!, 02 Oct 2008
If the last Diana inquest bored you to tears, or you are sick of listening to crap 9/11 conspiracies, get hold of this brilliant book now.
Conspiracy theories, along with quack medicine, fake history and bogus science, all form "Counterknowledge" - that is, `misinformation masquerading as fact.'
The problem is huge, and Thompson powerfully argues that the 21st century faces a `pandemic of credulous thinking' when, conversely, our ability to evaluate claims made about science or history is better than ever before.
With the arrival of the scientific enlightenment, ideas that no longer held their ground were banished to the fringes of society. Now, with internet communication, they have a larger following than ever before.
But it's not all turtle-neck wearing novelists and bible-crazy wackos - the City of Westminster University offers, astonishingly, a degree in homeopathy.
Readers of the Guardian's Bad Science column will love this book. Damian Thompson fights Counterknowledge tooth and nail using reason and, crucially, systematically tested evidence. With his razor-sharp prose, he not only rubbishes the credulous world we live in, but calls on us to challenge the `guardians of intellectual orthodoxy' and waken them from greedy, slothful indolence.
Without doubt, this is my book of the year.
An odd combination of sneering and alarmism, containing numerous misconceptions and errors., 21 Sep 2008
Young-earth creationists in the US have built a museum containing mechanised tableaux showing dinosaurs and humans in Flintstone-style coexistence. `Alternative' therapies of no more medical value than sugar pills are available on the British National Health Service, with homoeopathic hospitals well-established and degree courses available in one of the new universities. In US academia, some `Afro-centric' historians play fast and loose with facts in their attempt to construct a distinctively `black' history which, according to at least one proponent, is teachable only by black people. Meanwhile, postmodernist literary and cultural theorists take it upon themselves to develop ill-conceived philosophical doctrines about the nature of truth and reality - and even in some cases to offer criticisms of such specialised fields as quantum physics.
Damian Thompson criticises all these trends, with copious footnotes and some theoretical discussion. He alerts the reader to many other putative instances of 'counterknowledge' - glossed: "misinformation packaged as fact" (p1) - and decries the "casual approach to the truth"(pp12, 44) that underlies and sustains them. This seems a worthwhile project, and in reviews it attracts descriptions such as `timely' and `much-needed'. These epithets are somewhat hyperbolic: this is only the latest addition to a substantial body of debunking literature, which goes back at least to Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, first published in 1841.
To adapt a remark of Dr Johnson, while one expects to see it done, one is surprised that it is not done better. While many of Thompson's points are correct as far as they go, the book's defects are so numerous and glaring and themselves betray such a `casual approach to the truth' that the reader could be forgiven for thinking that the word `Counterknowledge' embossed across the front categorises its contents rather than defining its subject matter.
One cannot avoid the suspicion that Thompson chose his title first and only then attempted to construct an entity corresponding to the catchy `counterknowledge' label. Many of the book's failings can be traced back to the assumption of a simplistic, polarised view of the intellectual landscape. Insiders, those engaged in a scarcely-examined `enlightenment project', have knowledge: a steady accretion of certainties, irrevocably established by academic consensus. Outside lies knowledge's evil twin, counterknowledge: not only untrue, but to Thompson, obviously so. The interesting - but potentially controversial - middle ground is simply ignored.
In delimiting the contours of his invented category, Thompson sides with orthodoxy and with the powerful, granting a latitude to supposed political and technical authorities which he denies to those on the intellectual or social fringes. Such facile deference betrays the enlightenment ideals he professes. Knowingly or not, he also includes among the enemies of reason a number of views which don't belong there. These views are caricatured or exaggerated, either by Thompson himself or by others whose reports he casually adopts.
The book is not aimed at changing minds: few of its significant targets will come as news to its self-selecting audience. There is nothing wrong with that in itself, but Thompson affects a gravitas which leads one to expect something a little more edifying than the opportunity to bay and jeer, as an assortment of intellectual freaks and outcasts is paraded by. Still, Thompson does his best to foster a certain siege mentality. His readers may be assured of the triumph of reason and the rightness of their opinions, but, crucially, they are offered a frisson of danger and flattered with the role of tough-minded hero standing, with Thompson, against the forces of chaos.
In the first three pages, Thompson's vocabulary sets the tone: "pandemic" (p1); "disturbingly", "alarming" (p2); "threatened", "vulnerable", "[not] immune", "converts", and more subtly, "outlandish"(p3). According to the synopsis on the inside cover, Thompson demonstrates that "unless the defenders of enlightenment values fight back soon, the counterknowledge industry has the potential to create new political, social and economic disasters". On the back cover, reviewer Nick Cohen joins the fray, projecting his own preoccupations onto Thompson's sketchily apocalyptic canvas: "Thompson shows how apparently harmless pseudo-science breeds nationalism, race hatred and disease".
Finally and perhaps most perniciously, Thompson swaddles his banalities, biases and non-sequiturs in an impenetrable tangle of junk philosophy and sociological verbiage. Even those astute enough to detect that something is wrong in Thompson's approach may well be baffled, browbeaten or bored into conceding that Thompson has a point - whatever exactly it is.
You can download my full detailed review - which is too long to post here - at mediafire.com/?mdyewdkdyw1.
A searing indictment of woolly thinking, 24 Aug 2008
This book must be read by the people who very earnestly insist that you "be more open-minded". Yes, Princess Diana may have been assassinated on the orders of the British Royal family, who may be lizards in human skin - however this is unlikely, in fact extremely unlikely. This book is a testament to the power of logic and common sense. All the usual suspects in the conspiracy theory game are picked apart, bit by bit, and revealed to be the total and inveterate nonsense that they are. We need more books like this for the people whose minds are so open, their brains have fallen out.
Shooting fish in a barrel, 06 Jul 2008
Generally I am with Mr R A Davies who gave the book two stars, but perhaps that is a little harsh.
Thompson is quite selective in his choice of targets, and treats them largely the same (despite his repeated points about what is and is not "counterknowledge"). That is, he attempts not only to oppose their arguments and their evidence but also to undermine their motives, and to treat them as charlatans. In most cases that may be legitimate, but not always.
The blurb says he has a PhD in the sociology of religion from LSE (presumably supervised by David Martin?). I would have expected that someone who had worked in that very nuanced area, which poses interesting questions about the validity of knowledge, to have been able to distinguish between positions better than he does. Take complementary medicine (CAM) as an example. He is very rude about it, relying heavily on one of its severest critics. That's fine (and I tend to agree with him).
However, he extends his condemnation beyond the science to the business, including pharmacists in Boots who refuse to assert that a product on sale is useless. This is not the same world. Placebo is a potent treatment, not entirely reliant on conscious belief but upheld by it (Evans D [2004] Placebo London; HarperCollins). The discourse has shifted, but Thompson has stuck with his positivism.
And it does not help that he castigates some proponents as "batty". Assertions like that are sloppy playground name-calling; they detract from his very sound analyses in many areas.
Pity; I heard him on "Start the Week". I was looking forward to reading the book, and to a sociologist's eye on these phenomena. All I found was some predictable debunking of fairly obvious targets.
Read Francis Wheen's "How Mumbo-Jumbo conquered the World" instead.
Irresistible, opinionated assault on dishonesty, 02 Jul 2008
Thompson seems genuinely angry at the dishonesty he encounters among those who would prey on our gullible natures. And there's also a sort of impish glee in the way he demolishes sloppy thinking. Thompson is a very funny writer and he's completely in command of his material. It's a mixture - decisive, pellucid argument, humour and savage indignation - that makes Counterknowledge a delight to read. I honestly think it should be a bestseller.
Excellent, 10 Jul 2008
This is just a quick thumbs up for the previous two reviews which sum up the book nicely. There is much food for thought and plenty of information for further reading. Some of the most interesting aspects for me were the descriptions of the ancient structures found in the pacific ocean. Undoubtedly the remnants of the lost civilisation of Lemuria that the inhabitants of Hawaii, South America and other pacific islands claim to have descended from in their 'myths'.
Great Book, 10 Jan 2008
I loved this book. It has short essays by most of the big names in this genre and I found it extremely informative. Plenty of further reading to be had here. I saw it as a gateway to a whole new field of authors and their opinions on how civilisation started, through to how the Pyramids are actually a power station!
If you like short, thought provoking stories you'll love it, if you like different views on how civilisation started and what the meaning of life is you love it too.
Hope this helps - I lent it to a friend and......she loved it.
A window into a fascinating area, 26 Jul 2007
Having decided to explore the area of ancient mysteries and the origins of humanity I decided that this book would be the ideal way in. Gladly, this is the case. The collection of short essays on different but related topics provides a superb overview of many of the thoughts in this area. Consequently, as an introduction to further reading it is ideal but should not be underrated as a great stand alone read. I was (surprisingly) impressed with the rigour applied in each essay - the writers in each case being keenly aware of the need to present opinion in the context of evidence and reasoning. Very compelling.
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Can you handle the truth ?, 24 Sep 2008
David Icke is ridiculed by many who haven't even read any of his works , but this book is one that everyone should make an attempt to read. It is like a summary of all of the major ideas and theories outlined in Icke's extensive back catalogue of books. For anyone wishing to get to know about these persuasive conspiracy theories "The Guide" is probably the best place to start. For many, the hardest part of Icke's worldview to swallow is that of the "Reptilians" and their nefarious connection with world leaders, but if you replace the word "Reptilian" with "other dimensional entity" or "demon" then it all becomes much more user friendly and "acceptable".The highlight of this book is Icke's analysis of the 9/11 events and if anyone after reading it is left believing the official version of events of that day , then they should consider mowing the lawn wearing nothing but a string of pearls .Clearly it was an inside job by US government agencies, hard though that is to digest for a brain dead public. Once the reader accepts that this is the case then all of Icke's other theories make more or less perfect sense.Another one of Icke's controversial theories is that global warming is not caused by carbon based emissions;instead it is being caused by excessive sun spot activity. The elitists are using the global warming scare to further centralise ,globalise and control. Icke indicates that there is nothing to be worried about by global warming at all.There is definitely some alien force driving globalisation,centralisation of power and multi-culturalism and Icke tells us exactly what it is. However ,where Icke falls somewhat short is with his prescription on how to "fight" this imminent global tyranny.He merely recommends spreading his exposure of the plot worldwide, rather like proselytising the gospel I guess, with each person relying heavily on their intuition rather than accepting "fact" .People should refuse to seek power over others and should work to create a utopian Brotherhood of Man.I,for one , dont think this is going to be enough to overcome the scumbags who are covertly setting up a Prison Planet while the people are distracted by circuses. After having read most of Icke's books , I find myself frequently switching between the "real" world and Icke's world when reacting to world events and watching the latest news. What is really happening behind the plausible facade presented to the world by an anodyne media ? Questions, questions, questions ! Don't ask too many and you might get on in life . Ask too many awkward ones and the "Reptilians" might try to make you work in the janitorial profession as a reward. Read this book but dont expect your belief system to be the same after doing so.
Your view of the world you thought you knew will be shaken to it's core by this magnificent book, 15 Sep 2008
For anyone who has an enquiring mind and has somehow always had suspicions of how certain events happened and more importantly "why" but you couldn't make any sense of the "why" this book will help you to understand the "why" and the complex mechanics of how the world actually works explained with great clarity. Quite simply it's magnificent and will change your perspective of how you "thought" the world worked, forever.
Not only does he explain in great detail how apparently unconnected people and organisations around the globe ARE connected and all to serve a common goal of "One World Government" but the disturbing implications of such an idea which was so vividly portrayed in George Orwell's book 1984 was because Orwell worked in government and he knew exactly what was planned for the future.
The topics covered in the book are not of someone's highly developed imagination in order to sell more books but years of journalistic research over the last 20 years and actual documented evidence including government documents and think tank documents that advise governments on policies that can be freely read on the internet. These think tanks dictate to governments what policies in their view should be pursued. Which begs the question who really is in control of the direction of World Affairs, Governments or Think tanks?.
He quotes interviews with people which gives his work extra credibility. These people he has interviewed for his book have had access to classified information that was fundamentally at odds with their moral principles and felt that somehow the general public needed to get to know this information somehow, so basically they had to at great risk to themselves for obvious reasons try to get the public informed of the true motives for world events. The book focusses on events like 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq but many other topics as well.
The information is too detailed and glaringly obvious that the topics covered in this book can no longer be regarded as conspiracy theories but undeniable conspiracy facts. For any super sleuths out their who can piece together information and make a conclusion from it, it should make perfect sense but in an imperfect world there will still be some people who say Uhhh! I just don't get it?. You will have to read it for yourselves to see which side of the fence you are. I know which side I am on for sure!!.
Amazing research, astounding results..., 19 Aug 2008
I have read a few of books from David Icke and they are all equally fascinating. This book is more then that. I recommend this to every person alive today, even a slight interest in the subject matter and you will be hooked. His delivery and his research are second to none. This man is Britains number one journalist. If not the world. I will be writing more once i have finished the book, lol.
David Icke is simply the world's leading reporter.., 01 Jul 2008
'All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident...' (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher)... Having read all off Icke's works, I can clearly say it has changed my life. The man's method is clear: Tell the truth, no matter where the evidence takes you. Nobody can afford to go through life without reading one of his books. Enough said.
His best yet!, 17 Jun 2008
I have his previous book - Tales from the Time Loop which at the time I thought was brill, but after I read this one I h ave to conced that this is the best book he's written yet!
Hes earlier books tended to be bogged down in wishywashy statements and a slight uncertainty about thim, with this book he writes clearly, concisely and with conviction and puts across his arguments really succinctly. For Style alone Ill give you 10/10 David!
But for content Id have to give you 20/10, yep it was brilliant, right down to the con that is 'Global warming.' and the vaccines that contain chemicals, metals and cancer causing agents and other fatal diseases.
If we all went to the David Icke school of learning I reckon we'd get a proper education instead of becoming mindless proles living off the crass entertainment that is 'prolefeed.' George Orwell had never been more right in his vision when he wrote 1984.
Let me know when you write your next one David, ill be there at the front of the q!
Fascinating, 16 Jul 2008
Although written for the lay man, this book does take some concentration for those of us who have never studied physics. That said, it is well worth the effort. A fascinating read that will make you look at life, the world and the whole universe in a completely new way
wrong end of the trumpet...hmm?, 01 Jul 2008
I came across this book some years ago and, with a grounding in arts and only a couple of years of very elementary science, I cannot possibly comment on the current veracity of the ideas in it. The word 'science' is somewhat misleading deriving as it does from the Latin 'to know' whereas 'to guess' would provide a more honest root to this ever changing discipline.
It is some time since I read McTaggart but I recall it was an intersting read which triggered a tentative foray into Quantum Theory which sounded to me pretty much what the ancients and mystics had 'known' all along - although from my point of view McT was looking at things down the wrong end of the trumpet.
What Quantum seems to tell us is that there are no absolutes and that our thoughts, emotions and intentions form our experience of the 'material world'. Those still hooked on the idea of an 'absolute' (as I understand even Einstein was - spending the rest of his life trying to disprove his equation) will find refuge in religion of one sort or another... including science which has, for many, replaced older faiths.
So... having written this review of the book and talked it up, I suppose I'd better read it again to see if I agree with myself. Hey, ho...
Interesting, but not a particularly easy read , 13 May 2008
This book is full of interesting information, and cutting edge ideas based on new research into physics. However, I found it quite hard-going at times - the author's style isn't particularly readable. I often had to grit my teeth in determination just to make it to the end of a chapter - and unfortunately I gave up about two-thirds way through the book. I think this would be a great book in the hands of a more entertaining writer.
The Field on CD, 25 Mar 2008
I opted to purchase the Field on CD and I loved every word! What was more for someone like me who knows little of Quantum Physics but am eager to understand it, I found that I understood the book (CD) completely.
As a Reiki healer used to receiving and sending distant healing I was thrilled to learn how this is achieved. The book impressed me so much that I am currently ordering extra copies for my family and friends. Everyone should know about this. It should be taught in schools and I hope in time that it will be so that positive thinking will heal our earth and all those who live on it both man and beast.
It didn't just change my life, it made sense of things I've pondered fr some time.
Thank you Lynne, you did a great job with this book, as well as with The Intention Experiment.
Informative , 08 Mar 2008
Lynne McTaggart gives a very detailed picturesc and journalistic coverage of these extremely interesting experiments. It does cover the same old subjects as some other books that are around at the moment but it is relatively unbiased and very clear about them. It is left entirely for the reader to decide what to make of the facts. What I make of it so far is that if 99.9% of the universe is made of 'dark matter' and 99.9% of matter is empty space, and all empty space is thoroughly ridden with 'virtual' particles, that arise from fluctuations in the 'zero-point energy field', only to anihilate each other almost immediately after coming into being, then what else could this 'dark matter' be, if not the combined mass of this unimagineably vast number of 'virtual' particles that exist temporarily everywhere all the time? It would explain why they've not found any yet. This book gives full details of experiments in psychokinesis, remote viewing, and precognition/premonition, and advice that anyone doing these experiments themselves can pick up on. The amount of research that has gone into this book makes it a real gem, even if you have already read other books on the same subject.
Terrific Stuff!, 02 Oct 2008
If the last Diana inquest bored you to tears, or you are sick of listening to crap 9/11 conspiracies, get hold of this brilliant book now.
Conspiracy theories, along with quack medicine, fake history and bogus science, all form "Counterknowledge" - that is, `misinformation masquerading as fact.'
The problem is huge, and Thompson powerfully argues that the 21st century faces a `pandemic of credulous thinking' when, conversely, our ability to evaluate claims made about science or history is better than ever before.
With the arrival of the scientific enlightenment, ideas that no longer held their ground were banished to the fringes of society. Now, with internet communication, they have a larger following than ever before.
But it's not all turtle-neck wearing novelists and bible-crazy wackos - the City of Westminster University offers, astonishingly, a degree in homeopathy.
Readers of the Guardian's Bad Science column will love this book. Damian Thompson fights Counterknowledge tooth and nail using reason and, crucially, systematically tested evidence. With his razor-sharp prose, he not only rubbishes the credulous world we live in, but calls on us to challenge the `guardians of intellectual orthodoxy' and waken them from greedy, slothful indolence.
Without doubt, this is my book of the year.
An odd combination of sneering and alarmism, containing numerous misconceptions and errors., 21 Sep 2008
Young-earth creationists in the US have built a museum containing mechanised tableaux showing dinosaurs and humans in Flintstone-style coexistence. `Alternative' therapies of no more medical value than sugar pills are available on the British National Health Service, with homoeopathic hospitals well-established and degree courses available in one of the new universities. In US academia, some `Afro-centric' historians play fast and loose with facts in their attempt to construct a distinctively `black' history which, according to at least one proponent, is teachable only by black people. Meanwhile, postmodernist literary and cultural theorists take it upon themselves to develop ill-conceived philosophical doctrines about the nature of truth and reality - and even in some cases to offer criticisms of such specialised fields as quantum physics.
Damian Thompson criticises all these trends, with copious footnotes and some theoretical discussion. He alerts the reader to many other putative instances of 'counterknowledge' - glossed: "misinformation packaged as fact" (p1) - and decries the "casual approach to the truth"(pp12, 44) that underlies and sustains them. This seems a worthwhile project, and in reviews it attracts descriptions such as `timely' and `much-needed'. These epithets are somewhat hyperbolic: this is only the latest addition to a substantial body of debunking literature, which goes back at least to Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, first published in 1841.
To adapt a remark of Dr Johnson, while one expects to see it done, one is surprised that it is not done better. While many of Thompson's points are correct as far as they go, the book's defects are so numerous and glaring and themselves betray such a `casual approach to the truth' that the reader could be forgiven for thinking that the word `Counterknowledge' embossed across the front categorises its contents rather than defining its subject matter.
One cannot avoid the suspicion that Thompson chose his title first and only then attempted to construct an entity corresponding to the catchy `counterknowledge' label. Many of the book's failings can be traced back to the assumption of a simplistic, polarised view of the intellectual landscape. Insiders, those engaged in a scarcely-examined `enlightenment project', have knowledge: a steady accretion of certainties, irrevocably established by academic consensus. Outside lies knowledge's evil twin, counterknowledge: not only untrue, but to Thompson, obviously so. The interesting - but potentially controversial - middle ground is simply ignored.
In delimiting the contours of his invented category, Thompson sides with orthodoxy and with the powerful, granting a latitude to supposed political and technical authorities which he denies to those on the intellectual or social fringes. Such facile deference betrays the enlightenment ideals he professes. Knowingly or not, he also includes among the enemies of reason a number of views which don't belong there. These views are caricatured or exaggerated, either by Thompson himself or by others whose reports he casually adopts.
The book is not aimed at changing minds: few of its significant targets will come as news to its self-selecting audience. There is nothing wrong with that in itself, but Thompson affects a gravitas which leads one to expect something a little more edifying than the opportunity to bay and jeer, as an assortment of intellectual freaks and outcasts is paraded by. Still, Thompson does his best to foster a certain siege mentality. His readers may be assured of the triumph of reason and the rightness of their opinions, but, crucially, they are offered a frisson of danger and flattered with the role of tough-minded hero standing, with Thompson, against the forces of chaos.
In the first three pages, Thompson's vocabulary sets the tone: "pandemic" (p1); "disturbingly", "alarming" (p2); "threatened", "vulnerable", "[not] immune", "converts", and more subtly, "outlandish"(p3). According to the synopsis on the inside cover, Thompson demonstrates that "unless the defenders of enlightenment values fight back soon, the counterknowledge industry has the potential to create new political, social and economic disasters". On the back cover, reviewer Nick Cohen joins the fray, projecting his own preoccupations onto Thompson's sketchily apocalyptic canvas: "Thompson shows how apparently harmless pseudo-science breeds nationalism, race hatred and disease".
Finally and perhaps most perniciously, Thompson swaddles his banalities, biases and non-sequiturs in an impenetrable tangle of junk philosophy and sociological verbiage. Even those astute enough to detect that something is wrong in Thompson's approach may well be baffled, browbeaten or bored into conceding that Thompson has a point - whatever exactly it is.
You can download my full detailed review - which is too long to post here - at mediafire.com/?mdyewdkdyw1.
A searing indictment of woolly thinking, 24 Aug 2008
This book must be read by the people who very earnestly insist that you "be more open-minded". Yes, Princess Diana may have been assassinated on the orders of the British Royal family, who may be lizards in human skin - however this is unlikely, in fact extremely unlikely. This book is a testament to the power of logic and common sense. All the usual suspects in the conspiracy theory game are picked apart, bit by bit, and revealed to be the total and inveterate nonsense that they are. We need more books like this for the people whose minds are so open, their brains have fallen out.
Shooting fish in a barrel, 06 Jul 2008
Generally I am with Mr R A Davies who gave the book two stars, but perhaps that is a little harsh.
Thompson is quite selective in his choice of targets, and treats them largely the same (despite his repeated points about what is and is not "counterknowledge"). That is, he attempts not only to oppose their arguments and their evidence but also to undermine their motives, and to treat them as charlatans. In most cases that may be legitimate, but not always.
The blurb says he has a PhD in the sociology of religion from LSE (presumably supervised by David Martin?). I would have expected that someone who had worked in that very nuanced area, which poses interesting questions about the validity of knowledge, to have been able to distinguish between positions better than he does. Take complementary medicine (CAM) as an example. He is very rude about it, relying heavily on one of its severest critics. That's fine (and I tend to agree with him).
However, he extends his condemnation beyond the science to the business, including pharmacists in Boots who refuse to assert that a product on sale is useless. This is not the same world. Placebo is a potent treatment, not entirely reliant on conscious belief but upheld by it (Evans D [2004] Placebo London; HarperCollins). The discourse has shifted, but Thompson has stuck with his positivism.
And it does not help that he castigates some proponents as "batty". Assertions like that are sloppy playground name-calling; they detract from his very sound analyses in many areas.
Pity; I heard him on "Start the Week". I was looking forward to reading the book, and to a sociologist's eye on these phenomena. All I found was some predictable debunking of fairly obvious targets.
Read Francis Wheen's "How Mumbo-Jumbo conquered the World" instead.
Irresistible, opinionated assault on dishonesty, 02 Jul 2008
Thompson seems genuinely angry at the dishonesty he encounters among those who would prey on our gullible natures. And there's also a sort of impish glee in the way he demolishes sloppy thinking. Thompson is a very funny writer and he's completely in command of his material. It's a mixture - decisive, pellucid argument, humour and savage indignation - that makes Counterknowledge a delight to read. I honestly think it should be a bestseller.
Excellent, 10 Jul 2008
This is just a quick thumbs up for the previous two reviews which sum up the book nicely. There is much food for thought and plenty of information for further reading. Some of the most interesting aspects for me were the descriptions of the ancient structures found in the pacific ocean. Undoubtedly the remnants of the lost civilisation of Lemuria that the inhabitants of Hawaii, South America and other pacific islands claim to have descended from in their 'myths'.
Great Book, 10 Jan 2008
I loved this book. It has short essays by most of the big names in this genre and I found it extremely informative. Plenty of further reading to be had here. I saw it as a gateway to a whole new field of authors and their opinions on how civilisation started, through to how the Pyramids are actually a power station!
If you like short, thought provoking stories you'll love it, if you like different views on how civilisation started and what the meaning of life is you love it too.
Hope this helps - I lent it to a friend and......she loved it.
A window into a fascinating area, 26 Jul 2007
Having decided to explore the area of ancient mysteries and the origins of humanity I decided that this book would be the ideal way in. Gladly, this is the case. The collection of short essays on different but related topics provides a superb overview of many of the thoughts in this area. Consequently, as an introduction to further reading it is ideal but should not be underrated as a great stand alone read. I was (surprisingly) impressed with the rigour applied in each essay - the writers in each case being keenly aware of the need to present opinion in the context of evidence and reasoning. Very compelling.
The Jesus Dynasty - James D. Tabor, 07 Oct 2007
This was an excellent and highly informative read. Previous reviewers have pretty much covered the aspects and arguments of the book so I won't repeat what has already been said.
Along with E P Sanders' "The Historical Figure of Jesus", I consider Tabor has got the closest to the real Jesus, that is, the Jesus living in first century Galilee. I have no trouble viewing Jesus as both a "viceroy for God" (as Sanders asserts Jesus saw his role as) and a would-be king of an independent Israel with apocalyptic tendencies (as Tabor sees him).
Tabor writes in a scholarly, yet popular and easy to follow manner, which helps to make a difficult subject accessible to scholar and layman alike. The notes and references at the back are plentiful, complete with with up to date scholarship, website references and a good use of primary sources, be it canonical, non-canonical, Roman, Jewish or pagan. One criticism is that there is no bibliography setting out all the sources in one section, the reader is left trying to "construct" one by the references used.
The illustrations are an added bonus, including pictures of the famous Talpiot tomb before being built over, the possibly genuine James Ossuary, the Pantera inscription (the possible, but highly unlikely father of Jesus), the Caiaphas Ossuary and the Temple Mount. Also featured are some drawings which bring to life events of Jesus' life and the world in which he lived.
All in all an essential read for anyone interested in Jesus and the origins of Christianity. This is a scholarly work without the pseudo-historical or sensationalism of other authors.
A Good Read for an Un-Decided, 12 Jun 2007
Although some of the findings here are also mentioned in the book; "Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code", this is an excellent read.
As mentioned in other reviews, Tabor clearly states when he's expressing views, and presents some compelling evidence.
Thoroughly recommended. Even if like me, you know very little about religion, or history for that matter.
Discounting God, not a good thing to do, 03 Oct 2006
If you liked The Da Vinci Code for its historical questioning of Jesus, His life and His linage, then you will probably like another "conspiracy" novel, The Jesus Dynasty, by James D. Tabor. With that said, ironically, Tabor himself blasts The Da Vinci Code for lack of evidence. At the outset Tabor lets us know that "The Jesus Dynasty has no connection to the recently popularized notions that Jesus married and fathered children through Mary Magdalene. While gripping fiction, this idea is long on speculation and short on evidence. But as is so often the case, the truth is even stranger than fiction - and every bit as intriguing" (pg 4).
The premise of The Jesus Dynasty is simply this: Jesus, a human, followed John the Baptist into starting a Two Messiah preaching of the establishment of God's Kingdom on Earth. Both men were executed and James, the brother of Jesus continued the lineage of Jesus and the introduction of Christianity to the world.
In his writing Tabor refutes the five basic tenants of Orthodox Christianity: Jesus' virgin birth, sinless life, sacrificial death, resurrection and His coming again. I will focus on the two most significant tenants - Christ's death and resurrection.
Concerning the sacrificial death, (that is where Jesus stated that no man takes His life, but that He lays it down, or as stated in the familiar verse, John 3:16.... For God so loved the world that He gave...), Tabor implies that Jesus was foolish in His thinking. Tabor says he is "convinced that he (Jesus) expected that he would be saved from death," (page 181). And again, on page 310 Tabor states that "he (Jesus) expected God would intervene to save him from his enemies at the final moment, and usher in the Kingdom of God" (pg 310). Tabor believes Jesus was tragically surprised when the crucifixion actually took place. Of course Tabor has no documents to support these claims, so he sounds a lot like Dan Brown, author of the Da Vinci Code.
Concerning the resurrection, Tabor states that there was none. His theory is that Jesus died from the crucifixion, but was buried twice; buried quickly the first time in a local tomb because of the Passover holiday, then reburied later in a grave closer to His home in Galilee (pg 238). Tabor then shares personal experiences of visiting different tombs in Israel to draw his conclusions.
Unfortunately, Tabor never examines or addresses the resurrection appearances of Jesus. If it can be shown that Jesus was alive after His crucifixion, then the basis of Tabors book.... that there is actual tomb with bones of Jesus' family (and most likely Jesus' also)... is bogus.
According to contemporary scholar Gary Habermas, "virtually all scholars agree that 1Corinthinans 15:3ff records an ancient oral tradition (s) that reports the Gospel data: Jesus Christ's atoning death, burial, resurrection and appearances to many persons. Critical scholars usually agree that this tradition introduced by Paul had a remarkably early origin. Most scholars who provide a date think that Paul received this creedal tradition between two and eight years after Jesus' death, or from approximately A.D. 32 to 38. Even skeptics frequently agree." The significance of the early dating of 1Corintians 15 is that those familiar with the situation would have been alive and able to refute these claims. Habermas shares that a "consideration is the failure of the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem to disprove the resurrection, even thought they lived precisely where Jesus had died and been buried just a brief time before. These ancient scholars were in the best position to expose any error, both because they strongly opposed his teaching and because their location allowed the most through inspection. In brief, these leaders had a motive, great location, and a method, but even as the resident skeptics, they did not refute the evidence."
Habermas goes on to say that there are "at least nine independent sources... all attesting to the resurrection appearance of Jesus. Such richness of texts is almost unheard of in the ancient world."
By concluding that Jesus died, and stayed dead before examining the resurrection appearances, Tabor has not been a true scholar and his conclusions are suspect. Anyone making eternal decisions in their own life based on Tabor's book would be foolish.
An interesting twist at the end of this novel is the politically correct way that Tabor melds together Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Tabor "offers new avenues of understanding between Jews, Christian, and Muslims" (pg 314). He goes on to state that "there is little about the view of Jesus presented in this book that conflicts with Islam's basic perception" (pg 316). In our post 911 political atmosphere perhaps Tabor feels that disclaimer is necessary. The Jesus Tabor presents is just another guy in history, not the Son of God in flesh.
All in all Tabor gives bizarre reasons for his views based on naturalistic thinking. Unfortunately, discounting the supernatural is like discounting God.... something they would not even dare to do at K-Mart during a blue light special.
A splendid book, but ...., 18 Jul 2006
I completely agree with all the other reviewers about what an informative, well written, thought-provoking book this is. I especially admire the way in which Professor Tabor is so scrupulous in attaching his own estimates of certainty to the statements which he makes: quite likely to be true ... possibly true ... mere conjecture. This is a refreshing contrast to the way in which so many other searchers after the 'historical Jesus' set about their work - orthodox believers and non-believers alike.
Yet, paradoxically, it's this feature of the book which, ultimately, makes it a bit disappointing. Especially when you read the book in conjunction with some of the critiques of it on the Web (which vary from the highly intelligent to the downright stupid) what's borne in on you is the sheer impossibility of reconstructing any reliable portrait of the `historical Jesus' from the available evidence. It's salutary to remember that the idea that the New Testament is a completely reliable and accurate record of events was disposed of over 150 years ago. Many Christian organisations have fought a long drawn out and stubborn rearguard action to conceal this uncomfortable fact, but the cat is out of the bag, and it is now generally accepted. However, to date, nobody has produced an account of `what really happened' which can hope to receive universal respect or acceptance.
Professor Tabor certainly shows what progress has been made, though, for anyone who kept in touch, even vaguely, with developments, the book contains few surprises. Crucially, and possibly without intending to, he also shows how limited we are by the available documentary and archaeological evidence. To me, he seems to demonstrate that, in the absence of new major documentary or archaeological discoveries, the end of the road has been reached, and that the search for the `historical Jesus' is, in a serious sense, a wild goose chase. Most believers and some non-believers will find this a very disappointing conclusion, but I can't see how it can be avoided.
But it's an excellent book - if the subject matter interests you even slightly, do read it.
Albert Schweitzer has a successor., 24 May 2006
Having read Schweitzer's Quest for the Historical Jesus fifty years ago, I have been disappointed by almost everything I have read on the subject since then - until James Tabor came along. He seems at last to have taken the quest forward and found a credible Jesus, rooted in a family and a society, shaped by its beliefs and expectations, a real human being whose virtues are highlighted by his shortcomings. One of the most striking things is that Tabor makes it clear how much Jesus was an exile, not only as a member of a Davidic family living outside Judaea, but also, during his mission, spending much of his time fleeing from Herodian Galilee. Like Muhammad, he is someone for all outcasts and emigrants and victims of persecution to identify with. It is time for the rest of humanity to reclaim Jesus from the Christians who have tried to make him their monopoly. He belongs to us all - Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, freethinkers...
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