tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post5398239391456089365..comments2024-03-07T12:48:21.070+00:00Comments on MAGONIA REVIEW: A DANGEROUS GAME?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-10272265244276568872012-03-07T10:44:11.296+00:002012-03-07T10:44:11.296+00:00I enjoyed 'Supernatural' and appreciated &...I enjoyed 'Supernatural' and appreciated 'Underworld' (for all their flaws, inevitable when charting the margins of human knowledge), yet this work appears messy and simplistic (like Hancock's lesser works). However not having read it I can't give it an honest nor knowledgeable assessment..<br /><br />Plus the review is from Clive Prince! Pot to kettle. Prince co-authored 'The Stargate Conspiracy' (1999) with Lynn Picknett, which put forward its own rather dubious conspiracy, in which the likes of Hancock and Bauval featured heavily - the latter being (probably unwitting) pawns in a powerful conspiracy of elite Western right-wing neocon types bent on pushing their imperialist agenda for world rule via an appealing New-Age philosophy predicated on a Hancock-Bauval-Gilbert friendly interpretation of ancient Egyptian esoteric knowledge, more modern-day occult lore and belief in UFOs as ET spaceships. This conspiracy was supposed to come to the fore (somehow) via the triggering event of the Egyptian pyramid capstone ceremony at the dawn of the new millenium! <br /><br />Central to Prince & Picknett's conspiracy is the story of 'the Nine', the hidden supposedly extraterrestial 'watchers' of humanity that seek to interfere with and steer our destiny, all for the better until we attain universal enlightenment. All this 'knowledge' of course channeled via mediums such as Phylis Schlemmer and others (like Uri Geller way back when), and catalyzed in the main via the late enigmatic parapsychologist Andrija Puharich (a major pawn if not player in P&P's conspiracy). Also the likes of Robert Temple (of Sirius mystery fame), James Hurtak and plenty others (politicians, statesmen and spy agencies included) are coloured with the conspiracy cloth. Even the CIA's remote viewing program is brought into it. <br /><br />It's not that P&P take this conspiracy seriously at all (they don't and they don't think UFOs are ET vehicles neither), it's that they allege there is a deliberate conspiracy here in the first place; ignoring the role of the unconscious, at the individual and social level and the 'it's a small world' reality. Should we really be surprised that scientists, bureaucrats, psychics, politicians and others with the same obsessive interests become acquainted with one another? <br /><br />And I have gotten off the point entirely, being H&B's book and the review! Yet I am bemused that H&B's wishy-washy soft conspiracy book is reviewed by one of the most notable proponents of modern-day conspiracy lore. No doubt this is part of the conspiracy, and Magonia is neck-deep in it! <br /><br />Where is our new Robert Anton Wilson when he is needed?Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04531198239870181089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-25615013635132767242012-03-06T06:54:01.056+00:002012-03-06T06:54:01.056+00:00Haven't read the book, but just finished watch...Haven't read the book, but just finished watching a video monologue presented as an interview with Hancock. I never had an opinion on him one way or the other until carefully and critically listening to him spieling out his belief system about the "Lost Civilization" on that video. More than once he presented something as fact without any evidence other than a completely subjective personal reflection. Unfortunately, like so many embedded in or circling around the paranormal movement, he seems to be in the game simply to sell books to those who want to believe. In that sense, he's no better or worse than others peddling quasi-paranormal and alternative history nonsense. I think I'll be passing on this book, however.purrlgurrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519835482606629362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-74274095636821830042012-03-05T20:23:18.284+00:002012-03-05T20:23:18.284+00:00This sounds suspiciously like a retread of their b...This sounds suspiciously like a retread of their book, "Talisman: Gnostics, Freemasons, Revolutionaries, and the 2000-Year-Old Conspiracy at Work in the World Today." I wonder what difference in players or structure they could have found between 2004 and now that would make this a different read. Anything?Jeremy Vaenihttp://www.paratopia.netnoreply@blogger.com