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APRIL —- MAY 1999 & REVIEWS this book can't say a hard-and-fast "yes", B oO oO K S though there have been rumours of movies like ET being "government-sponsored". PROJECT MINDSHIFT: The Rather, the media, whether film, television, Re-education of the American Public print or music, have been capitalising on the Concerning Extraterrestrial Life public imagination for decades because . . there is money to be made! by Michael Mannion Yet Mannion's trip through 50 years of Publisher: M. Evans & Co., USA, 1998 media and scientific mindshift, both pro- ISBN: 0-87131-856-3 (304pp he) and anti-UFOs, makes you realise how the Price: £14.99; USD$19.95 public mindset has been transformed and is Available: UK—NEXUS office, tel 01342 now "primed" for the "truth"...soon; more- 322854; UK/Europe— Gazelle Book over, how important it is to be discriminat- Services, tel +44 01524 68765; USA— ing. The interviewees, including John M. 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Well, yes, concludes author Michael position on the UFO phenomenon. on ea Th this book can't say a hard-and-fast "yes", MARTIAN GENESIS B oO oO K Ss though there have been rumours of movies by Herbie Brennan like ET being "government-sponsored". | Publisher: Judy Piatkus Ltd, UK, 1998 PROJECT MINDSHIFT: The Rather, the media, whether film, television, —_|§BN: 0-7499-1857-8 (216pp hc) Re-education of the American Public Pr. or Must. have been capitalising onthe Price: AUD$39.95; NZD$49.95; £16.99 Concerning Extraterrestrial Life... vee is meneytobemadel Available: Australia—Hodder Headline, by Michael Manni ney to 0 : tel (02) 9841 2800; New Zealand—David ry Michael Mannion Yet Mannion's trip through 50 years of Publisher: M. Evans & Co., USA, 1998 : ae ae ; Bateman Ltd, tel (09) 415 7664; UK— u , , media and scientific mindshift, both pro- Piatkus Book: 10171 631 0710 ISBN: 0-87131-856-3 (304pp he) and anti-UFOs, makes you realise how the anes, ‘00 re re Herbie B . Price: £14.99; USD$19.95 public mindset has been transformed and is Is thot ‘Pa It y iv ve varch or sa Available: UK—NEXUS office, tel 01342 now "primed" for the "truth”...soon; more- di syn but i te a lated subiects in hadi 322854; UK/Europe— Gazelle Book over, how important it is to be discriminat- humanit ns oniging vtnomalous ttofacts. tos t Services, tel +44 01524 68765; USA— ing. The interviewees, including John civilisations vated technolocies, ancient raps M. Evans & Co., 216 East 49th St, New Mack, Stanton Friedman, Budd Hopkins, cosmic and planetar ite! cms visitore. York, NY 10017, tel (212) 688 2810 David Jacobs and Michael Lindemann, seem 5) syace a4 Wtonniments on Mars as the public mindset been subjected to _to agree on this, though some of them beg to P . . i" H : diff teach other. Mannion’ The title, Martian Genesis, suggests the a concerted mass re-education cam- mer amongst caca ober. Mannion's argu" human race was seeded from Mars. But, paign about UFOs and ETs over the last 50 ment gives sceptics reason to rethink their years? Well, yes, concludes author Michael position on the UFO phenomenon. Mannion in his book, Project Mindshift, though he suggests that the mingling of information with disinformation, science with fantasy, has created much confusion. Mannion is a New York City-based medicine/health writer interested in emerg- ing social and scientific paradigms. Here he proposes the Mindshift Hypothesis: "Our world has been and is now being visited by advanced intelligent entities from elsewhere, and this reality has been known to a limited number of people within the US government since at least 1947." He says that by apply- ing this assumption, the open-minded person must consider "if...then..." scenarios, such as while Brennan identifies aspects of ancient Egyptian, Chinese and Indian civilisations which suggest seeding or at least visitations from other worlds, his case for Mars being our source is not set in stone. Despite this, the geometric correspondences between the Giza and Cydonia landscapes still beg for explanation, but the jury is out until after mapping can be completed in late 1999. As for the Face, Brennan writes that the Surveyor image, taken in April 1998, does contain human features when enhanced, but it looks more like a face in the reduced ver- sion than the enlarged. Again, he stresses that the Face cannot be dismissed when the entire Cydonia region, of which it is a part, still awaits detailed scientific analysis. Martian Genesis doesn't offer a great deal American Publir Concerning why the government would have adopted a Extraterrestrial Llfe secrecy/ disinformation stance and used the ony. that's new to NEXUS readers who have been media for its "controlled releases". 10k Pa doing their homework. However, there's a So is there a government/media conspiracy huge audience out there who are waking up on "UFO reality"? Mannion and most of the STCRAEL WAHWVICH to this non-mainstream information, so this ufologist "Mind Shifters" interviewed for book should pique their curiosity. The e-education of the hmerican Foblic Conesrning Extraterrestrial [fe