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REVIEWS & of psychic Ingo Swann—to try to catch up. B oO oO K S Rifat succinctly summarises the history of US remote viewing and the key people REMOTE VIEWING involved, many of whom have gone into pri- by Tim Rifat vate business in the 1990s. He also reprints Publisher: Century, UK, 1999 three hefty Defense Intelligence Agency ISBN: 0-7126-7908-1 (442pp hc) documents, one of them a 1972 paper, Price: AUD$39.95 + p&h; NZD$89.00; "Controlled Offensive Behavior: USSR", £17.99; USD$47.00 which outlines what the US then knew of Available: Aust—Sydney Esoteric B/shop, Soviet psychic military research. tel (02) 9212 2225; NZ—NEXUS Office, Rifat considers the use of ELF waves and tel (09) 403 8193; UK/USA—NEXUS UK entrained microwaves, and suggests that the Office, tel +44 (0)1342 322854, e-mail UK's ubiquitous cellphone network could be nexus@ukoffice.u-net.com used for mass mind and behaviour control. aving been researching the science of the paranormal for over 20 years and GIZA: THE TRUTH established his own company, Paranormal by lan Lawton & Chris Ogilvie-Herald Management Systems, a few years ago, Tim —_ Publisher: Virgin Publishing, UK, 1999 Rifat, BSc, has now written his first book, ISBN: 1-85227-821-8 (560pp hc) Remote Viewing. NEXUS readers who have Price: AUD$55.00; NZD$59.95; £20.00; read his articles (see 3/06, 4/01, 4/02) will USD$54.00 (from UK) be familiar with some of the subject matter Available: Aust—Penguin, tel (03) 9871 of his book, e.g., on the physics of remote 2400; NZ—Reed Books, tel (09) 480 4950; viewing (RV) and the history of military UK/USA—NEXUS UK Office, fax +44 telepathy. However, he goes into much (0)1342 324574; Eur—Try NEXUS Office; — USA—London Bridge, tel 1800 805 1083 ou could be forgiven for thinking a book called Giza: The Truth was a bit ambitious in its promise, but authors Ian Lawton and Chris Ogilvie-Herald deliver the facts, while admitting that the Giza monu- ments continue to be enigmatic. As they exhaustively document, most "New Egyptology" researchers going back a few decades have made errors that have led many others, as well as the public, down false trails, and latter-day alternative archae- ology writers have only compounded on these errors. Picknett and Prince also explore such examples in The Stargate Conspiracy. Together, these books are a sobering reminder that we need to be alert when judging truth in history. Giza: The Truth is the less speculative of the two books. Its authors set the record straight on the age of the Giza monuments (very much in line with orthodox dating); why and how the plateau's pyramids were built (they can be understood in the context of their times); the reports from European explorers; and the evidence for secret Pyramid chambers, and an alleged Hall of Records (there isn't much). Backing up their criticism, Lawton and Ogilvie-Herald cut a swath through the work of many high-profile authors, such as Sitchin, Bauval and Hancock, and accuse some Egyptophiles of having egos that "are vibrating at a new, higher frequency"! They also cover, at length, the huge political intrigue that has dominated events on the Giza Plateau in the last 10 years—as it will continue to do in the millennium turnaround. A timely, compelling volume. Tek Biarersy ene eed more detail here on several techniques for learning remote viewing, including US mili- tary CRV (co-ordinate RV), the Russian ERV (extended RV) method which requires the practitioner to be in a theta brainwave state, and the directed attention technique. As Rifat explains, research into tapping the potential of the paranormal for military pur- poses began in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, with an hiatus during the Stalin era. By 1970 they were spending around 60m roubles a year on it, thus spurring on the Americans—the CIA at first, with the help of psychic Ingo Swann—to try to catch up. Rifat succinctly summarises the history of US remote viewing and the key people involved, many of whom have gone into pri- vate business in the 1990s. He also reprints three hefty Defense Intelligence Agency documents, one of them a 1972 paper, "Controlled Offensive Behavior: USSR", which outlines what the US then knew of Soviet psychic military research. Rifat considers the use of ELF waves and entrained microwaves, and suggests that the UK's ubiquitous cellphone network could be used for mass mind and behaviour control. GIZA: THE TRUTH by lan Lawton & Chris Ogilvie-Herald Publisher: Virgin Publishing, UK, 1999 ISBN: 1-85227-821-8 (560pp hc) Price: AUD$55.00; NZD$59.95; £20.00; USD$54.00 (from UK) Available: Aust—Penguin, tel (03) 9871 2400; NZ—Reed Books, tel (09) 480 4950; UK/USA—NEXUS UK Office, fax +44 (0)1342 324574; Eur—Try NEXUS Office; USA—London Bridge, tel 1800 805 1083 ou could be forgiven for thinking a book called Giza: The Truth was a bit ambitious in its promise, but authors Ian Lawton and Chris Ogilvie-Herald deliver the facts, while admitting that the Giza monu- ments continue to be enigmatic. As they exhaustively document, most "New Egyptology" researchers going back a few decades have made errors that have led many others, as well as the public, down false trails, and latter-day alternative archae- ology writers have only compounded on these errors. Picknett and Prince also explore such examples in The Stargate Conspiracy. Together, these books are a sobering reminder that we need to be alert when judging truth in history. Giza: The Truth is the less speculative of the two books. Its authors set the record straight on the age of the Giza monuments (very much in line with orthodox dating); why and how the plateau's pyramids were built (they can be understood in the context of their times); the reports from European explorers; and the evidence for secret Pyramid chambers, and an alleged Hall of Records (there isn't much). Backing up their criticism, Lawton and Ogilvie-Herald cut a swath through the work of many high-profile authors, such as Sitchin, Bauval and Hancock, and accuse some Egyptophiles of having egos that "are vibrating at a new, higher frequency"! They also cover, at length, the huge political intrigue that has dominated events on the Giza Plateau in the last 10 years—as it will continue to do in the millennium turnaround. A timely, compelling volume. 74 - NEXUS DECEMBER 1999 — JANUARY 2000