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REVIEWS anced a way as can be expected, considering their shocking claims. And he reiterates that, far from being science fiction, the elec- tronic, microwave and even pharmacologi- cal mind-control and surveillance technolo- gies used by intelligence agency operatives are only becoming more sophisticated, intru- sive and lethal. As Keith would attest, were he with us today, there's no shortage of mind-control harassment victims coming forward to speak out, against the odds. Read this damning book to find out more about the black-budget projects which US taxpayers have unwittingly financed. BOOKS MASS CONTROL: ENGINEERING HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS by Jim Keith Publisher: IIlumiNet Press, USA, 1999 ISBN: 1-881532-20-8 (253pp tpb) Price: AUD$30.00; NZD$36.50; £11.95; USD$16.95 +$2.00 p&h in USA, $3.00 Canada, $5.00 elsewhere; NLG40,90 Available: Aust—NEXUS Magazine; NZ— NEXUS Office; UK—Counter Prodns, tel 0171 274 9009; Europe—NEXUS Office; USA—IIlumiNet Press, tel +1 (770) 279 2745, website www. illuminetpress.com; Adventures Unlimited, tel (815) 253 6390 W: dedicate our review of Jim Keith's posthumously published book to his memory. This celebrated conspiracy researcher died suddenly in September last year (see Global News 7/01). Perhaps it's ironic that Mass Control should be his last book, for never before has our challenge been more urgent, as mind-control technolo- gy becomes ever more finely tuned and increasingly used against 'troublesome' indi- viduals and groups. Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness is Jim Keith's follow-up to his 1997 book, Mind Control, World Control (see review in 5/02), and expands on many themes based on new material and testimo- ny. Keith provides additional historical per- spective, tracking today's social engineering movements such as outcome-based educa- tion to late 19th-century German influences (without the rhetoric). He briefly relates the experiences of several former CIA Monarch and cultist mind-control victims in as bal- SECRET CHAMBER by Robert Bauval Publisher: Century, UK, 1999 ISBN: 0-7126-8048-9 (433pp hc), 0-7126- 8453-0 (433pp, tpb) Price: AUD$27.95 (tpb); NZD$57.95 (hc), NZD$34.95 (tpb); £16.99 (he); NLG 66,90; USD$38.00 inc. p&h (hc) Available: Aust/NZ/UK— Random House; Europe—NEXUS, tel +31 (0)1321 380558; USA/Canada—NEXUS UK, tel +44 1342 322854, e-mail nexus@ukoffice.u-net.com he promised placement of an alloy cap- stone on the apex of the Great Pyramid by the Egyptian authorities on Ist January 2000—heralded by author/engineer Robert Bauval in his latest book, Secret Chamber— has not yet happened (at least as we go to press in early March). Nor has the tiny door in the shaft of the Queen's chamber been opened; nor has the fabled Hall of Records been discovered; nor have the ancient gods yet returned. But, the exciting news is that the symbolic sarcophagus of Osiris has been uncovered in a previously submerged cham- ber, 30 metres below the surface between 74 © NEXUS the Sphinx and the Khafre Pyramid, thus giving credence to Bauval's insistence that there are still secrets of great import just waiting to be discovered. In Secret Chamber, Bauval devotes a chap- ter to the tomb of Osiris and traces the eso- teric clues in Hermetic and Masonic texts which suggest that sacred books attributed to Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and writing, were deposited on "Monte Libyco", on the Giza plateau—most likely below the Sphinx, in view of recent seismographic evi- dence and Bauval's own astronomical calcu- lations. Indeed, the quest for the Hall of Records has taken on mythical overtones, boosted by Edgar Cayce's 1932 prophecy and, more recently, by the Cayce group ARE's willingness to fund excavations in hand with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. Bauval relates the stories and intrigue behind these and other latter-day attempts to unlock the mysteries of Giza, and his treatment is engrossing. APRIL — MAY 2000