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JUNE — JULY 2000 & REVIEWS the "Akashic records" and how to access The first book includes postings from the B oO oO K Ss them. Thankfully, the authors do acknowl- Latest Word column, with short features edge their debt to the ancients, and give due —_ from Steamshovel contributors like Len THE LIVING ENERGY UNIVERSE credit to more recent scientists/philosophers Bracken, Adam Gorightly and the late Jim by Gary Schwartz, PhD, and including Ken Wilber, Gary Zukav, Rupert _ Keith; insightful interviews with Thomas Linda Russek, PhD Sheldrake, Stuart Hameroff as well as Bevan _ himself, deceased activist/anarchist Kerry Publisher: Hampton Roads, USA, 1999 Reid—whose 1987 experiment on informa- Thornley as well as JFK; and missives from ISBN: 1-57174-170-4 (288pp he) tion transfer between crystals in Petri dishes __ fellow conspiracy journalists from Price: AUD$47.95; NZD$62.95: £16.99; they have replicated (their summary is in the Paranoia!, The Excluded Middle and the USD§21.95 oe ea re imei Topica eieeart ine contains reviews, news and posted links Available: Aust—Gemcraft, tel (03) 9888 tions for. everything. enormous impure from the site's Offline Illumination and 1 oe: Won wo te heh a Things Are Gonna Slide columns. (But if ; UK—Airlift Book Co., tel only these volumes had contents or index 0400; USA—Hampton Roads Publishing CONSIRACY. A Sronatey Ww pages to ease the navigation task...) Co., tel (804) 296 2772, fax (804) 296 . teamshovel Web The material is mainly US-centric and 5096, website www.hrpub.com Reader — Volumes 1 & 2 ranges from the bizarre to the intriguingly n The Living Energy Universe, Gary edited by Kenn Thomas interconnected, covering subjects/names as Schwartz and Linda Russek attempt to Publisher: The Book Tree, USA, 1999 diverse as the occult, CIA mind control, the unify science and spirituality via their sys- ISBN: 1-58509-125-1 (177pp tpb), Manson family, UFOs, Reich, Castaneda, temic memory hypothesis. Central to their 1-58509-126-X (125pp tpb) the globalisation agenda and the OKC model is the notion that all systems, from Price: £10.95 each + p&h; USD$13.95 bombing. Heady stuff for conspiracy buffs. the most microscopic to the universal, are each + p&h TY 2 eternal, alive and evolving and, as such, Available: UK—Counter Productions, tel r = have eternal, living, evolving memories. 020 7274 9009; USA—The Book Tree, PO Dr Schwartz, a professor of medicine, neu- Box 724, Escondido, CA 92033, website rology and psychiatry but with a focus on www.thebooktree.com integrative and bioenergetic medicine, set Sport or later, all good websites reach upon the idea in the early 1980s when study- information overload; so when it came ing systems theory. But it wasn't until 1993 _ time for Kenn Thomas, publisher of the US that he and Dr Russek, also a medical pro- conspiracy journal Steamshovel Press, to fessor involved in energy medicine, began to remove much of his website's material that develop the hypothesis—and in response to _ had built up over the recent years, he had it a question about life after death. collated and published in two book volumes The authors argue that the systemic memo- _ (or, a laser imprint for the digitally inclined) ry process is facilitated by "recurrent feed- as Cyberculture Counterconspiracy. Using back interactions" that occur between neu- this title, he pays tribute to Dr Timothy rons and neural networks, within all cells Leary, "the true champion of the cybercul- and molecules. The idea of tapping into this ture", and a host of mostly US-based con- "universal living memory" is not new; for spiracy researchers and counterculture com- instance, ancient Sanskrit teachings describe _ mentators, past and present. The first book includes postings from the Latest Word column, with short features from Steamshovel contributors like Len Bracken, Adam Gorightly and the late Jim Keith; insightful interviews with Thomas himself, deceased activist/anarchist Kerry Thornley as well as JFK; and missives from fellow conspiracy journalists from Paranoia!, The Excluded Middle and the UK-based journal Lobster. The second vol- ume contains reviews, news and posted links from the site's Offline Illumination and Things Are Gonna Slide columns. (But if only these volumes had contents or index pages to ease the navigation task...) The material is mainly US-centric and ranges from the bizarre to the intriguingly interconnected, covering subjects/names as diverse as the occult, CIA mind control, the Manson family, UFOs, Reich, Castaneda, the globalisation agenda and the OKC bombing. Heady stuff for conspiracy buffs. NEXUS - 75