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EVIEWS SNITCH CULTURE transnationals having access to the NSA's by Jim Redden Echelon network and using it to spy on for- Feral House, USA, 2000 eign competitors for commercial gain. ISBN 0-922915-63-6 (233pp tpb) Stopping the spread of "snitch culture" Price: £10.99; NLGf37,90; US$14.95 + may be impossible, Redden laments, but he $4.50 s&h in USA, + $9.00 to Canada, + _—points to some progress by privacy and $5.00 elsewhere human rights groups and suggests how the Available: UK—Turnaround, tel 0181 829 __ status of paid informants can be under- 3000; Europe—NEXUS Office, tel +31 mined. His book is a dire warning to us all. (0)321 380558; USA—Feral House, tel (213) 689 4502, www.feralhouse.com; THE COSMOS OF SOUL Publishers Group West, tel 800 788 3123 _ by Patricia Cori Gateway/Gill & Macmillan, Ireland, 2000 (first pub. by Hushion House, Canada) ISBN 0-7171-3056-8 (188pp tpb) Price: A$37.25; NZ$39.00; £10.99 Available: Australia—Banyan Tree Book Distributors, tel (08) 8363 4244; NZ— NEXUS Office, tel (09) 405 1963; Ireland/UK— Gill & Macmillan, tel 353 1 500 9500, website www.gillmacmillan.ie uthor Patricia Cori is a clairvoyant and healer who utilises crystals, sound and colour. In 1995 she founded a healing cen- tre, the Lightworks Association, in Rome, and in 1997 found herself channelling com- munications of entities who identified them- selves as the Speakers of the Sirian High Council. She says she's not had a night of uninterrupted sleep since! With this, as with all channelled material, there's something to be gained by absorbing the information rather than by shooting the messenger; but that's certainly not to say it should be taken as absolute truth. Some of this material does seem a little simplistic and ill-informed. However, these Sirians do seem to care for the plight of humans as both physical and evolving spiritual beings, and via The Cosmos of Soul they remind us that we are truly galactic beings with a part Sutted "How citizens are turned into the eyes and ears of the state", Snitch Culture analyses the environment that's become pervasive in the US where people are encouraged to spy and tattle on neigh- bours, schoolmates, parents, co-workers and whistleblowers. Asset forfeiture laws are abused, with "informants" getting a cut of the proceeds from dobbing in someone they suspect of wrongdoing or just dislike—and adding to the burgeoning prison population in the process. The "snitching" mindset is encouraged via TV shows like America's Most Wanted and other "reality-based" pro-__*© Play in the cosmic scheme of things. grams which turn viewers into round-the- _ They warn that forces in denial of the true clock voyeurs for their amusement. light are grasping to keep humanity . Author Jim Redden, an Oregon-based enslaved. The planet's secret government is alternative news journalist, in this, his first utilising mass mood manipulation and com- book, accuses politicians, both Democrat munications control systems, but the Sirians and Republican, of working hand-in-glove urge us to get active if we really want to with law enforcement agencies to build a save our planet and ourselves. nationwide intelligence-gathering database They lash out at manipulation by religions and to make laws across all states for DNA which regard the sacred act of sexual union samples to be taken from convicted crimi- asa sin. They warn that EM radiation nals and sent to a National Offender (especially from microwave ovens) affects Database. This is just the tip of the iceberg _ the integrity of our subtle energy fields, and in the modern surveillance society, but they caution against cloning and organ much of what is now possible due to transplants. The Sirians would like us to advances in technology is far worse than is consider our very own DNA as the Hall of implied by the word "snitch", in my view. Records we're so intent on finding at Giza. Redden sees today's trend in informing as_ ~~ We need to change our understanding of stemming from early 19th century US cor- time and space and attune ourselves to the porate culture and boosted during mid-20th —_ sacred geometry of the Universe before we century McCarthyism. It has reached new can become light-bodied cosmic participants heights in the last decade or so, with US in the multidimensional universe. transnationals having access to the NSA's Echelon network and using it to spy on for- eign competitors for commercial gain. Stopping the spread of "snitch culture" may be impossible, Redden laments, but he points to some progress by privacy and human rights groups and suggests how the status of paid informants can be under- mined. His book is a dire warning to us all. THE COSMOS OF SOUL by Patricia Cori Gateway/Gill & Macmillan, Ireland, 2000 (first pub. by Hushion House, Canada) ISBN 0-7171-3056-8 (188pp tpb) Price: A$37.25; NZ$39.00; £10.99 Available: Australia—Banyan Tree Book Distributors, tel (08) 8363 4244; NZ— NEXUS Office, tel (09) 405 1963; Ireland/UK— Gill & Macmillan, tel 353 1 500 9500, website www.gillmacmillan.ie uthor Patricia Cori is a clairvoyant and healer who utilises crystals, sound and colour. In 1995 she founded a healing cen- tre, the Lightworks Association, in Rome, and in 1997 found herself channelling com- munications of entities who identified them- selves as the Speakers of the Sirian High Council. She says she's not had a night of uninterrupted sleep since! With this, as with all channelled material, there's something to be gained by absorbing the information rather than by shooting the messenger; but that's certainly not to say it should be taken as absolute truth. Some of this material does seem a little simplistic and ill-informed. However, these Sirians do seem to care for the plight of humans as both physical and evolving spiritual beings, and via The Cosmos of Soul they remind us that we are truly galactic beings with a part to play in the cosmic scheme of things. They warn that forces in denial of the true light are grasping to keep humanity enslaved. The planet's secret government is utilising mass mood manipulation and com- munications control systems, but the Sirians urge us to get active if we really want to save our planet and ourselves. They lash out at manipulation by religions which regard the sacred act of sexual union as asin. They warn that EM radiation (especially from microwave ovens) affects the integrity of our subtle energy fields, and they caution against cloning and organ transplants. The Sirians would like us to consider our very own DNA as the Hall of Records we're so intent on finding at Giza. We need to change our understanding of time and space and attune ourselves to the sacred geometry of the Universe before we can become light-bodied cosmic participants in the multidimensional universe. 76 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2001 www.nexusmagazine.com