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66 = NEXUS & REVIEWS POPULAR PARANOIA: "Saucer Section", touching on other-worldly —_ (1863-1945) in delineating the laws and A Steamshovel Press Anthology matters at the risk of his own credibility, principles of the biosphere—the physical edited by Kenn Thomas because he has an inkling of how far the ten- _ envelope that surrounds Earth—Argiielles Adventures Unlimited Press, USA, 2002 tacles of the Octopus spread—as readers posits that the biosphere is developing a ISBN 1-931882-06-1 (320pp I/f tob) familiar with his research would know. mental envelope, the noosphere, and that the Price: A$45.00; NZ$49.00 + p&p; £17.50 technosphere, the artificial construct encom- inc. p&p; Euro 25,90; US$19.95 + s&h TIME AND THE TECHNOSPHERE passing modern industrialised civilisation, is Availability: Australia/NZ/UK/Europe— by lose Argielles, FhD the necessary bubble that must burst before NEXUS offices; USA—Adventures ttlons, , t - Unlimited, tel (815) 253 6390, website ISBN 1-879181-99-1 (259pp tpb) But we must do this before Jay 26. 204; he http:/Awww.adventuresunlimitedpress.com Price: A$46.00; NZ$59.95; £17.99; oN ferercen by theMwa actic t's hard to believe that six years have Euro25,90; US$20.00 s H {foreseen Dy the Maya. Lis th elapsed since we reviewed Popular Availability: Australia—Brumby Books, tel ditchine of she GroeSroan calendar ah arti- Alienation, an anthology of the first 13 edi- (03) 9761 5535; NZ—NEXUS Office; ficial construct tha binds much of the world tions of the Missouri-based underground UK—Deep Books, tel 020 8693 0234; toa 12-month/60-minute time-scale—and conspiracy zine, Steamshovel Press. That Europe—NEXUS Office; USA—Inner the adoption of a 13-month/28-day lunar cal- "all conspiracy, no theory" samizdat will Traditions, tel (802) 767 3174, endar, This resonates with the 13:20 fre- turn 15 in 2003, which is some achievement. _http:/Avww.|nnerTraditions.com It certainly deserves its place in the annals of | | umanity has just about run out of time popular culture for the side-swiping icono- in the linear sense, argues Dr José quency that the Maya identified as the key to synchronising with natural, cosmic time. Argiielles is so serious about this that he clastic perspectives it presents. Argiielles in this long-awaited sequel to his 5 Much has happened since 1995, and some 1987 The Mayan Factor. In Time and The devotes mucho Pais energy 10 the Ward of the significant events are reflected in Technosphere, he suggests that the destruc- _ \4gyement. Paradigm-changing stuff! commentary in issues nos. 14 (Fall 1995) tion of the two World Trade Center towers . _ through 18 (2001). This new compilation, and part of the Pentagon on September 11, celle FHE Popular Paranoia, reflects a rising tide of 2001, was the "Inevitable Event" described be. nig suspicion that's so much a part of the global _in the Quran that would result from Western i jenNOSPH ERE conspiracy culture and is now entering the civilisation's pursuit of materialism on a |e earn, GumagyHFTaics average Western psyche. It covers, admit- global scale and its disregard for natural ’ 4 tedly with an American bent, "parapolitical" forces and universal time cycles. Dr ay subjects as diverse as the Nation of Islam, Argiielles is well known for his part in the the Oklahoma City bombing, the death of Harmonic Convergence global peace medi- ~ . Diana, Princess of Wales, and the influence tation of August 16-17, 1987, and for his of "the Octopus". It also includes the last landmark research into Maya cosmology. interviews with Ginsberg, Burroughs and Here he heralds the dawning of a New Age "neuronaut" Leary. (It must be said, though, of Time, if only we can overcome the death that the omission of a contents page doesn't throes of the so-called technosphere—the make it easy for the reader.) 56-year cycle that began with the atomic Steamshovel's Kenn Thomas is one of the bomb detonations in 1945 and ended, he few alternative news editors/publishers believes, with the events of 9-11. Drawing courageous enough to include a regular on the work of Russian scientist Vernadsky "Saucer Section", touching on other-worldly matters at the risk of his own credibility, because he has an inkling of how far the ten- tacles of the Octopus spread—as readers familiar with his research would know. (1863-1945) in delineating the laws and principles of the biosphere—the physical envelope that surrounds Earth—Argiielles posits that the biosphere is developing a mental envelope, the noosphere, and that the technosphere, the artificial construct encom- passing modern industrialised civilisation, is the necessary bubble that must burst before we can reclaim our connection with nature. But we must do this before July 26, 2004, he says, or we won't survive the 2012 galactic shift foreseen by the Maya. Intrinsic to ensuring our survival is the ditching of the Gregorian calendar—an arti- ficial construct that binds much of the world to a 12-month/60-minute time-scale—and the adoption of a 13-month/28-day lunar cal- endar. This resonates with the 13:20 fre- quency that the Maya identified as the key to synchronising with natural, cosmic time. Argiielles is so serious about this that he devotes much of his energy to the World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement. Paradigm-changing stuff! os ellesePh.D. = Hoyanieeere: www.nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2002 — JANUARY 2003