Great fun. Some of those books once sat on my shelves alongside the anthropological hoaxes of Carlos Castaneda and other gems for consumption while stoned. Later in life, conspiracism (is that a word?) served as a counterpoint to my own professional analytic activity, which consisted mainly of pattern-matching and analogy-stretching with evidence based on human interactions. The dividing line between insightful and delusional may be tenuous.
I understand what you say about evil being evil, but still. I'm still attached to the sacrificial ritual aspect of the death camps as a means of summoning magical forces (the kind of thing Douglass Rushkoff explores in his graphic novel Aleister and Adolf).
It might not be true, but as you say, it makes a great narrative romp.
I understand your obsession with a certain film. I remember seeing Hitchcock's "Vertigo" at at the Saturday afternoon matinee of a Detroit movie theatre back when I was 12 years old. It is my favorite film of all time (and by coincidence is always rated very highly among the best films even made). The theme of reincarnation, the nightmare sequence, Kim Novak (!) , and Bernard Hermann's music have all haunted me. I have seen the film more than 20 times and would see it again anytime.
Oh man, I love those same kinds of books (non-fiction fiction) and have read several of the ones you mention, along with the complete works of John Keel and a few other good ones like Ong's Hat.
Great fun. Some of those books once sat on my shelves alongside the anthropological hoaxes of Carlos Castaneda and other gems for consumption while stoned. Later in life, conspiracism (is that a word?) served as a counterpoint to my own professional analytic activity, which consisted mainly of pattern-matching and analogy-stretching with evidence based on human interactions. The dividing line between insightful and delusional may be tenuous.
I understand what you say about evil being evil, but still. I'm still attached to the sacrificial ritual aspect of the death camps as a means of summoning magical forces (the kind of thing Douglass Rushkoff explores in his graphic novel Aleister and Adolf).
It might not be true, but as you say, it makes a great narrative romp.
I understand your obsession with a certain film. I remember seeing Hitchcock's "Vertigo" at at the Saturday afternoon matinee of a Detroit movie theatre back when I was 12 years old. It is my favorite film of all time (and by coincidence is always rated very highly among the best films even made). The theme of reincarnation, the nightmare sequence, Kim Novak (!) , and Bernard Hermann's music have all haunted me. I have seen the film more than 20 times and would see it again anytime.
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Oh man, I love those same kinds of books (non-fiction fiction) and have read several of the ones you mention, along with the complete works of John Keel and a few other good ones like Ong's Hat.