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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Controversial knowledge > Conspiracy theories
On 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala
Lumpur International Airport bound for Beijing. Less than an hour
after take-off, somewhere over the South China Sea the plane simply
vanished. One eyewitness saw a burning object crash into the sea.
But confusing radar signals trace tracked an aircraft taking an
erratic course across the Malaysian peninsula, then on to the
Andaman Sea. Did it crash there? Or did it fly on to land safely in
disputed lands of Central Asia, or the top secret CIA 'black site'
on Diego Garcia? Data from the Rolls Royce engines tracked by
Inmarsat was said to indicate that it might have ditched in the
furthest reaches of the South Indian Ocean. We know more about the
surface of the moon than the bottom of the sea there. And the
weather and currents are so bad, it may never be found. Convenient?
Two years later, the Australians are still search - at the cost of
billions - and have found nothing. But was the search in such a
remote place part of a cover-up to distract the world's attention
because the US Navy had, in fact, shot the plane down?Since the
invention of radio, radar, satellite navigation and the internet,
the world has become a smaller place. The answer must be out there.
Or, perhaps, hidden within the pages of the secret files.
How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and
the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this
ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs
symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific
knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became
part of a shared vocabulary. Through historical and ethnographic
case studies of three prominent figures-novelist and abductee
Whitley Strieber; environmentalist and reptilian proponent David
Icke; and David Wilcock, alleged reincarnation of Edgar Cayce-the
investigation reveals that millennial conspiracism offers an
explanation as to why the prophesied New Age failed to arrive-it
was prevented from arriving by malevolent, hidden others. Yet
millennial conspiracism constructs a counter-elite, a gnostic third
party defined by their special knowledge. An overview of the
development of UFO subcultures from the perspective of religious
studies, UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age is an innovative
application of discourse analysis to the study of present day
alternative religion.
Mind Synergy is about you. It is about how you lost your mind and
how with my help you're going to get it back. If you think I am
talking science fiction. Fine, but first ask yourself this; "Why do
I always doubt myself?" "Why am I stressed out?" "Why don't I have
the confidence to realise my goals?" And "Why oh why am I not happy
or at least happier?" Believe it or not your mind has the same
anatomy as Einstein or any other genius for that matter, the only
difference between you and them is that they found the way to use
their mind effectively and efficiently. Mind synergy shows you how
to silence the negative voices and how to get your mind to work in
sync with you and for you. What would your life be like if you
could use your mind to its full genius potential and you were
confident and happy? The answer is inside...
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