"A textexamining modern-day accounts of UFOs, alien abductions and psychism, to uncover a century-long program of psychological fragmentation, collective indoctrination and covert cultural, social, and mythic engineering.
Whether it is the forces of God, government, aliens from outer (or inner) space, or the incalculable effects of childhood sexual trauma on the human psyche, premature contact with these forces compels us to create ""crucial fictions."" Such semi-coherent mythic narratives make partial sense out of our experience, but in the process turn us into the unreliable narrators of our own lives.
Taking UFOS and the work of ""experiencer"" Whitley Strieber as its departure point,Prisoner of Infinityexplores how beliefs are created and perceptions are managed in the face of the inexplicably complex forces of our existence. While keeping the question of a non-human and/or paranormal element open, the book maps how all-too-human agendas (such as the CIA's MK Ultra program) have co-opted the ancient psychological process of myth-making, giving rise to dissociative, dumbed-down Hollywood versions of reality. The New Age movement, UFOs, alien abductions, psychism, psychedelic mind expansion, Transhumanism, the Space Program - what if they are all productions devised by committee in dark rooms to serve social, political, and economic goals that are largely devoid of true substance or meaning?
Through an exacting and enlivening process of social, cultural and psychological examination and excavation,Prisoner of Infinityuncovers the most deeply buried treasure of all. The original, uncredited author of all mystery and meaning: the human soul."
By:
Jasun Horsley
Imprint: Aeon Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781911597056
ISBN 10: 1911597051
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 26 June 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Introduction - Conditioned to believe PART I: PASSPORT To MANCHURIA CHAPTER I - Heaven Stormers CHAPTER II - An archetypal traumatogenic agency CHAPTER III - A life full of holes: daimonic defense and national security CHAPTER IV - The infinite infant: the singularity & the resurrection of the body CHAPTER V - The secret guardian CHAPTER VI - Martian dreams CHAPTER VII - All work and no play: “Pain” & Strieber’s missing summer of ’68 CHAPTER VIII - A wound in the soul: the Master of the Key & the oedipal Project CHAPTER IX - Padre nostro castrato: the name of Whitley’s game CHAPTER X - Whitley’s baby: the unholy junction of 1968 PART II: CRUCIAL FICTIONS CHAPTER XI - The ones who must lie: alien abduction & MKULTRA CHAPTER XII - Finding the ground/leaving the ground: “Mind at Large” & the overview Effect CHAPTER XIII - Old seers, death defiers, open doors, & machine intervention CHAPTER XIV - Transhumanism, space travel, galactic religion & The key CHAPTER XV - The Lost Boys CHAPTER XVI - New skin for old ceremony: community building & space industrialization CHAPTER XVII - Skywalkers and Starkillers: the open conspiracy CHAPTER XVIII - Close encounters of the carnal kind AFTERWORD APPENDIX - Delivering the Poison Secret: A Review of Whitley Strieber & Jeffrey Kripal’s The Super natural NOTES REFERENCES INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jasun Horsleyis the author of several books, including the loose 'cultural engineering' trilogySeen and Not Seen, Prisoner of InfinityandThe Vice of Kings. He hosts a regular podcast, The Liminalist, at his website, Auticulture.
