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23 DECLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS CONTAINING LITTLE KNOWN FACTS NOT FOUND ANYWHERE ELSE!
Former Military Intelligence Operative COMMANDER X has compiled a massive -- large size, 8xll -- work containing previously unreleased information regarding the workings of the New World Order, the military-industrial complex, various secret societies...as well as data related to the late great genius Nikola Tesla, time travel, invisibility, anti gravity flight, area 5l.
The reports include:
** MIND CONTROL MACHINES OF BIG BROTHER.
** TIME TRAVEL EXPERIMENTS OF THE MILITARY.
** AREA FIFTY ONE; GENETIC MONSTER LABORATORY.
** DARK WORLD OF REPTILIANS; EARTHS PARALLEL LOST RACE!
** NIKOLA TESLA BELIEF IN COLLIDAL SILVER.
** INVISIBLE DEATH RAYS IN THE SKY.
** SEX, SATAN AND THE CIA.
** PSI-COPS -- SINISTER PSYCHIC TOOLS OF THE CIA.
** MURDER, MAYHEM, SUICIDE - MIND ALTERING MADNESS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
** NASA'S PROJECT BLUE BEAM EXPOSED.
** ILLUMINATI, SKULL AND BONES; SECRET SOCITIES EXPOSED.
** FBI REPORT ON SATANIC CHILD ABUSE.
** NIKOLA TESLA SEARCH FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGE SOURCES.
** ANTI GRAVITY; SECRET BLACK PROJECTS EXPOSED!
** MONEY LENDERS; WHO CONTROLS THE MONEY SYSTEM?
** AREA 51 - SECRET UFO BASE.
** THE CAR THAT RAN BY WATER.
** ALIEN IMPLANTS AND UFO ABDUCTIONS -- ET THREAT OR SECRET GOVERNMENT DECEPTION?
** INVISIBILITY EXPERIMENTS OF THE U.S. NAVY.
** CIA HOLOGRAPHIC WARFARE.
** GEORGE WASHINGTON'S VISION OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
** HOW TO CLONE A HUMAN - NOW A REALITY!
** NIKOLA TESLA'S SECRET INVENTION; MIRACLE OF PURPLE PLATES.
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Customer Reviews:
The Truth In Pieces.......2001-10-11
Are you a bona fide conspiracy buff? Or at least a fan of "The X-Files"? If so, you should really enjoy "Suppressed Intelligence Reports" by the well-known yet unknown Commander X. Commander X has here assembled a marvelous collection of documents that deal in great detail with various aspects of the Conspiracy Big Picture and offer a glimpse inside the dark inner workings of the so-called Secret Government and its various entangling alliances with aliens, devils and even its own military personnel.
All the chapters in this anthology have been previously released under separate covers, but they make even more interesting reading bound together in one book, which allows you to see how the different authors complement each other and combine to carefully build scenarios of interlocking facts mixed with educated suspicion.
Some of the standout chapters are authored by Ike Dillon, who masterfully attacks such diverse subjects as Antigravity Flight and the alien race of serpents called the Reptilians, often cited as being the most evil of the various UFO occupants. The case histories of mass murderers Timothy McVeigh and Michael McDermott are also examined by Dillon, and the possiblity that some form of military brainwashing was behind their violence is explored in a chapter called "Murder, 'Suicide,' Mind Altering Madness of the New World Order."
Other chapters are equally fascinating, particularly one on the Illuminati and the Skull and Bones societies, as well as one about the CIA's secret experiments with holograms as a military and psychological weapon. There is even a chapter called "How To Clone A Human" that reveals medical and genetic details on the cloning process that were previously kept secret for many years.
While some of what is here may simply be expressions of a well-intended but over-the-top paranoia, the book is nevertheless a treasure trove of conspiracy theories that could accurately depict a sinister presence that is still awaiting its time to be revealed.
Inarguably, the truth that lies behind the black veil of secrecy is a long way from being exposed. But with books like "Suppressed Intelligence Reports," a process of chipping away slowly at that hidden truth has at least begun. If even ten percent of what this book contains is literally factual, then we have every reason to be concerned about just where the hidden agenda of the conspirators is leading us all to. The old expression "Forwarned is forearmed" is very appropriate here. To defend ourselves, we must first be informed. And in that quest to be informed, Commander X's anthology of conspiracy reports is a good place to start.
THIS IS TOO EERIE.......2001-10-01
There are so many sections to this book -- some 23 exactly. One thing that is missing is a detailed index -- but I guess you can't have anything. Particular, when you keep in mind that there is so much material here that this would have been a full time job. The best material has to be in regard to Nikola Tesla and some of the stuff on top secret experiment in the area of time travel and anti gravity research being conducted inside Area 5l.Some of the material I have to admit is really spooky -- if it is true we should be scared. Supposedly the New World Order and a group of aliens known as the greys are cloning humans in underground bases around the world -- FOR FOOD? Some abductees claims they have even seen clones of themselves while being held captive by secret fractions of our military affiliated with the NWO. Another report deals with a lost race living along side us on earth since the beginning of creation. It details the existence of the Reptilians or the SERPENT RACE. Its hard to believe that this is all real when you consider that we have enough evil in the world as it is without having to deal with entities from other dimensions and realms. On a positive note there are some other reports on alternative healing such as the use of the Tesla Purple Energy Discs and plates when are said to have great benefits in the area of relieving stress, depression and healing ailments. Colloidal Silver is also given a good rating; though I am still somewhat skeptical myself and will have to do further research.
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As many earthlings already know--including more than 2 million computer users with firsthand experience--our best hope for finding extraterrestrial intelligence might just lie with an ingenious little screensaver. So it's not surprising that this introduction to searching for and communicating with intelligent life begins with some of the details behind UC Berkeley's groundbreaking, massively distributed SETI@home project, which processes intergalactic noise for pennies on the teraflop. But that's just the start of the story. Inventor and software developer Brian McConnell continues with an overview of whether and why we might find something out there, who's doing what to look for it (including the folks at Berkeley), and--once some ET picks up on the other end--what we might say and how we might say it.
This last problem, which occupies the final half of the book, proves to be the most thought-provoking, and McConnell has put together a methodical, nuts-and-bolts walkthrough of both the challenges involved and how binary code might be enlisted to solve them. If you've taken even a single computer-science class in your life, you'll probably skip ahead through explanations of data structures and Boolean arithmetic, but McConnell doesn't want to leave anyone behind in fleshing out his alien-friendly lingua numerica. The book's first half surveys various SETI projects, past and present, and includes generous sections on signal processing, what sort of radio and laser hardware has been mobilized for the search, and how exactly SETI@home works. (So, if nothing else, now you can know how your computer decides if it's talking to aliens while you're off having lunch.) --Paul Hughes
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"What do we need to know about to discover life in space?" --Frank Drake, 1961 In the early 1960s, Frank Drake, a young astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, developed what is now known as the "Drake Equation" in an effort to determine how many intelligent, communicative civilizations our galaxy could harbor. For forty years, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has combed the skies in search of signals from star systems within the galaxy. In Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations, author Brian McConnell goes behind the scenes and examines what goes into the search for intelligent life. SETI is a four-step process. First we have to know where to look; then we must be able to send and receive signals to that star system. Once signals arrive, scientists then need to be able to interpret those signals into something that can be understood. And although we haven't yet received any signals (except for our own Earth-based transmissions), we'll eventually have to figure out a protocol for responding. Beyond Contact introduces you to:
- The history of SETI research, including the early searches of Project Ozma, traditional radio astronomy, the search for intelligence in optical wavelengths (known as Optical SETI, or OSETI), and the SETI@home project.
- An overview of the Drake Equation and the Rare Earth Hypothesis, which scientists use to estimate the number of planets in our galaxy that could harbor intelligent, communicative life forms.
- How signals are sent and received over interstellar distances. The author explains the principles of signal and image processing, and how SETI researchers identify and process analog signals using Fourier transforms to see how the power in a signal is distributed across different frequencies.
- How to build a general-purpose symbolic language for sending signals, and even computer programs, with present-day SETI equipment. The ability to transmit computer programs enables us to let another civilization know about our knowledge and technological capabilities.
The author also shows how SETI research--though often thought to be a mere flight of fancy--has spawned technological improvements in astronomy, computers, and wireless communications. Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations sidesteps the "little green men" approach to take a hard, realistic look at the technologies behind the search for intelligent life in our universe.
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Awesome!.......2007-07-12
This is the kind of book you need to understand the details of SETI, how does it work, what its limitations would be, and what technology is behind. It is an excellent addition to your personal library if you are a tech-savy and enjoy learning about science and technology.
Get's down to the skinny when it comes to communicating with aliens.......2007-06-20
This is a very all-encompassing book about extraterrestrial communication, and goes to considerable length explaining how it would be done through binary language. It is a very intelligent book about life on other planets, The Drake Equation, etc. People need to know what they're getting into if they buy this book - it really is for those who have a more technical/scientific bent towards the whole SETI process. If you think Speilberg's ET or Sagan's Contact are the bees knees when it comes to intellectual sci-fi, then this book is definitely not for you. I should point out that there is a direct correlation between a person's IQ and how high a score they give this excellent tome.
can't take it seriously.......2002-04-15
Here's a book that superficially looks like a serious technical discussion of SETI, even to the point where many potential readers may be intimidated by the diagrams, equations, jargon, and so on. But in reality, it's very lacking in solid scientific information.
For example: On page 116, one of the factors mentioned as a limit to OSETI (finding laser beacons and such) is extinction--the attenuation of light due to dust in the intersteller medium. This, it is said, limits our ability to see laser beacons to "a few dozens light years" for visible wavelengths. Really?? Then how come you can go and see stars farther away than that with your naked eye? Oh, because they're brighter! Well, how bright does a laser beacon need to be? How much attentuation is there, in per cent, dB or whatever, at, say, 100 light years? How much does a beam spread out over, say, 100 light years? How much variation in the signal is there over time as a result of dust? Not a BIT of quantitative data on this stuff!
Like all other SETI enthusiasts I've seen, they also ignore another issue: As communication techniques get more advanced, they look more and more like random noise. Our millions of chattering cell phones and internet hosts will almost certainly be undetectable to anyone outside the earth environment, let alone the solar system: Those transmissions have no directionality, they are low power precisely because they are efficient and advanced, and their advanced modulation causes them to look like white noise. Consider a 300 bps modem, with its old-fashioned tone signaling; then listen to a 56k modem, which, except when it's hooking up, sounds almost like rushing steam. It's hard to escape the idea that we will only pick up radio from ET if he intentionally beams it at us, a doubtful proposition unless he's within 60 light years, as he has no way to know of OUR radio transmissions.
A final word about copy editing: I've yet to read a book with absolutely no errors, but at least they could get three-letter words like "its" right. There are other serious errors, such as missing words, the ubiquitous "different than," and other less glaring mistakes. If they can't do better than that, perhaps they should just record audio tapes.
All in all, about a third of the way through, I decided that other books must surely be able to better satisfy my curiosity on this subject.
A decent review of the basics, but more than a little dry.......2002-03-13
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I like the idea of this book, but the execution left a bit to be desired.
The first two sections ("Are We Alone?" and "Getting a Dial Tone") do a passably good job of introducing some of the basics of interstellar communication, ably introducing both the fundamentals of radio and optical technologies and the unique challenges of communicating a signal (any signal; the details of the signal to be sent are reserved for Part III) across interstellar distances.
Problems with the first two sections are:
(1) inconsistent readability: the author seems not to have found a consistent tone for the book, and wanders between wide-eyed pie-in-the-sky speculation and bone-dry technical detail;
(2) organizational flaws: the author routinely discusses a concept or entity throughout early chapters without a decent introduction or explanation, only to treat the subject in question at length (with the proper explanatory introduction) later in the text -- the discussion of the SETI@home distributed computing project is particularly guilty of this;
(3) lack of investigative reporting: almost every piece of information in these sections could have come out of a textbook or a web search, and it's clear that the author hasn't bothered to interview the movers and shakers in the SETI community and find out anything much about the "story behind the story," which might have made for some interesting reading;
(4) bad editing: there is a typo every few pages, which is a minor beef but in the age of spell-checkers hardly excusable.
Nonetheless, if you've never read a "Scientific American" article about SETI, the first two sections of the book would be educational. If you have any exposure to SETI prior to picking up the book, chances are that you won't learn very much (except possibly about optical SETI/CETI, which relies on the production and/or detection of laser light aimed at a specific star system, and which is grossly undertreated in the literature).
The third section ("Communicating with Other Worlds") treats the specifics of the author's ideas about what sort of message could be sent by us (or, by extension, might be received by us from others). The author makes an analogy between modular messages encoded in binary code and genes encoded by DNA, and sets up one potential system that might be used to send a complex message from star A to star B. This section is definitely the weakest in the book, for the following reasons.
(1) It treats at punishingly great length only one possible system of a presumably great many for communicating with alien intelligences, glossing over other approaches in favor of a detailed treatment of the author's pet approach. While I don't have a specific complaint with the approach described, I will say that as a working biologist, I found the author's biologically motivated analogies ("igenes," "binary DNA") strained and in some cases laughable. It probably makes the material "sexier" in the computer-science and SETI literature, but as a life scientist I mostly winced a lot.
(2) In part because of this, the author doesn't put his approach in any kind of context -- e.g., how else might we do it?
(3) It's way too long and inappropriately detailed: a great deal of theory of computation stuff that's not at all unique to SETI or the challenge of communicating with a non-human intelligence ends up in this section, and I don't think that benefits the reader more than just saying, "We'll send computer programs using the benefit of knowledge reaped from the maturing fields of cryptography and computer science and our impressive knowledge of the physical universe," and focusing more on reasons why any approach like this has shortcomings and might not work regardless of how clever you are.
All that having been said, this is an OK book. I wouldn't recommend that it be the only thing that you read about SETI, nor would I recommend that you read it cover-to-cover (unless you have troubles with insomnia), but if you're an avid reader of the SETI literature, it certainly can't hurt to pick this one up.
A highly technical book on interstellar communication.......2002-01-15
Readers who want a general introduction to questions related to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence should look elsewhere. This is a highly technical book on the techniques and problems of communication across interstellar distances. People with strong backgrounds in science or engineering may find this material fascinating, but general readers soon will get lost. Overall rating (for techies): four stars.
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence (The Complete Idiot's Guide)
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You're no idiot, of course. You've read all about Roswell and you can recite dialogue from every Star Wars movie. But when it comes to separating myth from fact about extraterrestrials, you feel like you're lost in space. The truth is out there! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence provides objective facts about the most puzzling UFO sightings, historical mysteries, and coverups. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
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best ever UFO book.......2006-01-27
I've read a lot of UFO books, but this one was by far the best. Providing info on Ancient astronauts I have never heard before that caused me to do google searches for more info. I have read a mess load of ancient astronaut books and most just regurgitate each other. this one has a ton of original material and some on stuff that has yet to be explored further. Like the pyramid they found 75' underwater near Japan. Check out some photos on Google, there is no way this was formed naturally, and no other explanation can be given.
This Book Is Great!.......1999-04-26
Hello Amazon Staff and customers,
Michael Kurland (author) of this book happens to be my mother's first cousin. I have met the man, his efforts towards writing this book were more than outstanding. He has had an interest in ET's for many years. And this book allows him to tell each one of the stories he has ever heard + some. He has filled this book with comedy mixed up with 'real' alien encounters. It is a pleasurable read.
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The startling scientific answers to questions about advanced life on other planets.
If elementary life forms are common throughout the cosmos, could intelligent beings have evolved elsewhere, and are they seeking us out? A father-and-son team of scientists-both with research backgrounds in astronomy and physics-gives us the most up-to-date scientific answers about extraterrestrial civilizations and our attempts to find them. If they exist, why haven't we been able to make contact? Could they be reluctant or unable to make themselves known? If aliens visited us before recorded history, are we now overdue for another visit? Even if we discount most UFO sightings as erroneous, how do we explain that more than four million Americans claim they have been abducted by aliens? Is there a case to be made for a future scientific study of UFOs? Here, in language requiring no prior specialized knowledge, the authors pull together the strands from all plausible scientific answers to present a unique merging of current astronomical findings with philosophical interpretation of the techniques used in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Finally, an intelligent discussion.......2004-11-13
A thorough and academic treatment of the subject. Gave me a new appreciation for THIS planet though it got a little dense by the end.
A different theory for finding extraterrestrials.......2003-11-03
The early part of this book covers ground that will be familiar to those who have read about the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence: the Drake equation for determining the number of alien civilizations, the search for radio signals(SETI), the absence of evidence (the Fermi Paradox), the evolution of life on planets. The Clarks, a father and son team of scientists, then turn to their own thesis: searching for alien spacecraft is as legitimate a research endeavor as searching for alien radio signals. They make the case for a scientific "ufology." This leads them into a discussion of the motivations for, and the feasibility of, interstellar flight. They invent the term IMETI, which stands for ETI capable of interstellar mobility. The Clarks discuss how to search for IMETI, including a winnowing out of UFO reports that would separate a genuine "signal" from the "noise." They favor the establishment of groups of researchers to pursue this quest. Pointing out that SETI scientists overcame the giggle factor to persevere in their research, the Clarks argue that scientific ufologists can achieve the same level of credibility. While many readers may instinctively reject the Clarks' thesis, it deserves as much of a hearing as most theories about extraterrestrials.
This clearly written book, aimed at a non-scientific audience, is easy to read. Unlike most books on this subject, it is not illustrated with photos or diagrams.
Widening the scientific strategies toward contact.......2000-10-03
This powerful book urges a wider range of scientific strategies toward contact with alien intelligence. Use radio and optical telescopes to detect artificial signals, of course, and even to detect huge astroengineering projects far away. But then this father-son team of scientists point out that extraterrestrial intelligence may well have reached Earth, so we should come up with scientific ways to find small smart probes (or even gigantic spacecraft, though these are less likely). My recent paper at http://members.aol.com/AllenTough/strategies.html also urges science to widen its array of search strategies in remarkably similar directions, even though it was written before I read this superb book. ALIENS: CAN WE MAKE CONTACT WITH ETI is definitely worthwhile reading for anyone curious about how the biggest breakthrough in the history of science might actually occur. It lists useful websites and books at the end.
Fine update.......2000-04-19
Probably not any time soon but, as this very readable volume insists, we sure ought to try. Messrs. Clark explore the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence as completely as any book I've read, from rocketry to genetics, and they do it with a calm rationality that inspires confidence and credence.
The book is organized around what they consider the three big questions of ETI: The "SETI Question," the "McCrea Question," and the "Fermi Question." The SETI question from the Drake equation asks, if ETI is common in the galaxy, why haven't we detected signals from them? The McCrea query from astronomer Sir William McCrea, who asked it of the authors, posits, if elementary life forms are common, what is the chance that creatures like humans will evolve? The famous Fermi quip is, if they are there, why aren't they here? The authors explore these questions in light of the latest knowledge and speculation. The answers they come to are similar to those found in the classic Extraterrestrials: Where Are They? edited by Ben Zuckerman and Michael H. Hart, namely that there are many reasons we haven't heard from them, from they don't care to communicate, to their civilizations are short-lived, to creatures like humans are very rare, etc.
The authors make a couple of important points I don't recall in other SETI books. The first is obvious once mentioned, namely that a communicating ETI must have more than just intelligence. It must have dexterity. "[H]ighly evolved dolphins with the intellect of Frank Drake are not going to build radio telescopes to search out ETI," is the way the authors put it on page 92.
The second point is that science should not abandon "ufology" because it is now mostly in the hands of pseudoscience and the tabloid mind; instead the methods of science should be applied to UFOs as elsewhere; this despite the fact that it is pretty well realized that alien visits are highly unlikely. I might add that keeping a scientific eye on UFOs is valuable because if aliens ever do visit we may need the most acute and discerning instruments, experience, and intelligence to even notice them. My suspicion is that ETI may be so much different from us that we wouldn't recognize it if it sat down next to us! This is an up to date report that manages to be accessible to a wide audience without any dumbing-down. It includes a glossary, a short bibliography and some web sites. But books on SETI are like computers. Because of the rapid pace of technological and scientific advancements, we must have a new one every three years or so. I'm already looking forward to the next.
We are all children of the cosmos.......1999-10-05
Clark and Clark's locus classicus is more a rampant celebration of the precarious nature of the human condition than an inter-stellar odyssey in search of the little green men of SETI mythology. This intriguing account leads us ultimately to gape wide-eyed with wonder as we realise that we - the inhabitants of our lonely corner of space - are more wonderous than the limits of our unguided imagination could ever have conceived. With a gnostic zeal, Clark and Clark force us to acknowledge that, with a wry nod to Leonard Nimoy's 1960s cosmic musings, 'you are a child of the stars with as much right to exist as every other creature in the cosmos', and implicitly urge each of us to embrace our fragile but precious existences with a renewed and hedonistic zeal. Clark and Clark are worthy prophets of a latter-day Epicureanism. Touche!
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Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence
Edward Regis
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With current interest in extraterrestrials at a peak, this book is a collection of original and reprinted articles advancing the latest scientific ideas as to the possible existence and nature of extraterrestrial intelligent life. Usually this subject is treated only in popular media, such as science fiction novels, movies, and television. Recently, however, scientists and researchers have begun to consider in earnest whether extraterrestrials really exist, whether they have evolved from simpler forms of life, whether they have evolved intelligence, and if so whether their modes of understanding the world are comparable to and congruent with our own. The contributors to this volume cover these topics, and also consider how we might communicate with aliens, and whether we would be able to understand the alien messages we might receive. Finally the authors, who include distinguished scientists, speculate whether the aliens might have a moral code, and what might be our moral obligations in the event any extraterrestrials were ever discovered.
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A useful collection of speculative articles.......2004-02-13
In this collection, published in 1985, Regis offers us a wide variety of perspectives on the search for and possible contact with extraterrestrial intelligent beings. The balance tends to lean toward Regis' own skepticism. As always in collections, the quality of the articles varies considerably; those that stick closest to the scientific questions tend to be more cleanly argued, while those addressing cultural, moral, and ethical issues are more discursive. Lewis White Beck's 1971 speech, the first item in the book, is remarkable for its foresight and breadth. Reading that piece and others may not leave you convinced one way or the other, but you will be better informed.
A classic.......1999-09-15
If you want to go into depth on the rationale for the search for extraterrestrial inteligence, this anthology, like Shklovskii and Sagan's book, is a must-read. Mind you, it is a little dated and a number of the contributions are frustratingly vague, but several of the essays are classics, such as Marvin Minsky's, "Why intelligent aliens will be intelligible."
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Summoned will call you forth from behind your eyes!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-08-13
Summoned is a book with insights into the spookey realms of night.Read and become someone who questions the hype and the mundaneness of mainstream life.Be thinkers for once.Pull back the skin and find three or more secrets underneath by the duration of just one night.You see the author is an exmormon and a woman on a journey a quest to find the souls of the unnamed and the familiar too.Something has crept in to the mindscape.Dana Redfield,the author she is,must open doors to keep the spirit kindred in sleep above the feathery bed of the contented.This will bring clarity to all who read this remarkable book.I agree with Dana we are not alone in the universe.Dana has went on journeys and shares what knowledge she has attained from these starblooms and et. clusters of breaking of latenights to dazzling mending-time release.Her book is a super resourse for those on the path.A well written book,full of challenging and poetic language.Her book is also well atuned with sacred geometry and the sacred mother of flaming red.Don't forget to buy a copy of this unigue book from amazon.I,a son of the gay spacebrothers of the high order of adonis's dew,highly recommend this book.The cover art is really nice too.I consumed this book in a couple days.Reading it was like going up high above an eagles nest or a commercial jet,in a wink or two.
Horrible.......2001-02-26
This is one of the worst books I've ever read. It reads like the ramblings of a mental patient. I've read other books about UFOs that were very interesting but this book is terrible. It's so disjointed I can't believe someone published it. Don't buy this book.
One of the best.......2000-06-02
If the previous review has not convinced you, my brief note might do. One of the best UFO related books ever written in my 31 years of reading, both in contents and style, you need it to try to ascertain what is going on, and what is being let known. Instead of other, try this.
Courageous and thought-provoking.......1999-07-13
Dana Redfield's personal account of alien abuduction is so haunting and thought-provoking that this book will have you thinking long after you put it down. Redfield shares not only her story but also transcribed messages received over several years of alien encounters. These messages challenged what I believed (or did not believe) about aliens, but more importantly, what I want to believe about who we are, where we come from, and where we are going.
Regardless of what you choose to believe in the end, Summoned proposes both important questions and some very intriguing answers. It is frightening not so much for what is "alien" but for what is hauntingly familiar.
Kudos to Redfield for having the courage to write this book.
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- ICE BOUND: A DOCTOR'S INCREDIBLE BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL AT THE SOUTH POLE
- The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
- Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes
- Cycads of Africa
The Controllers: The Hidden Rulers of Earth Identified
Incredible Technologies Of The New World Order; UFOs - Tesla - Area 51
William Cooper: Death Of A Conspiracy Salesman
The Dulce Wars: Underground Alien Bases and the Battle for Planet Earth
Reality of the Serpent Race and the Subterranean Origin of UFOs
