Pandemonium: Live to All Devices

by Bill Harvey, Yana Lambert (Editor)

In Live To All Devices, set about twenty years in the future, a U.S. president seizes total control of all U.S. missiles, the power grid, the banking system, and every computer-like device in America, as he hides in a nuke-proof bunker while a robot version of himself sits in the Oval Office. In this not-too-distant future, robots have passed the Turing test—we can’t tell them from human beings any more. Artificial Reality has become a commonplace part of life around the world. Hidden Internets claim that the major superpowers have psychic agents. We discover that psychic agents really exist, and we come to know five psychic agents who are somehow connected. Four of them are on the U.S. team and one of them is on the Russian team.

Ed Templegard never knew he had psychic powers until he took on the assignment to spy on the U.S. paramilitary psychic team, Theta Force. Seventeen-year-old Nastassia Slayevsky is the most powerful psychic on the Russian psychic team, Psychotronic Division One. She is assigned to kill Templegard. The soon-to-be decommissioned Theta Force redeems itself by discovering that Nazis still exist as an organized force, having gone underground after World War Two. Running parallel with geopolitical tensions, a tyrannical U.S. president, Nazis, enemy psychic agents, and a new powerful terrorist called Perse, who seemingly came out of nowhere to take over Iran, mind-bending and ubiquitous new media add to the strain on human minds and emotions.

In this fast-moving thriller, a heady amalgam of hidden war, psychics, Nazis, aliens, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and transcendental love takes place against a backdrop wherein the latest media technology enables sudden seismic changes in world politics. The author has been lauded as a visionary of the changing mediascape over the last 35 years—in addition to his credible predictions, he is credited with making some of those changes happen. Bill Harvey has been compared to Aldous Huxley, picking up where Huxley left off in unraveling the "Perennial Philosophy" held by the Founding Fathers of America and sages over millennia—the notion that, under the mixture of superstition and inspiration we call religion, there is hidden scientific truth. Bill Harvey is also the author of MIND MAGIC, hailed "an underground classic": "Highly recommended... will loosen your moorings and open you to creative vistas."—Dr. Daniel Goleman, author of EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Bill has coined the term "Transformational Sci-Fi" to mean a sci-fi story, novel, movie, video, or comic book which not only entertains, but through the psychological techniques used by the characters, also equips readers to use these same "psychotechnologies" in their own lives.

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582 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 30, 2019

About the author

About Bill Harvey

Bill first experienced the Zone, that space where innovative and successful ideas and actions flow out of you effortlessly, as a young child. The son of legendary orchestra leader/master of ceremonies Ned Harvey and former Ziegfield Follies showgirl Sandra Harvey, Bill started performing on stage at age four, dancing with showgirls and exchanging lines with comedic greats like Jack E. Leonard. He liked this feeling of being “on” and wanted to learn how to be “on” more often. And so began his lifelong quest to understand how to bring on higher states of consciousness and to help others do the same.

Along the way he anchored his dream with a degree in philosophy, the first school subject he had ever loved. He began to materialize the dream by founding the Human Effectiveness Institute, with the goal of sharing the techniques he had learned and developed as his own internal system for bringing himself to his highest level of creative effectiveness.

Bill’s ideas didn’t all come from the inside, as he was inspired by something that Milton Berle had told him: “Always steal from the best, kid.” He was turned on to Alan Watts, Buddhism, Zen, and hipness by his adopted older brother, the multitalented Bill Heyer, second trumpet in Ned’s band.

Unique and ahead of its time, Bill’s first book, Mind Magic: The Science of Microcosmology, met with rave reviews in the late 70s and was lauded by thousands of readers whose lives, they say, were changed by it. The book has been used at 34 universities including NYU, UCLA and West Point, and by numerous organizations. It is now available in its 6th edition, Mind Magic: Doorways into Higher Consciousness.

In You Are The Universe: Imagine That, Bill has expanded the frame of reference of his lifelong study of consciousness to focus more on the spiritual dimension of life.

With a brilliant mind for research, innovation and invention, Bill started his career in the media business with a dream of making one-way media into something that the audience co-creates. With his trailblazing vision, he accurately described today’s media reality with his MediaWorld 1990 report to the industry, and in his widely-read Media Science Newsletter. He invented many things arcane to the average person but talismans in the media field, including some now written into FCC regulations. He holds four issued US patents and has consulted for over 100 Fortune 500 companies. A leader in the field as media morphed into being more interactive, putting the viewer in charge, Bill’s peers recognized him with the Great Mind Award in 2008 to celebrate his achievements. In June 2014, Bill became the first recipient of the Advertising Research Foundation’s Erwin Ephron Demystification Award.

Bill is a popular speaker, the subject of numerous articles, and a prolific writer. He writes two weekly blogs, BillHarveyBlog.com (“Pebbles in the Pond”, now in its fourth year), and MediaBizBloggers.com/Bill-Harvey (“In Terms of ROI”). He is interviewed weekly on the digital videoseries RBDR, and is a frequent guest on WDST-FM’s Woodstock Roundtable with Doug Grunther.

Bill lives with his wife Lalita and their three cats in the beautiful Hudson Valley. He has a daughter Nicole, and with Lalita has four grandchildren.