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The Magic Agent
From the Imagination of
Jon Rappoport
Political Fiction....This novel took off from the premise that history might be something far different from the boilerplate we are given. It might have gigantic holes in it, and through those holes impossible events and circumstances might enter.
"The greatest spy in the world wants to enter the place where universes overlap and collide. Then he is sniffing on the Big Track."
Hidden Legends of the CIA,
Arthur Meriden
From Jon Rappoport; A FEW WORDS ABOUT AN ENDLESS NOVEL
I enjoy reading crime novels, but after I toss each one aside, the triumph of justice, the exacting of revenge, and the victory of the hero fade like four-second dreams. I thought I'd blow open the windows on the genre and see what came in.
What most people take to be magic these days is a watered-down version of the real thing. They want polite magic. They want neat corners and five thousand people thinking the same "positive thought" at a given moment. They want a program, a system, a collective mystery and a collective solution.
There is magic for children and magic for adults. As our society becomes more worshipfully centered on delusions about children, it stands to reason that ideas about magic will become more cloying and simple-minded. This fits in well with the massive reductionism of the so-called self-improvement field. Become a millionaire by this afternoon. Manage a corporation in one minute. Take a seminar and trade stocks like a genius. You have a disease no one ever heard of; it could kill you; take this pill; you'll be cured.
When I say the era of magic is returning, I'm serious. People are being driven to it. That doesn't mean they're smart about it. Cults and chic little groups and juvenile adherents will continue to spread.
Nevertheless, magic is coming on an express train. Some people will recognize it has everything to do with individual creation. Religion has always been about bottling up that impulse and sidetracking it into some deity who invented the whole universe and keeps a monopoly on it. These religions, as they have come down to us, are Mob operations. Nothing more. They're Mafias.
We come into this world imbued with a flattened program of perception. We do indeed think all people are more or less the same. As we grow up, this view is confirmed, because the bulk of the population is afraid to create on its own. So everyone does begin to look alike. But below that hypnotic layer, every individual is unique, whether he wants to be or not. A person realizes that uniqueness to the degree he is expressing his own imagination on a very broad scale. And uniqueness gained equals magic. These are facts of life beyond the control machinations.
Time, as we see it and have been taught it, is crumbling on many fronts. For some, this pronouncement is tantamount to saying our future is psychosis. I reject that. In the long run, liberation from puerile formulations of causation and sequence will prove to be bracing, to say the least. The distant future will have a new face. Many new faces, all at once.
Traveling faster? Communicating faster? These are minor fantasies. The radical future will demolish so many cherished limits, our present lives will look like tinker toy Levittowns of the mind.
For those who want to block it all out, pharmacies will have to sell absolute catatonia over the counter. People will have to submit voluntarily to brain extraction.
"The children are the future."
Nonsense. We are the future.
Softcover, 8.3" x 6.8", 500 pages
Jon Rappoport
Political Fiction....This novel took off from the premise that history might be something far different from the boilerplate we are given. It might have gigantic holes in it, and through those holes impossible events and circumstances might enter.
"The greatest spy in the world wants to enter the place where universes overlap and collide. Then he is sniffing on the Big Track."
Hidden Legends of the CIA,
Arthur Meriden
From Jon Rappoport; A FEW WORDS ABOUT AN ENDLESS NOVEL
I enjoy reading crime novels, but after I toss each one aside, the triumph of justice, the exacting of revenge, and the victory of the hero fade like four-second dreams. I thought I'd blow open the windows on the genre and see what came in.
What most people take to be magic these days is a watered-down version of the real thing. They want polite magic. They want neat corners and five thousand people thinking the same "positive thought" at a given moment. They want a program, a system, a collective mystery and a collective solution.
There is magic for children and magic for adults. As our society becomes more worshipfully centered on delusions about children, it stands to reason that ideas about magic will become more cloying and simple-minded. This fits in well with the massive reductionism of the so-called self-improvement field. Become a millionaire by this afternoon. Manage a corporation in one minute. Take a seminar and trade stocks like a genius. You have a disease no one ever heard of; it could kill you; take this pill; you'll be cured.
When I say the era of magic is returning, I'm serious. People are being driven to it. That doesn't mean they're smart about it. Cults and chic little groups and juvenile adherents will continue to spread.
Nevertheless, magic is coming on an express train. Some people will recognize it has everything to do with individual creation. Religion has always been about bottling up that impulse and sidetracking it into some deity who invented the whole universe and keeps a monopoly on it. These religions, as they have come down to us, are Mob operations. Nothing more. They're Mafias.
We come into this world imbued with a flattened program of perception. We do indeed think all people are more or less the same. As we grow up, this view is confirmed, because the bulk of the population is afraid to create on its own. So everyone does begin to look alike. But below that hypnotic layer, every individual is unique, whether he wants to be or not. A person realizes that uniqueness to the degree he is expressing his own imagination on a very broad scale. And uniqueness gained equals magic. These are facts of life beyond the control machinations.
Time, as we see it and have been taught it, is crumbling on many fronts. For some, this pronouncement is tantamount to saying our future is psychosis. I reject that. In the long run, liberation from puerile formulations of causation and sequence will prove to be bracing, to say the least. The distant future will have a new face. Many new faces, all at once.
Traveling faster? Communicating faster? These are minor fantasies. The radical future will demolish so many cherished limits, our present lives will look like tinker toy Levittowns of the mind.
For those who want to block it all out, pharmacies will have to sell absolute catatonia over the counter. People will have to submit voluntarily to brain extraction.
"The children are the future."
Nonsense. We are the future.
Softcover, 8.3" x 6.8", 500 pages
500 pages, Perfect Paperback
Published July 30, 2008
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About the author
Jon Rappoport
23 books35 followersAmerican investigative reporter.
He studied philosophy for four years at Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1960. He has published the web site nomorefakenews.com since 2001.
He advocates alternative medicine with his wife Dr. Laura Thompson.
He studied philosophy for four years at Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1960. He has published the web site nomorefakenews.com since 2001.
He advocates alternative medicine with his wife Dr. Laura Thompson.
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