CHAOS WITH CHARLES MANSON

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (2020)

by Tom O'Neill (Author), Dan Piepenbring

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 11,571 ratings

 

This book reveals one of the massive American deep state psyops from the 60's and it's a fascinating read.

 

 A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history.

Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order -- their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. 

 

Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia -- or dystopia -- was just an acid trip away. 

Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. 

 

When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi - prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter -- turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions: 

    Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties?
    Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him?
    And how did Manson -- an illiterate ex-con -- turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers?  

O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. 

 

The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders.

 

This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.

https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Charles-Manson-History-Sixties/dp/0316477540

BREATH

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (2020)  

by James Nestor (Author)

4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 29,739 ratings

 

 

If this book could be summarized into into a brief overview it might be to make sure you breathe through your nose and avoid all mouth breathing. And that when it comes to breathing, less is more. That sounds very simple but the range of effects that good breathing technique has is remarkable. And the book itself is surprisingly engrossing.

 

A New York Times Bestseller

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020

Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR
 
“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

 https://www.amazon.com/Breath-New-Science-Lost-Art

 

LIFE AS A FLAT EARTHER

Sometimes it seems like every time someone disagrees with me, they call me a "flat earther". It must be a hard life as a flatard, constantly filled with peril. I would never mock them...

WEIRD SCENES

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream Paperback (2014)

by David McGowan (Author), Nick Bryant (Foreword)

4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,708 ratings

 

Laurel Canyon is a real rabbit hole - the interconnections here are vast. It's a bit of mind bender for anyone finding out for the first time that all the popular 60's bands were deep state social programming. And it doesn't stop there...

 

 

The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. 

 

Members of bands like the Byrds, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf, CSN, Three Dog Night and Love, along with such singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, James Taylor and Carole King, lived together and jammed together in the bucolic community nestled in the Hollywood Hills. 

 

But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn't make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Far more integrated into the scene than most would like to admit was a guy by the name of Charles Manson, along with his murderous entourage. 

 

Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians and intelligence personnel - the same sort of people who gave birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. And all the canyon's colorful characters - rock stars, hippies, murderers and politicos - happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Weird-Scenes-Inside-Canyon

Feel like checking out some Laurel Canyon mind programming? This video is a classic, Love, "7 And 7 Is" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtFM-a5Xf1M

 

HER NAME WAS ROBERT

Alexis Arquette (Birth name: Robert Arquette) 

Arquette was born in Los Angeles, the fourth of five children of Lewis Arquette, an actor and director, and Brenda Olivia, a Jewish actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist. Actors Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, and David Arquette were his siblings.

In 2004, Arquette expressed an interest in undergoing gender-transitioning medical treatment. He decided against undergoing hormone therapy and kept his choice of whether he underwent gender-affirming surgery private from the media by the time he completed his transition in 2006. His experience was documented in the film Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother, which debuted at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Arquette was a vocal supporter of other transgender people, including Chaz Bono, who transitioned shortly after Arquette.

Arquette contracted HIV in 1987. In later life, he suffered from ill health as a result of being HIV-positive. Amid these increasing complications, Alexis began presenting again as a man in 2013. Brother David Arquette said that Alexis was "gender suspicious" and alternately felt like a man or a woman at different times. Arquette was placed in a medically induced coma and died on September 11, 2016, surrounded by close family, at the age of 47. 

 The official cause of death was cardiac arrest caused by myocarditis stemming from HIV - What is HIV? - Be sure to watch for future parallels with COVID injection victims.