Joey Madia, New Mystics Reviews

  (2022). ISBN: 978-989-53812-2-7 I want to warn you at the onset—Patricia Cori’s Hacking the God Code: The Conspiracy to Steal the Human Soul might very well be a challenging read. Not because of any lack of skill on the part of the writer—Cori is the author of 12 other books and her writing style is passionate, articulate, and clear. However, as you can see by the title and subtitle, Hacking the God Code: The Conspiracy to Steal the Human Soul is provocative and boundary pushing and requires that you have both an open mind and a belief that humanity is not yet doomed. You might also have noticed that thorny word Conspiracy . Before you roll your eyes, I encourage you to consider the meaning of this word outside of its corrupted context. In my lectures on what I call “fringe theories” and nefarious government programs such as MKUltra and Operation Paperclip, I define conspiracy theorists as “a group of people who think something nefarious may secretly have been perpetrated ...

   (Cardiff, CA: Waterside Productions, 2022). ISBN: 978-1-958848-03-6 When I first received this memoir, I wondered at its subject matter. Dr. Saugstad led the fight for decades to replace pure oxygen with air for newborns in need of resuscitation. In all honesty, I was unaware that there ever was such a fight. I certainly was unsure if this was a medical history piece from which my lack of sufficient background and context would keep me at a distance. Would it be accessible to me at all? Having read this heartfelt book with the kind of page-turning interest one would expect from a tale of high adventure, I can state with full assurance that Dr. Saugstad’s story is not only far broader than the fight for which he is internationally known; it’s one of the most inspiring and human memoirs I’ve read in quite some time. This humble Norwegian doctor—the grandson of the president of the University of Oslo during World War II who spent time in a concentration camp—took part i...