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 ...

 (Kindle, 2020). ASIN: B08QBHC98R. On September 12, 2001, I threw about two and a half feet of Tom Clancy books into a dumpster because, when fiction started to feel like fact, there was no point in reading that kind of fiction anymore. A decade later, average citizens in America and the world are suffering from a social media society that cannot tell the difference between fact and fiction (a condition that the Corporate Oligarchy Military–Industrial–Intelligence Complex, or COMIIC, has not only created but of which it has made sinister use). The COMIIC’s agenda and messaging affect responses to and beliefs about climate change, supposedly democratic elections (have they ever been?), COVID-19, and the Federal Reserve/Stock Market/cryptocurrency. These practices have created a condition where 1 percent (probably far less after the past two years of pandemic-era money grabbing) of the U.S. population controls 99 percent of the money (and the space program, Big Data, media, energy,...

(Rayguns and Mayhem/Kindle Direct Publishing, 2018). I have known Chuck Regan and his work for a long time. Three decades, actually. I started as a fan of his comic books, including Nether Age of Maga —a post-apocalyptic vision that’s everything from Plato to P. K. Dick. His skills as an artist—he’s known for his attention to detail and authenticity in his science fiction–based designs—translate successfully into prose. Regan has always had fun using made up words and he incorporates just the right amount of pop culture references in his work to give us grounding in the odd. Regan’s vision has always been dark, but with touches of comedy and hope in all the right places. He opens his About the Author section at the end of this collection by saying he’s technically not an author because he has yet to publish a novel. But I’ve read several of his longer works in whole or in part, and “author” certainly applies. He is as much a technician of the craft of storytelling as any author...

As we settle into the 21st century, amid unending, questionable wars; escalating gas prices and the undeniable existence of Global Warming; a growing reliance on ubiquitous computing; and an ever-enlarging sense of coming Change (whether it be the far-right Christian Rapture or the mostly misunderstood implications of the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012), there is a growing focus on quantum theory and the idea that our universe is one of many, all existing in parallel (a collective entity called the multiverse). Within this multiverse are infinite probabilities and the ability to create our own destinies and realities on a daily basis. Films like What the Bleep?!? and the numerous theoretically accessible titles in quantum physics from writers like Fritjof Capra, Daniel Pinchbeck, Fred Alan Wolf, Michael Talbot, David Bohm, and Gary Zukov (or self-help systems like “The Secret”) give the interested reader lots to think about as he or she struggles down (this) life’s path. One writer,...