Joey Madia, New Mystics Reviews

  (Toronto: Prometea Press, 2021). ISBN: 9781777135133 Several weeks ago I reviewed Wes Roberts’s first book, Intersections , cowritten with Lesley Mitchell-Clarke, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist who helped the author retrieve memories from numerous abductee/contactee experiences he has had over the course of his life. Written three years later, An Experiencer’s Garden is a different type of book, and my focus here will therefore be different as well. While Intersections details Roberts’s experiences (both remembered on his own and through a series of hypnotic regression sessions), the follow-up is even more personal and intimate. At its core are Roberts’s theories and realizations about what has been happening to him since childhood and possible reasons why. In a time of dangerous, misleading “disclosure” by the military–industrial–intelligence complex (most likely to fatten the budget of the “new” Space Force and private defense contractors not answerable to Congress...

(Deltrona, FL: Thomas-Jacob Publishing, 2022). ISBN: 978-1-950750-46-7 Five years ago this month, I was introduced to a literary character that I have come to truly love. It is a familial, fatherly love, as I have enthusiastically expressed in my reviews for the each of the books in the Fleur Trilogy: The History of My Body (2016), Tizita (2017), and Return of the Butterfly (2018). Fleur Robins is the offspring of an ultra-conservative US Senator from Pennsylvania and an alcoholic mother who gave birth to Fleur when she was a teenager. In the past, I have likened Fleur to Holden Caulfield in JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Sheila Tubman in Judy Blume’s Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great . But much has changed for Fleur. In the intervening years since Return of the Butterfly , she has become a wife and mother. Her Nobel Prize–winning work (she is a genius with considerable quirks) in Complexity and Chaos Theory in the midst of the increasing chaos on Earth has led her liter...

   (Prometea Press, 2018). ISBN: 9781073391103 Longtime followers of my book reviews might be noticing an emerging pattern: in the past three years I have reviewed nearly a dozen books exploring the abduction/contactee/experiencer phenomena. I have endeavored to review works from a wide range of perspectives, from firsthand accounts to case studies written by authors with advanced degrees, to books that center on the scientific. During this time I have also reviewed another half a dozen books (and read many more) that explore near death experiences, psi ability, out of body experiences, and contact from those beyond the veil. During this time I have also undergone hypnotic regression to retrieve memories from missing time during an experience with an interdimensional being in 2009 and learned a great deal from my wife, a gifted psychic medium who holds certifications in hypnosis, past life regression, and soul contact. I have also interviewed dozens of experiencers for m...

  (2022). ISBN: 9798799180546 I don’t believe that anyone will argue with the statement that we live in deeply troubled and wildly complex times. No matter where you reside on the politico-economic–sociospiritual spectrum, you are probably facing an unprecedented diversity of challenges. As a 53-year-old, I can say that I lived a good part of my life in far simpler times, with far reduced stakes and far less daily stressors. So… say what you will about the thousands of self-help and spiritual books on the market—there are substantial benefits to engaging with the best works of the acknowledged luminaries in this genre in these Interesting Times. If you have read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic , Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements , and the works of Wayne Dyer, Brene Brown, Carolin Myss, and Gay Hendricks, then I am sure you have found considerable treasures tucked within their pages. Concepts such as Awareness, Intention, Authenticity, Grace, and Listening to Source and Your Highe...

  “Uncertain Magic”: A Review of Dawn of the Construct (Book 1 of the Soul Machine Saga), by Eric Lard (Winchester, UK and Washington, USA: Cosmic Egg Books, 2022). ISBN: 978 1 80341 079 1. Although one could lump Dawn of the Construct into the fantasy/sci-fi hybrid that coopts much of its monsters, characters, and content from Tolkien, Martin, and D&D , that would be doing Eric Lard’s opening book in what promises to be an action-packed saga a disservice. Two things set it apart, which I will focus on here. First, the narrative happens in three timelines. One is Earth, centering on the war in Afghanistan. Another is sci-fi and futuristic, taking place on a forbidding planet. The third—where most of the story unfolds—is a fantasy/ D&D world where goblins and orcs menace the simple folk just trying to survive. Enhancing this triple-timeline structure is the literary device of “constructing the team.” Because the three heroes representing the timelines come from other...

   (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2019). ISBN: 978-1-948803-10-6 In the world of ufology, as well as in the even murkier world of fringe and conspiracy theories, there are few subjects as complex and controversial as those concerning our Moon. From its age, to its origins; from its composition (is it hollow?) to its mysterious “Dark Side”; from rumors of astronaut encounters and scrubbed NASA photos; and perhaps most intriguing and likely to get you punched in the mouth by Buzz Aldrin is the accusation that the United States faked the historic moon landing because of Cold War pressures. There is at least one interview with the enigmatic filmmaker Stanley Kubrick where he comes tantalizingly close to admitting he shot the phony footage, even saying that Neil Armstrong’s famous “One small step for man…” line was not as Kubrick had delivered it (more on this video later). The investigative team I cofounded in early 2021, the Red Thread Collective, did an episode of...

   (2021). ISBN: 9798534419412 There’s been increasing mainstream coverage of supposed UAP “disclosure” in the past 5 years, beginning with the New York Times “leak” about the Pentagon’s AATIP program, followed by former government insiders joining To the Stars Academy and promising significant revelations that never came—insiders who have since gone back to the Beltway. The DoD release of US Navy footage of UAPs also happened at this time. Chairman Marco Rubio of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence then requested a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. When that much-anticipated report’s unclassified version arrived in June 2021, it was nine pages of denials and calls for increased defense funding. This past April, 1,500 pages of declassified material requested through FOIA by The Sun were released. Aside from some data on physical evidence and possible abductions, there was nothing really new, and no one’s talked much about them. For t...