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Summary: Highly amusing, but I can't recommend
Review: As a physicist, I always enjoy reading such "nonfiction", but I can't recommend it for the general reader who may not have the training (or inclination) to think critically about the evidence presented. I heartily encourage anyone interested in such material to start off with the much-bashed Sagan's "Demon Haunted World."
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Summary: Tetrahedral connections
Review: I have reviewed a dozen or more books of science in this forum, many of which I considered to be outstanding in clarity, scope, and profundity, but I have remained stingy on granting the highest of exaltations on these works until now. "The Monkey and the Tetrahedron" by David M. Jinks, warrants my very first 5 star rating.
In this momentous work Jinks delves into topics ranging from the enigmatic monuments of Mars, the UFO phenomenon, cold fusion, archeology, biology, and even a science I had never heard called "Archeocrptology", and weaves these topics together into a tightly knit scheme. Attempting to synethesize what Jinks has achieved in this work would only be an injustice. There are enough unturned stones here that it might entice the reader into pursuing his/her own investigations and scientific experimentations. It did me! What more can we ask of a book than to have it compel us to pick up the torch of scientific inquiry.Review by D.K.>>> Author of: "Quantum Reality: A New Philosophical Perspective."
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Summary: Add it to your bookshelf.
Review: I must say that I passed over this book many times. I finally broke down and bought it and I have been amazed ever since. This book brought together so many things I had been researching and finally gave them some sense. I recommend this book for all of you who think there is more to life than the facts and the history we have been given. You may not buy all the things the author says, but file them away for safekeeping, you may yet believe.
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Summary: I don't own this book...
Review: I reccomend this book to those who would like to expand their horizons regarding Cydonia on Mars, the mystery of the pyramids of Giza and ancient civilizations. This book is thought provoking and helps the reader to better understand what is really going on with these subjects. There have been so many questions... which have remained unanswered. This book helps to answer some of them. If one has a closed mind, then the book is a moot subject. However if one keeps their minds open to other concepts and realize the facts and ideas presented, then this book will be a valuable addition to any home library.
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Summary: A comprehensive introduction to revolutionary new science
Review: If you're familiar with UFOs and Crop Circles, the Cold Fusion/Free Energy scene and the research of Richard Hoagland, and if you've read Graham Hancock and Creno & Thompson, you could have written this book yourself. It contains no original research, only a summary of the works of others, held together by some speculation and interpretation. I'm not holding that against this book, since the author, in his introduction, does not claim to be more than an investigative writer who's giving a best-of of controversial science, and what sense he makes of it. With that limitation in mind, this is a five-star book that I can recommened to any novice who is interested in getting a comprehensive overview of the vast field of controversial science before studying some of the source material in detail. Jinks has woven a lucid narrative that should convince anyone but the most hardened "sceptic" that mainstream science is in a state of deep crisis. The very sciencists who pride themselves on being close to a "theory of everything" remain profoundly ignorant of whole realms of nature, disparaging investigation of "anomalous" phenomena as unscientific and outright foolish. In doing so, they perpetuate the "sceptical" myth that certain subject areas - such as the ones covered by this book - are *inherently* unscientific, and that established theories always override actual evidence. As Dan Drasin put it, "faced with provocative evidence of things undreamed of in their materialist philosophy, many otherwise mature scientists revert to a kind of skeptical infantilism characterized by blind faith in the absoluteness of the familiar". Jinks gives abundant examples of this sad state of affairs, from NASA's denial of solid research that indicates that some of the Cydonia objects are artificial, to the distortions and outright propaganda produced by the Leader of the Holy Inquisistion of Scientific Orthodoxy, the late Carl Sagan. Jinks makes a good case that some of the knowledge currently suppresed by the scientific establishment, zero point energy in particular, is vital to the continued survival of the human race. He shows that humanity stands at a historical crossroads; one path leading to a virtual paradise on Earth thanks to the miracle of unlimited vacuum energy, the other to self-anihilation.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This book is a compilation of alternative histories and information on everything from cold fusion/nhe to evidence of prior life on mars. The author ties together the works of just about every alternative researcher on the planet. The underlying theme is one of hyperdimensional theory. Well documented and chock full of so much information it'll make your head spin. My only gripe is that Jinks beat me to the punch as I've wanted to put together a book of this nature. HeHe. I put off buying this book for 2 years and now wish I had gotten it sooner. I'd give it more stars but alas 5 must suffice.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This book is a compilation of alternative histories and information on everything from cold fusion/nhe to evidence of prior life on mars. The author ties together the works of just about every alternative researcher on the planet. The underlying theme is one of hyperdimensional theory. Well documented and chock full of so much information it'll make your head spin. My only gripe is that Jinks beat me to the punch as I've wanted to put together a book of this nature. HeHe. I put off buying this book for 2 years and now wish I had gotten it sooner. I'd give it more stars but alas 5 must suffice.
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Summary: Very convincing and exciting read
Review: This book is definately an exciting and interesting read for anyone interested in paranormal topics such as UFOs, Crop Circles, Cold Fusion (potentially limitless energy) and so on. Although I agree with most of what the author says, he sometimes lets his emotions come out (for example, his dislike for NASA, the US Government, "status quo" scientists, and those not open to new ideas), although he does this in a subdued way. The topic on Crystaline structures on the Moon I found to be provocative and enticing, although his argument on a "crystaline" explanation for the structures was not thoroughly convincing. I found some small (not deliberate) mathematical errors in the book, and some of the predictions that were cast did not take place ("... we know definately that a moon lander will reach the Moon by the end of the millenium..."), and others that may be too optimistic (eg. Cold fusion is on the verge of commercialisation) - although cold fusion looks very promising, it may be 20 years before we see useful commercial products on a large scale - see Infinite Energy Magazine for the write-up on the latest Cold Fusion conference. Apart from this, the book's prose is very good, the research extensive, the arguments convincing - a very enjoyable read.
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Summary: THE MONKEYS ARE COMING
Review: THIS BOOK TELLS OF THE VERY REAL THREAT TO THE HUMAN RACE FROM MONKEYS. IT PROVES THAT THERE WAS ONCE AN ADVANCED RACE OF MONKEYS ON MARS AND THAT THE FAMOUS FACE IS IN FACT THE FACE OF A MONKEY. THE MONKEYS ARE NOW ON THIS PLANET AND ARE ATTEMPTING TO TAKE OVER. THE BOOK STATES THAT THERE IS A CONSPIRACY BETWEEN WORLD GOVERMENTS AND THE MONKEYS. THE ONLY HOPE THE HUMAN RACE HAS IS TO READ THIS BOOK AND PASS IT ON TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS. THE MONKEYS MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, THE MONKEYS ARE COMING.
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Summary: Mind-boggling
Review: To an impartial observer, most conventional science today looks like nothing so much as a religion. It has its pantheon (Einstein, etc.) and temples (MIT, etc.), its high priests (Sagan, etc.) and acolytes, its sacred dogma (the Second 'Law' of Thermodynamics, etc.) and its commandments. Among the latter, the two most important would seem to be "Thou shalt not rock the boat" and "Thou shalt keep thy head in a dark, moist, and secret place." One can only be thankful that these men and women do not yet have absolute control over all media (just their own journals) and that there are others (Richard Hoagland, etc.) who are not involved in the professional scientific rat-race and who are not afraid of telling us the truth about some of the amazing facts which have come to light over recent years. One is also thankful to David M. Jinks for having provided, in this well-written, well-illustrated, and thoroughly documented 473-page book such a splendid and detailed overview of some of these recent developments. My only criticism of the book is that I wish Jinks had not spent so much time in arguing away the trivial and utterly foolish objections of the many "skeptics" in our midst. Modern education, especially of the 'scientific' variety, can tend to produce extremely narrow minds, minds that prefer to reject new facts rather than modify accepted theories. No amount of well-substantiated evidence or sane and sensible argument could ever succeed in convincing such minds of the following: * the existence of artificial artifacts on both Mars and the Moon, artifacts presumably constructed by extraterrestrials possibly as long as 200,000 or more years ago. * the reality of New Hydrogen Energy (Cold Fusion). * Unidentified Flying Objects as something real and to be taken seriously, and vouched for, among others, by persons as eminent as Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding and Mikhail Gorbachev. * the new Hyperdimensional physics as the key to a true understanding of the Universe. 'The Monkey and the Tetrahedron' is the most mind-boggling book I have ever read. For anyone who is interested in knowing the truth about some of the things that were going on in prehistory, some of the things that are going on now, and their possible implications for the future of the human race, there could be no better book than this. Others, who prefer to continue to believe what they were taught in high school, should probably avoid it.
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