Phenomenal World
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This is an unusual and very ambitious book that attempts to connect many ideas, theories and phenomena. Though not very long (200 pages), it is packed with information and speculation about all things usually dubbed occult or paranormal. Joan D'arc covers UFOs, quantum physics, the CIA's (and other governmental agencies) involvement with psychedelics and mind control and phenomenology. The latter, a philosophical cousin to existentialism, is concerned with the problem of the subjective vs. the objective; is the world we perceive the "real" world, or merely our personal version of it? What makes Phenomenal World unique is the connecting of ivory tower philosophy (Husserl, Sartre, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty in particular), fringe conspiracy theories and cutting-edge science (especially quantum physics). Another subject D'arc goes into at some length is Scientology, whose principles have apparently been appropriated by intelligence agencies. As you may gather from this review, this is not the easiest book to read --I was a philosophy major, but must confess that I understood very little of phenomenology. It could have been more tightly edited; in several places, for example, the same quotes are repeated twice in successive paragraphs. Despite these quibbles, however, I highly recommend this book, especially to those who have a basic familiarity with one or more of the topics it deals with. D'arc raises an extremely important issue --the way perception influences reality. While this in itself is not new --many new age and occult books have this theme-- Phenomenal World makes us look at many "paranormal" events from this perspective, putting everything into a new light. It's one thing to analyze things like UFOs and government cover-ups as external problems that need explaining; it's quite another to face the possiblity that we who ask these questions have ultimately created the whole scenario. The universe may be one interconnected hologram (another theory discussed by D'arc). The question then becomes, not whether this or that phenomenon is real, but how and why do we create the reality we inhabit?
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