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The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time
The focus of this book is on the goings on at the Montauk Air Force Base after it was officially closed by the government in 1969. Preston Nichols, the author, starts with the Philadelphia experiment and works his way up through the mid-1980s.
The basic premise
In a nutshell, Nichols makes the claim that the US government designed, built, and tested mind control equipment at the Montauk AF Base from 1970 through the mid-1980s. Further, he claims that he worked for the major contractor that the gov hired to do a lot of the electronics and computer infrastructure needed to make the mind control gear work. Then, he claims that he realized (after hypnotic regression) that not only did he work on the project, but he was one of the top project managers in charge of it.
How the mind control machine works
Essentially, the needed equipment to put together a powerful mind control machine includes: a powerful psychic capable of telepathy and astral projection, a couple of IBM mainframes and a CRAY supercomputer, a very powerful RADAR array to broadcast the psychic's thoughts to the unsuspecting public, and finally, a special metal chair that is connected to the computer equipment through a relatively simplistic wiring setup. Nichols claims that the idea and technology behind the mind control machine was derived from extra terrestrial technology. Once all the equipment was in place, the psychic would sit in the chair and concentrate on a certain emotion and it would be broadcast at high power throughout the local town. According to Nichols, the people involved in the project experimented on everyone in the local area, including the servicemen stationed on the base. And, according to him, the tests were successful and caused local townspeople to commit crimes en masse, etc.
It was while testing the "Montauk Chair" that the Air Force discovered that they could bend time. Since then, the government (or the shadowy figures behind the armed forces) has been manipulating time to their advantage. Nichols claims that we are currently caught in a time loop that is a result of the government meddling with time manipulation.
Some things you'll need to believe in order to enjoy this book
Nichols makes no apologies about having no evidence for the vast majority of his claims. He doesn't try to prove claims, rather, he makes statements and expects you to believe them. Also, there are a number of concepts you'll have to believe in order to get on board with Nichols' ideas:
• Psychic powers exist and are very common
• Hypnotic regression is a valid therapeutic technique
• Time travel (that is in conflict with basic physics)
• Existence on multiple "time tracks" simultaneously
• Extra terrestrial intelligence has visited Earth and given us technology
Nichols assumes the above list is true and that readers will, too. If you don't believe all of these things, you'll find fault with his claims.
Terrible editing
The editing of this book is horrid. There are sentence fragments, run-on sentences, misspellings, and a few hundred comma splices. At some points, I found the poor editing to be a distraction. I'm a magazine editor by trade, so the typos might not bother everyone as much as they did me.
You would think Nichols would have gone forward in time to see how bad the book would turn out and fix it when he got back to the time before it was published. After all, he knows how to make a time machine.
Conclusion
Well, I'll have to say that this book is very thought provoking, at the very least. In my opinion, Nichols' only factually valid claim is that there was government activity at the Montauk AFB after it had officially been closed and was listed as mothballed. Every other claim is completely unsubstantiated at best and laughably fantastic at worst. Nichols has a section at the beginning of the book saying that he has no proof for his claims, but that's hardly a substitute for evidence.
However, the story itself is interesting and compelling. This book would make a great SciFi novel and probably an excellent movie. It would've made a cool X-Files episode as well.
There are several technical diagrams in the book, most of which I had difficulty making sense of. Anybody with a background in electronics will probably find it interesting.
Overall, the writing style is decent, but as I mentioned, the poor editing really sticks out.
If you're the kind of person that requires proof for outrageous claims, skip this book. I'm a very open-minded guy, and this book stretched past my limit.
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