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Free Advice about Life, Universe and Other Stuff from Lawrence R. Spencer

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I LISTEN TO WHAT I READ

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Johnathan RenshawSo far in my nearly 70 years I’ve written and published 8 books.  None of my books have enjoyed the global readership of a book I did NOT write, but edited.  I spend the vast majority of my time reading books written by literary adepts and master story-tellers.  Reading is not merely entertainment.  It is the mind and imagination of beings communicating their thoughts, memories and musings, through symbols, to others.  There are 450,000 NEW BOOKS published every year, in Kevin Hearneaddition to the millions that have accumulated since the printing press was “invented” in Europe in by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440.   Personally, I listen to audiobooks.  The combination of masterful writing combined with state of the art performance is nothing less than magic.  Since my personal interests tend to vary from esoteric to bizarre, it stick to science fiction, primarily.  However, I enjoy a good story, well told.

Benedict JackaIn modern publishing writers no longer write ONE book.  They write a SERIES of books.  This is based on the sales and marketing-driven capitalist culture that exploded in Europe a few hundred years ago.  So, lately,  I’m not reading “books”.  I’m reading a “series” 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 books!  However, when you find an author you really enjoy this is a good was to swim deeply into the ocean of a genre or universe, rather than surfing the shallow shores of television, film, or — gods forbid — social media.Jim Butcher

Here are a few of the “series” I’ve read or am reading.  Three of these books are my first voyage on the ocean of “Magic Mystery”, i.e. Druids, Mages and Wizards in the roles of  spell-casting superheros fighting an assortment of supernatural villains: to my delight and continuing enchantment! I recommend them to you.  Search the fantastic library available on Audible.com  and your favorite on-line bookstores to find your own.

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” – William Colby, former CIA director

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)

“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.” – James Angleton, head of CIA counter intelligence from 1954-1974

“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.” – Harry S. Truman

“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” – J. Edgar Hoover, ex-FBI director on the New World Order conspiracy

“If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.” – George H. W. Bush  (helped assassinate JFK)

” I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.” – John F. Kennedy

“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in  America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is  not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did,  you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid  weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected  with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things,  and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions  would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my  honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four  hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to  destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at  the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily  bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an  independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the  scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance.  Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of  other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.” – John Swinton, former New York Times Chief of Staff