Paranoid awareness is growing more pervasive with
every passing year, as global events continue to fuel
our need for an underlying order to the chaos. Paranoid
awareness finds connections and hidden meanings in
otherwise mundane occurrences. At its purest, the aim of
paranoid awareness is identical in spirit to that of the
romantic poets, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, and other
artistic movements: to undermine and eventually
overthrow consensus reality, and to replace it with
individual, creative vision.This is nothing new. What is
remarkable in today's age is that the paranoid view is
now seeping into the collective experience in the form
of global conspiracies, occult societies, satanic
rituals, demonic possessions, alien abductions, and
divine interventions. Consensus reality is itself
growing progressively more paranoid.This is a natural
progression. In the current scientific debates, no one
can say what force governs and creates the laws of
physics, but perception is unanimously regarded as being
central to the process. We see what we expect to
see.What makes one man's reality another man's
hallucination? And how many people have to agree upon a
hallucination before it becomes consensus? If belief
determines what we see, how can we trust our senses? And
if reality is in the eye of the beholder, why should we
believe anything at all?This book looks at these
questions in an attempt to grasp the rose of truth. It
plumbs the mind of the paranoid, hoping to find the
truth behind the conjecture. |
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