Hartmann has written of having an experience "briefly...in military culture."
Notably absent from Hartmann's wiki page-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Hartmann
-is his 1997 book of mysticism, miracles, and New Agey woo called
'The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life.'
It reads as if it was written for naive 13 year-olds by a committee at Reader's Digest. Creepy.
1997 is about when a psyops campaign accelerated to infuse counterculture with hand-holding memes as preparation for admitting to global warming, as in, 'oops-we broke the planet but don't wig out on us, ok?' Perhaps Hartmann's many skills were directed towards this 'don't worry be happy' memetic engineering project.
On this odd book's first page, which begins a chapter called "Meeting Master Stanley,"
Hartmann makes a vague passing reference to some relationship with...the U.S. military. Hmm. During the Vietnam War he was at the University of Michigan, a hotbed of counterculture AND CIA academia.
Transcribing the first two paragraphs of this book-
"Around 1969 I went to hear a lecture given by a "Coptic Minister" named Lee who traveled from Detroit to give speeches every week in Lansing, Michigan. Lee taught about meditation, prayer, the subtle or etheric body, and the return of the Messiah. He was a fascinating man with extraordinary piercing brown eyes and a contagious laugh; I began to attend his speeches every week, often taking friends.
My spiritual seeking had moved out of the Hippie Culture (although I still had shoulder-length hair) and into the subcultures of Christian mysticism.
My experiences living at the anti-war center of the underground The Paper tabloid in East Lansing, and in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury area, and even briefly in the military culture, had convinced me that there was something we were all missing. It was right in front of us, and we weren't seeing it."
Um, anyone else see an alarming incongruity in that sentence?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:43 pm
over.