Subtitled A Collection of Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry from the Middle Stoned Age, this literary journal features the writings of 17 authors, with emphasis on conspiracy, paranormal, occult, hidden history, and freewheeling fiction and poetry from the collection of Joan d'Arc, HunterGatheress for Paranoia Magazine. Authors in this compendium include: Joan d'Arc, Paul Laffoley, Eugenia Macer-Story, Robert Guffey, Alec K. Redfearn, Tracy Twyman, Carolyn Dean, Cori Brackett, Phill Weber, Beth Goobie, Joan Mellen, Andrew J. O'Neill, James Quigley, Len Bracken, Cheryl Welsh, Iona Miller, Tom X. Chao, Craig Heimbichner, Jane Crown.
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Spacegun '54: Mass Rumours Over Orgonon by Joan d'Arc - In his last book, Contact with Space, Oranur Second Report (1951-1956), published in 1957 before his imprisonment by the federal government, Wilhelm Reich wondered, Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women? Reich noted that this idea was first presented to the public in the 1951 film, The Day the Earth Stood Still. He stated that the film had prepared the populace of the day for extraordinary events to come ...
Blind Spot: A Gnostic Tale of the Soul s Journey Into Time and the Struggle to Return to the One by Joan d'Arc - The automatic doors of the SpeedyMart flew open with a swoosh. Out into the dense fever of a dog day afternoon stepped Adam Kadmon. His ass hit the seat of his beat-up Honda just as a diminutive creature resembling a gargoyle climbed into an eyeball-shaped sidecar attached to his rear passenger door. Kadmon checked over his right shoulder and saw not the bulging cranium of his mighty demon brother but the vacant blackness of the blind spot. . . . .
Disco Volante by Paul Laffoley - I saw my first foreign film in 1951. It was not at The Telepix, The Translux, or The Brattle Theatre, but at Boston s widest screen of the day, The RKO Keith Memorial Theatre on Tremont Street, halfway between Park and Boylston. The director was not Victorrio Desica, Fritz Lang, Jean Cocteau, or Ingmar Bergman, but an American, Robert Wise, a Virgo born on September 10, 1914. What I am referring to is the classic flying saucer movie of the atomic age, The Day the Earth Stood Still, direct from the film studios of 20th Century Fox. . . .
The Adventures of Tina-Bob in Cyberspace by Joan d Arc - Down the spiral staircase of the law library sashayed the svelte V-Joy Minot in size 7 brown pumps circa 1940. Going to lunch now, she whispered to the suits in the library, who winced at her shabby 1938 raccoon coat with missing buttons. Stepping out onto the sidewalk on K Street, Washington, DC, a triangulated crossbreeze nearly blasted off the 1959 Jackie-O pillbox pinned to her red frightwig. What kind of animal is that coat made of? asked her lunch date, Miss Kimmee. Something that would've died by now anyway, replied Vicarious Joy. . . .
Real Black Magick Ancient Roots of Deception by Eugenia Macer-Story - Instances of real black magick are often attributed to mundane or accidental causes, because the actual lore and practice of the system being utilized is not included in the canon of spell books and scholarly coded documents on metaphysics or natural history. The deceptive practices of dark power magick learned from cause/effect experimentation by a lone practitioner can also include membership in an overt gang, seldom in a fully secret society. . .
The Twelfth Thunder: Beyond the Digital Environment of Finnegans Wake by Robert Guffey - Before Marshall McLuhan became the High Priest of Popcult and the Metaphysician of the Media, as Playboy christened him in 1969, he was foremost a critic immersed in the world of letters and the traditional arts. In 1969, after his transformation into a media guru, McGraw-Hill published a collection of his early literary criticism under the title The Interior Landscape. Prima facie, one finds little in these essays that hint at the freewheeling, satirical media analysis to come. It is indeed there lurking ... --Publisher
On My Tracks by Alec K. Redfearn - Today, I embark on a month-long tour of Europe with one of my favorite musicians, Micah Blue Smaldone of Portland Maine. We start in Brussels and end in Athens. I plan on surviving this one. I will probably sleep in a pigeonshit-drenched gutter where I will be abducted. My organs will be harvested and sold to feed someone s opium habit... That's what they do to yank vagrants, right? . . .
The Motionless Movement by Phill Weber - Movement is the Disease of the Universe. Thus begins the Manifesto of Le Mouvement Immobile (The Motionless Movement), a tiny and short-lived collective of literary intellectuals founded in Paris in 1900. Gerard Duprey, the manifesto s author, broadens this premise, declaring that the worm at the core of existence is our willingness to accept that things happen. Having a prescient understanding of the theories of Rudolf Clausius and a thoughtfully, albeit erroneously, developed notion of entropy, Monsieur Duprey was convinced that a misplaced trust in human progress, and the expenditure of energy that resulted from entertaining this notion, needlessly accelerated our passage towards a condition he called le fin du jeu, or the end of the game, a static state analogous to the heat-death of the universe. . .
Hot Lunch by James Quigley - I'm digging through a box that I haven t looked through since I took it out of my father's attic in 1998. It's filled with stuff from my first year of Junior High School. My yearbook, old drawings, a few comic books, and a video tape with the words HOT LUNCH scribbled in my adolescent handwriting. I always hated returning to school from any vacation. Christmas 1986 was cold and wet, and I had spent most of it watching Monty Python videos and reading through a stack of old Powerman and Iron Fist comics that I scored at the flea market last summer. My first day back was in a panic, ... Brian Pope was dead . . . .
Subprime Girl by Len Bracken - After winning a war with cancer she found herself at the Chateau Marmont in Beverly Hills. Memories of being in the hospital bed dissolved in her fourth glass of white wine, which she intended to be her last for now. ... Diane went at the woman, the sister of a celebrity who was quite well known, in large strides and with tightly clenched fists from across the room. Red blurs flashed by in her peripheral vision from the carpet, curtains, booths, and torrid faces of other patrons. The movement was brusque and her victim noticed it. Dark eyes glared up from a slab of rare tuna in alarm. . . .
Making Sense of Mind Control and No-Touch Torture by Cheryl Welsh - After the horrific pictures of prisoners being tortured at Abu Ghraib were displayed in front pages of newspapers around the world, the United States maintained that the U.S. government does not torture; Abu Ghraib was about a few bad officers. Evidence now proves that CIA no touch torture and worse were ordered by the executive branch and approved by top military officers. Surprisingly this scandal has much in common with another national security issue, neuroweapons, commonly referred to as mind control. The field of neuroethics should begin now, according to bioethicist Dr. Jonathan Moreno in his 2006 book Mind Wars, Brain Research and National Defense. Most neuroscientists agree that advanced neuroweapons are over a half century away but the ethics of the new weapons need more planning than occurred for the atomic bomb... --Publisher
R is for Ruthless: Robert F. Kennedy and Otto Otepka by Joan Mellen - Beginning in 1957, Otto F. Otepka served as Deputy Director of the State Department Office of Security. This meant that Otepka was in charge of granting security clearances for all State Department personnel. A cadre of people worked under his supervision. From this position of considerable responsibility, Otepka was plunged into a nightmare universe of harassment and surveillance. Otepka was reassigned and removed to a position from which he could no longer reveal inconvenient truths. This is an extraordinary tale of a career government officer being framed from within the government, his only sin the scrupulous manner in which he performed his duties. . . .
St. Germain s Top Secret Code Revealed: The Triangle Book of St. Germain by Iona Miller - St. Germain had a Secret. That secret became a legacy of Manly Palmer Hall and his Philosophic Research Society (PRS). It was his supreme treasure which he kept safely hidden in his vault. The two parchment cipher texts now reside in the Getty Research Institute, likewise buried deep in their library vaults. This wisest adept in Europe reserved his greatest gift for his wisest companions. He recorded it in his legendary The Triangle Book, and apparently made copies for his closest circle of initiates. . . .
Hocus Pocus: The Magical Power of Catholic Priests by Tracy R. Twyman - According to the Gospels, Jesus was endowed with a number of supernatural abilities, as evidenced by his many miracles. These included healing the sick, casting out demons, and raising the dead, as well as tricks like multiplying the loaves and the fishes, turning water into wine, and calming the stormy sea. This he did through the command of the so-called Holy Spirit. This power is otherwise called in the Gospels his virtue . . .
Remote Beam Harassment by Beth Goobie - Remote beam harassment comes in many forms and serves multiple purposes. Commonly used by cults to enforce obedience, it can also be employed to demoralize or discredit activists and business colleagues /competitors, or by a landlord who wants to convince a tenant to move out. Many of these beams can be operated through hand-held devices that fit into a person's pocket. This technology has been used on me by individuals close by ...
Stages Of Health: The Food Factor by Carolyn Dean M.D., N.D. - When access to food involved hunting and gathering and basic cultivation, presumably we were ingesting plant foods from nutrient rich soil and animals that were exposed to the same nutritious plants. That soil was also rich in bacteria and fungi, the ones that transform rock minerals into a particle size that plants can utilize. Plants have their own alchemy and can transform these minerals into a protein-mineral complex that a healthy body is able to digest into the correct size to swim through the nutrient channels in our body s cells. . . . You can t fit a size 7 foot into a size 5 shoe, and in the same way, you can t fit a milligram or even a micron-sized mineral into an angstrom-sized mineral channel. . . .
An Artificially Sweetened Tale by Cori Brackett - In Tucson, Arizona, it is almost always hot. My city is the one red spot on the weather map in summertime, when the rest of the nation is yellow or green, with perhaps a touch of orange. Therefore, as was typical, it was a mild and sunny afternoon in February when I received the telephone call that would forever alter the course of my life. Good afternoon, Sound and Fury. This is Cori. . . . Hi Cori. I'm afraid the test results came in from your MRI. It looks like it's multiple sclerosis. . . --Publisher
Blind Spot: A Gnostic Tale of the Soul s Journey Into Time and the Struggle to Return to the One by Joan d'Arc - The automatic doors of the SpeedyMart flew open with a swoosh. Out into the dense fever of a dog day afternoon stepped Adam Kadmon. His ass hit the seat of his beat-up Honda just as a diminutive creature resembling a gargoyle climbed into an eyeball-shaped sidecar attached to his rear passenger door. Kadmon checked over his right shoulder and saw not the bulging cranium of his mighty demon brother but the vacant blackness of the blind spot. . . . .
Disco Volante by Paul Laffoley - I saw my first foreign film in 1951. It was not at The Telepix, The Translux, or The Brattle Theatre, but at Boston s widest screen of the day, The RKO Keith Memorial Theatre on Tremont Street, halfway between Park and Boylston. The director was not Victorrio Desica, Fritz Lang, Jean Cocteau, or Ingmar Bergman, but an American, Robert Wise, a Virgo born on September 10, 1914. What I am referring to is the classic flying saucer movie of the atomic age, The Day the Earth Stood Still, direct from the film studios of 20th Century Fox. . . .
The Adventures of Tina-Bob in Cyberspace by Joan d Arc - Down the spiral staircase of the law library sashayed the svelte V-Joy Minot in size 7 brown pumps circa 1940. Going to lunch now, she whispered to the suits in the library, who winced at her shabby 1938 raccoon coat with missing buttons. Stepping out onto the sidewalk on K Street, Washington, DC, a triangulated crossbreeze nearly blasted off the 1959 Jackie-O pillbox pinned to her red frightwig. What kind of animal is that coat made of? asked her lunch date, Miss Kimmee. Something that would've died by now anyway, replied Vicarious Joy. . . .
Real Black Magick Ancient Roots of Deception by Eugenia Macer-Story - Instances of real black magick are often attributed to mundane or accidental causes, because the actual lore and practice of the system being utilized is not included in the canon of spell books and scholarly coded documents on metaphysics or natural history. The deceptive practices of dark power magick learned from cause/effect experimentation by a lone practitioner can also include membership in an overt gang, seldom in a fully secret society. . .
The Twelfth Thunder: Beyond the Digital Environment of Finnegans Wake by Robert Guffey - Before Marshall McLuhan became the High Priest of Popcult and the Metaphysician of the Media, as Playboy christened him in 1969, he was foremost a critic immersed in the world of letters and the traditional arts. In 1969, after his transformation into a media guru, McGraw-Hill published a collection of his early literary criticism under the title The Interior Landscape. Prima facie, one finds little in these essays that hint at the freewheeling, satirical media analysis to come. It is indeed there lurking ... --Publisher
On My Tracks by Alec K. Redfearn - Today, I embark on a month-long tour of Europe with one of my favorite musicians, Micah Blue Smaldone of Portland Maine. We start in Brussels and end in Athens. I plan on surviving this one. I will probably sleep in a pigeonshit-drenched gutter where I will be abducted. My organs will be harvested and sold to feed someone s opium habit... That's what they do to yank vagrants, right? . . .
The Motionless Movement by Phill Weber - Movement is the Disease of the Universe. Thus begins the Manifesto of Le Mouvement Immobile (The Motionless Movement), a tiny and short-lived collective of literary intellectuals founded in Paris in 1900. Gerard Duprey, the manifesto s author, broadens this premise, declaring that the worm at the core of existence is our willingness to accept that things happen. Having a prescient understanding of the theories of Rudolf Clausius and a thoughtfully, albeit erroneously, developed notion of entropy, Monsieur Duprey was convinced that a misplaced trust in human progress, and the expenditure of energy that resulted from entertaining this notion, needlessly accelerated our passage towards a condition he called le fin du jeu, or the end of the game, a static state analogous to the heat-death of the universe. . .
Hot Lunch by James Quigley - I'm digging through a box that I haven t looked through since I took it out of my father's attic in 1998. It's filled with stuff from my first year of Junior High School. My yearbook, old drawings, a few comic books, and a video tape with the words HOT LUNCH scribbled in my adolescent handwriting. I always hated returning to school from any vacation. Christmas 1986 was cold and wet, and I had spent most of it watching Monty Python videos and reading through a stack of old Powerman and Iron Fist comics that I scored at the flea market last summer. My first day back was in a panic, ... Brian Pope was dead . . . .
Subprime Girl by Len Bracken - After winning a war with cancer she found herself at the Chateau Marmont in Beverly Hills. Memories of being in the hospital bed dissolved in her fourth glass of white wine, which she intended to be her last for now. ... Diane went at the woman, the sister of a celebrity who was quite well known, in large strides and with tightly clenched fists from across the room. Red blurs flashed by in her peripheral vision from the carpet, curtains, booths, and torrid faces of other patrons. The movement was brusque and her victim noticed it. Dark eyes glared up from a slab of rare tuna in alarm. . . .
Making Sense of Mind Control and No-Touch Torture by Cheryl Welsh - After the horrific pictures of prisoners being tortured at Abu Ghraib were displayed in front pages of newspapers around the world, the United States maintained that the U.S. government does not torture; Abu Ghraib was about a few bad officers. Evidence now proves that CIA no touch torture and worse were ordered by the executive branch and approved by top military officers. Surprisingly this scandal has much in common with another national security issue, neuroweapons, commonly referred to as mind control. The field of neuroethics should begin now, according to bioethicist Dr. Jonathan Moreno in his 2006 book Mind Wars, Brain Research and National Defense. Most neuroscientists agree that advanced neuroweapons are over a half century away but the ethics of the new weapons need more planning than occurred for the atomic bomb... --Publisher
R is for Ruthless: Robert F. Kennedy and Otto Otepka by Joan Mellen - Beginning in 1957, Otto F. Otepka served as Deputy Director of the State Department Office of Security. This meant that Otepka was in charge of granting security clearances for all State Department personnel. A cadre of people worked under his supervision. From this position of considerable responsibility, Otepka was plunged into a nightmare universe of harassment and surveillance. Otepka was reassigned and removed to a position from which he could no longer reveal inconvenient truths. This is an extraordinary tale of a career government officer being framed from within the government, his only sin the scrupulous manner in which he performed his duties. . . .
St. Germain s Top Secret Code Revealed: The Triangle Book of St. Germain by Iona Miller - St. Germain had a Secret. That secret became a legacy of Manly Palmer Hall and his Philosophic Research Society (PRS). It was his supreme treasure which he kept safely hidden in his vault. The two parchment cipher texts now reside in the Getty Research Institute, likewise buried deep in their library vaults. This wisest adept in Europe reserved his greatest gift for his wisest companions. He recorded it in his legendary The Triangle Book, and apparently made copies for his closest circle of initiates. . . .
Hocus Pocus: The Magical Power of Catholic Priests by Tracy R. Twyman - According to the Gospels, Jesus was endowed with a number of supernatural abilities, as evidenced by his many miracles. These included healing the sick, casting out demons, and raising the dead, as well as tricks like multiplying the loaves and the fishes, turning water into wine, and calming the stormy sea. This he did through the command of the so-called Holy Spirit. This power is otherwise called in the Gospels his virtue . . .
Remote Beam Harassment by Beth Goobie - Remote beam harassment comes in many forms and serves multiple purposes. Commonly used by cults to enforce obedience, it can also be employed to demoralize or discredit activists and business colleagues /competitors, or by a landlord who wants to convince a tenant to move out. Many of these beams can be operated through hand-held devices that fit into a person's pocket. This technology has been used on me by individuals close by ...
Stages Of Health: The Food Factor by Carolyn Dean M.D., N.D. - When access to food involved hunting and gathering and basic cultivation, presumably we were ingesting plant foods from nutrient rich soil and animals that were exposed to the same nutritious plants. That soil was also rich in bacteria and fungi, the ones that transform rock minerals into a particle size that plants can utilize. Plants have their own alchemy and can transform these minerals into a protein-mineral complex that a healthy body is able to digest into the correct size to swim through the nutrient channels in our body s cells. . . . You can t fit a size 7 foot into a size 5 shoe, and in the same way, you can t fit a milligram or even a micron-sized mineral into an angstrom-sized mineral channel. . . .
An Artificially Sweetened Tale by Cori Brackett - In Tucson, Arizona, it is almost always hot. My city is the one red spot on the weather map in summertime, when the rest of the nation is yellow or green, with perhaps a touch of orange. Therefore, as was typical, it was a mild and sunny afternoon in February when I received the telephone call that would forever alter the course of my life. Good afternoon, Sound and Fury. This is Cori. . . . Hi Cori. I'm afraid the test results came in from your MRI. It looks like it's multiple sclerosis. . . --Publisher
About the Author
Joan d Arc is HunterGatheress. She is the co-publisher of PARANOIA The Conspiracy and Paranormal Reader, founded in 1992 in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the author of Space Travelers and the Genesis of the Human Form, and Phenomenal World, both published by The Book Tree. She is the editor of the 1996 book Paranoid Women Collect Their Thoughts and the Chief Resident of the Paranoid Women Institute. She is the founder of the website, BIPED: Beings for Intelligent Purpose in Evolutionary Design. She is also the co-editor of The Conspiracy Reader and The New Conspiracy Reader (Kensington Press), which has been translated to Japanese and Romanian. She has been published in several compilations including Wake Up Down There, The Universal Seduction, and the French Fortean journal, La Gazette Forteenne.
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In this age of anxiety when most turn a blind third eye to the powers that be and layers of traditional meaning are unraveling at an alarming rate, HunterGatheress Journal takes a courageous stand for freedom of speech and cognitive liberty. Those weary of either a little too much reality or shallow superficiality can eagerly explore the bleeding edge with this wiley group of artists, edge-celebs and digerati, who sometimes carve a path through the mindscape with tongue firmly in cheek. But there are deep truths here, too, about our culture, our nature, and our future.
Led by the intrepid Joan d'Arc, "world-class paranoid woman" and Editor of Paranoia Magazine, this band of pranksters and public advocates inform and delight you at the same time. How much you agree or disagree with their conclusions and offerings may depend on their glib characterizations of themselves. But they are far more than spooks and kooks; there is depth here. HunterGatheress contains both heartful and objective insight, foresight, and brilliant brainstorms, too. If all this has mystified you, good -- take a look for yourself and see if you can describe what you find any better. It is a bold initiatory journey into the realm of mystery. In this rich food for thought, you may just discover some things you didn't know about your world, and perhaps more importantly, about yourself. HunterGatheress virtually embodies the words of new media prophet Marshall McLuhan: "In the age of instant information man ends his job of fragmented specializing and assumes the role of information gathering. Today information-gathering resumes the inclusive concept of "culture," exactly as the primitive food-gatherer worked in complete equilibrium with his entire environment. Our quarry now, in this new nomadic and "workless" world, is knowledge and insight into the creative processes of life and society." - Marshall McLuhan and Ted Carpenter, UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: THE EXTENSIONS OF MAN, 1964, pp.138-9 (MIT Press Edition)
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The inaugural issue of the Huntergatheress Journal brings together one of the most creative literary cocktails I have seen: poetry, prose, nonfiction, humor--all linked, at times subtlely, by a nebulous thread of Eyes-Open Suspicion. The range of writers and points of view is so varied that probably some of those included would disagree here or there with coauthors within the same volume, yet here they all get along nicely for a romp through the regions of conspiratorial awareness, poetic reflection, and even a bit of leg-pulling. The range of thought reflects a publishing achievement which bodes extremely well for future issues. Joan d'Arc, the veteran publisher and author, has scored a hit and left us all waiting for the next issue, to see what new Tall Tales of Synchronicity, attacks against the Cryptocracy, poems and humorous sketches lie in store.
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