CHAMELEO readers will definitely want to check out the following Federal Bureau of Investigation document that defines the primary objectives of what the FBI calls a "Shared Responsibility Committee." Using the most bureaucratic, Orwellian, Cover Your Ass language possible, the document lays out the goals and obligations of gangstalking. Here are the first three paragraphs of the document:
"Dear [list members of SRC]:
"We welcome your interest in participating in a Shared Responsibility Committee (SRC). The FBI uses the term SRC to refer to multi-disciplinary groups voluntarily formed in local communities--at the initiative of the group and sometimes with the encouragement of the FBI--to which the FBI may agree to refer potentially violent extremists for intervention so long as the SRC operates consistent with the principles and expectations set out below. This letter provides additional information on these principles and our role in referring individuals to an SRC. Through this letter we hope to ensure you are fully aware of the FBI's role as a referring entity in the intervention process, as well as potential outcomes and risk so that you can make informed decisions about whether to participate in the SRC.
"The primary goals of an SRC intervention is disengagement. Disengagement is defined as the social and psychological process whereby an individual's commitment to violence is reduced to such an extent that he/she is no longer at risk of using violence as a solution to a grievance. It is not the role or goal of the SRC to influence an individual's core political or religious beliefs.
"The FBI's primary objectives in referring an individual to the SRC are to enable community partners to develop community-led multidisciplinary solutions and to build community resilience and foster greater community trust, while also fulfilling the FBI's national security and public safety responsibilities. The FBI is not a member of the SRC."
To read the entire FBI document, click HERE.
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
POSTSCRIPTS: THE DRAGONS OF THE NIGHT Has Been Released!
The latest volume of POSTSCRIPTS, which contains my novella "The Wedding Photographer" (17,300 words), arrived on my doorstep earlier today. POSTSCRIPTS #36/37: THE DRAGONS OF THE NIGHT also contains stories by Brian Aldiss, Paul Di Filippo, Darrell Schweitzer, Lavie Tidhar and many others. Purchase a copy from PS Publishing by clicking HERE!
PS Publishing, by the way, also released my 2014 collection of novellas, SPIES & SAUCERS, still available for purchase (click HERE for ordering info).
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"Robert Guffey’s book Spies and Saucers presents three novellas about UFOs, Men in
Black, strange creatures and even stranger occurrences. These tales are
set in the '50s, but they sound as fresh as any modern story of UFOs and
strange creatures. Reading in bed or right before bed is not recommended
for the faint of heart."
--Tessa B. Dick, author of Philip K. Dick: Remembering Firebright and My Life on the Edge of Reality
"Robert Guffey’s Spies
and Saucers is an unforgettable experience. In this book, the three
tales are distinct and yet also have clear thematic relationships to one
another, all evoking an insightful view of the wonders and the fears of America
in the '50s. They also draw upon a rich array of pop culture, ranging
from B-horror movies like The Devil Bat
(1940) with Bela Lugosi to Irish folklore and the golden age of science fiction
novels.
"These allusions enriched both occasions I’ve read Spies and Saucers (thankfully I have a
hardback, as I’ll be returning to it again in the near future). At the
same time, I don’t believe knowledge of the various films and books to which
Guffey refers is necessary, no more so than it is for reading and loving Thomas
Pynchon.
"Spies and
Saucers is thoughtful--at times dark, at times darkly humorous--but always
enjoyable.
"Along with Cormac McCarthy, Guffey is my favorite
modern fiction writer. Spies and Saucers provides ample proof
as to why I feel that way.”
"Robert Guffey is a writer of the first rank. He
is more. He makes strange landscapes and people come alive in ways that
remind the reader that, yes, this world is strange. The three novellas in
Spies and Saucers will shake up your
soul and make you laugh, even if you don't want to. You'll walk in his
characters' shoes as they try to cope with exceedingly bent realities, and
you'll know why winning and losing are only a part of a much larger and more
surreal Weird that has taken over society. Guffey makes his work look
easy, but it isn't. He's a magician. He has the ineffable
touch."
--Jon Rappoport, author of The Secret Behind Secret Societies
Monday, May 16, 2016
H.P. Lovecraft and the 15-second Delay from Reality
Back in 1926, H.P. Lovecraft wrote the following words in his now famous short story "The Call of Cthulhu":
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
According to a 4-7-14 article published on rt.com, H.P. Lovecraft was absolutely right.
If we can believe the research conducted by a team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, human beings are on a 15-second delay from reality. Why would this be? The simple answer: To keep us all from going insane.
What follow are the first few paragraphs of the article:
"A team of vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed this secret of the human brain: To save us from insanity induced by a constantly changing torrent of pictures, shapes and colors – both virtual and real world – the brain filters out information, failing in most cases to notice small changes in a 15-second period of time.
"It actually means that what we do see is, in fact, a mixture of past and present. According to the research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, stability is attained at the expense of accuracy.
"'What you are seeing at the present moment is not a fresh snapshot of the world but rather an average of what you've seen in the past 10 to 15 seconds,' said study author Jason Fischer, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at MIT."
To read the rest of this article, entitled "Brain '15-second Delay' Shields Us from Hallucinogenic Experience," click HERE.
According to a far more recent article, cognitive scientist David Hoffman contends he has employed evolutionary game theory to demonstrate that "our perceptions of an independent reality must be illusions." Here are the first two paragraphs of Amanda Gefter's 4-21-16 quantamagazine.org article entitled "The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality:"
"As we go about our daily lives, we tend to assume that our perceptions — sights, sounds, textures, tastes — are an accurate portrayal of the real world. Sure, when we stop and think about it — or when we find ourselves fooled by a perceptual illusion — we realize with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world directly, but rather our brain’s best guess at what that world is like, a kind of internal simulation of an external reality. Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a reasonably decent one. If it wasn’t, wouldn’t evolution have weeded us out by now? The true reality might be forever beyond our reach, but surely our senses give us at least an inkling of what it’s really like.
"Not so, says Donald D. Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. Hoffman has spent the past three decades studying perception, artificial intelligence, evolutionary game theory and the brain, and his conclusion is a dramatic one: The world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality. What’s more, he says, we have evolution itself to thank for this magnificent illusion, as it maximizes evolutionary fitness by driving truth to extinction."
Further along in the article, Gefter quotes Hoffman as saying:
"Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know. And that’s pretty much all of reality, whatever reality might be.”
To read the entirety of Gefter's article, click HERE.
To read the entirety of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu," click HERE.
As an extra-special bonus, you will see below a sketch of the ultraterrestrial Cthulhu drawn by Lovecraft himself in 1934, the very first illustration of this most ubiquitous fictional (?) fiend....
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
According to a 4-7-14 article published on rt.com, H.P. Lovecraft was absolutely right.
If we can believe the research conducted by a team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, human beings are on a 15-second delay from reality. Why would this be? The simple answer: To keep us all from going insane.
What follow are the first few paragraphs of the article:
"Scientists have revealed the human brain has a 15-second lag
that helps stabilize incoming visual information, which we don’t notice
bombarding us in the course of our everyday lives.
"Eyes tend to receive an enormous information load from dusk till
dawn, and as one opens his or her eyes in the morning, the brain
starts its intensive work, processing incoming pictures from the
surroundings, including imagery from TV screens and computer
monitors. "A team of vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed this secret of the human brain: To save us from insanity induced by a constantly changing torrent of pictures, shapes and colors – both virtual and real world – the brain filters out information, failing in most cases to notice small changes in a 15-second period of time.
"It actually means that what we do see is, in fact, a mixture of past and present. According to the research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, stability is attained at the expense of accuracy.
"'What you are seeing at the present moment is not a fresh snapshot of the world but rather an average of what you've seen in the past 10 to 15 seconds,' said study author Jason Fischer, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at MIT."
To read the rest of this article, entitled "Brain '15-second Delay' Shields Us from Hallucinogenic Experience," click HERE.
According to a far more recent article, cognitive scientist David Hoffman contends he has employed evolutionary game theory to demonstrate that "our perceptions of an independent reality must be illusions." Here are the first two paragraphs of Amanda Gefter's 4-21-16 quantamagazine.org article entitled "The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality:"
"As we go about our daily lives, we tend to assume that our perceptions — sights, sounds, textures, tastes — are an accurate portrayal of the real world. Sure, when we stop and think about it — or when we find ourselves fooled by a perceptual illusion — we realize with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world directly, but rather our brain’s best guess at what that world is like, a kind of internal simulation of an external reality. Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a reasonably decent one. If it wasn’t, wouldn’t evolution have weeded us out by now? The true reality might be forever beyond our reach, but surely our senses give us at least an inkling of what it’s really like.
"Not so, says Donald D. Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. Hoffman has spent the past three decades studying perception, artificial intelligence, evolutionary game theory and the brain, and his conclusion is a dramatic one: The world presented to us by our perceptions is nothing like reality. What’s more, he says, we have evolution itself to thank for this magnificent illusion, as it maximizes evolutionary fitness by driving truth to extinction."
Further along in the article, Gefter quotes Hoffman as saying:
"Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know. And that’s pretty much all of reality, whatever reality might be.”
To read the entirety of Gefter's article, click HERE.
To read the entirety of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu," click HERE.
As an extra-special bonus, you will see below a sketch of the ultraterrestrial Cthulhu drawn by Lovecraft himself in 1934, the very first illustration of this most ubiquitous fictional (?) fiend....
Monday, May 2, 2016
POSTSCRIPTS #36/37 IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!
This volume includes twenty-four stories, including my 17,300-word novella "The Wedding Photographer." Also included are such tales as "Abundances Above" by Brian Aldiss, "A Reverie of Time" by Allen Ashley, "Everything Finishes" by John Grant, "Karen Coxswain, or, Death as She is Truly Lived" by Paul Di Filippo, "The Man Without the Blue Balloon and the Woman Who Had Smiles Only for Him" by Scott Edelman, and "The Dragons of the Night" and "The Hutchison Boy" by Darrell Schweitzer.
If you're interested in ordering a copy of this book (due to be published this very month), simply click HERE.
If you're interested in ordering a copy of this book (due to be published this very month), simply click HERE.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Dick Gregory on Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman
Consider this a sequel to my last post about Dick Gregory and the death of Prince. I highly recommend watching in a row the following five interviews with Gregory. Inevitably, there's some repetition here, but each segment
builds on the previous one in a most fascinating way.
The information Gregory presents here echoes some of my own ruminations regarding Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, at least in regard to the very questionable nature of the official narrative surrounding Martin's death (as blindly reported by the mainstream media). Here's what I wrote on January 18th of this year:
"Obviously, Dion is speculating a great deal here, so let’s pause a moment and assume that Zimmerman has no real ties to the gangstalking community at all. If so, this wouldn’t change the fact that Zimmerman is the perfect poster boy for the type of drone drawn into the world of gangstalking...."
The information Gregory presents here echoes some of my own ruminations regarding Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, at least in regard to the very questionable nature of the official narrative surrounding Martin's death (as blindly reported by the mainstream media). Here's what I wrote on January 18th of this year:
"When George Zimmerman was found 'not guilty' of Trayvon Martin’s murder on June 13, 2013, despite the
overwhelming evidence against him, the world community couldn’t believe
it. The day Zimmerman escaped his due
punishment, my friend Dion Fuller (the subject of my book Chameleo) sent me an email in which he wrote, '…in my very valuable
opinion, this "kid" has the stink of the all new American Secret Police from
day one. He’s a gaslighting closet cop
who is obviously too nutty to make it as a real cop, but that didn’t stop the
new and improved crypto-control apparatus from exploiting that douche bag to
Hell and back.'
"Obviously, Dion is speculating a great deal here, so let’s pause a moment and assume that Zimmerman has no real ties to the gangstalking community at all. If so, this wouldn’t change the fact that Zimmerman is the perfect poster boy for the type of drone drawn into the world of gangstalking...."
(To read my original post, click HERE.)