Kindle Notes & Highlights
True facts involving people, places, and events described in this book inspired the broader, fictional story that unfolds through the pagination of time.
The mind-set was a self-hypnotic state based not on any tenuous mystical trance, but on an empirical phenomenon called the binaural beat.
The binaural beat was a gamma brain-wave state, or a frequency, like a radio station. And it tuned itself in when different sound patterns were heard separately within each ear.
Chalmers had found that the resulting cerebral plateau, the gamma beat, aided concentration and enabled him to absorb vast quantities of information in a very short period of time. He’d used it extensively to study, particularly to read books—which he could digest at the speed required to turn the pages … surfaces that Chalmers did not see as being full of lines with words but covered in symbols that flashed with light.
~Take a position there,~ he intoned inside Chalmers’s head. ~You are what I call a Chalmerian. You can speak your mind later. Listen now, for I have much to tell you.~
“That’s why we’ve developed the strategy of overt secrecy. We’re going to make aliens so controversial, so conspiratorial that we will undercut the country’s belief in them by our seeming openness.”
“It’s simple, really. With the flying saucer craze already sweeping America, it is inevitable Hollywood will see it as grist for the moviemaking mill. We’ll just help the producers and screenwriters get it right, creatively speaking. I’ve already identified individuals in the film industry who’ll respond cooperatively with our consultative briefings on story ideas. Through them we’ll make what we’re trying to hide so public no one can separate fact from fiction.”
These creatures are a combination of genius and stupidity.
“Fact and fiction,” Chalmers added, “are often hard to tell apart, and sometimes, for propaganda purposes, they can be interchangeable.”
“‘To think a thing is to cause it to begin to be.’ Oscar Wilde … my favorite quote,”
“I’ve been reading about astral projection,” she said. “Fascinating stuff. Deals with out-of-body experiences that supposedly can be initiated either awake or through lucid dreaming … or even deep meditation. It’s rooted intellectually in Theosophy.”
“Well, we’ve just got a new name for our glass ball—the Time Crystal.”
a quotation from Voltaire: “Men use thought only to justify their injustice, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
“Preposterous. It’s cold war politics. The Soviets have been tracking UFOs, real or imagined, for as long as we have, including the same seven that routinely pop in and out of the Black Sea.”
Underwater photos revealed that Thresher’s hull had two holes, entry and exit wounds—both were 3.14159 inches in diameter. They were not cut or bored, at least not by any cutting, explosive, or other penetrating force known to us. It’s as if the steel plate simply dematerialized.
Chalmers had a strong though unclear sense that nuclear holocaust was the least of America’s and planet Earth’s concerns.
sudden. And everyone in this room knows about the UFOs and USOs building what we all agree must be undersea colonies.”
