October 1, 2007

Nick Redfern’s Celebrity Secrets: Government Files on the Rich and Famous
Review from The Sunday New York Times Book Review
September 9, 2007

Pop Culture Chronicle
Reviews by DAVE ITZKOFF
CELEBRITY SECRETS: Government Files on the Rich and Famous. By Nick Redfern. (Paraview Pocket Books, paper, $14.)

The most important periodical of our time, Us Weekly, has already put it best: Stars, they’re just like us. They abuse narcotics, consort with enemies of the state and haggle with prostitutes over services rendered. We know this because our government, when it was not otherwise occupied battling the menaces of Nazism and Communism, was keeping tabs on our most celebrated actors, artists and musicians, with a doggedness that would put any tabloid editor to shame. Redfern, a freelance journalist, knows this because he obtained declassified files the C.I.A., F.B.I. and other federal agencies kept on outspoken stars like Frank Sinatra and John Lennon, and on such seemingly upstanding citizens as John Wayne and John Denver. From Jimi Hendrix’s Army file, we learn that this future rock god “requires excessive supervision at all times” and “cannot function while performing duties thinking about his guitar.” From F.B.I. documents, we discover that Abbott and Costello were scrutinized for slipping suspicious “key words” into their radio shows. And in Marilyn Monroe’s F.B.I. records, we are told that Norman Mailer is “an eccentric but well-known author.” In small doses, these factoids are good for a laugh. But Redfern’s book paints a progressively damning portrait of a government obsessed with pop culture’s power and paranoid about controlling its message, as unnerved by the possibility of a riot breaking out at a Beatles concert as it is by the thought of Rock Hudson portraying an F.B.I. agent in a motion picture.

Marcela Landres and Lisa Hagan at Dean King’s, (author of Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival) home in Richmond, VA celebrating the James River Writers Group weekend workshop and Dean’s birthday on Friday September 28, 2007. Marcela, a freelance editor extraordinaire, check out her website. She has saved many a manuscript from the slush pile. She is delightful to work with and a great friend. I highly recommend her services.

Dean and Jessica King, Dean is one of the founding members of the James River Writers Group.

James River Writers is a nonprofit, Richmond, Virginia-based group of professional writers and friends of literature who have joined to promote the art of writing and the love of books in Virginia. Their aim is to encourage readers and aspiring writers, and to spur awareness of contemporary authors and their work. By initiating, assisting or running a variety of literary events, they serve and celebrate our community as one that has long fostered and gained strength from the literary arts. website

Lisa and the Dark30 Tour Men

Sandra Martin and Lisa Hagan attended the Dark30 Tour with Jim Marrs, Nick Redfern and Joshua Warren in Asheville, NC Saturday September 29, 2007. These three guys gave an amazing show, filled with all kinds of new information on ghosts, orbs, cryptoids, secret societies and government cover-ups throughout the history of the world. It was a great day and if they are ever in your town or near by, I highly recommend catching the tour. You won’t be disappointed.

5 May 2007
Spirited Woman Workshop in Alexandria, VA with Nancy Mills, hosted by Karen Blomberg and Dava Money.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Spirited Woman workshop with Nancy Mills. It just so happened that it was an all women’s day, her workshop is not limited to women however. It was a complete and total joy being with like-minded women on the path to wholeness. Nancy Mills is an excellent workshop facilitator. The time just flew by; no one wanted it to end. I felt wonderfully empowered when I left and I still do, like I am walking on a pink cloud. We sang, we danced we chanted, we were silly and we told each other our inner most desires. It was so beautiful and moving.

1 May 2007
Lawrence Anthony author of Babylon's Ark:The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo (co-authored by Graham Spence) was recently interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. You can read the interview online

1 May 2007
TO: ALL MY DEAR FRIENDS
FROM: STASE MICHAELS, DREAMS AUTHOR
RE: MY NEW WEBSITE – www.interpretadream.com

Dear friends,
Those of you who have known me through the years know that, aside from spending time with loved ones, the true joy and passion of my heart is DREAMS – interpreting them and using them for guidance and spiritual growth. Though the years I have happily discussed dreams with anyone who wanted input, given seminars across the U.S. and Canada , and done media work. I am thrilled that my book – THE GUIDE – The Bedside Guide to Dreams, which talks about the 27 kinds of dreams we get – is published in three editions which continue to steadily compete in today’s competitive book market. These are all great blessings for which I am truly grateful!

I have turned this inner calling into a website that makes dream analysis and courses available at affordable costs and provides DIY info to those who wish to learn about dreams. It is my way of sharing my heart and experience, and fills me with wonder and gratitude that I can finally do so.

8 Feb 2007
From NyPost.com:
"In "Celebrity Secrets: Government Files of the Rich and Famous," author Nick Redfern bares the FBI's 1956 probe into a $15,000 blackmail plot against Mickey Mantle, who was being hit up by an extortionist claiming he'd found the slugger in flagrante delicto with a married woman.

One report reads: "Mr. Mantle subsequently denied ever having been caught in a compromising position. [He] readily admitted that he had 'shacked up' with many girls in New York City, but stated that he has never been caught."

But as the investigation continued, "A confidential source, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised in June 1957 that a very prominent Washington, D.C.-area gambler and bookmaker arranged dates for members of the New York Yankees baseball club at a Washington, D.C., house of prostitution" - a group including Mantle."

And......DEAN RADIN, author of Entangled Minds is to appear on Oprah as guest parapsychology expert. It will be taped on Feb. 8th and aired Feb 15, 2007. We'll let you know the date.  A second episode featuring Dr Radin will air later this month.

The Oprah show theme is "Do You Believe" and there will be mediums and psychics on the show. Dean will be The Expert.

UPCOMING EVENTS!
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Spirited Woman Circle Conversation Series
1-hr. Telechat with Lisa Hagan
1 PM EST
Call: 888-428-1234 to sign-up or register online at:
http://www.thespiritedwoman.com/spirited_woman_circle/

Notes from The ARE Conference on Water:

Dean Radin spoke on: The effects of distant intention on water crystals.

"Some people, when faced with claims like Dr. Emoto's "intention affects the formation of water cystals," immediately dismiss it as nonsense. Others uncritically accept the claim because it sounds nice. My first reaction is to try to replicate the claim to see it for myself. I conducted such a test with Dr. Emoto, where he and his staff were kept blind as to which bottles of water had been treated. The paper reporting the experiment has just come out. Here's the abstract:

DOUBLE-BLIND TEST OF THE EFFECTS OF DISTANT INTENTION ON WATER CRYSTAL FORMATION

The hypothesis that water “treated” with intention can affect ice crystals formed from that water was pilot tested under double-blind conditions. A group of approximately 2,000 people in Tokyo focused positive intentions towards water samples located inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California. That group was unaware of similar water samples set aside in a different location as controls. Ice crystals formed from both sets of water samples were blindly identified and photographed by an analyst, and the resulting images were blindly assessed for aesthetic appeal by 100 independent judges. Results indicated that crystals from the treated water were given higher scores for aesthetic appeal than those from the control water (p = 0.001, one-tailed), lending support to the hypothesis.

From The Publisher, Sandra Martin:
When I moved from New York City to Virginia, my sister and I decided, just like Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, to fix up the barn and have a show! We worked for months renovating our old family dairy barn. I grew an organic garden, and then we invited our fantastic authors to come down and speak, eat and have fun on the lake. Our Paraview authors made the long journey and were great hits with the locals. We had inspired and inspiring speaker's and on occasion the audience wouldn't let the author stop. Those seminars went on and on much to our delight.

Other photos are from Paraview Pocket speaking engagements, Paraview Literary Agency Events and a few fun photos, too. We hope you enjoy.

This is one our many Dairy Barn events.

Patrick Huyghe Editor in Chief of Paraview Pocket Books and Loren Coleman author of Bigfoot: True Stories of Apes in America at Fortfest in London.

1. April/May 2004: Radio interviews on "Coast to Coast"; the Jeff Rense "Sightings" radio show; Canada's "Mindshift" radio show; "Strange Daze" radio show; and "21st Century Radio" to promote "Three Men Seeking Monsters."
2. July 2004: Speaker at the annual Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) conference at Denver, Colorado (see www.mufon.com)
3. July 2004: Traveled to Puerto Rico for a week with Jonathan Downes of the British-based Center for Fortean Zoology, to make a show about the vampire-like Chupacabras for the Sci-Fi Channel's Proof Positive TV series that aired in December 2004. (see www.scifi.com)
4. August 2004: Speaker at the monthly meeting of the Dallas-Fort Worth Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) group.
5. October 2004: Speaker at the annual Texas Bigfoot Research Group Conference, at Jefferson, Texas (see www.texasbigfoot.com)
6. November 2004: Speaker at the annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference at Las Vegas, Nevada (see www.ufoconference.com)

1. February 2005: Speaker at the Dallas-Fort Worth Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Group meeting.
2. February 2005: Interviewed on the MSNBC show "Countdown" with Keith Olberman. 
3. March 2005: Interview scheduled for March 10 on the Nevada-based TV show "Out There." (See: www.outtheretv.com)
4. March 2005: Interview and on-location participation in an episode of the Penn & Teller series, "Bullshit." 
5. September 2005: Speaker at the National UFO Conference, Hollywood, California.
6. November 2005: Speaker at the annual UFO Crash Retrieval Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada (See: www.ufoconference.com)