{"product_id":"perception-paperback","title":"Perception - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLianne Downey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOf course we're not alone. So what are they waiting for? \u003c\/strong\u003eA speculative suspense novel that may change the way you view your life on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime will tell whether this fantastic work of fiction is real and should be integrated into the future of science.\"-\u003c\/em\u003eAvi Loeb, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eExtraterrestrial\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eInterstellar, \u003c\/em\u003e and director of Harvard University's Institute for Theory and Computation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinda Blake has kept the government's UAP secrets for too long\u003c\/strong\u003e. Now it's killing her. For years she used her psychic skills as a remote viewer to help Blackthorn, a government black ops contractor, to recover and conceal extraterrestrial debris after UFO sightings around the world. But she can't do it anymore. Her conscience won't allow it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer doctor says she's suffering from a new kind of PTSD that affects drone assassination pilots who violate their sense of \"what's right\" day after day. Suicide is their common end and she's already contemplated it. So tonight, high on the dunes over Lake Michigan, that will stop. She will launch her scheme to reveal the truth to the world!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEverything goes according to her plan-until it doesn't. Now she's on the run.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile a blizzard rages across West Michigan, she's thrown together with a total stranger, Garritt Vanderhoeven, an outcast from the area's conservative Dutch Reformed community who is haunted by his own psychic demons. Together they search for a missing teenager whose life is in danger and a stolen artifact that imperils the world at large. \u003cstrong\u003eWhat they uncover is so much...staggeringly much...\u003cem\u003emore.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e And time is running out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a makeshift team that includes a mysterious mentor, a persistent farm girl, a vagabond restaurant hostess, and a posse of friends and family willing to cross cultural taboos for the right cause, they discover that their nemeses aren't at all what's expected. New age religion factors in, and interdimensional barriers are broken with unpredictable results. As the story twists into uncharted challenges, they'll all need to bring their most profound skills to the forefront-including those society rejects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans of Gene Roddenberry will appreciate this shockingly hopeful leap into the unknown reaches of human perception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the jacket flap: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinda Blake was toiling away for Naval Intelligence when someone discovered what her mind had been able to do since childhood.\u003c\/strong\u003e Next she knew she was honorably discharged and swept into the maelstrom of Blackthorn, a black ops military-style contractor working for the U.S. government. She had no idea what she'd be tasked to do after her extensive training to become a remote viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike everyone else, she'd heard about the U.S. government's experiments with psychic-or what they called \"psi\"-operatives, fueled by its desire to keep up with Russian and Chinese research into advanced human mental capacities. Could a remote viewer locate military targets using their mind alone?\u003cstrong\u003e It was a top-secret endeavor, highly controversial among the armed forces. Code named Stargate by some branches.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut that whole operation was shut down in the mid-1990s, wasn't it? After former President Jimmy Carter let it leak in an interview that a \"psychic spy\" had helped them locate a downed Russian spy plane? The media had a field day ridiculing and mocking the program. Top brass denied any participation, and the files and research disappeared under a cloud of humiliation and scandal. The fired remote viewers drifted off to write books or teach classes in the \"paranormal.\" A mocking movie was made, a documentary followed, but psi research by the government ended abruptly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOr did it?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 390\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42703760228415,"sku":"9781953474087","price":24.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/deb3bcc7e5b7013d41da7ce1fe3dca05.webp?v=1765030617","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/perception-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}