It's also the story of his times, and the ideas that shaped him. It's a story of why you know your birth sign, why you have friends called Willow, why sex and drugs and rock’n’roll once mattered more than money, why dance music stopped the New-Age Travellers from travelling, and why you need to think twice before taking the brown acid.It's the story of the hippies for those who weren't there – for Younger Readers who've never heard of the Aldermaston marches, Oz, the Angry Brigade, the Divine Light Mission, Sniffin' Glue, Operation Julie, John Seymour, John Michell, Greenham Common, the Battle of the Beanfield, but who want to understand their grandparents’ stories of turning on, tuning in and not quite dropping out before they are gone for ever. It's for Younger Readers who want to know how to build a bender, make poppy tea, and throw the I-Ching.And it's a story of friendship between two men, one who did things, and one who thought about things, between theory and practice, between a hippie and a punk, between two gentlemen, no longer in the first flush of youth, who still believe in love.

    The control of the actions and emotions of an unsuspecting victim has been a reality since at least the 1950's.Drawing on declassified documents, interviews with the doctors' involved, scientific papers and mainstream media reports, Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own shows the origins, objectives and architects of mind control. Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own Volume One details the facts and disclosed evidence of mind control programmes and experimentation performed by governments and government agencies across the world. BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MK ULTRA, The Tavistock Institute, L.S.D., hypnosis, trauma, drug experimentation, Manchurian candidates, mind control victims, the use of children in mind control, school shootings, psychotronic devices, microwave weaponry, synthetic telepathy, the Phoenix Program and serial killers are all examined and a chilling picture is painted of the lengths that those in power will go to in order to achieve total control of the mind.

     How can advertisers shape belief without our knowledge? How can your senses be manipulated in order to affect you physically? Can you be coerced to conform to a larger group? Are the film and music industries used to shape public opinion? Can the News Media be trusted? Volume Two delves into these questions and evidences the government agencies responsible for this manipulation, detailing the connections between the Tavistock Institute, MK ULTRA, L.S.D, the music industry and the intentional directing of youth culture. Mind control is not limited to the manipulation of the individual. Following on from Volume 1, Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own Volume 2 exposes the techniques of mass mind control. Advertising techniques that appeal to hidden psychological processes, the engineering of consent and normalcy, the exploitation of instinctual drives, the media, Hollywood, celebrities and the music industry are all laid bare. This book examines the manipulation of psychological processes practised by authority figures, to control and direct the behaviour of the masses without their knowledge or consent.

    Grouped into three main sections, Who we are, What we believe and What we do, twenty topics fundamental to the understanding of the main Pagan traditions are each introduced by essay and then elaborated upon by other followers and practitioners, giving the reader a greater flavour of the variety and diversity that Paganism offers. With introductory essays from leading writers such as Emma Restall Orr, Mark Townsend, Brendan Myers, Jane Meredith, Alaric Albertsson and Rachel Patterson and with supporting vignettes from those at the heart of the Pagan community, Paganism 101 offers a truly unique insight.