Oct
23
2009
More Than Just Spoonbending
Perhaps the only downside about all the publicity having to do with the The Lost Symbol is the renewed attack on consciousness research as unworthy of serious discussion. All of the skeptics and their websites are brimming with renewed fervor, and in the UK, where I live, all the scientists and science writers have dismissed […]
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2
2009
The Lost Symbol and the New Celebrity
I’ve just returned home from the September 30 Los Angeles opening of the Living Matrix film, and what a fabulous, glitzy, Los Angeles event (or ‘ta-daaaa’, as my LA hairdresser put it) it was! The Dan Brown Effect has certainly hit LA. Held in the lush Egyptian theatre, across from the famous Grauman’s Chinese Theater, […]
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25
2009
The Lost Symbol: a group intention experiment
As I’m reading The Lost Symbol, I’m fascinated that Brown has made one of the central themes of the book both the power of thought to create the world, and the extraordinary and unifying nature of mass thought. Katherine Solomon, one of the main protagonists, is a scientist who carries out consciousness research. Solomon is […]
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18
2009
The Key to the Lost Symbol: the Power of Intention
Every so often my life takes such a fantastical turn that I am overwhelmed by the feeling that I am actually in the midst of a lucid dream, and that at any moment awakening will hand me back my ordinary world. I had that feeling yesterday when I got an email from my editor informing […]
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