{"id":2006,"date":"2023-12-01T18:16:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2023-12-01T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:16:15","slug":"an-astonishing-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;An Astonishing Book&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fs5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fs5.jpg\" alt=\"fs5\" width=\"100\" height=\"148\" class=\"align left size-full wp-image-1996\" \/><\/a>The reviews are in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=110\"><em><strong>Forbidden Science 5: Pacific Heights, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2000-2009<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and they are, as expected, glowing. Clive Prince, reviewing the book for <a href=\"https:\/\/pelicanist.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/citizen-of-magonia.html\"><em>Magonia<\/em><\/a>, writes that Jacques Vallee has &#8220;a fine scientific and creative intellect, who manages to adroitly straddle the scientific, academic and fringe. All of which makes his journals invaluable documents for UFO researchers and enthusiasts&#8230;<em>Forbidden Science<\/em> really brings home the bewildering and frustrating complexity of the UFO enigma&#8230;[But] It\u2019s not all UFOs and Aliens. Vall\u00e9e keeps up his parapsychological interests, such as in remote viewing\u2014including a project to track down Osama bin Laden\u2014and taking a close interest in experimental evidence for precognition&#8230;All in all, <em>Forbidden Science<\/em> is crucial reading for anyone with an interest in the UFO phenomenon&#8230;&#8221;  Bill Chalker of <a href=\"http:\/\/theozfiles.blogspot.com\/2023\/02\/the-labyrinths-of-forbidden-science.html\"><em>The Oz Files<\/em><\/a> agrees: &#8220;There is much to fascinate and intrigue, and even frustrate the reader, as the journal describes the complexities of Vallee\u2019s interactions with the phenomenon, the folklore and the impact of it, as well as the many twists and turns of the various participations and descriptions of the more secretive approaches to researching and investigating it&#8230;Thank you Jacques Vallee for your courage and persistence&#8230;I recommend <em>Forbidden Science 5<\/em>&#8230;&#8221; And lastly, Jeffrey Kripal, writing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalofscientificexploration.org\/index.php\/jse\/article\/view\/3091\"><em>Journal of Scientific Exploration<\/em><\/a>, says: &#8220;This is an astonishing book, and on a number of levels&#8230; Allow me to explain why this book moved me so, why I think it is so important to what is going on today in the American public media and the U.S. political, military, and intelligence communities, and why you should, yes, really read these pages&#8230;like right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reviews are in for Forbidden Science 5: Pacific Heights, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2000-2009 and they are, as expected, glowing. Clive Prince, reviewing the book for Magonia, writes that Jacques Vallee has &#8220;a fine scientific and creative intellect, who manages to adroitly straddle the scientific, academic and fringe. All of which makes his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forbidden-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}