| Title | : | Our Occulted History: Who or What Is Trying to Control Our Lives |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0062130315 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780062130310 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 |
| Publication | : | First published February 12, 2013 |
We are not alone.
And we never have been.
For years we've been taught that human progress has been a long, slow climb from the primordial ooze to hunter-gathers to empires. But that's only part of the story says Jim Marrs. The author who has investigated the recent financial crisis, the JFK assassination, secret societies, the national socialist takeover of America, and other events now takes on his biggest subject-the history of mankind-offering mind-blowing information that will radically alter the way we think about the world and our place in it.
Our Occulted History overturns conventional knowledge and beliefs, presenting compelling evidence that the earth once hosted prehistoric civilizations using technologies that very well may have surpassed our own-societies that may have originated with non-humans. Sounds unbelievable? So was the concept that the earth was round-and that it revolved around the sun-to our predecessors just a few hundred years ago.
Marrs sifts through the historical, scientific, and cultural record, showing how numerous ancient texts and tablets tell of visitors from the stars colonizing the Earth. From the flying vimanas of the Hindu Vedic literature and the flying shields reported by the Romans to the mysterious airships of the 1800s and the UFOs of today, he argues that someone other than us is still present on this planet. But are these visitors simply observers-or do they play a much more active and controlling role? Jim Marrs raises this shocking question and more in the provocative and persuasive Our Occulted History.
The truth is out there . . . and in here.
Our Occulted History: Who or What Is Trying to Control Our Lives Reviews
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I happened on this book in an unusual way. I was visiting my wife at her office in Harper Collins, and while waiting for her to complete this or that task, I looked around for items of interest. My eyes alit on this one. "Looks like weird fun," said I. Many of the books I review are selected by my esteemed wife dashing in the door and exclaiming, "you've gotta read this!" Or one or the other of us catches an interesting TV interview with an author and picks the book up at Barnes and Noble (no, not Amazon, NEVER Amazon, which seeks to devour publishers like the one that employs my wife, not to mention most available book-reviewer sites). But this was more of a found object. And so, over a period of a couple weeks, I read this thing, bits at a time. When I had finally finished Our Occulted History I felt like I had just gotten off a roller coaster designed by a person with no inner ear. I have had diverse reactions to this thing, and it should come as no surprise that the first line that popped into my head while reading the book was: "It's one thing to maintain an open mind, but maybe not so good to have one so porous it retains nothing of value. Jim Marrs' brain is so filled with empty space it is unlikely that even a virus could find enough substance to which to attach itself. He puts the pseudo in pseudo-science." Which may be the tiniest bit harsh. But I do think there is something going on here that bears some looking into.
Ok, how many of you have ever been exposed to marijuana? Let's have a show of hands. You know what I mean by exposed. Don't get cute. And puh-leez, don't pretend you never inhaled. Looking out over the group, I can see that almost every hand is raised, which means we have some liars out there. Yeah, my hand is up as well. From the tender age of fifteen. And yet here westandsit, not a heroine addict, not a crack addict, not an alcoholic, and I have never been any of those, although I was addicted to cigarettes for many years. While I do not see much menace in it, I do not smoke pot any more. No moral high ground here. The stuff, while admittedly a nifty enhancement to Hendrix, Santana and a host of other musical artists, particularly when one ingests music via headphones, puts me to sleep. For me, pot, hash and some other things I will not go into, proclaimed unacceptable by the forces of righteousness, whether or not those proclaimers were peddling cigarettes, alcohol or equally addictive food products, were, for me, gateways to bedtime. I freely admit that I have not partaken since the 80s, and even then it was a rare event. But I do concede that there are situations within which the use of pot, once normalized, might make it easier for one to consider other products that are less benign.
So, let's steer this vehicle back onto the actual roadway. What has this got to do with Jim Marrs? I'll tell you. There are all sorts of gateway drugs in the world. Not all will have a pharmacological impact, and not all, as with weed, will necessarily pave a pathway to perdition. Our next example is one of those. And again, it is one I have sampled, probably even more than pot. Alien visitation. No, no anal probes, abductions or anything of an extreme sort. Never met, saw or conversed with an alien. (My personal eX-files have to do with a very Earth-based failed marriage) But I have tasted the out-of-this-world product and I like it. I have read my share of UFO books over the years. Although I am not a regular viewer, I have seen more than one or two episodes of the pseudo-scientific eye-roller Ancient Aliens. I mention this not to say that I buy their particular line of BS, but to note my starting position re alien visitation, namely that the subject matter still draws me. I have seen some freaky petroglyphs, in Hawaii, in Chichen Itza, the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, in the American southwest. And despite Don Henley's claim that
They're not here and they're not coming, I am inclined to believe that they have at least stopped by for a look-see and were spotted by the locals, actually a lot of locals, all across the planet, so maybe it was less of a look-see than a "whoa-ho, what have we here? Let's check this place out" sort of thing. This requires no more suspension of disbelief than some of our more popular religions. And sustaining such notions does not lead to a suspension of intellectual processing. But the potential exists for this benign belief, given the proper (on in this case improper) influence, to be inflated into something alarming.
Just as a druggie friend can push one beyond a little weed into a much darker place, so people like Jim Marrs can take an interesting notion and, through their powers of story-telling, lead the gullible to a vulnerable place. I suspect that Jim Marrs is a lunatic. I fear that he may be a con-man. I can see that he applies the fuzziest of logic in looking for support for his theses. It is obvious that he lives in an echo chamber inhabited by other paranoids and conspiracy theorists and that they reinforce and embolden each other to the point where, as in the right-wing bubble, opposing opinions are routinely disregarded, and whatever theories are being floated by the elect are accepted as revealed truth. This is where the primary problem lies. Step inside the bubble and, like a spacecraft air-lock, eliminate from one's intake any competing notions. I also know that Jim Marrs is a gifted story-teller. However, you might need a pair of these
to get through the entire book safely.
and one of these
It is an amazing story he has to tell. Marrs claims that a close look at ancient literature from across our world, particularly from Sumer, reveals not only that aliens have visited our lovely planet, but that, in order to more effectively mine gold, they modified the genetic makeup of the local hominid population to make the homo sap we are today to create a usable labor force. It gets weirder, really. He also posits a magical, and I do mean magical, form of gold that has unnatural properties, like an anti-gravity capacity and maybe even a multi-dimensional one. Guess what was inside the Arc of the Covenant?
Funny powder, and not the sort they serve at after-parties on Oscars night. Ok, people. Time to break out your tinfoil hats. But let's make sure they are tinfoil tri-corner hats. (Sorry, I was unable to come up with a corresponding image) Marrs has a political agenda as well. On his web-site, Jimmarrs.com, I found the following:Seeing how Paul and Palin are now candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the corporatists would love to weaken, if not stop, the so-called Libertarian Tea Party influence on the future direction of the Republican Party. [I guess Paul and Palin are not right-wing enough for Marrs] Live and learn and don't fall prey to revisionism, usurpation and political/media manipulation.
He makes statements that have the sound of reason, but lack the substance. Here is an example.ìIn his 2010 book, Babylon's Banksters, Joseph P. Farrell, as a doctoral graduate of Pembroke College Oxford, who had unparalleled access to old books and manuscripts in Oxford University's library, said his thesis was both simple to state but difficult to understand. "Since ancient times and with more or less uninterrupted constancy, there has existed an international money power which seeks by a variety of means including fraud, deception, assassination and war to usurp the money- and credit-creating power of various states it has sought to dominate" (implying, of course, that if you find Farrell's case unconvincing it is because you just don't understand it. Yeah, I've heard that argument before).
What does unparalleled access mean? Is there a double-secret code that Dean Wormer gave Farrell that allowed him access to materials mere mortals were not permitted to see? Who says his access was unparalleled? Any fact-checking done on this? If there was, Marrs isn't telling. Are we to presume (yes, we are) that having this unparalleled access means that the researcher in question therefore has superior interpretive powers, and was thus able to spot, and interpret this secret info, and incorporate the gained knowledge into his thesis? But what that information might have been we are not told. It goes on. Marrs does not mention that among this great scholar's publications are Roswell and the Reich and Genes, Giants, Monsters and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda. Be sure to secure the hatch to the bubble after you step inside.
I could make a list of the outlandish claims that this guy makes, but it would make my usual, wordy reviews seem like headlines. There is a debating technique favored on the right known as
Gish Gallop. It entails spewing so much bullshit in a small amount of time that one's opponent winds up spending all his or her time refuting the bullshit and does not get to make their own case. Marrs' work has that feel. Replay Romney in the first debate for a taste, if you like. And Marrs seems like such a down-home folksy sort that one might be tempted to indulge in a few puffs. After all, even in his political attire, there are positions he holds that are pretty reasonable. But if you toke down, or snort up too much, you drift past the amber fields of reasonableness, and ascend until you are off in la-la-land and the world is suddenly really out to get you; 9/11 was an Israeli plot; remote viewing psychics in the US Army watched as aliens shot down Russian probes nearing Mars; The Rothschilds (translation: Jews) control the world's economic apparatus. It was JFKs driver who killed him. And so on. So make sure you load up on personal weapons, and for sure bring along that special hat, because you never know when they might be listening in. I'll give you an example of Marrs Gish-Galloping later.
Back to the book. So, next step. If they came here, why did they come? Was it to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before? Columbus did not sail the ocean blue to check out the Caribbean beaches. He had a concrete, business purpose in mind. Marrs would have us believe that they, a race he calls the Anunnaki, from Sumer legends, came to earth, or at least stuck around on Earth, for the gold. I picture alien spouses asking star-traveler hubby, "So, Gorp, what did you bring me this time? Not another carnivorous flower, Geez!" To which Gorp smiles and hands over vast quantities of the shiny stuff. Lady Gorp blushes, throws her several arms around her main guy and exclaims, "This place is a keeper, Sweetie. When are you going back?"
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. For instance, in anthropology, just because we do not have rock (or in this case bone) solid examples of each and every step along a path of natural selection, that does not mean that those steps did not take place. Scientists are constantly finding previously undiscovered bones, unthought of species. Here is
one that came to my attention just in the time since I began with Marrs' book. Mr Marrs prefers to fill our knowledge gaps with notions of alien interference. And he is not above the odd lie to bolster his case.Although Darwin never explicitly stated that man descended from the ape, his devotees advocated that conclusion.
Actually they did not. Apes and humans are evolved from prior species, not from each other and it was only the opponents of Darwinism who characterized his work as claiming humans descended from apes. Erect straw man. Light match. And he continues,Even after a hundred years of effort, no one has been able to fully substantiate Darwin's theories through documented fossil exhibits.
Um, well, actually yes they have. It is frequently the case that in any large chunk of science there will be specific steps from, say, point D to point F in a full alphabetic range, for which there is not 100% complete fossil evidence. It is the nature of science to extrapolate from available information. The absence of specific elements in the range of every possible piece of fossil evidence is not evidence that the missing bits do not exist. For a guy who is positing that humans were designed by an alien race, he seems unusually tetchy about insisting that every possible link be found in the theory that scientists across the planet accept as sound. But if Marrs can believe what he wants, why not the rest of us? I am not completely convinced that Jim Marrs is not the product of an alien huckster having bred with a cactus to produce him, I am still waiting for him to disprove that rumor, and he has never denied his questionable, and possibly prickly parentage.
They wanted our gold, so they fiddled with our (homo neanderthal, or maybe homo erectus) DNA to produce a work force trainable enough to to work the mines. It gets better. You may have heard the word Nefilim, basically angel-human hybrids. In the hands of Jim Marrs, it looks like our eight-foot-tall visitors liked a little, very little, relatively, something on the side. I will leave aside all the obvious penis jokes here, although it does pain me to do so. Tall, blue and handsome + human female = the Jim Marrs special, alien/human hybrid children, the Nefillim. Also, the inspiration for a classic film, well maybe not exactly a classic.
If you have not yet summoned men in white suits with large nets, here is where the bat really meets the shit. Marrs goes on and feeds into other wing nut paranoid fantasies about a core of thirty-three families (guess what sort of DNA they are protecting) who rule the planet, while, of course, suppressing the discovery of the proof of our alien ancestry. (We wouldn't want the baby to know who gran really is, would we, not until he is old enough to be able to handle the shock, and then, naturally, dominate his personal section of the planet) Of course what he counts as evidence has not convinced real scientists, and is unlikely to do so.
So what Jim Marrs has done, and has been doing for some time, is to take the nifty notion that they were here at some point in human history and lace it with his own rich blend of opiated Tea Party paranoid delusion, fusing the two. Smoking at this pipe keeps ya coming back, if, that is, you buy in. And here is one final item, before a bit of a detour. He talks a fair bit in his book about a magical substance referred to as powdered gold. Well, it turns out that there are entities more than willing to sell this stuff to the gullible. I have no specific knowledge that Marrs has a financial stake in any of these companies, but let's just say I have my suspicions.
Not only is he proselytizing stealth political messages in his book, but it becomes much more overt when he lectures. I am separating this out from the already lengthy body of this review, tucking it under a spoiler label. There is enough detail involved that only those who are interested would want to spend the time to read it. It consists of a series of political claims Marrs makes in a lecture and how his claims are lacking in foundation.
If you are ok with just reading this as an entertainment, Our Occluded History delivers the goods. It offers a wild, entertaining, and occasionally thought-provoking tale. But if it strikes deeper in you than that, all I can say is "step away from the hookah."
Posted 3/30/13
The trade paperback came out 12/10/13 -
Completely crazy
If you require more in-depth analysis of why a book about ancient aliens enslaving us all is completely crazy -
Our Occulted History is an amazing book, and another home run by Jim Marrs. It's about time writers start documenting what we are not being taught in schools, after all, history is made by those who write it. Jim has been investigating the unexplained his entire career. What this book does not do is preach, or pick a dog in the race, it simply presents information and poses questions not asked or ignored because the data does not fit into the mainstream science matrix.
Our public schools have omitted and modified history to such a degree that America has become completely dumbed-down by our "education system" which is not meant to educate us at all, but rather train us like Pavlov's dog. Our school system is nothing more than a Soviet-style polytechnic meant to keep us as ignorant and uninformed as possible, so those in power can keep it.
Our Occulted History is about human civilization and how it may have originated with non-humans who visited earth eons ago. It discusses the solar system and the strange and counter-intuitive knowledge we have of the planets and their moons, it ponders how numerous ancient texts and tablets tell of visitors from the stars colonizing the earth, but does it in a well written and logical way.
How many people can name the planets in order, let alone tell you anything about their moons and the strange and conflicting information observed since Galileo?
If you're looking for something to make you think, to ask questions, and to look at another side of the world you've never been told, then this is an amazing read. It's well researched, well written, and highly entertaining, very hard to put down. It's formatted great for eBook as well. Giving Our Occulted History 5 stars was a no-brainer. -
Taking a star off due to the fact that I apparently re-read a book I'd already read and semi-reviewed two years ago . . . and do not remember ever seeing before. Wow. I know I'm getting older, but this is kind of silly.
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I'd read some of Marrs before and picked this up at a local used bookstore as a potentially entertaining bedtime read, Marrs usually handling offbeat topics. Unfortunately, in this book he goes to the extremes of fringe thinking, citing as sources such notorious figures as Van Daniken, Ickes, Alex Jones and Zitchin to adduce the thesis that aliens created Sumerian culture, if not the Sumerians themselves, and that traditions, even secret movements, dating back to that time continue today, almost six thousand years later, and that, further, the planet has been ruled for thousands of years by secret cabals of ancient bloodlines from which, for instance, have come all U.S. presidents. Nested amidst all this craziness are bits about the World Bank, the I.M.F., the Federal Reserve and other instrumentalities of power and control as well as some citations of actual experts. Overall one gets the impression that Marrs has bitten off way more than he can chew, much less digest, and has little discrimination, his opinions reflecting a very, very spotty self education.
The only justification for reading a book such as this is to get some sense of the craziness out there, a craziness and lack of critical reasoning too much reflected in contemporary politics. -
Jim Marrs succeeds again in presenting a highly readable, alternative take on conventional thinking. Rule By Secrecy remains, in my opinion, his best work, and one I frequently recommend, but his subsequent books all contribute to deeper understanding of possible realities that lie just beneath the surface of actual history. He never demands that you believe all the information he presents, but, rather invites you to research on your own and draw your own conclusions. Speculation on his part is clearly presented along with facts that have influenced his line of thinking. The door is open for the reader to accept or reject all or part of it.
It's worth noting that the subtitle of the book in finished form is actually "Do the Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?" rather than "Who or What is Trying to Control Our Lives?". This is an improved subtitle, but the question, ultimately remains unanswered. Having read his entire body of non-fiction work, and a good-sized smattering of his source material, there is little here that I haven't heard before. To his credit, Marrs presents it in a context that is unique to his work, and the no-nonsense, journalistic style makes it a fast, easy read if you have an interest in the material. However, one should not expect the subtitle's question to be answered conclusively by an author that seeks to raise awareness and stimulate thought and discussion rather than shove ideas down your throat, so to speak.
Readers who have enjoyed Marrs' other works will, no doubt, find this one just as interesting, but the aforementioned Rule By Secrecy, as well as The Rise of the Fourth Reich and The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy by the same author, along with The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin still serve as the best introductions to this type of material. -
Трудно ми е да опиша възхитата си от тази книга и труда на Джим Марс да събере на едно място толкова много факти и информация. За разлика от Дейвид Айк, който в последните години дъвче едно и също и не добавя нищо ново към старите си теории и твърдения, Марс не спира да вади нови неща и тази книга е просто невероятна.
За жалост обаче тя няма да достигне до широка публика и причината за това се корени в калпавия превод на заглавието, в който думата "окултна" играе ролята на убиец. Не зная на кой гений му е хрумнало да преведе occulted (таен, прикрит, скрит) като окултна, но щетата вече е налице. Втората и по-голяма щета е подзаглавието "глобалният елит прикрива ли древни извънземни?", което е едно от най-лошите подзаглавия, които съм срещал, ако се опитваш да говориш на хора, за които дори самото споменаване на извънземни е достатъчно да кимнат с насмешка.
Не знам дали това е за добро или за зло, защото така или иначе хора, които кимат с насмешка на темите за извънземни и предпочитат да са "здраво стъпили на земята", сякаш тя е твърдо подпряна на слонове върху костенурка и е най-стабилното нещо евър, биха взели нещо от книгата. И това си о��тава единствено в техен ущърб. -
Do you in enjoy the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens show? Like listening to Alex Jones infoWars? Then you will love Our occulted history : do the global elite conceal ancient aliens? By Jim Marrs. Which combines both of these ideas.
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Usually, in books such as
Rule by Secrecy,
Crossfire, and even
Alien Agenda, Jim Marrs sets himself apart from the average conspiracy wackos by being organized, well-researched and documented, level-headed, and logical in laying out his arguments. And while I enjoy a good conspiracy theory,
Our Occulted History falls short of the standard Marrs has established for himself.
The book moves in fits in starts, in a rough arc from dawn of man to the modern day. That's as organized as it gets. Thoughts will trail off with no definite conclusion or idea whether they will be picked up later and built upon. He will abruptly stop one idea and start another that may eventually wend it's way to a connection, but it's jarring and confuses rather than clarifies any proposed connections. Has he never heard of transitions?
On the research side, this seems cobbled together from various other books and way too many dubious, fringe websites with very little original connective thought or theory on Marr's part. If I wanted to read
Zecharia Sitchin,
Erich von Däniken,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and
Forbidden Archeology, I would. There is little new here that is not in primary sources. He also has a tendency, in this book, for secondhand references of the "so-and-so sites this other source saying this" rather than tracing back to primary sources. This might be acceptable where the primary source is lost or in another language, but for references in modern English, not so much. (Examples with the Founding Fathers stick in my mind.)
He trots out some of the usual (highly dubious) arguments used by creation "science" to invalidate evolution and bolster his theory that man did not evolve but was created—by aliens! It boils down to a disbelief that complex systems can evolve naturally. But at least creationists have the logical out of a mystical/spiritual/supernatural creator to fall back on. Marrs seems to miss (and never explain) how the creator beings, as complex organisms themselves , might have been created. At the beginning of this chain, somewhere would have to be an uncreated creator. This conundrum is never acknowledged or explored.
He also falls on the simplest fallacy to "prove" a conspiracy to suppress these "truths." Those who propose alternate theories about human origins and history that involve aliens, UFOs, Atlantis, etc. get no respect, can't get published in prestigious academic journals, and are often the laughingstocks or dismissed from academic institutions. Q.E.D. There is a conspiracy to suppress the truth. Any challenge to the alternative theory is seen as further proof of the conspiracy. Marrs is usually not given to such paranoid sophistry, so it is saddening that he indulges it here.
Marrs is also usually very good at addressing challenges to his theories. Here, he presents every tidbit as a "fact" you just haven't heard before, with little recognition for the severe challenges these speculations have faced. Again, he is usually much more precise in directly challenging accepted versions of events, that it is surprising just how blithely he ignores them here in favor of trotting out the old ancient aliens campfire stories.
For me, this salvaged two stars by, maybe, bringing the subject to new attention and as an all-in-1 starter to point toward further reading. But as a definitive and original piece of research on the subject, this falls grossly short. -
This book is an outstanding compendium of alternative history. While Mr. Marrs makes extensive use of other author's research and writing, he organizes it and succinctly encapsulates dozens of fantastic sources. If you are looking for a gateway into the history behind the history that you have been told to believe, this is it. There are books that are more detailed regarding specific time-frames or fields of study but this is a great overview.
The one subject that is not touched on is spirit and this is probably wise. I would argue that in spite of the elite's physical domination of the world and the acknowledged leverage applied through religion, all this is inconsequential if mankind were to truly realize its spiritual potential. Consequently, I believe the global elite are sorely lacking in multidimensional insight and are therefore short-sighted and egotistical.
But that is another book entirely.
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Not really anything new here. Marrs is a good reporter, but the information here is the same old stuff that's been circulation around the conspiracy scene for years, and in some instances, decades. Conspiracy geeks like myself will find themselves bored and wanting more. I think it was written for a more mainstream audience, who would probably find it much more intriguing than I did.
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Our Occulted History is a phenomenal venture into the beginnings of ancient history, into the beginnings of an alternative history.
Jim Marrs, in this particular book, leaves no unturned, leaves no vault unchecked in his search for the origins of certain modern conspiracies.
Taking an approach that’s as deep in scope, as it is wide in breadth, Marrs trenchantly makes known mountains of evidence beginning from ancient antiquity all the way to our modern times which forms a vastly different structure of history than what we as a society have been taught.
Sampling research from heavyweight researchers such as Oxford educated Dr. Joseph P. Farrell, Zecharia Sitchin, Robert Bauval, Linda Moulton Howe, Philip Coppens, Robert Schoch, Michael Cremo, and many more, the author infuses the book with hundreds of verifiable data points. That in and of itself might not seem like much, but when viewed from a larger point of view all of these dots and how Marrs connects them show how all this seemingly disparate information interconnects seamlessly.
Marrs covers wide-ranging subjects such as sacred geometry, the Sumerians, lost probes, the moon, forbidden archaeology, Tesla suppression, Coral Castle, Atlantis, the Dogon tribe, ancient civilizations of many types, Big Money, the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Big Pharma, mainstream media, and dozens of others, to make a sound case that there is an occulted history to the human race, and its far more magnificent, and troubling than what most people could imagine.
That shouldn’t be surprising given how interconnected the media is to the establishment.
Speaking troublesomely about this lock-down information grid, Jim Keith notes in his landmark book Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, citing the work of author G. William Domhoff in The Higher Circles:
“The power elite have created and developed that wonderful field of public relations on an incredible scale. Some of the early practitioners of this art helped scrub up the images of the ‘Robber Barons’ families; others specialized in the corporate image and the corporate image and corporate conscience. Functionally speaking, the public relations departments of large corporations, in conjunction with the giant public relations firms that service many corporations, have become the early warning system of the upper class, picking up and countering the slightest remark or publication that makes funny lines on their sensitive radar. Thanks to them public opinion is well-monitored, with an assist of course from the alert social scientists in certain university institutes financed by the big corporations and foundations. wayward opinions, once detected, are duly corrected by a barrage of printed matter and public pronouncement…”[1]
Keeping everything discussed in mind, Marrs offers us a veritable glimpse into the annals of ancient past. Admittedly, there is only so much an author can do, but Marrs more than pulled his weight.
Whether or not the reader will agree with his thesis, that being that the elite are covering up evidence of ancient aliens since ancient times, is up to the reader. What can in fact be said without dispute is that humanity does in fact have an Occulted History and its implications are profoundly disturbing, even if Marrs main thesis is disagreed upon.
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[1] Jim Keith, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness, pg. 36 citing Domhoff, G. William. The Higher Circles. New York: Vintage Books, 1970 -
I've read the reviews before i started it, and many people complained that it was jumbled together. True, Jim Marrs is putting a lot of information or as some would say "conspiracy theories" in one place, but it makes for intense and interesting read.
There are lots of hypothesis there, the main one is that humans had been biologically engineered by extraterrestrial race mentioned in Sumerian tablets as The Annuaki. They created humans as basically slaves to help them mine the earth for (gold?) and finally some of them intermarried earthly women creating Egyptian blood lines...the book continues on, with the premise that perhaps the offsprings of those races still try to rule and manipulate humans via banking systems and wars. Far off i know but don't throw the baby with the bath waters.
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There are just too many unexplainable things happening around us. In this book the author unravels conventional beliefs and charges the reader with facts that are out of this world.
This book is remarkably entertaining and insightful. I didn’t even mind the demanding tone in which the author practically forces the reader to acknowledge his train of thought and makes them believe in what he is talking about.
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Like your drunk uncle randomly regurgitating everything he’s heard on Ancient Aliens, some Qanon forum and a high school social science course.
I’m willing to go along with some far fetched ancient astronaut stuff, but there’s nothing new added here that Erich Von Daniken and his ilk haven’t covered before. The first half of the book which covers this stuff is vaguely entertaining (albeit completely lacking any evidence) but takes a weird right turn into thinly veiled anti-Semitic tropes about “money changers” and “bloodlines”.
The second half of the book feels like it was written by some 17 year old kid who has just discovered Chomsky/RATM and the dark corners of the libertarian far-right at the same time. Clumsy “isn’t the militarisation of the police bad/global capitalism?” type analysis mixed with anti-scientific vaccine scepticism and “the Jews control everything” BS.
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Absolutely fucking brilliant - I love how Jim Marrs writes about aliens, conspiracies and history and ties all three together in a very acoustic knot.
This book will change the way you look at the world - and not just because it’s got a lot about aliens in it.
Because this book scratches off the shiny sheen we see on the world to espies just a fraction of it’s dark underbelly, just enough to make you question absolutely everything.
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Interesting....until the author starts foaming at the mouth in the last few chapters about vaccines, fluoride, and "chemtrails" (known to normal people as contrails). Yeah...I don't do antivaxxers.
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This author clearly did his research as he covers a wide and fairly comprehensive range of ancient artifacts, monuments, and literature regarding the likely origins of ancient civilizations, i.e. extraterrestrial aliens. I found this a well done review as much, but not all, of the material I have read elsewhere over the years. He does a particularly good job summarizing the views of Zacharia Sitchin, author of The 12th Planet, and in less depth, the views of Joseph P. Farrell, author of The Cosmic War, both of whom I have read extensively. The first two thirds of the book focus on the theories for explaining these archeological anomalies. I was pleasantly surprised to see a discussion of monoatomic gold as the only other source I've found over the years on this topic was Laurence Gardner's Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark. If you've never read this kind of research, this book is an excellent starting point. The last third of the book then moves on to the topic of who is suppressing this kind of information and why. I found this part less well done as it contains very little hard factual evidence and lots of conjecture. That doesn't mean his thesis is wrong, just not well proven. He goes on a lengthy rant about nefarious efforts at global domination by the global elites via population control, genetically modified foods, environmental pollution, the establishment of a police state, and private issuance of interest bearing national debt, i.e. the Federal Reserve. The monetary aspect was interesting and most likely the most important part but seemed lost among the rhetoric on the other aspects. Personally I found Joseph P. Farrell's discussions on the origins of private banking better reading and more convincing. However don't let the last third of the book discourage you from reading the first two thirds.
I checked this book out from my library. -
Outstanding research by one of my favorite authors. Jim Marrs explores many questions and topics: did extraterrestrials modify our DNA to create modern man? Why is the appearance of Homo sapiens at odds with Darwin's accepted theory of evolution?
Were extraterrestrials responsible for creating the world's first complex civilization and did they teach us the secrets of writing, agriculture and animal husbandry?
Why are such similar legends found among such far away civilizations? How could man know so much about the solar system when the tools they used in astronomy were so rudimentary?
And, should the answer to even one of these questions be yes, are there individuals out there today who, hiding behind large corporations or governments, strive to maintain control over the human population as their alien ancestors did? Why are they so obsessed with their bloodline and why can so many influential people be traced back to only a handful of families? How are they controlling us? Perhaps by controlling the world's money supply? Or by feeding us poisonous food and water?
This book was extremely well researched and asked a number of very interesting questions. Many will write it off as another conspiracy book without realizing that by using this very term they are depriving themselves of a greatest quality we posses as a species, to think for logically and independently. -
An interesting book though the majority of it is material I was already familiar with. The basic premise of the book is that the true history of the world and the human race has been hidden from the masses and we are more than ever controlled by a small elite group of individuals. I found the first half of the book rather interesting although the majority of it has been based off of Sitchin's work with some other stuff added in. It has been a great many years since I have read his works and makes me want to revisit them. The second half of the work progressively works its way forward to modern times and has relevant information up through I believe the year 2012. Marrs shines the light on the ones behind the scenes, the programs they are engaged in, and the organizations they use to achieve their goals. Honestly he only touches the surface and it would take several volumes to completely document the situation, but it does give one a place to start. Worth the read but if one is already well informed then there is just alot of repetitious material here.
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WOW. If you're very interested in how human history has been corrupted and suppressed since before even the ancient civilization of Sumer, this is a good primer.
Another reviewer stated: "Our public schools have omitted and modified history to such a degree that America has become completely dumbed-down by our "education system" which is not meant to educate us at all, but rather train us like Pavlov's dog. Our school system is nothing more than a Soviet-style polytechnic meant to keep us as ignorant and uninformed as possible, so those in power can keep it."
I completely agree! There is no arguing with facts. And if you want to know WHY there is motivation to keep people as ignorant and unhealthy as possible, then read this book. Or, keep your blinders on - it's YOUR choice.
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Some of Jim Marrs facts can be misleading. I believe a lot of what he says is plausible but can be taken both ways. The fact remains however that there is evidence that we have been visited by extra terrestrials in our distant past. As a result the there is good reason to believe that besides creationism and evolution a third option, visitation by extra-terrestrials, should be seriously considered in our current technologically advanced world. Such a concept could not have been considered until late in the 20th century, because we did not have the faith in ourselves to believe that interplanetary travel was even possible. But now that we know that it is very possible and even likely that we ourselves may be able to do it provided the funding for such a costly endeavor is given, the merits of an extra-terrestrial past in our own history should become more and more accepted.
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This book has one theme -- the world is oligarchy -- and the people that have control are of royal lineage. If you want a conspiracy theory, just read this book, you will find one that is interesting.
Having said that, it definitely forces the reader to have a fresh perspective on things. For example, why can't you buy fresh milk in the United States? Is it really public health reasons or purely corporate reasons? Why are Jews (according to this book) have complete control of money affairs of the world? All kinds of stuff from over-medication to huge loans to developing countries, nuclear weapons to Darwinian theory are in this book.
The chapters around Gods, and how human race could have been 'kicked off', who might have done that etc. are very interesting. I'll probably consider believing those until Science proves otherwise. ;) -
Even if you are a fan of Jim Marrs and have read all of his books over the years like I have, OUR OCCULTED HISTORY is a must-have for the reading shelf. It's not a synopsis of all of his previous works, but it does offer topical chapters that cover many things from prior books. The book is easy to read, although the content sometimes make you want to crawl under a rock and stay there for a while. Marrs is perhaps one of the last true western journalists left. He's crusty and opinionated, for sure, but he never mixes facts with opinion. Any speculation is clearly spelled out as such and not intermingled with journalistic facts. I may not always agree with his conclusions, but I appreciate the work he puts into researching his topics and I always enjoy his books. If you have never read any of Jim Marrs' books, then I suggest starting with this one.
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At first I thought this was just a load of hogwash, but then I realized that Mr. Marrs had hit on some things that were true. Some of his predictions or assertions, really, have cropped up on the news recently. His ideas about the culprits behind some things like GMOs and toxic waste were spot on. My only real complaint about this book is that it jumps around. Seemingly, there's little connection between some of his topics, but then they come together - loosely. I'm not sure about Mr. Marrs' alien ideas, but I do think that wealth sticks together. That part seems obvious.
This book in an interesting read. I'm not sure I buy into all of Mr. Marrs claims, but some of them are thought-provoking for sure. -
I read this book on a whim, thinking it would be a slightly conspiratorial look at whether aliens may have been our "creators" rather than the widely held belief that we were created by "GOD" or evolved. I was wrong..I was VERY wrong.
This book did refresh my memory on European history and the Bible. What it did not do is convince me that aliens populated this earth. Other than some old concepts (Nazca lines, cave drawings of "space" men and stylized bird drawings) this book didn't do much to convince me of ANYTHING. This is mostly recycled information from the 70's.
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I read this book for research for an article I was considering writing. It covers a wide range of some of the more common conspiracy theories out there, giving a general rundown of the theory and who the key theorists are. The book is simply an overview and doesn't give much in the way of supporting arguments but there are some notes to indicate where to get more information about the theory, however, not scientific information. The book is easy to read and is fun if you get a kick out of conspiracy theories, just don't expect hard evidence or scientific confirmation.
