From a Tomorrowland article:
“In 1979, the United States Army created a top-secret New Age unit called the First Earth Battalion. It was to be a testing ground for new fighting techniques such as remote viewing, walking through walls and killing goats just by staring at them. The army’s plans for a troop of Om-chanting warrior monks was never fully realized, but the spirit of the First Earth Battalion lives on today.
Journalist Jon Ronson uncovers all this and plenty more in The Men Who Stare at Goats. I just finished it, and let me tell you it’s unstoppable. Unputdownable. Alternately hilarious and terrifying, the book represents the most spectacularly bizarre set of facts about the US military that I have ever encountered. Ronson manages to detour through—and elegantly link—George W. Bush’s bloated Black Ops budget, the Heaven’s Gate cult, Waco, Gitmo, and MK-ULTRA, the CIA’s secret LSD program from the 1950s….”
Read the rest here:
http://www.tomorrowland.org/slime/2006/06/evolutionary_ta.html
