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Explore the repository of intriguing facts that inspired the fiction of Dawn’s latest novel, Blackheart.
James Clark
Sleeper Agents
Thoughts are Passwords
Government Escape Bunkers
E-Bombs
Links between Shamanism and Quantum Physics
ESP and Remote Viewing
Selective Breeding
Mind Control Experiments
James Clark
One of Blackheart’s protagonists was inspired by the “real life” James Clark — an elite US Counterintelligence agent with Cosmic Clearance – Dawn’s father. During the two years prior to his death, Dawn helped her father write books chronicling his adventures. Jim, with a Native American background had his own naturally strong psi abilities and he used this opportunity to train Dawn in remote viewing and other aspects of spy craft. For those things that couldn’t yet be written, Dawn became his secret keeper.
The real-life James Clark:
* Jim joined the Army at age 14 using a forged birth certificate and led an exhilarating career until his untimely death at age 54 by Agent Orange toxicity. Prior to becoming a counterintelligence operative, Jim’s military career included such things as deep sea diving and nuclear bomb demolitions. In Korea, he served eighteen months as a POW. Commendations included two purple hearts.
* He was once asked to get an autograph from Elvis in exchange for intelligence.
* Once after his cover had been blown, Jim had to go “dark.” Narrowly escaping, he took on a new identity and made a bee-line for the Italian Riviera where in true Bond fashion he spent three weeks “cooling off” with beautiful companions.
* One of the spy tools that Clark had at his disposal was a car with license plates that flipped. He also had several aliases and passports.
Articles about Jim Clark and his book, Operation Swordfish.
Sleeper Agents
It sounds like something invented by Hollywood – a person leading a seemingly normal life for decades suddenly becomes ‘activated’ and becomes a foreign operative. However, this type of operative has been cultivated and utilized throughout history. Sleeper agents are nontraditional agents who are planted in a system for later activation and fulfillment of a predetermined role.
Today sleeper agents deeply penetrate global society, and those with radicalized beliefs keep counterterrorism units scrambling. The real question becomes, who has control of man’s psyche? Discover the potential in Blackheart.
For a real life example, read the Washington Post’s article Chinese Spy ‘Slept’ in U.S. for 2 Decades
Thoughts are Passwords
Matching a person’s brainwave patterns to a certain stimulus is possibly poised to become the most secure identification technique ever invented. Imagine you have an identical twin. Even though your DNA is a 100% match, how you each respond to the stimulus phrase “pineapple” is recognizably different – to the right equipment. This is because different brainwaves reflect different processing cycles in the brain. Because you and your twin have learned from two different perspectives, the word “pineapple” is processed in a measurably different manner!
To learn more about this amazing discovery read Your Thoughts Are Your Passwords in Wired Magazine
Government Escape Bunkers (same)
When the going gets rough, the military and political leaders get going… to secret hideaways! Is there one right under your nose?
The United States government maintained a top-secret underground bunker at The Greenbrier, www.greenbrier.com a luxurious resort in the mountains of West Virginia. This facility was designed to house the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate in case of nuclear attack.
Watch this History Channel expose
for a behind the scenes look on secret bunkers and this PBS special report for more information on the Greenbriar.
E-Bombs
Electromagnetic bombs, or e-bombs, target our dependency on technology.
Think about the last power outage you experienced. Inconvenient, right? Now imagine if the power outage was massive and durable, more like a brownout. It could be a serious emergency, yes? Now imagine if the entire electrical grid of a given area was compromised and permanently ‘fried,’ so to speak – with an invisible, silent, and otherwise harmless surge of an electromagnetic field. That is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the frequency weapons explored in Blackheart, each of which is based on a real life counterpart.
To further explore this topic you can learn how E-bombs work, watch a future weapons clip, or read a lengthier, more academic article on these weapons by Carlo Kopp, a Defense Analyst out of Melbourne, Australia.
Shamanism and it’s link to Quantum Physics
Shamanism is a term of some consternation for many modern-minded people. The elusive boundaries defining the duties and powers of this ancient title make it nearly impossible to understand in terms of classical Newtonian physics, which is all the physics education many people are ever exposed to. Luckily, revolutionary discoveries in the field of physics over the last century – the development of quantum physics – have given a revived vocabulary and a scientific allowance for the ancient role of the “shaman.”
Watch this video to discover the link between shamanism and quantum physics.
ESP and Remote Viewing is a method of long-distance intelligence gathering, used by national intelligence agencies around the world in the last fifty years. Successes in the field of remote viewing prompted major investment in further psi research, such as Project Stargate.
The Stargate Project hinged on earlier research of psychic phenomena carried out at The American Society for Psychical Research and The Stanford Research Institute, and was prompted by similar psychic research which was being conducted by the Russian military during the Cold War era. The Project was particularly focused on investigating the potential of “remote viewing,” the alleged ability to see physical evidence or information at great distances, as well as precognition, the ability to see the future.
Read about Project Stargate and other remote viewing studies
Watch a NOVA special on ESP and remote viewing
Selective Breeding
Beyond eugenics, Blackheart delves into the dark potentials of that face humanity’s future.
Hitler wasn’t the only 20th century madman with a breeding project! Rather than focusing on breeding a ‘pure’ race of Aryans or Russians, etc., Josef Stalin turned his attention toward the muddling of the human gene pool. Cross-breeding humans with apes was a serious goal of Stalin’s, in an attempt to create the ultimate warrior.
To learn more read about Stalin’s Army of Mutant Ape-Men.
Mind Control
With varying scopes and degrees of effectiveness, mind control experiments have – without a doubt – existed since WWII Nazi medical experimentation and torture. Following the fall of Hitler’s Germany, this information made its way into both the United States and the USSR, where the techniques shifted and evolved into projects best exemplified by the notorious MK-ULTRA. The existence of Korean, Soviet, and Chinese ‘mind-control’ programs during the 20th century is generally accepted as a fact, despite a dearth of public information.
Blackheart’s twist on mind control illuminates the hidden realms of psyche where damage ultimately takes place, and introduces a path for healing the fractured core.
More can be found at:
Inside Mind Control article on Science Channel
Weird Russian Mind Control article in Wired Magazine
List of selected US Mind Control Experiments
To learn where Fleming, a character from Blackheart, might have gotten a lot of his ideas take a look at the 1963 CIA KUBARK interrogation manual.
