I recently completed reading Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare by Michael Hoffman. The book does a good job of talking about how secret societies, particularly Freemasons, engage in ritualistic murders, and why they do so. The book looks at the Kennedy assassination from this angle, which I found to be particularly interesting and enlightening.

Overall, though, I am not a fan of the book, and do not recommend it. There are a couple reasons for this:

1. Unqualified hatred of that which is classified as "occult." Just because these secret societies are into astrology and other occult things does not mean that occult knowledge is "evil." Correlation is not causation, as the more scientifically-oriented may say.

2. The author is a Christian. I have nothing against Christians and even like most people in the Christian patriot community (the folks who know about the global conspiracy, view it as the work of "the Devil," and view it as their obligation as Christians to use the Truth to defeat it); I consider them like-minded friends who know what's important in life and base their actions accordingly. But Christianity, like all religions, is ultimately false (there is no evidence to support the notion that a man named Jesus existed -- see our previous coverage of this topic), and thus an overdependence on it results in a distorted view of reality. Hating on the occult is one example of this. At this risk of sounding like a complete loon (in case I don't already ), overdependence on Christianity also makes it hard to appreciate the role of aliens/extraterrestials in much of what happens on planet Earth, as well as their connection to secret societies. (For more on this topic, please see the work of David Icke and Jim Marrs -- the latter of whom is a Christian at least in the philosophical sense, but does not let his faith interfere with reality). I feel as though the author's analysis is incorrectly biased because of an overdependence on Christianity.

3. Lastly, the author hates on The Matrix, probably my all time favorite movie (I go back and forth between The Matrix and Fight Club). The author says The Matrix is an example of what is known as Revelation of the Method, whereby the Hollywood faction of the conspiracy
intentionally tells you what they are going to do to you as a psychological warfare/mind control tactic. Revelation of the Method is very real, although I don't think The Matrix was designed to reveal the Columbine massacre, as the author suggests. Remember the song that runs over the ending credits of The Matrix is "Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine. That's probably the last song you'd want to play if you're running a psy op designed to get people to accept being slaves.

Revelation of the Method is very real though, and I'm glad the author mentioned it -- not enough books have. When you understand Revelation of the Method, you view movies like I Am Legend quite differently. My favorite example of Revelation of the Method is from this clip of the Lone Gunman TV episode.