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Lance & James
It’s with pleasure we, my co-writer James Morcan and I, can announce that our books – fiction and nonfiction – are available now at Massachusetts’ Harvard Book Store (pictured) in Cambridge, MA. They can be viewed at https://www.harvard.com/search/site/Lance%20Morcan
Harvard Book Store is a unique and special place to shop—a locally owned, independently run Cambridge landmark since 1932. As this iconic store’s own website states: “Our bookstore is known for an extraordinary selection and thoughtful curation of new, used, and remaindered books; an award-winning author event series; wildly popular warehouse sales; and a history of innovation.”
Among our bestselling nonfiction books available at Harvard Book Store are: Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories, Vaccine Science Revisited, The Catcher in the Rye Enigma and Genius Intelligence.
Among our novels available at the store are the critically acclaimed Into the Americas, White Spirit, Silent Fear and The Ninth Orphan. My solo-authored new release historical adventure New Zealand: A Novel is also available.
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Morcan books (co-authored and solo-authored) are also available via Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and via public libraries.
The word “genius” is bandied about a lot these days, the term being eagerly applied to all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons. I’m in no doubt my definition of “genius” differs to yours and, indeed, to the definition held by many. This is not necessarily a sign we are right or wrong. Rather, it’s a reflection, perhaps, of the perception the modern world has of genius.
We address this in a passage titled Connecting the dots in GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ – book one in our Underground Knowledge Series. ( Available now at Harvard Book Store ).
In bygone eras the term “genius” was most used when describing brilliant artists like Leonardo da Vinci. Then, in the 20th Century, the term was more often reserved for academics like Albert Einstein. Now, in the 21st Century, it has assumed a broader meaning and is applied to individuals who have achieved extraordinary results in a wide variety of careers, pastimes and fields of endeavor that transcend academia.
Increasingly, we see references in the media and elsewhere to scientific genius or artistic genius or sporting genius, which supports this evolving definition of the word.
Certainly, dictionary definitions (of genius) allow for a broad interpretation. For example, common dictionary definitions include “exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability” and “an exceptionally intelligent person or one with exceptional skill in a particular area of activity.”
A cursory look at our Thesaurus offers mastermind, prodigy, brain, intellect, virtuoso and even whiz kid as alternatives to the word genius.
For what it’s worth, our definition of genius is: Someone who demonstrates rare intellect, who successfully connects dots between seemingly unconnected things and who sees what others don’t to achieve revolutionary outcomes and extraordinary results.
We remind readers what German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said about genius: “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
It’s obvious to us that little-known accelerated learning techniques do exist in one form or another – techniques (and technologies) capable of increasing IQ. It should also be obvious that geniuses aren’t usually born geniuses, or, to put it another way, they aren’t necessarily born geniuses. Having studied the lives of numerous geniuses, we were surprised to discover most utilized – or, from a young age, were exposed to – various brain activation methods on their respective journeys to becoming acknowledged masters of their fields.
GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ (below) is available via Harvard Book Store (above) at https://www.harvard.com/book/9780473318499
Genius Intelligence also available via Waterstones UK & Europe, Barnes & Noble, Inc. bookstores, Amazon Kindle (and paperback) and via public libraries.
Why do vaccine manufacturers persist in adding Formaldehyde (FA) or Formalin (the liquid form of formaldehyde) to vaccines when many scientists have expressed concern about injecting embalming fluid into the bodies of infants?
My co-author and I pose this question in a chapter titled Formaldehyde – The demolition crew in our book VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED: Are Childhood Immunizations as Safe as Claimed?
In certain vaccines, formaldehyde is used to “inactivate viruses and to detoxify bacterial toxins.” However, we learned that in the making of these vaccines it’s impossible to extract all the toxins. There will always be some residual toxins left in the vaccine. When it comes to formaldehyde, this can be 0.02% FA or less.
As with other chemicals, the various forms should not be confused. We mentioned that formaldehyde becomes formalin when in liquid. To be more specific, when methyl alcohol is added to formaldehyde, it becomes formalin. A solution that’s 10% formalin, is actually 3.7-4% formaldehyde.
In researching vaccine safety generally, we struggle to understand how so many scientific studies out there can be studying the exact same thing, yet their conclusions completely contradict each other. Formaldehyde studies are no exception. If each study can be replicated by a third party in the laboratory, how can the results vary so greatly?
What’s not in dispute is that our bodies produce formaldehyde naturally. This makes it difficult to determine how safe formaldehyde in vaccines really is. Formaldehyde can damage our cells, but at the same time it can defend the cells against damage. In the latter case, our body breaks the formaldehyde down into smaller pieces. These smaller pieces are no longer formaldehyde, but are now formate. The cell uses formate to create more DNA.
Some health professionals are concerned about accumulation of formaldehyde in the body. For example, Sherri Tenpenny, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), who has great insight into the field of natural health, argues that by the time a child is five, they have received 1.795 mg formaldehyde.
Dr. Tenpenny says, “Through sloppy and negligent math, lawmakers and manufacturers fail to throw up a red flag regarding the large amount of formaldehyde injected into young bodies with developing brains, neurological systems and organs.”
We found a study that measured accumulated formaldehyde in the brain. It showed that the more it accumulates, the less there will be “cognitive abilities during human aging”. The more severe the dementia in Alzheimer’s disease patients, the higher the formaldehyde accumulation.
The list of concerns goes on. We list some of them for our readers. All claims, links and references to scientific and medical papers, official statements and news reports are tabled at the end of each chapter.
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Vaccine Science Revisited is available via Barnes & Noble bookstores, public libraries and via Amazon. It continues to be one of the bestselling books our contentious Underground Knowledge Series.
As a student (albeit unqualified) of ancient Rome and an avid reader of Ben Cane, Conn Iggulden and other great historical fiction novelists, I was intrigued to learn there were gladiatrices, or female gladiators, in Rome. And there’s evidence to suggest they were honored as highly as their male counterparts.
Women of all classes participated in spectacles hosted by emperors Nero, Titus and Domitian, and history suggests many gladiatrices were ‘high born’ women of means. Affluent women could afford the training and had leisure time to work out. Professional gladiator troupe managers encouraged these women, offering money and glamour. Popular gladiators were revered as sex symbols and feted by Roman citizens, and no doubt it was the same for gladiatrices.
Not only did gladiatrices fight each other, they also fought wild animals, and sometimes even dwarfs for entertainment in public games.
Roman historians described women fighting each other at after-dinner acts in Rome and especially in the thriving city of Pompeii. Apparently, it wasn’t without controversy, and the participation of gladiatrices was often criticized by Romans of the day. Even so, it wasn’t until 200 A.D. that all female gladiatorial combat was banned.
Upon learning this, I was inspired to write a short story titled A Gladiator’s Love. In this action-romance tale, dashing Greek gladiator Leonidas promises his true love he’ll buy her freedom if he wins his own in the Colosseum. His beloved is Fatuma, an Ethiopian beauty who is a gladiatrice.
-Lance Morcan (Author)
A Gladiator’s Love is available via Amazon as a Kindle ebook… https://lnkd.in/gjcb_x3g It’s also one of five short stories in my paperback titled 5 Short Story Gems.
There was a very interesting study published in PubMed in 2010 some 10 years after it was conducted into the CDC’s recommended childhood vaccine schedule we feel hasn’t gotten the recognition it deserves. More than two decades since the study was done, as far as we can tell, discussions about it and its results are almost non-existent.
My co-author James Morcan and I refer to this study in a chapter titled ‘Definitely maybe science’ in our book ‘VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED: Are Childhood Immunizations as Safe as Claimed?’
The study randomly selected 16 infant rhesus monkeys and divided them into two groups. One group of 12 monkeys received the CDC’s then-recommended childhood vaccine schedule at the same rate American children would. The remaining four infant monkeys, which comprised the control group, received placebo (saline) vaccines according to the same schedule. (It would be interesting if they added a second control group using the placebos used in vaccine safety studies today. We are very curious to know how it would compare).
This was a longitudinal study lasting from 1994 to 1999 to follow the vaccine schedule in a proper timeline. The study found the vaccinated monkeys had a much “greater total brain volume” than the average healthy brain. They also observed that the amygdala in the vaccinated monkeys didn’t mature with time as it was supposed to. The amygdala, incidentally, plays an important role in social interactions.
Maybe it’s not so surprising they also observed that in the vaccinated monkeys the opioid antagonist diprenorphine (DPN) levels never lowered throughout the study. In the placebo group, the DPN levels decreased noticeably. One function of DPN is to block social interaction. What this means is the research showed that the social behavior of those monkeys that received the actual vaccines, where the DPN levels did not decrease, turned anti-social.
We found there was at least one more study undertaken to verify the association between DPN and social behavior. Performed in 1981, the authors of that study believe the release of opioids in the brain encourages social interactions. So, when the body fails to decrease the amount of the antagonist DPN, it not only blocks the opioids that encourage social interactions, but it blocks the desire to socially interact.
We were unable to find published studies that show a link between DPN and autism. However, we did look a little closer into DPN. Apparently, there are three different variations of opioid receptors: mu, µ; delta, δ; and kappa, κ. We are only interested in the kappa (κ1 and κ2) receptors. There are more kappa receptors in the brain than any other opioid receptor. Not surprisingly, you’ll find these receptors in the amygdala.
The paper states:
“The κ opioid receptors have been implicated in several clinical brain disorders, including drug abuse, epilepsy, Tourette’s syndrome, and Alzheimer’s disease.”
What DPN does is bind to the kappa receptors and that’s how it accumulates in the amygdala. So, it makes sense how DPN could cause problems when it doesn’t go away with time…
Rumors of foreign mercenaries being hired as deniable assets by the CIA to aid the persecuted were the motivation for our action-adventure novel The Dogon Initiative.
The rumors, incidentally, remain unproven, but one of us at least believes they could be more fact than rumor – despite the CIA’s, um, somewhat dubious reputation.
Book one in our series The Deniables, the storyline sees a group of foreign mercenaries hired as deniable assets by a newly formed humanitarian division of the CIA. They are tasked with saving Mali’s persecuted Dogon people from genocide. The operation must be carried out in stealth while journeying across some of West Africa’s most hostile terrain.
As if all that’s not enough, they are also instructed to help solve an ancient astronomical mystery linked to the pyramids of Egypt.
The novel highlights some of the many myths and theories surrounding the fascinating Dogon people. In particular, their unexplained knowledge of the invisible-to-the-eye Sirius B white dwarf star, the rings of Saturn and other heavenly bodies, and their rumored ancestral relationship to ancient Egyptians.
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The Dogon Initiative is available via Amazon.
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Our other co-authored adventure novels by Lance & James Morcan include:
The poverty in South Sudan is too awful to behold as its people try to cope with escalating violence and a deepening humanitarian crisis. This despite the fact that the world’s youngest nation possesses an enviable variety of natural resources, including gold, diamonds, silver, various ores, water resources, luxury timber, fertile land, and diverse wildlife. Not to mention oil, its major export.
South Sudan’s story is essentially the story of Africa, which John Perkins highlights in his bestselling (must-read) book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and which we highlight in our book Bankrupting the Third World: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt.
John Perkins…coined economic hitmen.
In our lesser-known book, we regrettably inform readers that the economic hit men popularized in Perkins’ 2004 bestseller are still alive and well – in Africa in particular but elsewhere as well.
Just look at the humanitarian crisis in the DRC (Congo), which possesses a vast array of natural resources, including significant mineral deposits of copper, cobalt, coltan, and diamonds, as well as substantial hydroelectric potential, fertile land, and diverse wildlife within the world’s second-largest rainforest.
We identify the cause of Africa’s woes: corrupt politicians, greedy corporates (a la the economic hitmen) and questionable aid packages provided by the likes of the World Bank, the IMF and USAID. Packages some suggest are scams designed to subjugate Third World countries.
Bankrupting the Third World is dedicated to the impoverished in forgotten places of the world. When we wrote it 21,000 people were dying from starvation every day. That’s one person every four seconds! We suspect the toll is even higher today.
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Bankrupting the Third World: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt is available via Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores and public libraries and via Amazon…
As world stock markets reel from huge losses in Trump era 2.0, it seems much has changed and little has changed since our book INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$ was published.
The man of the moment.
Trump’s tariffs war might have turned the markets upside down like never before, but one thing that hasn’t changed is the contents of our book’s very first chapter titled ‘Banksters on the rampage’. In it we remind readers we live in a really perverse world where we have almost unlimited military expenditure to finance wars, where our governments readily bail out privately-owned banks with multi-trillion-dollar relief packages, and yet politicians tell us there is not enough money to cover the measly costs of citizens’ basic healthcare, food, education and shelter.
The above-mentioned chapter, incidentally, includes my favorite quote of Warren Buffett’s:
“If a graduating MBA student were to ask me, ‘How do I get rich in a hurry?’ I would not respond with quotations from Ben Franklin or Horatio Alger but would instead hold my nose with one hand and point with the other toward Wall Street.”
There’s a growing awareness in the general population of large-scale financial corruption by the so-called global elite, or the 1%, if you will. Regardless of whether or not Trump’s tariffs work, I hope the 99% demand greater transparency in the way their money is being managed, and I pray the grotesque gap between the haves and the have-nots closes sooner rather than later.
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INTERNATIONAL BANKSTER$: The Global Banking Elite Exposed and the Case for Restructuring Capitalism is book 5 in our contentious Underground Knowledge Series. It’s available via Waterstones UK & Europe bookstores, public libraries and Amazon.
This Fijian’s 5-star review of Fiji: A Novel remains one of my favourite critiques of this the first of several historical adventure novels co-authored by James Morcan and I…
“As a Fijian, I find the old traditions of our people fascinating and just as great as they are crude and gruesome. The novel touches on most of these now extinct practices, in mad detail and it’s AWESOME! … Racial prejudice, religion, culture and family were the underlying messages … The adventure, fast-paced and nail biting … The romance, sizzling, exciting, forbidden … I give it 5 stars because that’s the maximum amount of stars we’re allowed to give.”-Random Writings Book Reviews (Suva, Fiji)
Another reviewer describes this book as “a spellbinding novel of adventure, cultural misunderstandings, religious conflict and sexual tension set in one of the most exotic and isolated places on earth.”
The storyline:
In the mid-1800’s, Fiji is a melting pot of cannibals, warring native tribes, sailors, traders, prostitutes, escaped convicts and all manner of foreign undesirables. It’s in this hostile environment an innocent young Englishwoman and a worldly American adventurer find themselves.
Susannah Drake, a missionary, questions her calling to spread God’s Word as she’s torn between her spiritual and sexual selves. As her forbidden desires intensify, she turns to the scriptures and prayer to quash the sinful thoughts – without success. Nathan Johnson arrives to trade muskets to the Fijians and immediately finds himself at odds with Susannah. She despises him for introducing the white man’s weapons to the very people she is trying to convert and he pities her for her naivety. Despite their differences, there’s an undeniable chemistry between them. When their lives are suddenly endangered by marauding cannibals, Susannah and Nathan are forced to rely on each other for their very survival.
Other historical adventure novels of ours include World Odyssey, Into the Americas and White Spiritas well as my solo-authored recent release New Zealand: A Novel.
The revelation that a phrasing technique used in our novel The Ninth Orphan is based on declassified CIA documents is revealed to readers in our book The Catcher in the Rye Enigma, co-authored by James Morcan and I.
The actual phrase we use is the names of the planets “Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.” When subjects hear or read those words in precisely that order, they immediately fall into a hypnotized state, having been programmed under a CIA mind control initiative codenamed MK-Ultra.
Far-fetched? We thought so until we learned that MK-Ultra is, or was, real. The declassified documents show that it gives handlers total control over their charges, forcing them to do anything – even kill.
In ‘The Catcher in the Rye Enigma’, book four in our contentious ‘Underground Knowledge Series’, we inform readers that the aforementioned phrasing technique is only one of many techniques used, but it’s one that crops up again and again in the documented evidence of successful mind control experiments.
As alluded to by our book’s subtitle J.D. Salinger’s Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals?, it’s suggested by some that Salinger and/or his publisher craftily implanted into his bestseller The Catcher in the Rye neurolinguistic passages or coded messages that act as post-hypnotic suggestions or mind control triggers. In turn, these triggers enabled CIA handlers to activate Manchurian Candidates for assassinations.
Some conspiracy theorists believe the novel was part of the CIA’s now mostly declassified mind control program MK-Ultra, and that while assassins were being brainwashed they were forced to read the book over and over until it was embedded in their minds.
Accepting for a moment that Salinger’s ‘Catcher’ is such a triggering device, it would likely set off MK-Ultra subjects by having carefully phrased words in strategic parts of the book. Nobody outside of the sleeper assassins and their intelligence agency handlers would be able to recognize such phrases as being abnormal, especially if crafted by such a skillful writer as Salinger.
