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In "Dreams", a chapter in The Last Stand, his retelling of Custer's defeat at the hands of Sitting Bull and his Lakota warriors, Nathaniel Philbrick recounts the visions experienced by young Lakota men on spirit quests: "A vision could occur at any pivotal moment in a Lakota"s life. After days without food and water, alone, often on a mountaintop or butte..." As Philbrick writes, "the vision was not hazy or ill-defined. It was real." He includes a description from a Lokota, John Fire: "It hits...
Charles Spearin is a musician with Broken Social Scene and Do Make Say Think. He also makes music on his own, most recently the experimental album The Happiness Project, a sonic collage of interviews he did with his Toronto neighbours on the topic of happiness. Not only is it a fascinating listen, it is nominated for a Juno for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year.
When Charles Spearin heads to St. John's, Nfld., this...
CBC journalist and Giller Prize-winning author Linden MacIntyre interviews John Geiger about The Third Man Factor on CBC Radio's The Current. Linden discusses the spiritualism of his own childhood, and recalls an interview he conducted with George Grant where there is a spiritual dimension.
From The Current's website: We started this segment with a reading from TS Eliot's "The Waste Land" a 1922 poem describing an arduous journey through a desolate land. Along the way, his narrator has a...
John Geiger will talk about The Third Man Factor at the 2010 Bristol Festival of ideas, held this May in the English city. The festival was established in 2005, and this year has a strong line-up of writers and thinkers, including Antonia Fraser, Dr. Ben Goldacre, John Boorman, Melvyn Bragg and the ubiquitous Christopher Hitchens. The festival aims "to stimulate minds and passions." Previous speakers include Brian Eno, Margaret Atwood and Germaine Greer. John's talk is scheduled for 28 May...
An article on the "Sensed-Presence Effect" appears in the April 2010 issue of Scientific American, the prestigious popular science and technology magazine. In the article, writer Michael Shermer cites The Third Man Factor, calling the book "gripping". Shermer also outlines some possible explanations for Third Man reports, some of which are discussed in the book, and some of which are not:
"I suggest four explanations: 1) The hallucination may be an extension of the normal sensed presence we...
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Iker Jimenez entrevisto al autor, John Geiger, en la radio, el dia 10 de Diciembre, 2009 para introducir este libro rercientemente publicado en España. Mas tarde fue ampliamente discutido en el programa de Television EL CUARTO MILENIO con la participacion del escritor Jose Sierra y el alpinista Sebastian Alvaro. Este programa se puede ver en You Tube con fecha 17 de Enero 2010.
"El Tercer Hombre: Sobrevivir a lo Imposible" presenta y analiza el hecho, que inicialmente describio Shackleton,...
"Today's top explorers share the latest from the frontlines of adventure." That's how the National Geographic Society announced that John Geiger will launch the Society's three-part Quest for Adventure series, part of National Geographic Live! At National Geographic headquarters, in Washington, D.C. on February 10, 2010. Later talks in the series feature Gretel Ehrlich, and Jonathan Waterman. For more information, and to buy tickets, visit National Geographic's website.
Lorna Dueck, the creator, host and executive producer of Listen Up TV, and president of Media Voice Generation, the Canadian charitable organization that produces the weekly broadcast, interviews John Geiger about The Third Man Factor. This interview was broadcast on several Christian television networks, as well as Global Television, a national commercial network in Canada.
The Third Man Factor was selected by book editors of The Globe and Mail one of the top 100 books of 2009 -- a list that includes novels by Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, E.L. Doctorow, Colm Tóibín and non-fiction by Dave Eggers, Wade Davis, Richard Dawkins and Adam Gopnik. According to the Globe, the list represents "the 100 best and most influential books of the year" and "includes prize-winners and surprises, writers allegedly famous and those about to be, prose and poetry, science and social...
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