Deception People: Telling the Truth can be Fatal
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On the outside, Troy Evans is just an average guy, working as a graphic designer in Minneapolis, but pull back the curtain and we discover a man with a dual life. It all started at age of ten, when Troy fell from a tree while playing, hit his head and should have died, but he didn't. What did happen was a life-changing event, what is called an Out-of-Body or Near-Death-Experience. In the years that follow, Troy experiences repeated OOBs and soon discovers that he can control them. One day, while plying his new ability, Troy happens upon a secretive meeting in a hotel hundreds miles from his home, and is drawn to listen in. Shocked by what he hears, he reports the matter to Homeland Security as an imminent terrorist attack on the nation. Within days, his apartment is raided, and Troy finds himself locked away in a high-security facility for mentally impaired, labelled as delusional and dangerous to society. Despite his attempts to clear his name of these labels, and to implore people to look into his claims, no one listens, no one except the psychologist who is meeting with him in the hopes of addressing his delusional state of mind. Troy eventually manages to convince her that his story is true, and that those who have locked him up are the very people behind the imminent attack on the nation, one that will make 9/11 look like a walk in the park. She helps him to escape from the facility and together, they run, attempting to contact the authorities who will listen, but at every turn, those behind the plot are on their trail, and the window is closing, just days ahead, when the attack happens. A high-concept thriller.
If you liked the Netflix series, Zero Day, with Robert De Niro, you will love Deception People.
No one believed him. In fact, they wanted to shut him up because of what he knew so they locked him away in a high-security mental institution. Troy Evans tripped across something he wasn't supposed to know about, in fact, no one was, until the day it happened - an event that would make 9/11 look like a Sunday stroll in the park. One person however, his psychiatrist, eventually realizes that Troy isn't mentally deranged as the authorities claimed - and at that moment, they become the most hunted people in America as they try to find someone who will listen before it is too late.
"Riveting from beginning to end, make sure you set aside a weekend once you start reading."
Eric Richard Dallaire, author
"Deception People. Telling the truth can be fatal, is the first of a series of books that is a well written, intriguing, action-packed thriller with a supernatural twist that I thoroughly enjoyed. If you like Patriot Games and The Bourne Identity, I recommend this book."
"The Deception People is a well written novel that is nerve-wrackingly real, and suspenseful."
"An Intelligent and Thoughtful Roller Coaster Ride with a Rare Twist..."
"Réal has again created a thriller you don't want to put down until the end."
Réal Laplaine
Inspired by Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions and The Bridge Across Forever, I discovered not only a passion to write, but also a channel, a means of helping to raise awareness in a world where people, trying to change things for the better, were being fought and silenced, where racism, greed and war were commonplace, and a society that was being dumbed down primarily through a system of "education", cultural propaganda and ideology - both political and religious. I write high-concept thrillers and speculative fiction in geopolitical, crime, sometimes bordering on science fiction, and often times inspiring stories. I love story-telling and especially, I enjoy weaving my stories with compelling and eye-opening perspectives about the world we live in and hopefully, inspiring my readers to see a better vision, a higher one and a world where the good guys win and actual peace and justice is possible. Réal Laplaine Author of high-concept thrillers www.reallaplaine.com
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Deception People - Réal Laplaine
DECEPTION PEOPLE
Telling the truth can be fatal.
by Réal Laplaine
Copyright © 2015 by Réal Laplaine
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the permission of the author. Excepting brief quotes used in reviews.
The characters in this story are fictional and work of the author’s imagination. Any references to actual people or locations are within a fictional construct.
Special acknowledgement
Special acknowledgement is extended to Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, and Laura Poitras, who put themselves out there and have been reviled and criminalized because they spotlighted criminal mass-surveillance and violations of privacy rights by agencies of governments (particularly in America) who do so under the mantra of national security
– agencies which consider themselves to be above the law and not accountable for such crimes.
I would also like to acknowledge the following people for their research into out-of-body-experiences; Robert A. Monroe - Journeys Out of the Body, William Walker Atkinson - Mental Therapeutics; L. Ron Hubbard for his research into the spiritual realm; Charles F. Haanel - The Master Key System; and finally, Richard Bach, whose classic book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, planted the first seeds of inspiration.
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.
Edward Snowden
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Pertinent notes regarding
Out-Of-Body-Experience (OOBE)
Some studies have revealed that one in every ten people, on average, have experienced an out-of-body experience one or more times in their lives, sometimes without even knowing what it was or calling it something else.
Many cases exist on record where people have described an out-of-body experience, whether experienced at near-death, during a painful trauma, during sickness, during surgery, while undergoing therapy, during meditation or as a natural course of life. In these accounts they described things which had no scientific explanation.
Case histories exist where people were able to show indisputable proof that they had lived past lives.
Tests have been performed showing that at the exact point of clinical death of a human body, there is a measurable change in some form of energy, however minute – as if some dynamic of life which was previously there, has now vacated the vicinity.
Present Day
London, England
‘There are several theories about who we are and our origin as a species,’ begins Dr. Carlton Faber, a neurological specialist, and a graduate of King’s College at the London School of Medicine.
‘Let us look, loosely speaking, at some of those.’
‘One of the more popular ones, although still just a theory, follows the Darwinian tangent of spontaneity – that is, evolution from the primordial seas; that we developed from an amoeba, up through the ape, to our current highly advanced state as human beings. To accept that theory one must marvel at the amazing ability of Mother Nature to have constructed the most elaborate carbon-oxygen machine in existence, the human body, with near absolute perfection – something that would challenge even the most sophisticated computers of our day.’
He waves a hand at the screen behind him. ‘Darwin aside, many adhere to the belief that everything exists by the grace of some omnipresence or Supreme Being.’
‘And, though less popular, but by no means less plausible than Darwin’s spontaneity or some all-powerful unseen entity creating all existence with a single wave of his or her hand, another theory suggests that we could have been engineered with precise blueprints, and that our forebears are out there in the distant stars waiting for us to catch up with them.’
He pauses to look at the faces of those who have come to the University to hear Dr. Faber speak about his recent research into human existence.
‘What I am about to relate to you does require a certain degree of open mindedness because it could very easily assault what you have been taught, or what you accept or believe to be true. New frontiers often challenge existing ideas, and the process of discovery can be both exhilarating and unsettling.’
He presses a remote in his hand. The large screen behind him illuminates with the picture of a human skull and the brain within. He rests a laser point on the brain.
‘That tiny point there, situated in the middle of your skull, and barely the size of a grain of rice, is called the pineal gland. You cannot even see it clearly because it is so small. Most people, when asked, are not even aware of its existence or what function it performs in their body. Here is an expanded view.’
A second image appears.
‘The pineal gland receives the second highest blood flow of any organ in the entire human body, next only to the kidneys. Assuming there must be a logical explanation for this, that it was not just a design flaw in the human physiology, or a fluke in the perfect blueprint which Mother Nature conjured up – a good scientist poses the one question which has resulted in so many of the greatest advancements in history – why?’
‘Researchers have discovered that this tiny gland, which you could balance on the tip of your finger, is engaged in the awake and sleep cycle of the human body; it is sensitive to light and darkness; it is involved with the secretion and/or production of serotonin and melatonin, hormones which affect mood, appetite, and sleep. That is what science knows of its functions. It still remains an enigma, and it was this mystery which drew us to further investigate the pineal gland.’
He presses the remote – another image appears.
‘Most of you recognize that – it is a microchip, also small enough to balance on the tip of your finger. That chip is similar to the one in your mobile phone today – it is called the central processing unit or CPU which interfaces between you, the user, and the digital world around. That chip is capable of distinguishing billions of bytes of electronic information passing by our ears every nanosecond of the day, an informational highway which permeates the air around us and which we are completely unaware of as humans, but which is detected by that tiny chip, making it possible for you to connect to the world of telephony and the internet. It is an amazing piece of technology, the forefront of quantum physics.’
Dr. Faber points the laser to the image of the microchip.
‘I pose this for your consideration – is it conceivable that the human brain possesses a similar component, such as this small computer chip, one which is particularly sensitive to certain frequencies or wavelengths, which interprets and translates these wavelengths into the messages which are then carried through the neurological pathways from our brains to our bodies – just like the chip in your phone translates your mechanical action of pressing certain buttons, into a message, a phone call, a video, whatever?’
He pauses to watch the audience.
‘We began our research on the premise that the pineal gland functions like a microchip – it was a platform for research, not a conclusion. We conducted tests under controlled circumstances. Those tests clearly revealed that the pineal gland does not respond to any band or frequency which we could synthesize mechanically. In other words, bombard the pineal gland with any range of intensified frequencies which a computer chip can easily detect and nothing happens – nothing whatsoever. We assessed every conceivable electromagnetic range, low to high – nothing. Not even a blip on the monitors. After exhaustive tests, we concluded that the pineal gland was not wired for these particular mechanical wavelengths – and the proof is in the pudding – we coexist today in a world which is saturated with electromagnetic waves which are generated between millions of hand-held devices, computers, GPS devices, satellites and on and on – and we don’t perceive these. If you could, the inside of your head would sound something like this," he pressed the remote, emitting a vociferous, almost painful cacophony throughout the lecture hall. He smiles. ‘That was the floor of the London Stock Exchange, by the way.’
He steps in a semi-circle and turns to them. ‘We did discover, quite by mistake, as is the case with many great scientific discoveries, that there is something which does influence the pineal gland. There is a force which was measurable in terms of its effects on the pineal.’
Faber points to the screen as an image appears – a spherical shape next to a human body.
‘We were able to measure changes, however small, in the vicinity of the pineal gland, when test subjects were asked to do certain things. In other words, by carefully monitoring the pineal gland when someone merely thought about something pleasant or upsetting, there was a change. When test subjects were asked to stand, or move their body, any physical action whatsoever, it registered in the vicinity of the pineal, micro-nanoseconds before the physical action manifested.’
’You might be thinking, that is nothing new, scientists have been saying that the brain is the source of our thoughts et al, but I am not speaking about delineating parts of the brain for psychological purposes. The research we did showed, unequivocally, that every time you think, emote, when you decide to do something, it registers in the pineal gland, like the CPU of a computer that processes commands and sends signals out to the rest of its community.’
He turned to face them. ‘Simply put, when you want something to happen in your body, the pineal, for all intents and purposes, appears to be the interface between you and this,’ he holds up his hand.
‘Now, we are not broaching the subject of autonomic motor controls at this point, such as heartbeat and the other thousands of auto-physiological functions that go on inside our bodies without us ever having to think about them. That, for all we know, could be another sub-system, entirely related to the body and truly having little to do with the person occupying it. We will not go there yet.’
He paused.
We just stepped across a threshold which is a quagmire – where some believe we are a soul, while others believe we have a soul, while others believe we are just mud and when we die, we return to being mud. So, for the purpose of this talk, let us not confuse the issue with semantics, significances, or religious ideology – we are speaking about science here, not belief systems, and science is about observable and provable facts.
He waves his hand across the room. ‘How many people here have experienced this scenario: you are sitting in a restaurant, a pub, on the metro, somewhere, and you suddenly become aware that someone is looking at you? You cannot see the person, but you sense that someone in the crowd is looking at you?’
Many in the audience raise their hands or nod.
‘On a purely physical level there is no scientific reason you should have had any perception of that person. Our bodies are, according to authoritative sources, are not tuned to such a frequency, whatever it is, and yet, you turn your head and sure enough a stranger is watching you from across the room. What is that?’
He pauses to let it sink in.
‘We tend to relegate this phenomenon to something called the Sixth Sense – in other words, it does not classify as a normal body perception such as taste, smell or tactile – it is something different, something quite inexplicable. In fact, I have no doubt that there are men in this very audience right now who have gawked at a pretty lady, somewhere, only to feel chagrin when she suddenly turned to look right at you. How did she know that you were admiring her? What is the perceptible energy that causes two people to perceive one another under completely tacit and intangible circumstances?’
‘Science has no explanation for it. It is just casually dismissed as another sense,
the paranormal
– what have you, because it does not fit into any neat paradigm."
‘But you see, any scientist worth his salt cannot, will not, dismiss discrepancies which do not fit into his or her formulas. If an engineer, building the bridges across which millions must safely cross every year, simply dismissed small inexplicable details which they could not explain, we would have structures collapsing all around us. They cannot afford the luxury of casual dismissal – and in my mind, neither can we when it comes to explaining our existence.’
He turns and points to the projection on the screen.
‘We evaluated this further and discovered that the pineal gland does respond to a force which cannot be measured based on pure mechanical energy. Our research, so far, suggests that there is a force, quite separate from the body, which coexists within or outside the body, a type of energy which tends to channel in the direction of the pineal gland. Call it the spirit,