Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll — and Mind Control

The original plan was simply to concoct a bestseller about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, leaning heavily on the profound and magical impact of rock 'n' roll.

However, the imagination can be a weird and crazy clown-car (mine, anyway) driving itself. While researching my novel-to-be, I became obsessed with the mind control experiments performed back in the day – from the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency to Harvard psychologists, gurus, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, and so many followers and seekers and fans and journalists, etc. I also began to ask myself connected questions about all the great artists who died too young, and wondered about the paranormal experiences so many claimed to be having back then.

What is the reality of telepathy, remote viewing, telekinesis, faith healing, mysterious teachers, and astral projection? There were too many stories about that kind of thing to simply disregard and reject.

But it also seemed clear to me that all of that fantastic and lunatic fringe happenstance could only be real (if it was real) in hazy, vague, and unpredictable ways that were unverifiable precisely because they were so hazy, vague, and unpredictable.

All the while I kept coming back to the idea that we don't know enough about the power of music and the simple physics of sound, and if we did, we might find ourselves closer to answers to all of those questions swirling around back then.

Sound Effect Infinity required years to properly lock down on paper. There are a lot of moving parts in the book, but I finally got things the way I wanted them.

It's 2052 and the United States of America is still here only it's not exactly a united states of anything. Magical thinking and conspiracy theories are legitimized everywhere in the Middle Lands, but those very cockamamie ideas may well pry loose some essential secrets that have been protected for decades.

Thanks for reading.