I read up to halfway. When one of the guys disappeared.
I did not find any of the “conspiracies” interesting due to their vagueness.
The way the book-press scam worked was a bit depressing as well.
The real Foucault’s Pendulum had a large impact on society.
People could see with their own eyes how the earth was rotating.
Even without the mathematics.
People were smart enough at that time.
Related to “currents”
The Nazis worked with occult powers in several ways.
And they seemed to use it to influence people.
And this is related to energy lines, which are also places where churches and temples are built.
There are various types of lines, which is confusing.
I can perceive these energy lines for myself, and more such stuff.
Many of these lines are astral spaces, which work like a pathway for spirits.
Spirits are bits from a layer of consciousness.
And groups of spirits can influence people enormously. It is like many thoughts against one.
That is how churches or temples are able to brainwash people.
(And universities)
The astral space is like the traumatic remaining of a person’s life.
In the far past, deadly rituals were used to create these astral spaces.
This includes mass suicides combined with a prayer ritual.
The unchanging state of the astral space makes it seem holy.
Like an eternal prayer.
The consciousness of the spirits that are in the space give it its strength.
Other rituals used fear and terror.
These states of consciousness remain in the astral space.
So no wonder it was often used to manipulate the masses.
By almost every totalitarian system.
I think that the power of certain beliefs, like flat earth,
get their strength and irrationality from such astral spaces.
With addictive drugs, one can also encounter astral spaces in a different way.
The spirits will try to get you back. Without a living person, the astral space “is just dead”.
It brings me back to the book.
The book tries to capture the irrationality by playing with it.
But that is in sharp contrast with my own goal of getting things clear.