By (author) Jasun Horsley
A bold examination of artificial intelligence, consciousness, technology, and the human urge to return to the womb.
The thesis of Big Mother begins with the premise that our disembodiment as a species is being engineered, and that, at the same time, we are engineering it through technology. It proposes that the primary driving force of human civilization is the desire to create through technology a replica of the mother’s body—and then disappear into it.
Taking us into the uncanny valley where neurodiversity, linguistics, consciousness, technology, demonology, Rudolf Steiner, Philip K. Dick, Norman Bates, Ted Bundy, transgenderism, liquid modernity, identity politics, the surveillance state, virtual reality, transhumanism, Satanism, medical totalitarianism, and a new world religion of scientism collide, Big Mother explores the technologically-assembled and technocratically-imposed architecture of illusion in which the modern human being is increasingly lost inside, and points the way back to our original soul natures.
By (author) Jasun Horsley
Jasun Horsley is the author of several books, including the loose 'cultural engineering' trilogy Seen and Not Seen, Prisoner of Infinity and The Vice of Kings. He hosts a regular podcast, The Liminalist, at his website, Auticulture. He currently writes and keeps chickens in Galicia, Spain.
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Praise for Vice of Kings by Jasun Horsley (Aeon, 2019 - 9781911597049):
‘Anything Jasun Horsley writes compels me to an uncanny degree; the stakes feel enormous. He exemplifies a mind grappling to the very edge of itself and to the edge of collective human experience simultaneously. Language, in his hands, seems pressured into use as spacecraft into unknown territory.’
Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude
‘The Vice of Kings is a brave journey into a family’s heart of darkness by an intrepid prose artist. It is not just the painful and bizarre family affairs he uncovers, but the sexual crimes that the British aristocracy normalized as their peculiar privilege going back generations. It also happens to be meticulously researched and beautifully written.’
James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and the World Made By Hand series
Praise for Prisoner of Infinity by Jasun Horsley (Aeon, 2018 - 9781911597056):
‘Jasun Horsley is making a habit of writing books everyone should read. Prisoner of Infinity is an engrossing expedition into the murky frontiers of alien abductions, space exploration, New Age spirituality, cult worship, psi phenomena, near- death-experiences, channeling the dead... oh, and childhood trauma. Somehow Horsley emerges from his own close encounters with such terrors and seductions sufficiently intact to write an extraordinarily coherent and grounded guidebook for others who may be wandering along these frontiers or about to embark into them. You have to read this book to feel its power and to fully understand the depth of its voice, its call, and its challenge to every other soul in evaluating these alternate reality phenomena. Horsley takes readers on a personal journey they should not miss. I highly recommend this book.’
Gregory Desilet, author of Cult of the Kill: Traditional Metaphysics of Rhetoric, Truth, and Violence in a Postmodern World
‘Prisoner of Infinity is easily the most important study extant of social/mythological engineering/UFOs/Strieber’s continuum. No stranger to trauma, driven by relentless – yet empathetic – intelligence, Horsley strips out the massive, annoying nonsense that’s tainted these subjects since the heady days of Adamski, Bowert’s Operation Mind Control, the late Jim Keith’s more lucid material and Cannon’s The Controllers. An incredible and literally mind-blowing exploration.'
William Grabowski, contributing editor of Library Journal, and author of Black Light: Perspectives on Mysterious Phenomena
‘Possibly the most complex problem in the social sciences is what may be called the “micro-macro transition phase” – accounting theoretically for that mechanism by which individual psyches are made receptive to external waves, or outside suggestions, and turned into instruments for fashioning so-called “history”. Jasun Horsley’s Prisoner of Infinity is an erudite and trenchant testimony, which, by taking Whitley Strieber’s intriguing literary output as its point of departure, delves obstinately into the darker recesses of psychic spaces torn asunder by (child) abuse with a view to reveal the ulterior purposes of these practices. As the investigation proceeds, it unmasks the aesthetic cover-ups that have been created in pop iconography in order to smuggle a sinister contraband into conventional reality. A book such as this, which weaves seamlessly literary criticism, autobiographical reminiscence, a reinterpretation of pop counter-culture, and a personal mapping of esotericism’s strange maze, represents indeed an important advance in unlocking the mysteries of the “micro-macro transition phase”.’
Guido Giacomo Preparata, author of The Ideology of Tyranny and Conjuring Hitler
"Anything Jasun Horsley writes compels me to an uncanny degree; the stakes feel enormous. He exemplifies a mind grappling to the very edge of itself and to the edge of collective human experxience simultaneously. Language, in his hands, seems pressured into use as spacecraft into unknown territory."
Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude
"Jasun Horsley is making a habit of writing books everyone should read. Somehow Horsley emerges from his own close encounters with such terrors and seductions sufficiently intact to write an extraordinarily coherent and grounded guidebook for others who may be wandering along these frontiers or about to embark into them. Horsley takes readers on a personal journey they should not miss."
Gregory Desilet, author of Cult of the Kill: Traditional Metaphysics of Rhetoric, Truth, and Violence in a Postmodern World
"Anything Jasun Horsley writes compels me to an uncanny degree; the stakes feel enormous. He exemplifies a mind grappling to the very edge of itself and to the edge of collective human experxience simultaneously. Language, in his hands, seems pressured into use as spacecraft into unknown territory."
"Jasun Horsley is making a habit of writing books everyone should read. Somehow Horsley emerges from his own close encounters with such terrors and seductions sufficiently intact to write an extraordinarily coherent and grounded guidebook for others who may be wandering along these frontiers or about to embark into them. Horsley takes readers on a personal journey they should not miss."
