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Inside this Book – One of the hardest parts of being a Navy SEAL 1 isn’t knowing when to shoot; it’s knowing when not to shoot. And we know why. If you put a dozen guys in a dark room and arm them with automatic weapons, somebody’s going to blink. Or twitch. Then it’s game on. That’s what made capturing Al-Wazu 2 such a challenge: more than anything else, the SEALs needed him alive. It was late September 2004, at a forward operating base in the northeastern corner of Afghanistan. A couple of dozen members of the elite SEAL Team Six, or, in their preferred parlance, DEVGRU, were stationed there, gathering intelligence and staging missions. Some six months prior, a radio operator had noticed a spike in Wazu chatter. Perhaps he was hiding in the woods to the south of them. Possibly he was in the mountains to the north. Then the rumors turned into facts. Wazu actually was in the woods and the mountains, holed up in an alpine forest some seventy miles west of their current position. For the SEALs, this wasn’t good news. The terrain to the west was high desert—lonely, barren, and rough. Not enough cover for a stealth mission. Under these conditions, there was no way to get in without a firefight; no guarantee they could capture Wazu alive. Though he was once a midlevel player, Al-Wazu’s notoriety had skyrocketed after he’d pulled off a feat no other Al-Qaeda operative had accomplished: an escape from an American detention center. This single act elevated him to the upper echelons of the organization, earning him a band of committed followers and that ultimate jihadi honor: a personal letter of commendation from Osama bin Laden.
Inside this book –Stealing Fire PDF Book by Steven Kotler – In the Middle Ages, priests routinely complained that their congregants nodded off in church. Still, despite the stuffy pews and unintelligible sermons, parishioners made sure they were awake for the most interesting part of the service: the miraculous transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. At that exact moment, the priest would utter a powerful incantation, what sounded like “hocus pocus,” and the magic would be done. Except, as Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson later noted, 1 “in all probability . . . hocus pocus is nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus (“this is the body”), [a] ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church.” Without the ability to understand Latin, the peasants had garbled the translation, providing would-be magicians with a catchphrase for centuries to come. But in 1439, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, giving the faithful the chance to read the Bible in their own language. Rather than deferring to the clergy, laypeople could suddenly debate and interpret scriptures and draw their own conclusions. This broke the church’s hold on Renaissance Europe and paved the way for reformations and revolutions. Something similar is happening today. Thanks to accelerating developments in four fields—psychology, neurobiology, pharmacology, and technology; call them the “Four Forces of Ecstasis”—we’re getting greater access to and understanding of nonordinary states of consciousness. These forces give us the chance to study, debate, reject, and revise long-standing beliefs of our own. We’re becoming more precise in our translations, learning to rely less on hocus-pocus and superstition, and more on science and experience.
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- Full Book Name – Stealing Fire
- Author of this Book – Steven Kotler
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