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Third Man Factor: The Secret to Survival in Extreme Environments (edition 2009)

by John Geiger

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Explores the human capacity to survive extreme conditions, noting a phenomenon in which people in life-endangering circumstances often sense an unseen presence who offers encouragement and guidance.
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Title:Third Man Factor: The Secret to Survival in Extreme Environments
Authors:John Geiger
Info:Viking Canada (2009), Edition: 10th Edition, Paperback, 288 pages
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
British research Anthony Peake wrote a book called The Daemon a guide to your extraordinary secret self. That book is based on science, quantum physics and neurology. Peake shows using the research of Roger Sperry that we consist of two selves which he dubbed the Eidolon and the Daemon. The eidolon is your everyday self the Daemon is your higher self. Peake uses the analogy of a video game the avatar is your eidolon and the game player is the Daemon. The Daemon knows the future because you have lived the same life many times before. Geiger's book gives up real-life examples of Peake's Daemon in action. Check out the split-brain research of Dr Robert Sperry it corroborates the information in both books: ( )
  Arten60 | Oct 8, 2018 |
How people on the verge of death sense an unseen presence ( )
  JackSweeney | Jan 9, 2017 |
Extraordinary premise. ( )
  ShelleyAlberta | Jun 4, 2016 |
Fascinating account of survival in extreme conditions where an additional presence giving advice and comfort has been sensed - giving rise to stories of Guardian Angels. Some of the stories are traumatic, the story of the horrors endured by the second world war sailors stuck on a life raft is particularly grim. The book also explores possible scientific, as well as mystical and religious, explanations for the phenomenon. What is great about this book is that Geiger presents the evidence, but does not draw definitive conclusions, allowing the reader to make up their own mind. ( )
  riverwillow | Apr 25, 2010 |
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Ultimately, he rejects neurological explanations just as he does theological ones. He prefers the line taken by the poet and ­Everest ­mountaineer Wilfred Noyce, who argued that the third man is a kind of internal SOS system; not an angel but an “angel switch”, a “secret and astonishing capacity of mind” that offers “a real power for survival”.
 
Geiger isn't a bad writer by any means – he's won awards, in fact, and has been publicly bigged up by none other than William S Burroughs – but sadly the structure he's chosen for this book means he's constantly fighting a losing battle. After all, even Burroughs himself would struggle to tell the same story a hundred times over and keep it sounding fresh.
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Who is the third who walks aways beside you?

When I count, there are only you and I together

But when I look ahead up the white road

There is always another one walking beside you

Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded

I do not know whether or man or a woman

- but who is that on the other side of you?

TS Eliot 'The Waste Land'
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For James Sutherland Angus Geiger June 15-21, 2007
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Ron diFrancesco was at his desk at Euro Brokers, a financial trading firm, on the eighty-fourth floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York when the plane struck the north tower opposite him.
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Canongate Books

2 editions of this book were published by Canongate Books.

Editions: 1847674194, 1847674208

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