Summary:
You are not an individual. You do not think. You function.
His town is perfect. A shining example of morality. The kind of place
you'd raise children in. The kind of place that breeds happy, productive
citizens.
He is an exemplary member of the community-goes to Church every Sunday,
always punctual and organized, never misses a day of work.
But to achieve perfection, sacrifices have to be made.
This is a world of mandatory mind control.
When one man is forced to confront the holes in his worldview head on,
what starts with skipping Church becomes a full-fledged battle for sanity.
Now they're coming for him, to put him back in his place, restore his
status as a sedated slave.
In this gripping and suspenseful psychological thrill-ride, you'll follow
the narrator's remarkable journey of awareness and self-discovery as
the world he once knew is torn apart around him.
If ignorance is bliss, then knowledge is torture.
The Perception Experiment is a poetic and imaginative work
of literature, a modern allegory of epic proportions that will leave
you emotionally shaken.
The Experiment has Begun
Praise:
"With The Perception Experiment, Jason Glover has created
a new genre: the sacrilegious hard-boiled Apocalyptic novel. Adept in
streaming literary magic, he's conjured a contemporary cinematic variation
on the Book of Revelation with words alone.
The Perception Experiment fiercely questions the function of
belief. 'Becoming Too Aware' is the protagonist's bad trip in an ironic
dystopia where pervasive, friendly-sinister theocratic repression provokes
his contention with Lucifer and God.
Paradoxically, it takes a devout artist to issue such a work.
The Perception Experiment is a lively philosophical, torrentially
poetic antidote to the 'Left Behind' books."
-Stephanie Mills,
author of Epicurean Simplicity and In Service of the Wild
"The Perception Experiment is a tantalizing Apocalyptic thriller.
An intimate first-person narrative, it is the story of an individual
discovering the extent of his indoctrination in an autocratic system
- a discovery that leads not just to liberation but madness as well.
The Perception Experiment fuses theology, psychology and mythology
in a mad spiraling post-modern deconstruction of totalitarian thought
and control. This intriguing book exposes much of what is kept hidden
by authority, government, churches. and maybe even yourself."
-Mike Darigan,
author of backpocket e-pistles