The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible
by John Geiger
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Author: John GeigerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-01
ISBN: 1602861072
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Weinstein Books
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Book Review: "THE THIRD MAN IS AN INSTRUMENT OF HOPE... THE BELIEF THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE"
Summary: 5 Stars
This story will keep the interest of people who believe in a religious presence in their life... and it will just as strongly mesmerize people who don't. The "THIRD-MAN" is a term that was given to the phenomena that has been reported many... many... times by people from all walks of life... not only all around the world... but from above the earth as well... when they were "assisted" during a tumultuous event... that could have ended their lives. All of these people... that included... mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, solo sailors, shipwreck survivors, aviators... and even astronauts... admitted having a mysterious... yet calming... "presence"... either appear in a form they could actually see and talk to... or... that they just felt that someone was either leading them... or following behind them... when their life was on the line. Throughout the telling of these phenomenal stories... the author provides documented medical and historical evidence... that at times verifies that there really is a "THIRD MAN"... and at other times... neurologists attempt to explain it away... based on criteria such as thin air... or hallucinations. Every reader probably knows... that scientists admit... that they still don't know what a large part of the brain is capable of... and why it does what it does.
It takes a lot of courage for these famous people to openly write in books about their "THIRD-MAN" experiences... and they have been doing this for over one-hundred years. For the sake of any potential readers who might make a decision not to read this book because they're not interested in that thin line of "FAITH-AND-BELIEF"... I would like to wholeheartedly recommend you read this... even putting that subject aside... simply because of how utterly... utterly... fascinating the detailed stories of human survival... depicted in places such as the south polar island of South Georgia... or on Mount Everest... or deep under the sea... or in the middle of the ocean in giant storms... where a sailor is just too beaten down by the elements to even get off the floor... and yet somehow the boat steers itself through.
There is one story that involves Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men attempting to cross the south polar island of South Georgia... during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-16... that will grip you in such a way... that you will never look at the ability of a human being to survive... in the same way again. I will be shocked if you don't find yourself grunting... groaning... or moaning... as these poor men are stripped bare by the harshest elements on this planet. In a much more current and well known event... 9/11... Ron DiFrancesco... the last living survivor to make it out of the towers... tells how... when he was ready to give up... laying face down on the floor... overcome by smoke and gasping for air... "THEN, SOMETHING REMARKABLE HAPPENED: SOMEONE TOLD ME TO GET UP. SOMEONE, HE SAID, CALLED ME. THE VOICE-WHICH WAS MALE, BUT DID NOT BELONG TO ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE STAIRWELL-WAS INSISTENT: GET UP! IT ADDRESSED DiFRANCESCO BY HIS FIRST NAME, AND GAVE HIM ENCOURAGEMENT. IT WAS, HEY! YOU CAN DO THIS. BUT IT WAS MORE THAN A VOICE; THERE WAS ALSO A VIVID SENSE OF A PHYSICAL PRESENCE."
This book will not... cannot... give the final answer to the question that all mankind has always been looking for. "As the climber Greg Child said, solving the mystery of the "THIRD-MAN" is like a detective stalking the invisible man: there is no fingerprint, no solid evidence at all. The clues lie deep within us." And finally... and poignantly... "Paul Firth, the physician and climber who was joined by a "THIRD-MAN" on Aconcagua, argues that even if we accept prevailing neurological explanations for the "THIRD-MAN", a mystery endures:
**"A BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION DOES NOT PRECLUDE A BENIGN METAPHYSICAL ORIGIN-AN EXPLANATION OF "HOW" DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION OF "WHY".
Summary of The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible
The Third Man Factor is an extraordinary account of how people at the very edge of death experience the sense of an unseen presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. This incorporeal being offered them a feeling of hope, protection, and guidance, and left the person convinced he or she was not alone. There is a name for this phenomenon: It's called the Third Man Factor.If only a handful of people had ever encountered the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an unusual delusion shared by a few overstressed minds. But over the years, the experience has occurred again and again, to 9/11 survivors, mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, sailors, shipwreck survivors, aviators, and astronauts. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having sensed the close presence of a helper or guardian. The force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention. Recent neurological research suggests something else.
Bestselling and award-winning author John Geiger has completed six years of physiological, psychological, and historical research on The Third Man. He blends his analysis with compelling human stories such as Ron diFrancesco, the last survivor out of the World Trade Center on 9/11; Ernest Shackleton, the legendary explorer whose account of the Third Man inspired T.S. Eliot to write of it in The Wasteland; Jerry Linenger, a NASA astronaut who experienced The Third Man while aboard the Mir space station-and many more.
Fascinating for any reader, The Third Man Factor at last explains this secret to survival, a Third Man who-in the words of famed climber Reinhold Messner-"leads you out of the impossible."
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