Those who would most appreciate the range and depth of information presented in this book should have a working knowledge of "unexplainable" phenomena and an understanding that the vast majority of simplistic explanations are inadequate. Something manipulates human consciousness routinely, and that something is known only to a small group of souls. Joan d'Arc has been looking into the dark corners of ufology, conspiracies, mysticism, psychic phenomena, and things that go "bump-in-the-night" for two decades. This remarkable book seems to be a comparative overview of virtually everything that has a bearing on how reality is perceived. It covers every occult, Gnostic, psychic, drug-induced, and physics-related view of reality available. All of these areas, according to Joan, have a common denominator: they are forms of mind control. Just as the present reviewer was, some years ago d'Arc was "warned" by mainstream ufologists to stay inside the accepted boundaries of the field: she should accept that UFOs are alien technology visiting earth and promote that view. But d'Arc found that the limits that the "extraterrestrial visitation theory" created excluded a lot of genuine evidence. Rather than ignore that evidence, as most investigators of such phenomena do, she decided to follow it to its source. She writes: "The phenomenal world is truly a remarkable place, and even more so if we attempt to see it without the prejudices and practicalities we have learned to impose upon it. ... What is our relationship with everything we see, as well as everything we don't see? Phenomenal World attempts to answer these questions from the point of view of strange 'unexplainable' phenomena, and how these events may be explainable if we look at them from 'over there.'" This book encompasses the present reviewer's own geomagnetic and electromagnetic theories of phenomena, but goes oh-so-much further in examining the multitude of others' thought. This is the kind of book many writers would like to write because it encompasses such a broad range. And it does what she promises: it looks at the world from "over there." Those who would most appreciate the range and depth of information presented in this book should have a working knowledge of "unexplainable" phenomena and an understanding that the vast majority of simplistic explanations are inadequate. Something manipulates human consciousness routinely, and that something is known only to a small group of souls. Thus, after reading this book, you will probably do one of three things. 1) You may decide to just accept the simplistic solutions offered up to us in simple-minded books only because the alternatives are too disturbing to contemplate. 2) You may decide that the view of reality imposed on us by others is wrong and seek to find your own way out of this "reality cover." 3) You may find the "Grail" of "true truth."