Well, I think the general conclusion is that DeSouza is probably sincere but he has a mishmash of information. Some of it may be gleaned from top-secret human sources, from some new age types who channel in some way, from his own collecting of data and studying cases and trying to apply FBI methods to them, and what have you.
One question I have about it, however, is: Is DeSouza deliberately mixing all of this stuff together so as to disguise an attempt to convey some really important information to his readers? Has he buried some gems in a bucket of mud?
It's obvious that he talks about things that were never talked about in a certain way until the Cs said them. But I don't think he's read the Cs. If he had, he would have, likely, distinguished between aural reading and soul imprints.
I think that about sums it up, but I think there's a small chance he's familiar with
The Wave. If we do go so far as to entertain the 'deliberately mixing stuff together hypothesis', and we bear in mind that Fulcanelli left out Auch from
Les Mystere, then him leaving the C's/
The Wave out might make some kind of sense.
On his burying of gems, I'm about 70/30 that he's just managed to compile so many different, often conflicting or contradictory ideas gleaned from years of reading from a wide variety of sources, and it just happens that a certain percentage of them are on the money.
I was trying to think of what would be a good way to phrase a question to the C's that would sum up all of the above, and I thought something along the lines of:
"Does DeSouza really think or believe everything that he wrote in the book?", or something along those lines.
At the end of the book, I found myself asking one main question: why did he write it?
When I watch him in interviews, I don't dislike the guy at all. He doesn't come across as a crook. It'd probably be pleasant to spend an evening with him and talk about all things paranormal. But I think he likes attention, likes the spotlight.
So, the fact that the book doesn't really seem to convey any sort of coherent narrative structure, no specific identification and investigation of a well-defined problem followed by some well-thought-out ideas for solutions to the problem, but rather, serves up an imbrogliio of loosely connected paranormal and extradimensional tales that pique the interests of every sort of person who is interested in ideas of the strange and fascinating, then I personally think that, while he's genuinely fascinated himself by every topic he talks about, what he's most motivated by is becoming famous.
I'd love to be wrong about that, but it's the way I'm leaning at moment.