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TT5 – The Messiah Matrix, with author Ken Atchity

 



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A thriller of Biblical proportions from The Story Merchant
Ken Atchity joins us once more to discuss his new novel, The Messiah Matrix,
how it was published, and prospects for this and other novels with
Hollywood potential. More than modern thriller (which it definitely is),
The Messiah Matrix is a thought-provoking, original examination of the origins and evolution of modern Christianity.

From the website:

The Messiah Matrix is a contemporary thriller
that takes the reader on an exhilarating quest from the ancient city of
Caesarea to Rome’s catacombs and beyond, and provides gripping
confirmation for all those who have ever wondered about the actual
historical existence of the “Christian Savior”.

The Messiah Matrix may prove to be the most
thought-provoking thriller ever written. Classical scholar and Yale
Ph.D. Dr. Kenneth John Atchity is the only author alive today capable of
creating this literary and historically-based masterpiece.

Dr. Fuddle's Tree Lighting Festivities

ALL ARE INVITED
TO JOIN THE FESTIVITIES!




SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Musical
Performance from 12-9




LIGHT
THE HOLIDAY TREE AT 9 PM

WITH
DR. FUDDLE AND GOLD BATONS!













Dr. Warren
Woodruff, author of Dr. Fuddle and the Gold Baton

Will be signing
books all day in Dr. Fuddle’s Holiday Booth

$25 Hardback
Collector’s Edition/$15 Soft Cover




HOPE
TO SEE YOU THERE!

Join Me At Women In Film Malibu Breakfast November 9th !

WIF
Networking Events






WIF Malibu
Breakfast with Dr. Ken Atchity, Ph.D.

Friday, November 9th

8:00 - 10:00 am

Malibu Chart House Restaurant

18412 Pacific Coast Hwy

Malibu, CA 90265



Ken
Atchity is
a "story merchant," writer, producer, career coach, teacher, and
literary manager, responsible for launching hundreds of books and dozens of
films.  Event details: CLICK HERE

















In This Issue




WIF Fall Membership Drive




WIF Board Election 2013: Vote today!




WIF Member News




WIF Networking Events: Speaker Series, Breakfast
Series, and Master Class




WIF Group Meetings




WIF Halloween Happy Hour




WIF AFI FEST 2012 Host Film: SUN DON'T SHINE




WIFI and Awareness Film Festival Present: MARGARITA




WIF PSA Production Program Meeting




WIFI Monthly Meeting




WIFTI Summit 2012




WIF Resources Page




Member Discounts




Join WIF on the Web










Dear Candace,




This
Fall is a great time to become a WIF Member!  Our Autumn Membership
Drive is now through November 15th, so spread the word!  2013 WIF
Board Election time is here, so don't forget to vote using the link
below.  We've got some exciting events next month as we welcome Ken
Atchity and WIF Board Member Madelyn Hammond at our Breakfast Series and
Lindsay Doran at our evening Speaker Series.  Michele Gendelman also
joins us at LA Film School as we break down the "Anatomy of a
Pitch."  We're proud to present our 2012 host film at AFI and WIF
International presents at Awareness Film Festival.  It's almost
Halloween, so don't forget to stop by for networking (and candy) at next
Monday's Happy Hour.  We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming
event!




Warm regards,

Women
In Film












WIF Fall Membership Drive






October
15th - November 15th



Join WIF and become a part of a dynamic organization that is dedicated to
empowering, promoting, and mentoring women in the entertainment,
communication and media industries.

Free Master Classes, WIF Goal Support Group,
Writers Groups, and Actors Groups
Free Screenings
Discounts on Networking Breakfasts and Speaker
Series
WIF discounts on community film expos and forums
Join our PSA Production Program and WIF
International Committee
List your name and job skills in WIF's Membership
Directory and Career Lounge


For more details and
an application, visit wif.org/join!

Stephen Gyllenhaal's Grassroots heads to the 9th Annual Bahamas International Film Festival - December 6 - 9, 2012

http://bintlfilmfest.com/the_festival/film_description/424
































Credits

Director

Stephen Gyllenhaal

Screenwriter

Justin Rhodes

Producers

Peggy Rajski, Michael Huffington, Matthew Brady, Brent Stiefel, Jane Charles, Gary Allen Tucci, Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal

Principal Cast

Jason Biggs, Joel David Moore, Cedric the Entertainer, Cobie Smulders

Language

English

Check out Story Merchant Client Wendy Eckel's Book Trailer - The Rosalie Hart Series

Killer on the Wall by Wendy Eckel from Sugar Farm Productions on Vimeo.

Front Entrance of the Barnes and Noble Store in Fort Worth

Larry D. Thompson's Dead Peasants 

GEORGETOWN CAMPAIGN DINNER AT BEVERLY WILSHIRE

Join Me At the Women In Film Malibu Breakfast November 9th !

WIF
Networking Events






WIF Malibu
Breakfast with Dr. Ken Atchity, Ph.D.

Friday, November 9th

8:00 - 10:00 am

Malibu Chart House Restaurant

18412 Pacific Coast Hwy

Malibu, CA 90265



Ken
Atchity is
a "story merchant," writer, producer, career coach, teacher, and
literary manager, responsible for launching hundreds of books and dozens of
films.  Event details: CLICK HERE

















In This Issue




WIF Fall Membership Drive




WIF Board Election 2013: Vote today!




WIF Member News




WIF Networking Events: Speaker Series, Breakfast
Series, and Master Class




WIF Group Meetings




WIF Halloween Happy Hour




WIF AFI FEST 2012 Host Film: SUN DON'T SHINE




WIFI and Awareness Film Festival Present: MARGARITA




WIF PSA Production Program Meeting




WIFI Monthly Meeting




WIFTI Summit 2012




WIF Resources Page




Member Discounts




Join WIF on the Web










Dear Candace,




This
Fall is a great time to become a WIF Member!  Our Autumn Membership
Drive is now through November 15th, so spread the word!  2013 WIF
Board Election time is here, so don't forget to vote using the link
below.  We've got some exciting events next month as we welcome Ken
Atchity and WIF Board Member Madelyn Hammond at our Breakfast Series and
Lindsay Doran at our evening Speaker Series.  Michele Gendelman also
joins us at LA Film School as we break down the "Anatomy of a
Pitch."  We're proud to present our 2012 host film at AFI and WIF
International presents at Awareness Film Festival.  It's almost
Halloween, so don't forget to stop by for networking (and candy) at next
Monday's Happy Hour.  We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming
event!




Warm regards,

Women
In Film












WIF Fall Membership Drive






October
15th - November 15th



Join WIF and become a part of a dynamic organization that is dedicated to
empowering, promoting, and mentoring women in the entertainment,
communication and media industries.

Free Master Classes, WIF Goal Support Group,
Writers Groups, and Actors Groups
Free Screenings
Discounts on Networking Breakfasts and Speaker
Series
WIF discounts on community film expos and forums
Join our PSA Production Program and WIF
International Committee
List your name and job skills in WIF's Membership
Directory and Career Lounge


For more details and
an application, visit wif.org/join!

Booklist Review Story Merchant Client Larry D. Thompson's Dead Peasants

Dead Peasants. Thompson, Larry D. (Author) Oct 2012. 304 p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, hardcover, $25.99. (9781250009494).



Jack Bryant is an übersuccessful lawyer who decides to retire after winning a huge wrongful-death case. Jack moves back home to Fort Worth where he can spend more time with his college-football-playing son. But he’s really too young to be retired, so he sets up an old RV in a bad part of town, offering free legal help to whoever needs it, and stumbles upon one of the biggest cases in his career. June Davis, widow, accidentally discovers that her husband’s former employer had a very large life-insurance policy, a “dead peasant” policy, on her husband, which made the employer the beneficiary. A string of seemingly unrelated accidental deaths are paying off handsomely for the financially strapped business. There isn’t much to the mystery that most readers won’t figure out in a hurry, but legal-fiction fans will still appreciate the courtroom scenes. The pacing is fast, the characters well developed, and the lawyer is likable. Grisham aficionados should be delighted with Thompson. — Stacy Alesi

BLOGGING ON THE HUFFINTON POST

Good News From the "Omega Point" 





Has there ever been a more exciting time to be alive than today? With all the bad news that admittedly dominates the airwaves, our time is characterized by nearly hourly breakthroughs in the sciences and steady progress in outgrowing the ravages of organized religion like the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Libya and Egypt. As a former communications engineer for AT&T and professor of communications, to me the breakthroughs in communications are especially hopeful -- from Pinterest to Square, from GPS to Blu-ray, human beings are more in touch than ever previously imagined. Well, not quite.

In the 1930s a precocious Jesuit scholar Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in his The Phenomenon of Man, imagined and predicted the very world I believe we are now rapidly approaching -- the point in human evolution he called "the Omega Point."



Teilhard's basic premise is that evolution is all about the development and perfection of the nervous system toward maximum consciousness, as creation on earth moved from simple one-celled organisms to the stunning complexity of the human body.

The Omega Point, the end-point of this evolution of consciousness, was foreshadowed in the nineteenth century by the invention of telegraph and radio -- just when our need for information exceeded our internal capacity to extend our sensory collectors. We simply had to reach out. In terms of the human nervous system and its insatiable need to collect and process exterior information, these inventions allowed us for the first time effectively to communicate through time and space -- dramatically externalizing the internal nervous system. Years before its actual appearance, Teilhard predicted television, by which images as well as sounds and writing could be shared through space and time -- what Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy intimated in the visibile parlare, "visible speech," of the bas-reliefs on the walls of Purgatory.

At the Omega Point, Teilhard theorized, human beings, rising toward the consciousness that guides the universe itself, would be omniscient, ubiquitous, and eventually all-powerful -- the characteristics, not so coincidentally, ascribed by earlier Catholic theologians to God. Of course the ever-conservative Catholic Church took issue with the direction of Teilhard's thinking and placed his book on the index of forbidden books -- as though they'd forgotten that Genesis clearly proclaims that man and woman were created in "His image and likeness."

If we were created in the image of God (aka the consciousness behind the universe), why wouldn't we evolve toward being godlike? Isn't that the whole point of spiritual aspiration, as witnessed by the great mystics of Christian tradition from St. Thérèse of Lisieux to John of the Cross?

On a daily basis, when you're in danger of being brought down by all the crises and bad news, remember that we are fortunate enough to be experiencing the Omega Point all around us -- that time in human evolution when our consciousness as humanity becomes what Teilhard called "autonomous," or free from the limitations of space ("nonlocality") and time ("atemporality"). Most significantly, as we evolve in this direction we evolve beyond our restricted individual consciousness to a super-consciousness, in which the human species become a kind of "super person" transcending the individual persons it's comprised of. With any luck, that super person that is humanity will express -- and continue to strive for -- our higher values rather than our more demonic ones.