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March 21, 2016
The Creation of Gaia’s Majesty – 1
Gaia’s Majesty: Discover – An Unbearable Choice
(Book 1 of the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy)
Fiction and Empowerment
Do you find purpose in your reading or writing?
Finding Answers
At some point I began to question why I was writing this story. The answers did not present themselves, at least in a unitary or ordered fashion. Of course, it really isn’t necessary to question why we write fiction or, for that matter, why we read fiction. It’s fiction and we enjoy it.
But...
March 16, 2016
A World in Crisis
Personal Versus Collective Future
What do you anticipate?
Is It Hope Or Is It Fear?
Call it interregnum. Call it denouement. Without question humankind is at a set of crisis crossroads. The Middle East is simply one indication. It looks very much like Europe at the dawn of World War I. And we know where that went for the following decades.
I doubt you need a catalogue of all of the crisis points, from China hanging on the edge of chaos, to our own political menagerie fumbling toward failur...
March 14, 2016
Opening Our View of Our Future
Being Humble and Hopeful
What do you think your future holds?
Most animals forage for food and the human animal seems to forage for dreams. It is probably more than a little pompous for us to say we have our dreams because of our higher intelligence.
For the longest time we declared that we were the only animals to use tools. Then we found out differently. And there are night dreams and there are dreams we harbor. Have you ever watched your dog dreaming as he sleeps. We have to wonder what...
March 9, 2016
Inner Life and Dreams
Where does fiction lead you?
Life Transitions
Generally we don’t question our relationship to reality. So long as things are going well, we are best engaged in other pursuits. Of course, when we find ourselves in a life transition, we may decide what we saw as reality is open to interpretation. We tend to explore ourselves at times such as when we embark on adulthood, experience a love relationship or enter middle age. We seem to have no trouble with exploration when we are deep in fiction...
March 7, 2016
Seeking Clarity in the Fog
From the Cusp of Reality Humankind Explores Its Future
When you see “neo” attached to a word, what does that suggest to you?
Entwining the Political and the Economic
For a very long time we thought we knew what each political party stood for and families often passed down dedication to a particular party from generation to generation. Below is information on neoliberalism and neoconservatism. I think I got it wrong. Neo seems to simply mean that it is a new form of something and in this inst...
March 2, 2016
The Promise of Interregnum
From the Cusp of Reality Humankind Explores Its Future
Into the Future
Can you see the way forward?
Some of the next few posts are a departure but are related to the essence of the blog (cusp of reality) but also the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy. This is not a time of clear stability, to put it mildly, and one of the underpinnings of the Trilogy is that we are shortly to embark upon a very new era. This perception has led me to do broader explorations. And what I found is fascinating.
It would be...
February 29, 2016
Regarding the Cusp of Reality
From the Cusp of Reality Humankind Explores Its Future
What do you explore in your life?
The Blog
Humankind does not simply exist on earth. We may in time cease to exist as a species or we may continue to evolve as we have in the past. Our time on Earth is a voyage of exploration and it seems valid to believe that we may face not just future crises but also substantive remarkable changes.
This blog is a thought document given to guide our exploration of where we individually and humankind ma...
February 24, 2016
A Tragic Waste
From the Cusp of Reality Humankind Explores Its Future
What’s on your list of wrongs perpetrated against women?
Pervasive Efforts
A recent post presented the concept of the mysterium tremendum which relates to that which grips or stirs the soul. It is of interest because it is my belief that this sort of effect of women on men may well relate to the pervasive and eternal efforts by men to keep women from empowerment.
Daily we continue to see evidence of these efforts. Recently I turn...
February 22, 2016
Struggle Eternal
From the Cusp of Reality Humankind Explores Its Future
Do you view yourself as struggling?
Many Forms of Struggle
There are so many things to explore in life. Of course we go looking for things like friends and a mate. We hope for success and seek joy and happiness. What we often seem to miss is the basic fact that life, in one form or another, is a struggle.
Of course the struggle is not just a personal one. We struggle as groups, as countries. And our literature is full of struggle. Romance...
February 17, 2016
Meaning in the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy
Are you in search of meaning?
Finding Out Why We Write
Probably I’m not the only one who begins writing not knowing exactly why I am writing. We find the creative process appealing but determine that there is inspiration and discovery.
The question of genre keeps coming up. When I have to choose a genre at publication speculative fiction often doesn’t seem to be an option. But, I prefer that term over fantasy. The word speculative describes the process for me. I find as I go along that I a...
