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Imagination, satire, gravity, absurdity, anger, humor, paradox: these are reflected through my characters struggling to come to terms with themselves in a world of challenges and compromises. In essence, my literary efforts are investigations into the human capacity to become heroic through the falls, deaths and resurrections necessary for ever-expanding consciousness. In my book Life, Myth and the American Family Unreeling I analyze how the embedded archetypes of this journey are structured dramatically in the finest American movies of the 20^th century about family. Likewise in my political thriller, Gentlemen of Decision, we see the crisis and change of a highly connected corporate leader when confronting the crimes of his own plutocracy. The issues of economic, cultural and ideological roadblocks to individual and collective salvation figure as strongly, if divergently, in the collected stories of The Magic Word and Other Stories from before the Millennium. Whether fable, street theater, or therapy session, the emphasis on saving this paradise Earth in these stories, like in Gentlemen of Decision, can only occur through a transformation of consciousness that enlists our active engagement in countervailing the low and ignoble forces of destruction perpetrated by humankind. Those low and ignoble forces are very much the centerpiece of Keeper of the Planet where the Earth in various creative manifestations rises up to defend itself against those whose inability to transform consciousness threatens life itself. And now in MEDIAEVIL I’ve taken culpability one step further in a found manuscript wherein authorial fiction and nonfiction collide in revealing the diving desires of those at an elite university to disempower the compulsions accelerating humankind toward a Dark Ages redux.

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