The Ancient Book of Magic Secrets is finally available. It took long enough.
It’s available in hardcover or paperback here. I know, Amazon is an insidious and capricious corporate entity. They’re also the most convenient platform to publish on. Or atleast the only one I could manage.
So anyways, there it is. It’s about being human, or atleast about how we have been human. Sometimes comically, sometimes tragically we have been progressing along these many thousands of years, improving our quality of life as we go.
We evolve faster than any other life form on this planet, socially atleast. Just a few thousand years ago we were hunter/gatherers. All of us. There were no cities and there were no villages because we hadn’t built them yet. We were traipsing around through the landscape hunting and gathering. We would camp out wherever the most propitious place was for hunting and gathering, then we would hunt and gather until the hunting and gathering wasn’t good anymore, then we would break camp and move on. This is how we lived for uncountable generations. Through all those millennia we were always tried to make it better - new tools, new ideas. It was our distinguishing trait.
We progressed so fast that we arrived at modern life in breakneck speed. The sharks hardly evolved at all. Same with the turtles, pretty much. But us humans, we’ve remodeled the entire planet to suit our needs. Our supposed needs I should say since 95.6% of the stuff we buy is not needed. It’s just to prime the economy.
Did I mention prime? Yes, you can get your copy of The Ancient Book of Magic Secrets delivered in two days if you have prime. It’s so convenient.
Right, so here I am making fun of the same economic system that I’m using to publish my book. If Amazon didn’t make a profit then the link provided above wouldn’t work and I would be sitting in my office with a bunch of words on my computer and no book.
I want a book. Human beings want so much. That’s also what it’s about - wanting. What are our essential wants? To speak? We did that. To create? We’re definitely good at that. To be happy and live sustainably on our planet? Nah, couldn’t be that.
The book doesn’t provide answers, it tries to ask questions. The questions that human beings might have asked themselves on those long cold nights around the campfire looking up at the stars with all their might and listening to the stories that the old ones told in a long lilting tale. This book contains many stories. You can pretend you’re sitting around the campfire while you read it.
Pick up a copy, write a review, help me promote it. This is the soft opening. I need to collect reviews in order to entice prospective readers. Later I’ll publish an ebook and also a paperback and hardcover on Ingramspark, another platform that has a huge marketing network with bookstores. Amazon doesn’t. Because bookstores hate Amazon. Because of Amazon’s predatory marketing policies. That’s another story, but I want to create a presence for this book and that’s why I need reviews. It’s ok if you lie a little. Everybody does.
From the preface:
Humans have lived on this planet for three million years, according to the paleontologists. They were our ancestors, that's where we came from. Talk about a family tree.
Homo sapiens, the species that we belong to, has been around for 300,000 years. We branched off.
In just the last six or eight thousand years, we have come up with civilization, the lifestyle that we all practice now — virtually all of us; there might be a few hunters and gatherers out there somewhere in some remote corner of the world.
Our species is venerable and ancient. We hold the wisdom of ages. We have distilled it and stored it in our cultures, we have recorded it in our poetry and our scriptures, our songs and our dances.
All this wisdom — and yet we have taken such an aggressive attitude towards nature, towards our home planet. Looting the resources and having wars. Good lord!
It's like we have forgotten our wisdom. Our ancient book of magic secrets has fallen to the floor, lost in the dust. We've created technology to make us wise but we're really not wise.
Music: Sariel Orenda - Niendo 00:00-4:52
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Thank you so much. This music is powerful and healing.
Thanks also to Shivelight.
And thank you for the picture. An angel of light giving healing energy to the lady of the water wrapped in the snake of wisdom floating on the lotus pond of bliss. That’s what I see.
The Ancient Book of Magic Secrets