You wake back in early adolescence, adult memories intact, including ones that could make you very wealthy and influential as you age back. Your birth family is here, alive again, though your later families are gone, perhaps forever. But what has happened, what can you do, about looming concerns like corruption, ignorance, abuse, pollution, disease, and global warming?

You realize one key figures in most, maybe all–the fundamentalist strains of all the major religions, disdaining science, equality, and social welfare. 

You see that there are some things you can change, some you can’t, and one you don’t dare to.

Fellow idealists help you get information and spend your growing fortune well–such as:

  • An artistic Zoroastrian prince in the Iranian oil industry,
  • A rising officer in the Soviet army working to find a way to destroy his bullying absolutist government,
  • A Bahai woman struggling against Islamic brutality, Soviet treachery, and environmental destruction, loved by both the prince and the officer,
  • A Peruvian leader working from his deep heritage, for a liberal future,
  • A Jewish woman aghast at Zionist zealots’ intemperance,
  • A snake-handling Christian minister, grappling with doubts, sexuality, and destiny.
  • Nigerian teachers striving against religious conflict,
  • A pair of Indian officers, loving the long past, striving for a fair future,
  • They are supported by an ally who develops essential psychic powers

Across the globe, the group faces familiar-looking corrupt politicians, religious leaders, and corporate czars, but there is an ancient force in the background, promoting greed, violence, hate, and fear.

This exciting, emotional, thoughtful, humorous, even romantic sci-fi weaves progressivism, music, movies, literature into a mind-bending multi-media novel!

Paperback Media Links

These links are for the convenience of readers of the paperback version of this novel, though ebook readers may also enjoy them.

Y our experience of the novel’s uniquely emotional events may be enhanced by the movies, music, reading, and poetry that figutred in their  writing. Connect with them, if you like, by using the capabilities of these interactive links that provide as is done within the Kindle version. Please listen to at least a part of each of the four yellow-highlighted songs. The linked materials are made available mostly through Amazon Music, which lets you play a vast number of songs, inexpensively. Other mentioned songs are linked in case you want to hear them. The first time you try to access Amazon Music each day, you may get a login screen. There are also links for other mentioned media elsewhere. You might want to use the links after reading to add depth without interruption.

Part 1 1950s Orienting
Part 2 1960s Extending
Part 3 1970s Expanding
Part 4 1980s Deepening
Part 5 1990s Intensifying
Part 6 2000s Focusing  Afterword

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