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Hello, and Welcome |
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Although I have many other kinds of life experience to call on for raw material, I am a writer first and foremost, and at the moment I am completely immersed in The Eden Chronicles, a projected six-book historical fiction series which I hope to have completed by the end of 2012. This story has been percolating around in my head ever since I read Riane Eisler's The Chalice And The Blade some twenty years ago, and learned what I already knew instinctively, that the 'history' of the human race as we are taught it has been altered substantially by the bias of the people writing it. We are taught that humans are fighters, and that wars are inevitable. That never made sense to me. If we are naturally fighters, then why does fighting make us so physically and mentally sick? If we are innately aggressive, how is it that we can drive down the New Jersey Turnpike without killing each other off every day? If we are killers by nature, why are the killers among us such unnatural beasts, and so few? And why is there always a reason, often a cultural reason, external to themselves for their being that way? I learned that there is credible evidence that suggests that the human race got along in relative peace and in sustainable harmony with their environment for thousands of years before our current way of life began to dominate the cultures of earth. And I'm not talking about 'primitive' humanity. These were real, thinking, inventive, civilized people. On Crete it has been shown that they had running water in their homes and flush toilets four thousand years ago, and counted sports and music, trading and traveling and storytelling among their great joys, while violence was anathema. Humanity actually lost such amenities when we succumbed to what I am calling the Taker mentality, the idea that it is OK, even highly desirable, to be greedy, to amass wealth and power, to take far more than your fair share, that might makes right, or if you can't convince folks of that, that your Gods have given you the right and the power to make life and death decisions for all other living beings around you. It might have been better to call the series The End of Eden Chronicles, although the story is set at the beginning of the end, and there are bright spots. There is still hope. We are fighting the same battle now, and with more widespread desperation, because the devastation we have succeeded in visiting upon our eden is so much more inclusive, and has the potential to be total and irrevocable. The 'spin' of the Takers has not changed, although they have an easier time disseminating it now. We must follow the truth; I hope a little of it is to be found in these pages. My story is about individual people, of course, who faced these issues as well as related personal challenges four thousand five hundred years ago. The first book, The Takers: Ahna, has been published and is now available. |
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