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Essays spanning three decades—reflective yet contemporary, philosophical and practical—address human nature and environmental ethics; personal and metapolitical intention; radical insight and live freedom in thought, emotion and action. While it might be said that everything pre-2020 is irrelevant in the light of our global paradigm shift, it is important to recognize both the long history of our present oppression, and the more ancient tradition of positive human spirit ever capable of rising to the challenge, to assert the primacy of our fundamental values and aspirations.
Virtual Reality technology is poised to remake the computing landscape and terraform your mind. Enter PsyBot, the AI bug that shows up on the user side of the interface. With instructions to kill and a baffling menu of choices, programmer Joe Norton's all-too-ordinary life in Philadelphia is coming apart at the seams. Is the only way out, to go further in? Never mind that one shaky relationship gives way to another, or that his job is jeopardized by a corporate buyout. Norton has another mission to attend to as he discovers that virtual reality is not confined to hardware. A visionary dive into into the slipstream of emerging transhumanist technologies and agendas, PsyBot exposes a dark underworld of mind-control black ops. Reviewers find this noir thriller “surreal, bizarre”; featuring “fascinating, three-dimensional characters” and “beautiful, unique prose, blurring genre and literary fiction.” PsyBot explores the limits of free will, personal transformation and the “very nature of reality in this post-digital age.”
Friday Night Jam is an anecdotal, instructional how-to (and sometimes painful how-not-to) guide to group improvisation, based on the firsthand learning experiences of author and African drummer Nowick Gray in a weekly open jam in rural British Columbia, in the early 1990s. African drumming was booming in popularity then but not well integrated into conventional Western music mixes. This chronicle conveys the challenge of merging diverse musical instruments, genres and personalities; of attempting to produce quality music in a venue that welcomes relative beginners, lifelong amateurs, and random drop-ins for the night. The book offers experiential advice to beginning drummers, or to longtime ...
When Will and Faron decide to rendezvous at a remote mountain cabin, they fail to account for the forces of nature. In a night storm, the seventh dream-door crashes shut, and Will faces a final choice to save his family from disaster. Rendezvous is a taut wilderness adventure tale, of a young family’s romantic quest turning to a hellish predicament, a test of sanity and survival. Follow Will as he battles the elements and faces challenges of choice, regret, and faith, to navigate a descent to safety. Previously published as Rendezvous and Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass, this off-the-grid, unconventional adventure novella will appeal to nature lovers, fans of innovative fiction, and anyone fascinated with the suspense of life-and-death choices, the disorientation of clashing realties. (Think Groundhog Day, in the heart of the Canadian wilderness).
Unauthorized transmissions of a coronavirus skeptic, critiquing the global agenda with the voice of the natural human spirit. Nowick Gray's weekly articles for The New Agora offer a holographic time capsule of the Covid era. Witnessing the manufactured crisis as a war on humanity, the writer's lens sheds light on the narrative sabotage carried out as its primary strategy. Against that weapon of moral destruction, pen turns to sword in the ongoing battle for our body and soul, our truth and freedom.
Coming of age in the 60s, we were inspired by free love, LSD, and rock music, to leave the city in search of peace, the simple life, a counterculture utopia. “Reflective yet contemporary,” My Generation charts a fast-paced, passionate, thoughtful and humorous journey of personal growth, showing how that growth can dramatically change the trajectory of your life--if you let it. “For those who have been captivated by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Bukowski... they have the chance to add a new name in the pantheon: Nowick Gray. My Generation is a wonderful account of a new Neo who struggles to leave behind the American Matrix.”
Both reckless and lucky, this serial survivor seeks meaning in a life full of brushes with death and passing glimpses of fame. The life-threatening accidents and mishaps come in many shades: from full-fledged out-of-body experiences, to near misses and close calls, to highway mishaps, dodging bullets, edgy adventures, stupid risks, fights and wars; sometimes just witnessing disaster, or knowing others not so fortunate to escape it. The narrator emerges with a guarded view of the shadowland of death, and brief tastes of the wonderland of stardom. Always coming back home again, chastised and forgiven, charged with fresh gratitude and humility.
Northern Quebec, 1964. Mountie Jack McLain, baffled by a series of unsolved murders, knows the latest case will make or break his career. Eighteen-year-old Nilliq, chafing under the sullen power of her father in a remote hunting camp, risks flight with a headstrong shaman bent on a mission of his own. Their paths intersect in this tense mystery charting a journey of personal and cultural transformation.
Longing for vicarious adventures in global travel? The Last Tourist celebrates the end of an era. Traveling light, savor exotic destinations in Hawaii, India, Southeast Asia, Southern Europe, Central and South America. Relive a backpacker's edgy tales, partake in healing journeys, share deep reflections on distant shores
A wilderness cabin becomes a dream-box of catastrophe and survival, in this true adventure with a paranormal twist. Will, a treeplanter, hikes with a companion to meet his wife and 3-year-old daughter in BC's remote Jumbo Pass. An overnight storm pushes Will to the brink of deadly choices, at fate's mercy. Their idyll darkens with Will's hellish predicament, as the seventh dream door crashes shut. He must act under agonizing pressure, and the disorientation of clashing realities. Will he find the strength and wisdom to overcome the odds and avoid disaster? Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass breaks the mold of linear narrative by splitting its ending into multiple, coexisting plot threads, or timelines, twisting away from a nightmare hallway of seven doors. The story plays out a mystery of magic realism against the backdrop of vast natural beauty in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia (think Groundhog Day in the heart of the Canadian wilderness). Caught in the strands of a deadly time-loop, Will must face the choosing of a successful adventure, time after time until he gets it right.