A REMEDY FOR DEATH
Playing God with body, soul and biotech
“What a caterpillar calls death, we call a butterfly.”
Doug Daulby, M.D., an experimental neurosurgeon, and Kate Remington, Ph.D., a therapist specializing in multiple-personality disorder, are tricked into consulting at a spooky clinic in one of the dictatorships in middle Europe.
Once there, they find that a shadowy cabal of billionaires and politicians have set up a lavishly-funded laboratory to push the expanding limits of tissue and organ regeneration.
Already, in the real world, researchers have used bio-engineering technology to produce skin, bones, and many body organs including beating hearts, eyes, and livers. The U.S. military and DARPA ( Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) are supporting some of this work. See the links to some articles on this research in the column at the right side of this page.
The objective at this rogue lab: to enable the sponsors to come back into “healthy, horny 21-year old bodies with all our accumulated savvy.”
The status when they arrive: partial success, as the work products, termed “Vehicles,” are physically ideal, but are mentally empty automatons.
The need: to find a way to transfer the human core— consciousness, personality, memories, education, savvy (“Animating Essence” in the jargon of the Clinic)— from the aging donors to their new Vehicles. To accomplish that is the reason Daulby and Remington have been lured there, with no way out.
They find that the research has stolen some of the latest innovations in regenerative medicine (growing human body parts), as well as experiments with near-death experiences (NDE) and out-of body experiences (OBE).
The unexpected happens: the Vehicles suddenly begin acting out in violent ways, suggesting that unknown external entities have inhabited them.
Then their situation gets worse: Kate and Doug find their murdered family members have secretly been regenerated at the Clinic, and they are faced with the choice: either cooperate, and have them back; or resist, and see them used as experimental subjects.
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THE GRAIL CONSPIRACIES
At a concert in Berlin, simulcast around the world, Twisted Messiah, a nihilistic, neo-Nazi destructive international rock group, calls on the world's angry and alienated to regroup in a kind of world‑wide cult under its leadership. Some journalists describe that concert as “a Nuremberg rally on steroids, updated to today’s mindset and technology.”
In washington, a strange invitation comes to Greg Tapscott, offering an invitation to France to learn the “truth about your uncle, an OSS agent, alleged to have been killed in action in France in 1944, and what he found.” The family has long been convinced there was a government cover‑up. Paul was last seen in La Rochelle, France, the main Atlantic port of the Knights Templar, legendary guardians of the Holy Grail.
A Washington journalist claims the two strands—Twisted Messiah and its political ambitions, and what was turned up by Greg’s uncle way back then—are intertwined. He is murdered before he can explain.
What did Paul Tapscott find? No one shows for the promised meeting in France, but Greg pushes on to England, Germany, and back to Washington. In his search, Greg encounters one source who claims that Paul found what was "the truth behind the Grail legends, the reality behind the centuries of deliberate disinformation.”
Another claims Paul found what was “perhaps the most powerful force, or weapon, ever known, a technology for tapping the highest human potential.”
Why is the private army of Twisted Messiah desperate to find that, whatever it is?
Why the 70‑year cover‑up . . . by Americans? Why is the CIA warning Greg away from his search?
THE GRAIL CONSPIRACIES: A technothriller exploring deeper human possibilities
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JOINING MIRACLES
Coincidence.
Synchronicity.
Serendipity.
Good luck.
Suppose seemingly random happenings -- events that almost feel like miracles -- are in fact within our control?
Suppose the serendipitous events we encounter are actually a product of our mental focus and expectation?
Can we intend synchronicities, those happy strokes of good fortune and serendipity?
Can we shape the flow of events we encounter by what we expect and intend?
Can we train our minds and intentions to make synchronicity and serendipity our norm?
Can we develop the ability to join miracles?
JOINING MIRACLES: Navigating the Sea of Intended Synchronicities is a visionary novel exploring how the human mind, properly trained and focused, can assist us in joining miracles -- that is, enabling us to step into the tracks leading to the outcomes we intend.
JOINING MIRACLES is a novel, but it's not a fantasy: it's based on findings extending from the breakthroughs of modern quantum physics back to the insights of the ancients.
JOINING MIRACLES: Navigating the Sea of Intended Synchronicities is by the same author as the science technothriller, THE GRAIL CONSPIRACIES, and plays a key part in the plot.
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THE INFINITE DOUBLECROSS
"If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?"
Coming, spring 2014, a thriller linking international art theft and psychology.