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An empath's quest across ruins of the former US to retrieve a key for peace & save her people from destruction, offering humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
This speculative climate fiction hopepunk novel takes the reader on a meditative odyssey set 200 years in the future, where humans are sparse and must adapt to extreme climate.
This speculative climate fiction hopepunk novel takes the reader on a meditative odyssey set 200 years in the future, where humans are sparse and must adapt to extreme climate.
Detailed survival and meditation techniques intersperse surprising, immersive adventure as the protagonist takes a Fool's Journey through the major arcana of the tarot.
Fans of Solarpunk, Climate Fiction, tarot, travel, and speculative fiction would be prime audiences for this book.
Each chapter is based on a major arcana card of the tarot.
A vision of hope for human adaptation after Collapse
A vision of hope for human adaptation after Collapse
Today’s society is ancestral legend for scattered peaceful communities, continually threatened by extreme weather and hostile human factions. In this unstable world, Niwaju’s people live tucked away in the Green Mountains of the former Vermont, celebrating the seasons, developing their intuition, and centering wisdom.
Niwaju and a small group of fellow travelers draw upon their unique psychic gifts– including camouflage-meditation, super memory, and telepathy– to cross the former US, seeking a solution for peace for their people. Through actual landmarks crumbled by Collapse and being reclaimed by nature, they encounter people living off the land in a variety of ways, in a sparsely populated world.
Decentralized community groups use permaculture techniques, wilderness survival skills, and materials left over from The Comfort Age. Wise elders teach meditation to young ones to help them focus their energy. A select few work to communicate across distances, through limited telepathy and and remnants of satellite internet. People evolve their way of life, using techniques and tools old and new to adapt.
This novel brings practical insights on survival and mindfulness that could be used today, as we navigate our own big changes.
map of the route
Based on projected climate impacts on real landmarks
Based on projected climate impacts on real landmarks
From the spring mountains of Appalachia, through the moody swamplands of “New New Orleans”, up the wandering Mississippi River and across the plains, through the Rocky Mountains, and down the Columbia River Gorge, Niwaju's trail follows a path that could be taken today, on the Appalachian Trail, present-day highways, and rivers.
Mindfulness techniques to balance emotions and enhance abilities
Mindfulness techniques to balance emotions and enhance abilities
Meditation balances emotions and directs energy and attention. Latent human abilities like intuition, telepathy, and energetic camouflage are focused with training and practice, in a subset of the population.
Our protagonist transforms through archetypal interactions with herself, others, and the landscape. Each chapter has a theme of a Tarot Card, in a "Fool's Journey".
Sustainable, Earth-Based Living
Sustainable, Earth-Based Living
Cattail shoots, lamb's quarters, milkweed, dandelion, blackberries, and nettles are some of the plants providing sustenance on the road.
People use various sustainable technologies and building methods, using a combination of ancient knowledge and archaic modern tools.
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