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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 offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
This speculative climate fiction hopepunk novel is a meditative odyssey set 200 years in the future, where humans must adapt to extreme climate.
This speculative climate fiction hopepunk novel is a meditative odyssey set 200 years in the future, where humans must adapt to extreme climate.
Adult readers seeking hope in the face of instability would enjoy this book, as would psychonauts, permaculturalists, and fans of solarpunk, backpack travel, mindfulness, and metaphysical topics such as nature-based spirituality and reincarnation.
Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?
Seven generations after the collapse of The Comfort Age, oceans have reclaimed coasts and civilization’s remains are rotting back to the earth. Extreme climate and violent humans threaten a peaceful community hidden in the Green Mountains.
Niwa, a gifted and introverted young empath-scholar, is called to lead a perilous and mystical quest to retrieve a rumored key to peace and save her people.
She and her fellow travelers draw upon their nature-based survival skills, varying levels of control over psychic gifts, and residual tech artifacts as they traverse a depopulated but healing landscape. They encounter diverse, unique characters on crumbling highways and swollen rivers through the mountains of Appalachia, moody swamplands of “New New Orleans”, and the Rocky Mountains.
As she finds her inner resilience, Niwa’s mission becomes about more than saving her people from destruction; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
Incorporating mindfulness, sustainability, earth based magic, and wilderness skills, this tarot-themed journey offers a vision of hope, transformation, and growth in a narrative adventure guide to thriving in civilization’s aftermath, with surprising twists.
💫 Look for the light coming through the cracks of this crumbling empire 💫
🌊 climate fiction / 🌪️ clifi 🌞 post-collapse 🌷 Hopepunk 🔥 post-post-apocalyptic ☀️ solarpunk 🌱
🌲 rewilding wilderness survival 🌲 indigenous futurism 🎒 backpacking adventure
💗 unique, diverse cast of characters 🐓 eco-villages 🌱 permaculture 💗 community 🌱
🌬️ mindfulness & meditation 🔮 visionary 🔮 earth magic 🌊 tarot
Each chapter is based on a major arcana card of the tarot.
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.
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.
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.
This novel brings practical insights on survival and mindfulness that could be used today, as we navigate our own big changes.
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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