"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. You will have also betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution."
- Rollo May, American existential philosopher
When completed in its initial form, with that taking place an year and a half after work on the project started in March of 2006, the title of the book was The Day Belief Becomes History, and the manuscript was less than 500 pages, double spaced. I felt the title was leaving the false impression that the book was exclusively about religion, and a couple of years later I changed it to something more appropriate considering what it was foreseeable to happen in the world, rather sooner than later : A Time of Change. As we look around us, that time has come, indeed.
The notion that this could become a book-of-books kind of book developed over time and it was not premeditated. By 2013, the manuscript was now over 700 pages, single spaced. When it grew to over 1,000 pages, it became a two-volume book. Once again, nothing about the structure, the format, or the scope of the book was planned. Everything would develop naturally, intuitively into the book it is today.
Something generating unabashed frustration at times, one would often sigh with relief convinced the final version was ready for release, only to have that feeling disappear within a week or so and be replaced with, some things there are not what they should be. Work on the project seemed to be going on forever, with no end in sight, and every time I would finish re-editing the project, it would become soon clear that it needed more work, more researching and analyzing. As new and significant material was added, and as significant errors were addressed, an even larger and a more accurate image of where we are as a civilization and of how we got here would emerge. That was how the project ended up a three-volume book, a little over 2,000 pages, and over 200 images.
In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s students in colleges and universities were into The Communist Manifesto for two reasons. First, it addressed what by now was an ancestral need for social change every new generation felt compelled to dedicate to it a few moments of its busy fraternity life. Secondly, it was less than 50 pages long. In other words, it was an easy read and the message was rather clear. The Capital by the same author, on the other hand, is, wouldn't you know it, three-volume long and 2,000 pages. Time for college students to take on that kind of challenge, with A Time of Change being in large part addressed to them. After all, they are the future of civilization Earth.
As the not always truth-friendly Wikipedia informs us, The Capital is about the fact that "the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labor, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of surplus value." You are going to find plenty of that in A Time of Change. The reason why you have three volumes and 2,000 pages is because everything is placed now in its right perspective, this way the reader being able to see the actual circumstances that gave us the current status quo, the current existential system where society is controlled by a few with the help of money, they do not call it capitalism for nothing, religion, and multi-party forms of government labeled democracy. In short, A Time of Change is not about just exposing this social reality for what it is, but also how the rulers of the planet have organized this system for the purpose of using Earth people as "the ultimate source of surplus value." For, in the end, the revolution that will cause things to change for the better is not going to happen in the streets but within our Self. As we were once told by someone whose mission and message were completely distorted by those who at one point took control by force of our civilization, "the truth will set you free." This was why overtime, again, without planning that for a moment, this became a book-of-books, and why I knew during the early stages of working on it that it was going to be difficult, to use a euphemism, to find a publisher willing to get involved with something that has the potential of significantly changing a status quo under the rules of which publishing house too operate. As usual, though, everything happens for a good reason.
It helps to know how things were put together when you need to take something apart to replace it with something that makes more sense. It makes the process a lot more enlightening to know what lies behind the illusion of reality you have been made to perceive as real reality for your entire existence as a civilization. Since they are all connected, it helps to know who gave us the institution of religion, the institution of slavery, and in the end our current existential system.
The good news is we are destined and because of that we have the power to liberate ourselves. Sure enough, things are not going to be forever the way they have been. Life on Earth is going to change significantly in the decades and centuries ahead. As a matter of fact, things are changing at a higher pace then they ever did as we speak, which is why it is much easier today to make the effort and become aware of the liberating knowledge, 2,000 pages and all. This way we avoid being left behind. This way we will forever be protected against being used as the "ultimate source of surplus value."
And if you are ready to make the effort and take your Self to the other side of the wall, the book is going to introduce you to an amazing reality. Indeed, there is a lot more to what we were made to perceive as reality than meets the eye.
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This is a one-man's work, so far. The manuscript has not been edited or proofed by a second party, and it remains to be seen if the book will be made available in the future under other circumstances. And while the author remains open to all possibilities, a sudden en mass influx of highly advertised earth shaking information may cause confusion and chaos. That earth shaking information is nevertheless here for those who may happen to land on this site, while one way or the other, the people of the planet will have to face chaos. After all, from chaos comes change, and there is no way around it.
Within the next decade or so the state of our civilization, American society included, is not going to be what it is today. There have been significant changes, with the rise to prominence of China, economically and culturally, being one major such event, since work on this project started, and we have seen nothing yet. A consequence of that, there is a good chance that publishing houses will be one day at liberty to publish even books like this one. We live though here and now. Meanwhile, as long as we are diligently dedicating time and effort to our true mission in life, one here and now moment after another, we will always be where we need to be, and by we is meant the entire planetary world.
A Time of Change is private intellectual property made available to the public in this format free of charge. It could only be shared free of charge. Quoting from the book is permitted but has to be accompanied by proper crediting by showing the source. Copyright laws prohibit the unauthorized commercial reproduction of either the entire set of documents or parts of it.