"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 at the beginning 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 potentially leaving the reader under 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 based on the evidence unveiled, by now was foreseeable to happen in the world: A Time of Change. As we take a look around us today, that time has come indeed.
The idea of this becoming a book-of-books sort of book developed over time and was not premeditated. By 2013, the manuscript was now over 700 pages, single spaced this time. When it grew to over 1,000 pages, it became a two-volume book. Once again, though, nothing about the structure, the format, or the scope of the book was planned. Everything would develop naturally, by the way of constant research work into the book it is today.
Something generating unabashed frustration at times, one would often sigh with relief convinced the complete version was finally ready for release, only to have that feeling disappear within a week and be replaced with some things there are not what they should be, the book is not yet what it should be, with that, what the book should be, being something I would not know. 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 soon become clear that it needed more work, more researching and analyzing. As new and significant material was added, and as 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. The fact is, between the first thought-complete 2013 version and the 2026 one, there had been around 40 manuscript drafts.
In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s students in colleges and universities were into The Communist Manifesto for two reasons. First, it addressed 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, not only that it was an easy read and the message was rather clear, but it fit in one's back pocket of his or her jeans. The Capital by the same author, on the other hand, is, wouldn't you know it, three-volume and 2,000 pages long. The point I am making here is that college students should take on the challenge, with A Time of Change being in large part addressed to them. They are, after all, the future of civilization Earth.
As the not always truth-friendly Wikipedia tells 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 fact-based discussion in A Time of Change. The reason why you have three volumes and around 2,200 pages is because everything is placed now within its right context, this way the reader being able to make out the actual circumstances that gave us the current status quo, an existential system where society is controlled by a few who own most of the money, they do not call it capitalism for nothing, through religion, and multi-party political forms of government labeled by them democracy. In short, A Time of Change is not about just exposing this social reality, 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."
In the end, the revolution that will cause things to change for the better is not going to happen in the streets but within 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 for that to happen, 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 into something that had the potential of significantly changing a status quo under the rules of which publishing house leadership too operates and benefits from. As usual, though, everything happens for a good reason.
The good news is we are destined and because of that we have the power to liberate ourselves, for 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 at this very moment being that it is much easier today to become aware of the liberating knowledge, 2,200 pages and all. One significant benefit of that is that we will forever be protected actually 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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