In one of Harvey’s insightful observations, he notes “The most important human quality is the ability to control one’s own mind.”Ĭonsciousness is the deepest of all philosophical problems, which the ancient Greeks described as the Mind-Body problem, and which the greatest of our modern scientific minds have not shied away from also thinking about. Consciousness is the central theme of this book. The psychic warriors-both heroes and rebels-are in fact “angels”, beings operating at a higher level of consciousness who have been on Earth, reincarnated over many lives, for over 200,000 years. In the words of Milton’s Lucifer, reincarnated in this story as the arch-rebel Perse, “The mind is its own place and in itself/Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” Imagine trying to move through a city while being continuously accosted by holographic human spam trying to strike up chatbot conversations-it’s both funny and disturbing, because it’s not that far off.Īnd as an advisor to the US Army on optimizing human effectiveness, Harvey’s descriptions of near future military technology deployed on battle grounds from the mountains of Tibet to the South China Sea are both exciting and credible.īut the real battleground in this book for these psychic warriors is the human mind. Cinematic in its writing, it’s easy to visualize the action and the characters in a range of exotic settings, with lots of sex, and interesting technology, like in a classic James Bond movie.īut the center of the story is an attempt through fiction to resolve the contradictions between a secular world view and a spiritual view of reality.Īs a leading guru to the advertising media industry, Harvey’s prognostications about the future of communications technology appear to be spot on, and, to me, provides much of the humor in the book. It’s told from the point-of-view of an ensemble cast of psychic warriors, a specialist military team of psychic warriors known as the Theta Force-who travel the world to prevent World War III and to heal the wounds of a second American civil war. It is an attempt to make sense of a fallen world, and in the words of Milton, “to justify the ways of God to men.” Relevant even to a secular reader, it tells the story of the war for Heaven and Earth, and is a meditation on rebellion, loss and redemption, and what it means to be human. This novel, by the Emmy Award- winning media technologist Bill Harvey, is Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost transported into the mid-twenty-first century and translated into an action packed, sex filled, page-turning political thriller.
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