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1. Ben Andersen says

   5 July, 2012 at 12:37 am

   Hi Philip,

   Reading through your book New Self, New World and am impressed with the scope and depth through which you present your argument. I have been thinking along similar lines for years now and I am glad that someone has put the ideas into such a coherent piece of writing. Well done.

   Instead of attempting to write a non fiction to communicate my ideas (like you have done so admirably well) I have written a novel. The novel is called I am the Friend, I am the Devil and it has been sitting on my hard drive for around two years. If you are at all interested, or have the time, I would love to see what a like minded person has of this novel. Briefly, the story is set in a floating city, detached from the natural world and what the story outlines is the attempt to return the city back down to earth. It is an attempt to mythologise the separation between body and mind, and civilsation and the natural world.

   Hope to hear from you.

   Ben Andersen

   • Philip Shepherd says

     5 July, 2012 at 9:51 pm

     Hi Ben

     Thanks for your gracious comments about my book – I’m glad you found it, and it makes me wonder how you stumbled upon it. It hasn’t been widely discovered yet, so I get curious.

     I’m totally intrigued by your novel – I think storytelling has the power to effect more change than the sort of nonfiction that my book exemplifies. I’m time-constrained on all sides at the moment, and can’t promise I’l get through it – but that having been said, I would love to have a look at it if you’d be willing to send it along. And of course you have my word (being an author, I’m sensitive to such things) that I’ll not show it to or share it with anyone else, without seeking your explicit permission first.

     Congrats, by the way, on bringing it to completion. I know from personal experience what that takes.

     Warmest regards,

     Philip