The Fourth Awakening Chronicles II

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Penelope Drayton Spence has been hired by two of the world’s richest men to track down and interview enlightened people who may have arrived at the Fourth Awakening. The problem, as fast she can locate a potential candidate, they have a nasty habit of mysteriously vanishing. These “Chronicles” are written in the "Serial Novel" format Charles Dickens famously used for the “Pickwick Papers” and many of his later books. It is also the format magazines such as “The Saturday Evening Post” made popular not that long ago.THIS FOUR PART SERIES OF NOVELLAS WILL BE COMPLETED IN 2014. “Chronicles II” is the second in a series of SHORT NOVELLAS based on the characters and concepts explored in “The Fourth Awakening" and “The Gathering Darkness.” The goal of each Chronicle is to present an Enlightened “Archetype,” and explore its characteristics. While each Chronicle is a stand-alone episode that can be read independently, it is a part of a much larger and continuing story which is easier to understand and follow if it is read in sequential order. In this episode, we meet Richard Maxwell, a moderately religious man who is also the CFO of a Fortune 50 company. Maxwell is the classic "Sannyasa" enlightened archetype. We also will meet someone from Ledi Arhat's past and learn more about “Jacobin” who is the driving force behind the mysterious disappearance of so many enlightened souls.WHAT IS AN AWAKENING?An awakening occurs when something so profoundly changes the world that all of the old rules no longer apply. A powerful new order arrives, completely unexpected and without warning, and things are never the same again. The First Awakening occurred approximately 200,000 years ago when Homo sapiens emerged in East Africa, but it took another 150,000 years for things to begin to get interesting. The Second Awakening saw the emergence of spoken language, early shamans, and great myths being told around the campfire. For the first time, early humans became self-aware and while still considering themse