The Fourth Awakening Chronicles IV

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. TheseChroniclesare 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.Chronicles IVis the fourth and final in a series of SHORT NOVELLAS based on the characters and concepts explored inThe Fourth AwakeningandThe Gathering Darkness.” The goal of eachChronicleis to present an Enlightened “Archetype,” and explore its characteristics. While eachChronicleis 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, Penelope finally comes face-to-face with the “Jacobin” and he tries to convince her to join him. In the process, she makes the startling discovery of the identity of the real puppet master in this game of intrigue.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 themselves a part of nature, they understood they were now different. The Third Awakening began around 3,000 years ago. It saw the rise of all modern religions, as well as science. Bet