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Among other revolutions, the 20th century brought forth the great revolution of the New Age movement: a new Western spirituality that developed a more autonomous, independent and direct contact with the higher reality.But nowadays, it seems, this revolution has sunk into comfortable middle class oblivion; seen as just another way to escape from mundane reality.Why didn't it evolve further into its even bolder, more enlightening and liberating stages?Where did we get stuck and what can we do in order to re-awaken and strengthen this Great Spirit?This manifesto draws the outlines of both the crisis and the challenge of the New Age movement, offering a way out and up - towards an authentic and mature spirituality for a Western world of the 21st century.

The three-part Podwarp series is a coming-of-age story initially set in a great techno-dystopian city called The Pod.Enclosed in an energy shield, it protects its podling inhabitants from the rough outside life of gauchos who work to feed the place.One podling boy, solxv98fg6, learns to turn his brain implant down and assert his own thoughts. He forgets to log into the System and the Pod thinks he's been processed.Head gaucho, Henri Babineau, finds him confused and lost, trailing him through the great city. He decides the best thing to do is smuggle him out to his home village through the warp gate.Once outside he changes the world.

On a windswept coast, not far from Lindisfarne, a small Celtic community have found security. Did the gods lead them there?A dying grandmother struggles to recite their tale, which is then seen through the eyes of younger characters. In an interesting, and often moving way, the reader is shown their world as traditional allegiances are torn apart by the onset of Christianity throughout the region.A dramatic tale set against a dramatic setting: a beautiful but dangerous coast-line where the first Viking raid takes place.In modern times, it seems that an ancient prophecy is being fulfilled.

Alex and his Aboriginal blood-brother Peter run into new friends when they arrive in the West to start University with anthropologist film-maker Dr Sam Flanagan.They meet the autistic hippy Nicolas with his two wives and a husband - the Asperger's kid far too handsome for his own good - but something else is not right.Here in the West things are rarely what they seem and they have to make adjustments.Wanting to make their own film together this oddly disparate assembly of characters become entangled in a drug turf war back in Nic's home town of Barkhan Crossing.

The story of a small town boy suffering the double disadvantage of being too handsome and far too intelligent.He is abused, bullied and neglected, diagnosed as autistic, until Wally, a funny, eccentric old man with a speech impediment gives him a lift home after school, and changes his life.Uncompromising in its eroticism and violence against a background clash of rural parochialism, the reader is left wondering how it can be possible to get talented and intelligent students through school without tearing them apart as human beings.

This intriguing tale opens with an anthropologist working among traditional Aboriginal people of the vast Central Desert, when a white boy arrives suddenly in a truck with a dead body in the back and a fortune in gems stashed under the chassis.He can't remember who he is but the elders think he is clever. They are gathered for their initiation ceremonies so they decide to include him.Back in the city, in 'civilisation', there is a nationwide search underway for the lost son of a wealthy media dynasty.

After his two closest cousins die mysteriously, dreamy young Ned finds himself the last remaining heir to a vast outback cattle empire. He has to learn quickly to stand on his feet. Ambitious relatives are staking their own claim to his enormous land-holdings and the communities that live on them.Ned is not alone. Using Aboriginal magic and strength of character his family maintain the status quo and restore their lineage, but at great personal cost. Ned Collins inherits far more than property and wealth.

The far distant future beyond 2150, beyond the climate apocalypse, beyond dystopian aftershock, in a decayed world stagnating from boredom and corruption, far out beyond civilisation the Crop Masters work incessantly to maintain food supplies.The protective high wall around the metropolis, built to protect the crops not the people, has been undermined by weather and lack of repairs. Holes begin to appear beneath it as the foundations wash away, and children start crawling out to play in the bush.Who are these children? Over a long period eventually their children, and then their grandchildren come out to play, until the first of them are now parents and grand-parents.Mike Barker finds himself with a serious problem on his hands, no longer able to guarantee food security as this naïve new hybrid population unknown to anybody finds its relentless way out onto the prohibited grain-belt.Something ancient stirs . . .

In this much requested sequel to 'Sit Down Time', the tale of gifted young musician Alan Cameron's coming-of-age continues into adolescence.What he wants to do on leaving school is go back into the hotel business, but failing that follow in his Uncle Ken's footsteps and study Geology, while his elders and mentors want him to teach music.But first he has to get into university. With girlfriends also coming into womanhood, life wasn't meant to be so easy.On top of it all, a skinny runaway waif attaches himself to him. Who is he, and how are they to deal with him?