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About meWas an Internet entrepreneur, now a first-time novelist.
Currently spend my time trying to link Taoism, Buddhism and Western science in my mind/being.

I was born in London, England, studied English Literature at Cambridge , and left England in 1981 to move to the United States.

Requiem of the Human Soul is my first novel. I wanted to write about where I saw our world going, and what it means for our human soul. Not the Judaeo-Christian immortal soul, but the kind we mean when we say: "That's got soul, man." I wanted to explore how genetic engineering may put the final nail in the coffin that Western civilization's been building around our soul for the past 500 years. I tried to make the story believable - not some angst-ridden dystopia, but a realistic view of our future may hold for our species.

About my libraryI'm currently researching for a book to be called Finding the Li: Towards a Democracy of Consciousness.
It has a couple of premises: 1.) The prefrontal cortex - that part of the brain that's mostly responsible for our uniquely human functions - has gradually become dominant over the rest of our consciousness over the past 10,000 years of civilization. 2.) That dominance has led to the terrible imbalances of our current global society. 3.) We have the potential of restoring harmony in our consciousness through applying some of the learnings from Buddhism, Taoism and Neo-Confucianism.
My library covers the areas of my research: evolutionary theory, anthropology, early civilizations, classical Chinese philosophy,Western history,neuroscience, complexity theory, Buddhist and Taoist thought.

Homepagehttp://www.humansoul.com

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