MY BIRTHDAY TOAST TO MOM MOM'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Today, we celebrate a life that has touched the hearts of everyone here. Mom, when I think back to my formative years, one of the clearest lessons I was given—over and over—was to practice optimism. The power of positive thinking. The decision to look for light, even when the world is trying to dim it. For most of my life, I credited Dad with amplifying that lesson in me. And I still do. I’m grateful for it. I carry it with

Neil Perry Gordon Brings History and Metaphysics to Life Neil Perry Gordon is not just an author—he is an alchemist of words, a storyteller who weaves time, space, and the unseen into a literary tapestry both profound and deeply human. His mastery of historical fiction and metaphysical fantasy is nothing short of remarkable, bringing to readers not only entertainment but also insight into the mysteries that shape human existence. With over a dozen novels to his name, includin

Consciousness to Consciousness January 27th marks five years since Sam died. Five years on the calendar—and yet in the deeper register, the one I’ve come to trust more than dates, he is still thirty-two. So young. That age has become a kind of living image in me: undimmed, unweathered, held in the clear light of remembrance. But what I want to say today is not simply that I remember him. It’s that our connection does not begin in biology, and it does not end in death. Our con

The Unthinkable Becomes Possible Oppression turned into kindling. There are moments in history when imagination precedes reality—not as fantasy, but as rehearsal. To imagine an Iran released from the weight of the Islamic Republic and the strictures of Sharia law is not to deny its past, nor to erase its culture. It is to remember something older, deeper, and more enduring than the regime that currently governs it. Iran is not synonymous with its rulers. It never has been. Wh

The Lemurians and Project Hail Mary THE LEMURIANS I closed the final page of Project Hail Mary  and, almost in the same breath, returned to The Lemurians: A New Testament for the Soul .  I’m not finished yet—but the ending is clearly in sight. The timing wasn’t planned. Still, it felt quietly meaningful. These are very different books, built through very different methods. They arise from separate imaginations, separate vocabularies, separate aims. And yet, encountering Andy

DECLARATION OF A NEW DIRECTION TURNAGAIN ARM - HOPE, ALASKA The past year has brought clarity—not the heavy kind that closes doors, but the clarifying kind that opens the right ones. The forces reshaping our world are no longer theoretical. They are present, active, and shaping the conditions in which we live and work. Yet seeing them clearly has not diminished my optimism—it has strengthened it. Awareness, after all, is the beginning of choice. Yes, unchecked greed, fraying

A Living, Serialized Novel The Lemurians: A New Testament for the Soul is not released all at once. It unfolds—chapter by chapter—in real time. This page serves as the home base for the novel: a place for new readers to begin and for returning readers to find the latest chapter drops as the story continues to unfold. At its heart, The Lemurians  is a work of metaphysical fiction that asks a radical question: What if humanity did not begin in ignorance—but in remembrance? What

A Reflection on Anomalies, Memory, and the Architecture of Awareness A close-knit group of wide-eyed ring-tailed lemurs, alert and watching. Not every story begins as an idea. Some begin as a rupture—something felt before it can be explained, believed, or named. This was one of those. For my new story, The Lemurians: A New Testament for the Soul,  it did not begin with Lemuria at all. It began with the comet known as 3I/ATLAS —only the third confirmed interstellar object ever

A DECLARATION OF A NEW DIRECTION The past year has made one thing unmistakably clear: The forces reshaping our world are no longer abstract. The unchecked greed of the powerful, the breakdown of global order, the resurgence of antisemitism, and the birth of the robots are no longer abstract. They now press into our daily life—altering relationships, testing institutions, and clarifying what endures. These shifts are not temporary. They have direction, and they are already ch