Hello. C J here. A few days ago I posted three articles about the real life spirituality and mysticism that inspired me to write the Astral series and to design the Astral setting. Those are now three of the most popular posts I’ve done on the whole website. That took about a day. I was expecting people to be a bit cautious about learning about spirituality or mysticism. I wasn’t expecting the flood of views I’ve seen. I was wrong. Really wrong. So I’m doing some more of them.
I am happy about this. My whole career is based on finding cool spiritual ideas somewhere on the internet or in a book and then finding a way of making them compatible with my stories. I want everyone’s favourite mythology, genre, or pursuit to have a place here. I guess I just never realized that extended to me as well. I like the research and the book time that goes into the job almost more than the job itself.
Science is an amazing thing. I’ve trained in just about every science discipline there is. Anatomy, optics, physics, nutrition, biochemistry, quantum mechanics and molecular chemistry to name only some of them. I love science. The scientific method is a foolproof way of learning about the world that we as a species have been born in. Wherever God is, and wherever Odin went to, I’m sure they are pleased that we want to learn about the world we’re born in here.
But science is done. There isn’t really that much left to learn or invent. We can make better and faster technology but the principals underlying this don’t change. So what is next? What comes after mastering matter, light particles and electrons and making them our friends? Magic. Magic doesn’t run out. The more you look at it the more there is. And this word, magic, is my shorthand for all of the wonderful spiritual things that we don’t know yet. Magic.
To me magic is any change in the world that starts invisible but becomes obviously visible. Magic is the future. Magic isn’t going anywhere. It’s the way all people live and always have. We as a species have done technology properly and are still learning what it can do for us but next up we have even cooler things to do. Magic is the future of all people. Myself and all of us included. This is why I write what I write. I’m bringing it back, no matter how far I have to look into the past to find it again. All of it. Back. More soon.
C J Mcpherson
Hello. C J here. Walking down the streets of Haven is not always as safe as the city would like people to think. Yes, they have curbed the banditry that plagues the Southern half of the Coastal Road. The Desert Princes whose cities dot the Southern coast of the Southern Continent if anything make the problem worse for themselves with their constant rivalries and politics. So no, a traveller in Haven or in the River Lands is unlikely to meet a bandit or other criminal sort. But then there’s the walking dead to consider. Many of the basements, catacombs and landmarks of Haven have old foundations from before the city had its current name. In ages long past it was one of two competing capitols for the Desert Empire, both of which unified under the first Sand King of the Gold Dynasty, the God-Lion. It was never his place of residence and both the other capitol and the rest of the Desert Empire are long since buried under the dunes. Well, people like to assume they’re buried. People wo...
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