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Bill Douglas 2012 - The Awakening
Bill Douglas, author of 2012: The Awakening, The Amateur Parent: A Book on Life, Death, War, and Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe!, and the Anthology of Qi Gong Relaxation Therapy & Mind Expansion, and the co-founder of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day & World Healing Day. Bill has led a somewhat miraculous life which has given him access to a deep understanding of mind, body, spirit, as well as politics. His highly acclaimed new novel explores the boundaries between truth and fiction, the real and the imagination, the technologies that can be used to heal or to harm, those devices constructed by men and the processes harnessed and unleashed within our own hearts and minds. As political awakenings and revolutions sweep across the world, this second interview with Bill continues where our first conversation left off.
This is my second interview with Bill Douglas, author of the award winning novel 2012 - The Awakening. (To hear the first interview on October 28, 2010- listen here.)
Bill is currently on tour and will be speaking locally in Berkeley at Veil Between Heaven and Earth Book Store in Berkeley, (Saturday, February 26, 2011, 3 pm at 1862 Euclid).
Bill Douglas and his wife, Angela, miraculously showed up at my home when I needed them the most, back in 2004. Both of us were struggling to get out the facts about 9/11, while the official 9/11 Commission was holding hearings, and orchestrating a major cover-up. We have worked together and stayed in touch over the years and Bill sent me a copy of his novel. I wrote a review about it here. Bill knows how hard it is to get out critical information through the front door of the corporate media, and we have both discovered that art, literature, film can be powerful vehicles to engage people's attention and educate them at the same time. I was pulled into Bill's novel by the characters, the drama, and the questions that I have been trying to deal with over the technologies that can be used to heal or to harm, those devices constructed by men and the processes harnessed and unleashed within our own hearts and minds. Bill's novel explores possibilities that I had never imagined, and in this interview we discuss the evolution of his novel, the boundaries between truth and fiction, the real and the imagination.
We also discuss the current political awakenings happening in the Middle East, Africa, South America and Wisconsin, and the organizing that is going on. To plug in to the "upwising" in the US, there are a number of groups calling for actions Saturday, February 26, 2011. Here, here, here are multiple groups trying to build on the political awakening that is happening, not only in Africa, but here in the U.S. and calling for people to get out and mobilize, in solidarity on February 26th, at the State Capitols, in front of banks, at the civic centers... plus there are smaller groups/local groups organizing local actions.