Nine reasons to read these books
Fifteen books from a treehouse on Kīlauea’s eastern rift: three novels, the same turning told twice more, and books you can put to use. Here is what they give a reader.
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You can read the first chapter of every book before you pay
All fifteen books have their opening chapter on this site, taken from the finished ebook. Read it on your phone. If it holds you, the ebook is one click away.
Chapter one of Fire from the Deep · Chapter one of Rules of Reality · Chapter one of The Fire Beneath the Veil
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One story, told three ways, so you can read it in your own language
Earth Giving Birth is a trilogy of novels. Mirror Earth Birth tells its turning twice more: once in the language of Scripture, as the ReBirth telling, and once in the language of the Sufi path, as the Muslim Edition, with Qur’anic passages in the author’s own paraphrase and a glossary of Arabic terms. Whatever tradition you come from, there is a door you already know how to open.
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The science is real, and so is the scripture
The novels run on things you can look up: a signal at 0.06 hertz, random number generators that stop being random, the Jubilee count of seven times seven, the Hilina Slump on Kīlauea’s south flank. A Senegalese Sufi neurophysiologist, a rabbi, a Mississippi pastor, a Dogon elder and a pope all have a place at the table. If you have ever suspected that science and faith describe the same thing from different sides, these books were written for you.
There is a frequency beneath the noise of the world. 0.06 hertz. One cycle every sixteen seconds. The Earth, breathing.
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They were written a hundred yards from a fissure
Art Aloka has lived on Hawaiʻi Island since 2005. In 2018 Kīlauea took his home in Kapoho under rivers of molten stone. Since 2021 he has written from an off-grid treehouse on the volcano’s eastern rift. The black coast where Lear’s Fool bolts down its tide gauge was laid by that eruption. When the ground moves in these books, it is because the writer has felt it move.
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Two of the books are handbooks you can use this week
Enzyme Manifesto for Supreme Self Care sets out a low-oxalate diet, a supplement protocol and quick-start protocols for specific conditions across twenty-seven chapters, written as education to take to your own doctor. Rules of Reality gives you four stages, Recognition, Disruption, Reconstruction and Integration, for taking off a mask you have worn since childhood, with a glossary of more than 150 terms and over 260 references.
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Some are meant to be read slowly, a section at a time
Seeking the Holy Flow is thirteen poems, each with a commentary, and it comes in a large print pocket edition you can carry. Lost in the Wonders of Heaven includes affirmations, visualization practices and an appendix of guided meditations. The Mirror Earth Birth books are built in short numbered sections and end, on purpose, without resolving. These are books for a quiet morning, not a single sitting.
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Everything connects, so the more you read, the more you see
The books share one calendar, the count of seven times seven that runs to the Jubilee of 2063. Dr. Amadou Diop, Leilani, Naia and Priya carry the trilogy from a lava tube in 2026 to the summit of Mauna Kea in 2037. Lear’s Fool is set on the same coast in the same years. Rules of Reality reads the same 2037 as a convergence of economic cycle, ecological reality and civilizational identity. Start anywhere. The pattern is waiting.
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Buy the ebook here and it is yours in a minute
Ebooks are sold directly by the press, from $3.99, with no retailer in between. Pay with PayPal or a card and the EPUB downloads at once. It opens in Apple Books, Google Play Books, Kobo and most reading apps, and Amazon’s free Send to Kindle delivers it to a Kindle.
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Print copies can be bought now, and three books ship free
Every book has a paperback, and Enzyme Manifesto a hardcover too, from $13.69. They are sold now as pre-release copies and ship when the first printing arrives. Buy any three print books in one order and shipping is free, so a trilogy ships for nothing.
Fire from the Deep
Birthing Fire from the Deep
The Fire Beneath the Veil
Enzyme Manifesto
Rules of RealityStart with chapter one
It costs nothing, and it is the best way to find out whether these books are for you.