--> the basic elements of The Story
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Roland’s World
Roland’s Universe
the Mythology
the Setting for the Academy
the science fiction book
That, dear friends, is the number 1 thing for me to produce.
That my dear friends is the purpose of this exercise, this publishing house.
I am writing the story of being alive on this land.
I am writing the story of living in this dimension, in this world.
I am writing the story of having my Father Starry Heavens and my Mother Earth while operating in her House.
He is a benign but Ra-like figure, powerful and strong and radiant.
She is a harsh, strict Queen but magnificent and powerful.
Because of my familiarity with Indiana Jones and Back To The Future and Men In Black, et al, I have plenty of imagery and a rich source of material to draw from. I also plan to draw on early 20th Century super-hero material. Superman and Superwoman perhaps. My version, of course. That won’t make any sense to my audience right now, but you’ll see in time why that decision. I’ll explain it to you in a separate article.
The article about Love is also central, in some way, because the Fuchsia-Colored, Scarlet-Colored Power and Force and Laser Beam that is Love must be included in the storyline.
It is a beam of energy, a powerful and magnificent and superb beam of light. But not just light, also energy and heat. I am still wrestling with the wording of this phenomenon, as you can see. Picture the green ray of the comic book character The Green Lantern, but change the color to scarlet-fuchsia.
Julia is right, she has been right for over a year, this book is a science fiction book. I’ve known for certain since Saturday, March 7, 2020. That’s the day this basic story idea appeared while I was writing in my journal.
She is also right about something else: my general knowledge about a zillion subjects makes me the ideal candidate for writing this book, because I am familiar with so many different subjects. I guess it helps to be a brainiac and a know-it-all when you are writing a story, especially an epic story. Never occurred to me until she mentioned it this year.
Reminder: qualification for being a science fiction author is extensive knowledge (1) about the world (2) of many subjects.
Ok, I am putting together the primary story elements.
the Evil Empire
the Golden Age
Allies in the struggle, allies in the grueling journey through purgatory: Thoth, Kuthumi, et al. Role models. Master guides.
There are 2 ways I can go with this:
I can produce a realistic story which is set in U.S. (and global) society as it exists.
I can go full-blown science fiction.
Obviously we know the answer to that choice. Realistic story.
Ok, let’s say the students in the Academy are one category of people.
The teachers are another category. The teachers, or perhaps the administrators and board members, are monitoring and managing actions and activities in the arena which affects the school itself. So the people who are responsible for the school itself are engaging in political action re: the Evil Empire. That would be Sanat Kumara and company.
I am writing the story of Planet Earth. Wow.
The students in the Academy are you and me. We are secretly Men In Black-like emissaries from other worlds. So we present as Clark Kent and Diana Prince, but in fact we are Superman and Wonder Woman.
Ok, this is looking better all the time.
Our parents, or perhaps our Headmasters and Principals, are the Ra-like Figure and the Emerald Queen, Empress Tara.
Holy shit, I really am writing the story of Planet Earth. Wow this is good.
Ok, the figures (in the story they will be people, but you can’t really call them people) who run the Academy are Ra and Tara. Holy mackerel, I am even developing names for them. The board members don’t have names just yet, but that can wait. The teachers in the Academy are the great souls and master teachers and guides from history. Da Vinci, Kuthumi, St. Germain, Joshua of Nazareth, Thoth-Buddha, even Carlos Castaneda’s mentors, Mitra, Zoroaster, et al. The teachers obviously are heads of departments that correspond with their areas of specialty in real life. Which makes Joshua head of the department of remedial work, i.e. remedial education. Thoth-Buddha would be just under Ra and Tara, let’s call it Head of Faculty.
Damn this is good.
at this precise moment it is 4:44 a.m. A nice round number and auspicious sign for an auspicious moment.
Friedrich Allison. Fried-reich (Peace-rich). Fred Allison. Name for one of the characters. Perhaps the Enneagram Type 8 character. We want the origin of the name of each student character to match the archetype of the character, of course.
Helios is the name of the Allies, the Society of Allies. The teachers are secretly, or perhaps openly, members of that society. At some point in the story, there will be a reveal of that storyline.
What name for the Evil Empire, the Society of Corrupts?
The Academy is going to go through a period of troubles, a time when we look into the activities of the Board Members. When Board members are placed in the position of protecting the school, everyone else, faculty and students, will be affected and in some individual cases will be engaged with that trouble.
School is still likely to be called Sphinx Academy, or Phoenix Academy, and the students and faculty are Phoenicians, although Pharos is still an option. [N.B. Sphinx = S + Phoenix] The educational program, the curriculum, is what I am calling Life: A Field Manual. Practical skills, useful skills, necessary skills. Placing the entire Life: A Field Manual book project in the context of education is perfect. Life is a school, right? Life is a journey, right? Life is all a stage, right? A story, a play, a movie production, a theater production. Ashleigh Brilliant: Life is the only game the object of which is to learn the rules.
Phoenix Academy of Life Studies. Sphoenix (Sphinx) Academy. The basis of the curriculum is Integrity.
Someone else can adapt the story to conform to the paradigm of life being a journey (think Odysseus), or life being theater (think Shakespeare) or life being a masterpiece (a work of art). For me, for this book, life is a school.