The time has come for a dramatic transformation of our world. Despite many significant improvements in human history, we move ever closer to planetary disaster — pushed by hatred, war, desperate poverty and ecological destruction. Few of us would really prefer this to a world of Peace, Love, Freedom and Equality. We need a bridge to a more complete and stable realization of these ideals. Building such a bridge is the central theme of the free download offered here. The three novels, Merlin's Parole, The Bridge and Complexity use storytelling to present a worldview, theory and analysis. Handbook for a Phase Transition abstracts the ideas in the novel trilogy, Bridge to Eternity.

Why this word, eternity? Because we cannot build the necessary bridge without upgrading our notions about time, about cause and effect, identity — and what's humanly possible. While exposing underlying obstacles to change, Bridge to Eternity draws attention to transformative powers put in our hands by a democratic political culture. Finally, the trilogy offers a concrete plan of action.

Book III, Complexity, follows fictional characters in diverse situations empowered by insights from Complexity Theory initiating a movement that leads to a phase transition. The book envisions actualizing a world that we may have thought impossible. Books I and II lead there. Merlin's Parole recounts one individual's intellectual and experiential journey through the anti-war activism of the Sixties; the counter-cultural movement that found expression at Woodstock; and a kind of one-person demonstration — walking across the United States. The Bridge continues the narrative through three more transcontinental walks, interspersed with cartoon-like dream sequences that explain how language and other cultural systems impede our efforts to change the world.

If you prefer a direct presentation of the ideas in their logical sequence, you'll find it in Handbook for a Phase Transition.