Current Books
When we embrace the variable of consciousness, the pieces of the puzzle that is creation fall into place as if they have been before humanity’s eyes all along.
Encapsulated in the book Threshold to Meaning Revisited, the evolution of consciousness view of creation provides the perspective and philosophical basis for a variety of fiction and nonfiction works.
Threshold to Meaning Revisited
Threshold to Meaning Revisited: The Universe as an Evolution of Consciousness and the Evolutionary Transformation that Unfolds Within Us. (Nonfiction, Vince Bedogne)
Circa 100 thousand years ago, humankind crossed the threshold to reflection. We became conscious of our consciousness, aware that we were aware. Today, the universe marks an even more fundamental turn in its ascendance, and this transformation is taking place within us. As deeply ingrained as is our sentience, we become conscious of the universe’s origin, evolution, and ultimate state of becoming. And with this awareness, everything changes.
Afterworld Chronicles: Book One
Afterworld Chronicles: Book One. (Fiction, Vince Bedogne)
From his birth, twelve thousand years ago, to recent times, the Afterworld Chronicles trilogy follows the existence of Mohan Augustian the builder. Book One begins with Mohan’s death in the prehistoric north. Brought down by his brother’s arrow, he faces separation from Vanya, the woman he in life had loved. To resolve this separation, Mohan visits heaven, hell, and the temple of the gods. A lifetime passes, and he reunites with Vanya in the hereafter. She rejects his affection, but he has gained the strength to love another—the oldest and most powerful of an ancient order of builders—the angel Gabriella.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1520429894
Afterworld Chronicles: Book Two
Afterworld Chronicles: Book Two. (Fiction, Vince Bedogne)
The second book in the Afterworld Chronicles trilogy carries the story of Mohan Augustian the builder from ancient to recent times. In the realm of the living, history advances from antiquity through the age of enlightenment. In the afterworld realm of the dream, Mohan and Gabriella build three great vessels of exploration and set out to the furthest reaches of the hereafter. In the afterworld realm of the awake, Mohan and Gabriella found the city and world of Lullaby. But there is a world in opposition to Lullaby—Tiev, a world of darkness ruled by Mohan’s brother Karneiv.
Afterworld Chronicles: Book 3
Afterworld Chronicles: Book Three. (Fiction, Vince Bedogne)
In the final book of the Afterworld Chronicles trilogy, war grips the hereafter and has spread into the realm of the living. To defend his home of Lullaby and the good it represents, Mohan must be born again. He must travel to the one world that was ancient before any other existed, the one world where he can acquire the weapon to defeat his enemies and bring peace to the hereafter—the realm of the living. The implement of salvation is knowledge. To save Lullaby, Mohan must answer the fundamental human questions of how and for what purpose God, humanity, and the here-and-beyond came to be.
Twenty Eighty-four
Twenty Eighty-four: A Novel. (Fiction, Vince Bedogne)
In the classic political satire Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell depicts a future of perpetual war and state control over the media, education, and the individual’s life. In the contemporary political satire Twenty Eighty-four, Vince Bedogne depicts a future of peace, freedom, and individual creativity and shows how we rise out of the Orwellian world where many believe we are today headed and create that future. Twenty Eighty-four takes us beyond dystopia. It compels us to envision a future of freedom, prosperity, and individual expression and enlists us in the cause to create that future.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1520422776
OSA
Osa: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Pioneering Documentary Filmmaker Osa Helen Johnson. (Fiction, Vince Bedogne)
The Steve and Terri Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) of the early twentieth century, Osa Helen Johnson and her husband Martin Elmer Johnson film cannibals in the Pacific, mount the largest African Safari of the day, and are the first to fly the length of Africa and film its wildlife from the air. A tale of romance and adventure, Osa is the story of a woman who rises to fame and elite social circles. A tale of life and reflection, Osa is the story of a woman who overcomes tragedy to accept herself as the individual her time on Earth has shaped her to become.
Story
Story: The Creative Mechanism in Dramatized and Non-Dramatized Writing. (Nonfiction, Vince Bedogne)
What makes a story read like a story? What makes the best dramatically and non-dramatically told writing the best? At the heart of effective writing is a relationship between the writer and the reader. We explore that on which such a relationship is based, human creativity, and apply our understanding to derive the fundamental principle of writing. We draw on this principle to learn how to craft the most gripping fiction and nonfiction—to elevate our writing to a level of skill and artistry we may not have thought possible.
Early Books
Early works will be of interest to those who wish to see how the evolution of consciousness view has evolved over the last couple of decades. The central ideas have not changed. Newer works, however, better develop and explain these ideas.
Evolution of Consciousness
Evolution of Consciousness: The Philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Evolutionary Transformation Unfolding Within Us. Nonfiction, Threshold to Meaning Series, Vincent Frank Bedgone, Wipf & Stock 2008
From the "alpha" to the "omega," Vincent Frank Bedogne draws on Teilhardian philosophy to unite matter with consciousness, science with spirituality. He looks beyond Darwin and the big bang; beyond traditional ideas of God, religion, and the human role in existence. Today, the universe crosses the most profound threshold in its evolution since the dawn of reflective thought a thousand lifetimes ago; and, like the threshold to reflection, this blossom of transcendence unfolds within us. The book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin would have written had he lived another fifty years.
Economics of Fulfillment
Economics of Fulfillment: The Obsolescence of Socialism and Capitalism and an Economic Philosophy for the Future. Nonfiction, Threshold to Meaning Series, Vincent Frank Bedogne, Wipf & Stock 2009
At present, every nation embraces a blend of two major economic philosophies: socialism and capitalism. Does either system of economic belief, however, meet our needs? In light of the emerging evolution of consciousness view of the universe, we see economics in all its past and contemporary forms—those that lean toward socialism and those that lean toward capitalism—as obsolete. A new economic philosophy reveals itself, an economics for tomorrow—an economics of fulfillment.
Blueprint for Reconstruction
Blueprint for Reconstruction: The Rebuilding of our Planet's Urban and Ecological Infrastructure and Perfection of Life on Earth. Nonfiction, Threshold to Meaning Series, Vincent Frank Bedogne, Wipf & Stock 2010)
Inspired by a vision of soaring towers, high-speed transit cars, pristine skies, and blossoming gardens, we embrace a rural and urban design where the human energy that defines city life flows unimpeded within an urban matrix engineered to allow for its highest expression. Vincent Frank Bedogne drafts a blueprint for what humanity's Evolution of Consciousness and adoption of Economics of Fulfillment make it possible to achieve—perfection of life on earth.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1498251463
Commonsense Guide to Current Affairs
Commonsense Guide to Current Affairs: The Issues We Hear about Every Day from the Standpoint of What the Politicians Have Forgotten—Common Sense. Nonfiction, Vincent Frank Bedogne and Marcy Jean Everest, RESOURCE Publications 2009.
From clones, family, abortion, terrorism, and the concept of the collective to economics, nuclear power, cap and trade, and renewable energy, Everest and Bedogne do something much needed and remarkably absent in the media. They strip away the layers of liberal and conservative ideology to look at the most talked about topics of our time from the standpoint of what the politicians have forgotten—common sense.
Influenced by evolution of consciousness thinking, many of the ideas presented in the book, more than twenty years removed from its first writing, have proven to be remarkably prophetic.