{"id":2559,"date":"2021-09-19T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2021-09-18T20:19:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T20:19:01","slug":"upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/2021\/09\/19\/upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Upside Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What would you do if all your tech was taken away?\u00a0<\/strong> If your loved ones were gone before you knew it?\u00a0 What skills do you have to survive\u2014without a government, a military, or electricity.\u00a0 Are you ready for that?\u00a0 And what would you do if the saviors of the human race came.\u00a0 How would you react to The Saints?\u00a0 And what would you do if your world was turned <em><strong>Upside Down.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thought Experiment&#8230;go<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Join me in the podcast for an interesting thought experiment that we can do <em>right now<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The book &#8211; <em>Upside Down<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Without too much fanfare I am releasing my seventh book and it is very different from anything else I&#8217;ve written. &nbsp;When I wrote <em>The Sword and the Sunflower<\/em> duet it was from a very special place and a poem that seemed to write itself. &nbsp;It was a story of love, family and adventure and the hero&#8217;s journey. &nbsp;I&#8217;m a happy endings kind of guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While writing it I often referenced a history of pain and suffering and catastrophe\u2014of horrible times in which the Earth lost most of its inhabitants. \u00a0What created the beautiful and wondrous yet dangerous world of <strong>Stojan<\/strong> and <strong>Anastazja<\/strong> was a long history of what occurred after an apocalypse. \u00a0What happened was mostly a memory in my mind as I wrote. \u00a0It was a place I dared not go. \u00a0But I knew the story eventually had to be told. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kindle.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kindle.png 878w, https:\/\/www.alchemyfor.life\/balancecoaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kindle-480x419.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 878px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, now I am telling the story of exactly what happened. &nbsp;The catastrophe, the deaths, the suffering. &nbsp;The tale of how the interlopers manipulated humanity and used their beliefs against them. &nbsp;You can now learn how we lost our technology, how we were made to rely on their wisdom\u2014a wisdom that actually came from us.&nbsp; It is not a story of broad brushes but of intimate relationships, and how not people, but each&nbsp;<em>person<\/em> dealt with such a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So listen to the podcast, participate in the thought experiment &#8211; no tech, no power&#8230; nothing.   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