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The Fourth Awakening [Kindle Edition]

Rod Pennington , Jeffery A. Martin
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Book Description

A group of top scientists, lead by a legendary Nobel Prize winning physicist, has made a discovery so startling and with such deep religious implications that it sends shockwaves through the corridors of power around the world. As the federal government moves to suppress the research, all of those involved vanish without a trace.

A mysterious call from the editor of The Washington Post starts Penelope Drayton Spence off in search of the missing scientists. After she crosses paths with enigmatic industrialist Michael Walker, Penelope becomes a fugitive in a wild, hold on tight to the edge of your seat race to expose the truth about the Hermes Project before the government can cover it up.

While a work of fiction, The Fourth Awakening is grounded in cutting edge science and an emerging new spiritual reality. It offers readers a glimpse of their future.

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Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts.

A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.

With rumors of 30 top scientists missing and rich industrialist, Michael Walker, being held incommunicado in a prison typically used for terrorists, the story is too big to ignore. He quietly goes "off the grid" and turns to the only person he knows who is good enough to
crack this story, his old college friend Penelope.

The moment she picks up the phone her life is turned upside down and she soon finds herself traveling cross country with the most wanted man in America looking for information about the top secret "Hermes Project."

On one level it is a straightforward suspense story with plenty of action, a healthy dose of humor and a pinch of sexual tension. On another it is a spiritual quest by a remarkable woman who meets an enlightened man the likes of which have never been seen in fiction before.

Thanks to Michael Walker she gets a "do over" that allows her to go back and select the path not taken. Over the course of the story she gradually grows to understand Walker and the amazing spiritual powers he possesses.

Penelope also becomes aware of the looming Fourth Awakening, and makes the chilling discovery that her reporting skills and ability to fight her personal demons may be the only thing that can save humanity.

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Rod Pennington has five previous novels published including “The Linz Trust” and “The Quicksilver Solution”. He has also sold multiple screenplays.

Jeffery A. Martin is a scholar specializing in higher states of consciousness. He is the author, co-author or contributor to over twenty books in addition to numerous other scholarly and non-scholarly publications, videos, audio, and other media.

Both are frequent and talented public speakers.


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What exactly is an Awakening? They occur when something so profoundly changes the world that all of the old rules no longer apply. A powerful new order arrives, completely unexpected and without warning, and things are never the same again. Today, humanity stands on the cusp of the Fourth Awakening.

Awakenings have traditionally been accompanied by a long and turbulent transition period. In the past, these adjustment periods have been violent with the authority figures that held power before the Awakening doing everything they can to cling to their position and wealth. This time, it may be different...but it's up to each of us.

The First Awakening... occurred approximately 200,000 years ago when Homo Sapiens emerged in East Africa, but it took another 150,000 years for things to begin to get interesting.

The Second Awakening... saw the emergence of spoken language, early shamans, and great myths being told around the campfire. For the first time, early humans became self aware and while still considering themselves a part of nature they understood they were now different. We became aware of our own mortality. We started to fear death and began to seek a deeper understanding of the cycle of life and how it applied to us. We started to develop increasingly complex rituals of burying our dead to prepare them for the afterlife we hoped existed. We began a desperate search for immortality in any form.

In the middle of the Second Awakening we saw rudimental art in the form of cave drawings and crude figurines...and with it the first indications that humanity is deeply interconnected. The famous Chauvet and Lascaux caves in France . The aboriginal Ubirr wall art in Australia. The Pachmari Hills in India. The Apollo 11 and Wonderwerk Caves in southern Africa. Fell's Cave at the tip of South America. All of this art was produced at roughly the same time and is very similar, yet it was produced by people in different corners of the world who didn't know the others existed.

In the middle of the Second Awakening, the last great ice age ended with the perfect storm for human development. As is the case with every Awakening, something clicked on inside us. During the Second Awakening, humanity began to perceive the future and past in new ways that enabled planning. Fourteen thousand years ago, this allowed us to begin to plant crops and keep livestock which in turn allowed for larger fixed population centers. As the food supply grew and became more predictable there was a population explosion and a series of cultural revolutions.

In addition to farming...metallurgy, ship building, and astrology all emerged at around the same time worldwide in roughly similar form. During the last part of the Second Awakening the changes in mankind were stunning. In a clear example of universal consciousness, many completely independent cultures around the world went through their own Bronze and Iron Age at approximately the same time.

In only a few thousand years humans went from grunting cave dwellers living in small groups to building city-states and writing epic poems. The quest for immortality shifted, in part, to being expressed through culture. If one could contribute to a culture that would outlast them, a sense of immortality was attained. Virtually all culture relates to this. It gives us the opportunity to perpetuate something larger than ourselves that we're tied to and will out live us. Making contributions to one or more of our cultural institutions serves the same purpose.

The Third Awakening... began around 3,000 years ago. It saw the rise of all modern religions, as well as science. Between 800 BC and 400 BC, there was a religious explosion. The key events in the Old Testament occurred, from which emerged Judeo/Christian beliefs. At the same time Taoism was being followed by Confucianism in China. The same was happening with Shintoism in Japan, and Hinduism and Buddhism in India, and later Islam.

For the past 500 or so years the political power of religion has waned while the power of science has flourished. With a few exceptions most of the people today live in societies with secular governments. For many scientists knowledge hit a tipping point about 150 years ago. Universities began to switch from religious institutions to being based on the German research model. While skeptical of religion, before that time all of the great minds were looking to science to prove there was a God, not to disprove it.

During the Third Awakening, the written word became increasingly commonplace. As it did the quest for immortality was no longer bound to culture or religion. For millennia this was about the best you could hope for, aside from religion. The problem is that it doesn't take a genius to see that contributions made to Sumerian culture didn't last forever. Rather than artifacts relating to a culture, science offers the opportunity to create universally relevant knowledge and thus a higher form of immortality so, practical benefits aside, it's not hard to see why it caught on.

The basic underpinning of science is universally understood truth but as they have piled more and more on, the whole structure of it is starting to buckle. When the big ideas from the previous Awakening start to collapse, a new Awakening is on the horizon.

The Fourth Awakening... is just beginning. This is the one you get to participate in (whether you like it or not). All of the previous awakenings have one thing in common, they relate to thought. When we think, we think in symbols. The Fourth Awakening brings a new mode of being with it, one that goes beyond symbols and beyond thought. Glimpses of it have been written about for thousands of years. During the Fourth Awakening, all of us will discover that the immortality we've been seeking for 200,000 years has been a part of us all along. Are you ready?

From the Author

In 2007, Jeffery A. Martin was discussing his latest research on positive psychology, synchronicity/LoA/power of thought, and states of higher consciousness with his close friend and noted author Rod Pennington. As the conversation turned to some of the thousands of scientific and academic studies he had reviewed in these areas, Jeffery told Rod about his frustration with the lack of accurate information being available to the public on these topics and the tragic consequences he believed the misinformation they were receiving was producing in their lives. He suggested to Rod that a fiction book may be the best way to reach the widest number of people. This book, the first in a series, is the result of that conversation. It will change your life.

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  • Print Length: 300 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1572420006
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  • Publisher: Integration Press, LLC.; 1 edition (June 12, 2009)
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  • Language: English
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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"The Fourth Awakening" crackles with tension, right up to the end--where, unfortunately, the lack of a credible villain unravels the tightly woven story. However, the strong writing and spiritual depth are more than enough to make the novel an entertaining and enlightening read.

Story: A reporter gets to cover a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Washington Post to leave it alone. With rumors of 30 top scientists missing and rich industrialist being held in a prison typically used for terrorists, the story is too big to ignore. On one level it is a straightforward suspense story with plenty of action, a healthy dose of humor and a pinch of sexual tension. On another it is a spiritual quest by a remarkable woman who meets an enlightened man the likes of which have never been seen in fiction before. (Description from Amazon.com)

Spiritual/metaphysical content: High. Penelope is on the path to to enlightenment via yoga and meditation and practices the Law of Attraction. When she meets Michael, she learns that thoughts have power. "Thought is thought. There is no good or evil. . . . Emotionally charged negative thoughts tend to be more strongly felt than positive ones. You run the risk of manifesting something that you really don't intend."

The story gets interesting when the authors introduce the idea of the Fourth Awakening: The number of individuals who can reach a state of non-symbolic thought (aka enlightenment) has reached critical mass. The book likens this state to the Internet--a giant field of energy, full of information, open to anyone who has the right connection.

My take: I enjoyed the novel as a new age thriller.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read April 19, 2011
By ap32
Format:Paperback
I am a tech-geek and love a good techno tail. This is one. Enough science to be within the realm of reality, yet enough fiction to be a story not a monograph. Great balance, characters you want to find out more about, worth picking up.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars What a great read! July 12, 2009
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What a great read! The story kept my attention and was entertaining. It had a great pace, and enough twists and turns that it kept me wanting to read more to find out what happened next. The most remarkable thing about this book is that it has the potential to reach a wide audience. As a general reader but also someone who strongly believes in the power of thought, I couldn't believe how well it hit the mark in both cases and always left me wanting more.

I kept thinking of The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown's brilliance is in his ability to use history not only to support a very controversial theory, but to make many readers wholeheartedly believe in its truth. This book does the same. It uses historical references to illuminate changes in human development that are not a result of independent thoughts or actions, but of a collective consciousness. The way the authors explain this history doesn't leave me questioning if "enlightenment" is a possibility. It leaves me questioning how anyone could deny that humans and the world developed in this very way.

Many congrats to the authors who have accomplished all of this with such craft. It is an important message to be shared, and moreover, a brilliant idea to write a fiction book about a very real concept everyone wants to share. I look at so many "self-improvement" books, and shut down. This has the ability to speak to so many different readers and change so many lives, including mine, that I am truly impressed.

- Anne Owens, Nashua, New Hampshire
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32 of 37 people found the following review helpful
By Miki
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This novel is a page-turner. But after about 30 pages, I kept reading primarily to see if the leading male character, Michael Walker, would be revealed to be the con man he is. He says "trust me" about 10 times a day to the female lead, Penelope Spence -- and she does! The author tells us several times how smart Spence is, but her behavior suggests otherwise. Even though Walker is an escaped prisoner, she gets in a car with him at the wheel. He won't tell her where they're going -- he says to trust him -- but he promises great things when they arrive.

Spence is supposedly a great investigative reporter, although she dropped out to have kids 20 years ago and hasn't really done any investigating since. This story is given to her by an old friend, and Walker will talk only to her because she is "perfect" for the task. (Perfectly manipulable, that is.) Walker spends considerable effort convincing Spence that she is uniquely important in human history. She believes him. Only a reporter who hasn't been working for 20 years would fall for lines like this.

The author trumpets that Spence is once again the best investigative reporter in U.S. -- never mind that she didn't do any investigating, but simply wrote what are essentially publicity pieces for Walker. And apparently there is a romance to be developed in the next book.

The novel has a noticeable right wing bent, with fawning adoration for a Strom Thurmond-like character, and repeatedly expressed preferences for private/corporate control over basic research, rather than government funding. (Just what would a corporation use the fourth awakening for? Human advancement, or to sell more widgets?
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars Didn't like the read
The story line has a good punch to it, unfortunately it really lacks of details for substance considering that it's such a long read.
Published 7 days ago by deborah
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Its a good read. Kept me turning the pages and I bore easily. It was an interesting read. Looking for more,
Published 9 days ago by eric99
5.0 out of 5 stars Evolution
I enjoyed this new explanation for evolution. Evolution towards godhood using descriptions of new bodies found in old religion is exelent.
Published 11 days ago by audrey
3.0 out of 5 stars a little slow
it took me quite a few pages to really get hooked but it is entertaing so be patient it becomes more interesting after the first chapters
Published 16 days ago by Francine
5.0 out of 5 stars engrossing mystery of the powers of the mind
much more enticing to me than voodoo or zombies, the power of the mind to reach out to others is an ever fascinating subject, and this book takes full advantage of the premise,... Read more
Published 23 days ago by Barb Graham
5.0 out of 5 stars Could not put it down
Loved this book so much, had to read it over one weekend. Then downloaded Ll the others.
Thank you very much for the books. Cannot wait for the IV Cronical.
Published 1 month ago by Elsbeth
4.0 out of 5 stars High Recommendations...
Great novel!
I could not stop reading it, if there is any book out there that should be read it is definitely this one.
Published 1 month ago by Marek Bieciuk
4.0 out of 5 stars Awakening
This is another book that did not make a lasting impression on me. If it did I would be able to make a better review.
Published 1 month ago by S. J. Hewitt
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read
As a thriller it was average but if you add the underlying messages it was overall a good book. Definitely had me thinking throughout the book.
Published 1 month ago by Ankesh Kumar
4.0 out of 5 stars Spellbinding!
This book kept me engaged...Thus I rembered what was happening between each reading session. I am looking forwqrd to reading more of Rod's books!
Published 1 month ago by Brad
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It's good to find a fellow writer of spiritually orientated fiction! My Numenon (Bloodsong Series) was the "Fourth Awakening" of its day. Numenon (Bloodsong Series) was ranked #1 in all three on Amazon's categories of Mysticism and floated around... Read more
Mar 11, 2012 by Sandy Nathan |  See all 6 posts
Can someone provide a link to an example of Jeffreys scholarship?
The intent full model is not currently public, because of the subject it deals with and the possibility of tainting the research itself. In my opinion this can be an issue, and one that was not dealt with well by others looking into this area (a well known example being the PEAR lab). It is... Read more
Jul 18, 2009 by Jeffery A. Martin |  See all 7 posts
Question regarding potential research subjects for non-symbolic state
Hello,

Thank you for your wonderful post!

"I wonder if it is useful for your research to include those who may have had that shift of identification but simply have some of the old habits that is in the process of fading away."

This is exactly the case, there seems to be a continuum... Read more
Jul 28, 2009 by Jeffery A. Martin |  See all 3 posts
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