Starchild
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Ben looked sideways at Sue. 'I love you. I don't know how all this is going to turn out - what will happen tomorrow in whatever reality we're in then - but I want you to know that you're the most important thing that's happened to me in the lifetimes I can remember.'
Deep elemental forces lead Samantha Martin, Sahadeva Varma, Ben Clarke and Sue Melton to embark upon outer and inner journeys that will change their lives, and the world, forever.
The story begins with experiments in remote viewing that were genuinely undertaken by the American military in the nineteen-nineties under the name of the Stargate Project. It then imagines the consequences of a more advanced military attempt to weaponise the capabilities of consciousness in the present day.
"A thought-provoking integration of Eastern spiritual understandings within a speculative fiction that incorporates action, adventure, love, humour and self-discovery."
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