This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.