I’d like to say that this series, The Lion Roared, a
speculative fiction, and visionary, sci-fi, philosophical story, set in a form
of explicit romantic erotica, is my contribution to see changes in the world
starting with me.
No lasting changes have ever been successful by imposing
rules and laws onto others by force, the same as it’s impossible to force grass
to grow faster than its nature allows. All changes must begin at the center and
it will spread from there in all directions as evidenced in nature.
Beliefs have nothing to do with facts and facts will not
change to accommodate beliefs, yet, as a wise man once said; ‘it’s easy for
humans to be difficult but difficult for them to be easy’ and in our insistence
to be right, we conveniently forget to do what is right.
This series is a proposal to make people understand that
there are thousands of ways arriving at a point and only the methods vary. None
is right or wrong because it’s the perception that makes it right or wrong in
the eyes of an observer and every person has his or her own. Change perception
and suddenly values reverse. My aim is to remain neutral and be a witness to
events without taking sides and just observe what is happening, allowing myself
to be entertained.
However, greed, violence, and injustice are unacceptable
when it is on the backs of others. Often I use a personal experience at a
soccer match I attended in my home city. The guest team scored a spectacular
winning goal and I cheered the performance but then my head crashing a beer
bottle of someone put an end to my enthusiasm. Obviously, my fellow spectators
had a different perception of the artistic event.
Most of my life I entertained the thought if someone can’t
accept the other team's performance, then they should not have them there at
all and their favourite team could score goal after goal without those pesky
others that try to make it difficult and even audaciously score some goals on
their part.
Having winners and losers is pitting one against another and
that is that that creates the problem. Why can’t it be like a dance where the
participants are not dancing against another but with each other? The idea of
competition is destructive and unsupportive. It comes from ego and most of the
world hates egoism but does everything to propagate it. That's the cause of
wars and injustice in my view.
Proposing an alternative to common thinking, the author
delves into the thought of sharing in contrast to possessing and offers a
solution by suggesting that in the acceptance of differences lays peace and
harmony.
This mind-expanding,
visionary journey about authenticity, changes, acceptance, adventure, and
unconditional love presents a challenge to established beliefs and morality
concepts. Inspirational insights regarding cause and effect and how a paradigm
shift could create changes in the world presently ruled by fear, governed
through lies and operating on greed makes for a thought-provoking read.
The Lion Roared series is a work of fictional character. All
persons portrayed in these books are fictional, although some organizations
exist and some cultural customs are based on Wikipedia information and personal
experiences. Most places described exist; others are not exactly as described.
Ideas and opinions are entirely the author's own and are based on his opinions
and views.
No parts of these stories may be copied for commercial
purposes without the author's written consent.
Copyright © by André Black
Text and title pages are copyright protected.
All rights are reserved. ©2015
Published in e-book format on amazon.com
André thought he was born on planet Earth, but his parents
argued that and revealed to him the truth about his being at the age of four.
According to them, his origins are not from this planet, not even from this
galaxy, they said, but another, far, far away and strange universe. A stork
dropped him by accident onto Earth. That may be the truth. Two and a half years
later a sister was found under a rosebush. That may be true as well.
Evidently, his parents didn't hear about the normal
procreation procedures and left it to probable and rare incidences to have
children delivered to them by intergalactic avian beings or have them stuffed
in the middle of winter under some thorny bushes by some Easter Bunny with a
lousy sense of seasonal timing.
Without a fixed address, André travels single-handed around
in the South Pacific on a sailing vessel. He makes his living wherever he goes
and on lonely journeys comes up with ideas to write about.
Presently shipwrecked with time on his hands and nothing
much else to do, he comes up with critical and controversial views and ideas
about such slippery, savoury topics as sexuality, religion, education, and
society's accepted, but unexamined moral concepts and cultural fallacies, and
wraps them into a sci-fi story that is humorous, arousing and entertaining to
read.
Assisted by pitfalls, setbacks on a personal level and in a
perpetual shortage of funds, he gets his views and ideas through observation of
people and situations and these stories reflect some of the conclusions he's
made. He claims that everything he knows he had learned from his cats and the
ocean, and it is remarkable he survived the lessons.
These stories are not necessarily the view of the majority
of people and André could have learned the easy way when to keep his mouth shut
but had little success with that. However, he found a way to say what he felt
needed to be said by writing it as a fictional story in a series of ten
volumes.
Without a doubt, this book would not be what it is without
the help, assistance, encouragement and inspiration of friends, not so friends,
strangers, some very strange ones, and others I didn't even meet, and of course
a few of my cats. I'd like to thank them all equally because in my observations
of life I find that every step of a journey is as important as another, or I
would be one step short of my target if I'd miss one. Elayne Bennett battled
alongside me through the jungle of my words with determination, and I'm sure a
lot of frustration, editing as much as possible to make sense out of the mess
although they have had other commitments. However, I was just as determined to
keep them away from those commitments and persuaded at least Elayne with
promises of coffee, hot and cold chocolate, and massages to keep her working on
the books for free. We're still good friends. Ted Conley and David Friesen did
a major editing work for which I’m very grateful. David, fellow cruiser, and
friend, thank you from my heart.
The glaring grammatical errors and other mistakes are due to
my stubborn resistance to learning writing skills in school. English is not my
native language, but it's the best I can manage among four others. Other errors
are not really errors, but a covert challenge to those who think there is only
one correct way to convey a story. To those I recommend to travel the world and
listen to people speaking English, -Pliz, du it. Only the rigid people think a
living language as a botch-up. After reading the manuscript, a Brit said she
could hear my accent reading it; she should hear herself talking. She had an
accent like a Brit. Nobody is perfect they say, so live with it; I do.
Others had also
contributed to the manifestation of this book. Vishwa and Vishal Deo from
Savusavu in Fiji revived my computer and cured its frequent illnesses and
remedied some of my ignorance regarding modern technological traps mostly out
of the goodness of their hearts and friendship. Keresoni Seganakena and I designed
the book cover and he did a great job. Scott Bennett, a fourteen-year young
man, contributed with ideas Keresoni implemented in his work.
Thanks to all the people that read the raw manuscript and
gave me good feedback and encouragement to keep working on my poor writing
skills. Some people even think it is a very good story and said it would make a
great movie. Bless your hearts. You're the reason for me to write and of
course, the money would be just as welcome. I'm sure there are a few who
deserve mentioning, but for the life of me I forgot who I should remember, but
I'm sure, I'll slap myself later once I remember them.
As a very dear friend of mine, born under the zodiac sign
"Leo", went through a repressive relationship that has limited her
enjoyment of life and made her a prisoner of wedlock, a thought begun to
develop into a story and shaped up into "The Lion Roared" series of
ten books.
FREEDOM
BLISS
AWAKENING
BEGINNINGS
CHANGES
AWARENESS
AVALANCHE
INERTIA
EXPANSION
UNION
I've shared my ideas with a few individuals while working on
the books, sipping my orange juice, while they attempted to convince me, being
drunk is the only worthwhile reality and enlightened me, telling me I'm living
in a dream-world, out of touch with reality. I'm still living in that
"Dream-world".
Others spilled coffee on me to wake me up, while at the same
time lectured me about my incompetence and wild ideas. I'm grateful to them,
keeping me on a path to insanity.
My unrealistic views and false observations about the
realities of life, eagerly discussed at the local watering hole without me
present, convinced me; staying sober is a sure way to remain an outcast.
My views about human interactions, especially intimacy, are
a reflection of my observations and personal experiences and an attempt to
endorse and encourage frivolity, a path to break out from conformity, and too
much seriousness in our daily activities, particularly in relationships.
This is not a book about sex. True, there are a lot of
explicit sex scenes in these books and you may think of it as sugar-coating on
bitter medicine to make it easier to swallow; the sex-scenes are to keep the
reader turning the pages and get the message. It is about love between the
characters without ownership issues, unconditional and genuine if you want. I
believe partners are not property. They may have privileges, not rights,
therefore being less constrictive or demanding on the other. If that is
offensive to the reader, please put the book aside or pass it on to someone you
think might enjoy it and remain in your box.
‘Four-letter-words' I used not to offend, but to call a
spade a spade and keep conversations authentic. Nobody says in the bedroom or
wherever it may be, ‘let's copulate', ‘let me put my penis into your vagina',
‘I love you fornicating with me', or similar phrases to pussyfoot around the
subject of an earthy and elementary f...ng. I use it to keep the reader
interested in the deeper ideas that may be thought-provoking and so get a
message across. The word "poo-poo" doesn't change the shit; it's the
same mass and still stinks. Tender mercy treatment style is not my cup of tea.
I'll respect but won't follow others opinions blindly.
In my attempts to find a mate, I've observed a trend in
education and society toward denaturalizing sexuality. Religions on one side
demonize it, another side perverts it, and another idolizes it to such a high
commodity that it has turned to regulation, commercialism, and exploitation,
and thus lost its value as an expression of affection.
In politics, we use it to break or make leaders, in
education to introduce shame and guilt, and in the commercial world it's
business, but in every instance, we use it to control and manipulate.
Intercourse among humans to me is one affectionate expression of love between
consenting adults, leading to sex most of the time. (This sentence is to be
taken humorously. I hope I succeeded in making a point.)
My intentions with these books are to rattle the cages of
conformity and make people aware of other options. The establishment in an
attempt to prevent changes to the status quo minced the slogan ‘that's how the
world is' and people swallowed it without thinking.
I want to suggest; the world is not as it is. It is as we
make it. By operating on assumptions and mythical stories, we create reality.
We produce the absurdities; we can also construct harmony. It's in our hands
and not some kind of Superpower outside of us.
The gods or aliens we're looking for to rescue humanity from
self-created problems are not out there. They are inside of each one of us,
waiting to be released and become active. The potential is in all of us to
change the world, for the better, individually.
Stranger things have happened, and these imagined events
might be the key to freedom from self-inflicted imprisonment. Maybe not for
all, but for those who understand the message, it may well be. This is my
vision and contribution in form of this story.
André Black
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