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Conflicting Agendas
The C.T. Merriman Institute teaches ordinary people to do extraordinary things. It gives them new insights, new abilities. It changes their lives. And a group within the government finds that threatening. They begin exerting pressure to stop that teaching.
Pressure may come in many a campaign of slander, kidnapping, financial interference, even murder. The founder of the institute finds himself having to preserve the appearance of normal operations while attempting to find out who is behind the campaign. Who are the opposition? What do they want? How can they be countered?
As events unfold, lines blur. On the one hand, he acquires valuable allies. On the other hand, it becomes clear that at least one of his staff is betraying him. This adds another Who can be trusted?
Meanwhile, ordinary life goes on. Participants taking a residential course at the institute mostly know nothing about the struggle, and yet it begins to endanger them as well.
As the conflict continues, the stakes escalate, and everyone involved finds himself working for goals very different than the ones that originally motivated them.
The C.T. Merriman Institute teaches ordinary people to do extraordinary things. It gives them new insights, new abilities. It changes their lives. And a group within the government finds that threatening. They begin exerting pressure to stop that teaching.
Pressure may come in many a campaign of slander, kidnapping, financial interference, even murder. The founder of the institute finds himself having to preserve the appearance of normal operations while attempting to find out who is behind the campaign. Who are the opposition? What do they want? How can they be countered?
As events unfold, lines blur. On the one hand, he acquires valuable allies. On the other hand, it becomes clear that at least one of his staff is betraying him. This adds another Who can be trusted?
Meanwhile, ordinary life goes on. Participants taking a residential course at the institute mostly know nothing about the struggle, and yet it begins to endanger them as well.
As the conflict continues, the stakes escalate, and everyone involved finds himself working for goals very different than the ones that originally motivated them.
424 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 4, 2018
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Frank DeMarco
33 books4 followersFRANK DEMARCO is the author of five books, including the non-fiction Muddy Tracks and The Sphere and the Hologram, and the novel Babe in the Woods. A former journalist and newspaper editorial writer, Frank was co-founder and chief editor of Hampton Roads Publishing Company, the powerhouse regional responsible for such best-sellers as Neale Donald Walschs Conversations with God series. He conducts workshops on communicating with guidance and writes a monthly column for The Meta Arts, an online magazine. His past and current thinking may be found on his blog, I of My Own Knowledge, on Everyday explorations into our Extraordinary Potential."
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June 23, 2023
I thoroughly enjoyed this literary piece and had the pleasure of working on it with Crossroads Press. A must read!
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