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                                                                                                            BOOKS

 

As a writer, Mark Lindquist has self-published two novels—Synthedroid Saviors and Mutinous Mother.  One non-fiction work was self-published in 2014 that is no longer available.  He has been working periodically for eleven years on a non-fiction book entitled Uncommon Spiritual Sense:  A Self-evident Path.  Also, he acts as a freelance writer by offering articles and op-eds to newspapers and magazines.

 

Synthedroid Saviors was Mark’s first novel.  It is science fiction that weaves Eastern thought with social and political satire.  Educators and scientists grow a human brain without a body.  It becomes a mystical mind that transcends spacetime and permanently alters humans who make physical connections with it.  A few evolving humans become synthedroid saviors and give a chi-like energy to growing numbers of converts who are “awakened.”  The new physical sense of “viboid” creates good vibrations of comic madness.  Original concepts surface intermittently.  The book begins and ends with the last surviving gorilla speaking in sign language.  Finished in 2007, it reflects his political views at that time. 

 

You can purchase a paperback copy of Synthedroid Saviors by sending $12 for the book, handling, and postage to:  Michigan Contemporary, 11924 Belmont Ave., Warren, Michigan 48089.

 

His second novel, Mutinous Mother, is also science fiction with shades of Eastern philosophy and social/political satire.  Published in 2013, this book is a prescient look at climate change in the 2050s.  The Earth, in that decade, is projected to be one filled with massive human migration in the hundreds of millions, great deserts becoming farmlands, solar panels providing most of the world’s electricity, an attempt to make a human-like chimp, and human hybrids replacing Homo sapiens while colonizing the Moon.  Throughout the book, Mister Goebbels injects an extraordinary brand of unstable wit.  Mother Earth rebels against humans with a rare natural occurrence.  

 

You can purchase a Kindle e-book copy for $3 at Amazon.com or other internet sellers.  You can read a longer book description on Amazon.com before buying this book.

 

 

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                             UNCOMMON SPIRITUAL SENSE:  A SELF-EVIDENT PATH                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

​CHAPTER 1- PATH ALONG A STREAM

​CHAPTER 2- SELF-HISTORY AND INDOCTRINATION

CHAPTER 3─ MORALITY WITHOUT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS                                      

CHAPTER 4─ TRANSCENDENT NON-CONCEPTUAL INTELLIGENCE AND RANDOM NON-INTENTION OF                                        A TELEOLOGICAL DESIGNER (cool title)

CHAPTER 5─ DIRECT EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER 6─ IMPERMANENCE

CHAPTER 7─ PRESENT MOMENT/ETERNAL MOMENT

CHAPTER 8─ SELF-IMAGE

CHAPTER 9- DUALITY/NON-DUALITY

CHAPTER 10─ A SECULAR SPIRITUAL PATH

CHAPTER 11─ NOTEWORTHY ELEMENTS OF MAJOR RELIGIONS

CHAPTER 12─ SOURCE

CHAPTER 13─ ESSENTIAL POINTS OF CHRISTIANITY AND WESTERN THOUGHT

CHAPTER 14─ GNOSTIC GOSPELS, THE BIBLE, AND KORAN

CHAPTER 15─ POLITICAL AND MILITARY SENSE USA

CHAPTER 16─ ASTROPHYICS, MATH, AND ONTOLOGICAL SPECULATION (another cool title)

CHAPTER 17─ EARTH, CLIMATE, AND EVOLUTION

CHAPTER 18─ CHI, BREATH, SPIRIT

CHAPTER 19─ THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL

CHAPTER 20─ VARIOUS FINAL VIEWPOINTS