About the author

Earl Warhus

<p>It&rsquo;s been a long and winding road to get here... four universities, dozens of jobs and businesses&mdash;fifteen years in the stock and commodity markets, ten years as a desktop publisher, seventeen years in language and private high schools, and five years in government&mdash;thirty or forty countries, rough drafts of several novels which I subsequently shelved... and so&nbsp;on. I must be a hundred years old, right? No, I did double and triple duty for many years.</p><p>Buddha&rsquo;s Cross&nbsp;started out in the early 1980&rsquo;s as a book on non-verbal communication (body language, NLP, etc.), and became a novel about brainwashing, cults and evangelism. In the early 2000&rsquo;s, the movie, The Village came out, so I shelved my book for ten years thinking there was no market for two stories about a village cut off from the world.</p><p>Most of this edition&nbsp;is a little on the dark side and then it becomes light-hearted. That was my point... me coming out of my cave:) I am not writing for children, and I believe it is more important that art speak the truth than that it convey&nbsp;a positive message (though positive is nice, for sure). What I&rsquo;ve said about the state of our society needed to be said. Nobody can deny that the Western world is undergoing a sort of Arab Spring of its own. There is a backlash underway against the nanny state and its proponents, and you cannot rebuild without a little demolition.</p><p>So, I demolished, and then I made a humble attempt to bring together in the latter half of the book enough ideas that an insightful, political-minded reader might complete the picture and patch up our Western democracies, or at least make them representative of all of our citizens. I use the plural on&nbsp;<em>democracies</em>&nbsp;for, after all, every first world&nbsp;country is dealing with the same issues.</p><p>I will write more about myself and my thinking as time goes on&hellip; bye for now.</p><p>Earl Warhus<br /> 1 May 2017</p>