“It’s life’s illusions I recall. I really don’t know life at all.”

from the song, Both Sides Now, by Joni Mitchell

Starchild is an adventure novel set within an understanding of reality that is rooted in Eastern spiritual traditions.
It takes as its starting point experiments in remote viewing that were genuinely undertaken by the American military in the nineteen-nineties under the name of the Stargate Project. 
It then imagines how a more advanced attempt to weaponise the capabilities of consciousness might have been developed in the present day.
The story then explores how Ultimate Reality might respond to such a threat.
Deep, elemental forces thus bring together Samantha Martin and Sahadeva Varma, old colleagues from the Stargate Project, to avert the apocalyptic consequences of this military attempt to weaponise consciousness.

This fast-paced story spans genres including romance, action, adventure, science fiction and more.

Although this story is based on concepts drawn from established spiritual traditions, these have sometimes been extrapolated to the point of very extreme speculation for the needs of an adventure story.
Much of the underlying philosophy, however, as explained in the dharma talks given by Samantha Martin, is paraphrased from the guidance of respected spiritual teachers.

Scheduling:

Starchild is a previously unpublished novel of one hundred thousand words which was serialised in weekly instalments over twenty-five weeks from 15th November 2021 to the 29th April 2022.

Each instalment contains five chapters – an average of approximately four thousand words in each instalment.

Acknowledgements:

All the mandala images, with one exception, were drawn by Brian Huggett using the Spirality mandala drawing application.

The mandala associated with chapter 82 and which occupies the centre of the front cover of Starchild is attributed to Jgmoxness, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.

The comet image is derived from a photograph by Marco Milanesi downloaded from Pexels.

The cover image was assembled from these images by Brian Huggett.