Rediscovering the Earth

By Michal Hall

Most people recognize that something is wrong, so they blame their leaders in governments, industry, religions, and numerous others. However, more and more people are coming to see that the problems are much deeper. They lie in who we have evolved to be…they lie in our species. With that in mind, I would suggest some questions as you read it. Is this book fiction or not? Is it a true story about us, or is it something totally unfamiliar? Is it about who we are, where we are, and where we are going? Does it involve important truths, or is it more nonsensical ramblings of escapism? You must decide.

The story is about a planet that has a renegade reflective species on it that is destroying itself and everything around it. However, with the help of other reflective beings from the cosmos, as well as a man they chose to represent them, the renegade species is eventually saved. The previously renegade beings return to their natural humility, love, and peace to recognize that they are not only a part of the Earth, they are the Earth. This book records the journey of these beings as they gradually learn who they really are. It follows them as they grow out of their pride, hate, and fear to become free and real. It is the story of their joyful return to the Earth that they had deserted and avoid their extinction to live happy, meaningful, sustainable lives with a future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Aug 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781528968515

Michal Hall

Dr. Hall began his formal education with advancing bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees. He has been a Presbyterian minister, taught in colleges, and produced and did numerous television series on philosophy and religion. He also started seven large organizations to meet human needs. In recent years, he has researched the surge in the knowledge of science. He became aware of the fact that we are causing our specie's extinction as we kill off the Earth's animals, plants and ecosystems. He sees that the only way to reverse this is by humbly returning to our mother Earth.

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About the Author

Dr. Hall began his formal education with advancing bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees. He has been a Presbyterian minister, taught in colleges, and produced and did numerous television series on philosophy and religion. He also started seven large organizations to meet human needs. In recent years, he has researched the surge in the knowledge of science. He became aware of the fact that we are causing our specie’s extinction as we kill off the Earth’s animals, plants and ecosystems. He sees that the only way to reverse this is by humbly returning to our mother Earth.

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Most people recognize that something is wrong, so they blame their leaders in governments, industry, religions, and numerous others. However, more and more people are coming to see that the problems are much deeper. They lie in who we have evolved to be…they lie in our species. With that in mind, I would suggest some questions as you read it. Is this book fiction or not? Is it a true story about us, or is it something totally unfamiliar? Is it about who we are, where we are, and where we are going? Does it involve important truths, or is it more nonsensical ramblings of escapism? You must decide.

The story is about a planet that has a renegade reflective species on it that is destroying itself and everything around it. However, with the help of other reflective beings from the cosmos, as well as a man they chose to represent them, the renegade species is eventually saved. The previously renegade beings return to their natural humility, love, and peace to recognize that they are not only a part of the earth, they are the earth. This book records the journey of these beings as they gradually learn who they really are. It follows them as they grow out of their pride, hate, and fear to become free and real. It is the story of their joyful return to the earth that they had deserted and avoid their extinction to live happy, meaningful, sustainable lives with a future.

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Chapter 1

The Beginning

"Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower,

The periwinkle trails its wreaths;

And ’tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes."

William Wordsworth

If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Rainer Maria Rilke

My wife was away taking care of her mother, so I was left alone…which is not my forte. I was in our cubbyhole dwelling on the eighth floor of an apartment building on the outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee, right beside the Mississippi River. I’d been looking at the television to come face to face with all of the violent, shocking news. It reported another school shooting, another series of bombings in Syria and Yemen, and the insane election of another right-wing idiot shouting my country first. Disgusted with all the chaos, I turned off the television. I was tired of living as a human being that makes me a part of all this horrible destruction of each other and the Earth.

Suddenly, I had a strong urge to go outside and look at the moon and stars over the Mississippi River. I opened the door, stepped out, walked into the polluted air and artificial light, to go three blocks to a pier jutting out from some deserted, rotting buildings beside the river. I sat on an old, weathered bench at the end of the pier that was my favorite place to get away. I loved to listen and meditate on the rushing, powerful flow of the river, and hear the sound of it crashing against the old pilings beneath me. I looked up, and, even through the pollution, I could still see some muffled indications that the cosmos still existed.

All at once, something weird interrupted me. Out of the sky came what first appeared to be a star, but as it approached, it looked more like a mystical, multicolored ball of light. It startled me, but for some reason I wasn’t frightened…in fact, it made me feel receptive and relaxed. Soon it was in front of me, and in a deep, beautiful voice, it spoke.

We need desperately to talk with you. We would humbly request to speak with you about something that is very important. That was all it said.

Now, I am no hero. I’m just a cautious, curious person in a meaningless, routine job running-off newspapers. It is true that I have always wanted to know everything about everything. I’ve always wanted to travel and search out historical locations to meet interesting and very different people, but I only have just enough money to survive. However, that had been balanced off by having a wonderful wife right there beside me. Still, I am very curious. My mother used to say that was why I was born breach…because I was squirming around trying to see what was going on.

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Before I go on, let me tell you a little about myself. My name is Carl and I grew up in a loving, supportive family. My parents went to church every Sunday, and I would tag along until I went to college. I didn’t do very well in school, but I did manage to pass. I found most of the classes boring, as well as most of those who were suffering around me. When I graduated from high school, I went to a two-year community college close by, but I never went on to finish in the four-year college as my parents expected, because I got tired of playing school. I wandered from one job to the next, not really caring what I was doing, and spent the rest of my time drinking beer, watching TV, and reading. I’ve been an avid reader ever since one of my teachers in the sixth grade required us to read The Count of Monte Cristo, so now I read all the time.

I worked a while as a meter reader where I also got bored, so