2150 A.D.

Not really familiar with this. Quick rundown?

I wish I had my copy so I could look up all the names & such, but I'll try and do my best summary from memory. It's basically a utopian book.

John is a Vietnam vet & he has no leg, he has a best friend & roomie, Carl. John falls asleep one night and has a very lucid dream of being naked in a perfect body and never running out of energy. He meets a beautiful girl named Lea who is his "soul twin" or perfect companion who is just like him. She explains this is 2150 and she and others brought his astral body forward in time because his soul is so advanced, unlike many others from his day. (This book was writ & when John is awake it takes place in the 1970's) He has to try and reach the third level of macro awareness by a certain date and demonstrate various macro powers, which are pretty standard psychic fares like telekenisis, astral projection, etc.

That last sentence, had I read it before I picked up the book, would have turned me off to it entirely. It is very New Agey, and I think the author really does want those who read it to believe in reincarnation, astral bodies, etc.

It is not the best book for prose. Everyone in it is supposed to be unimaginably beautiful, the measure of what the human body can be. But her descriptions are awful "He was a smiling Hercules" or "she had auburn hair and a vivacious smile" is the best and longest description many get. The dialogue is awful. When people aren't explaining the intricacies of macro philosophy, the things they say are absolutely unbelievable.

Still, even though I don't agree with it spiritually and it seem like a novel written by someone too excited by their first encounter with "Mysteries of the Unknown", it really makes me feel good and after I am done I want to treat people better, and I do. I'm more patient and kind. And I do get terifically caught up in John's life, and Carol's and many of the other folk. It's one of my favorite books.

The cover to the first editions are interesting, they tout it as the antidote to dystopian novels such as 1984 & Brave New World and say it will turn everyone's lives around. But a lot of her solutions to problems would leave many skeptical. i.e. They don't have to kill to eat because they have a giant computer run on psychic energy that materializes food exactly like tasty cooked flesh. I can't do that.

I was with the understanding that Thea Alexandria wrote 2150 AD.

I read this when I was 14, I am still reading it over and over again. I consider myself a Marcoist. My question is: Does "The Workshop" in Tempe Arizona still exist? It was a place to study Marco Philosophy in the late 70s. I would Really like to get in contact with them. Anyone know?

Let go and lets Grow!

I beleive that the differences between the two books, (and the absence of dons author credit in the second), are deliberate, in order to lead the reader to deduce the story to be reality rather than speculative fiction, (Don = carl, Thea = that chick who jon telekinetically alters from a frump into a hotty, thereby ruining her natural progression of karma & his own chances to complete the time translation...so she dumps don & full of ego tries to start a religeon with the dead jons jornal which they'd already published as fiction), such an feindishly clever gimmick, that i have no idea why it didn't work, (or maybe it did). Incidentally a freind of mine has a copy of the first printing signed by don 'with macro love' in 1972.
I also found it to be a beautiful & influential read the first few times but lately im suspisious of it...micro? perhaps.

sounds like some crazy scientology stuff or sumpin

So who knows, right? I love the concept of the book. Think of it being written in the late 60's/early 70's by a couple of sociology/psychology majors at the same time as The Harrad Experiment.

They split up and Thea takes over as the meglo-maniac personality creates a non-profit evangalistic org, while her ex-lover/co-author quietly disappears. What started out as a considerable "all religions are ONE" tour de force turns into a spoon-bender's convention.

Thea's minnions are in Tempe, AZ selling cassettes, books and "macro how'to's" to what must be an ever dwindling audience.

Great idea ... bad implementation.

It was a great book. I read it when I was young and it encouraged me to be more open-minded and less judgmental. It encouraged me to look outside the box. Sometimes there's something out there, and sometimes there isn't. Either way, it's always best to open your mind to other ideas, whether you end up supporting them or not.