When I sat down to write the chapter Gaia in the Garden for a book on how we could exploit the planet without destroying it, little did I know where it was about to lead. In that chapter I decided to build a model to demonstrate the system in terms of function. It took the form of 3 circles and as I worked on it the model on my screen began to rotate and something inside my head began to move. A movement that I can only describe as the 2 halves of my brain beginning to part, not in a surgical sense but like a flower opening, blooming. One minute I was sat at a desk watching a computer screen, the next I was watching the universe reveal itself. Knowledge streamed in and before my eyes I watched atoms rotate, I saw fusion at my fingertips and I was aware. 10 days later I had abandoned everything and flown to Asia. this work can now be read on line at http://malcolm.mcewen.googlepages.com/home...More >< Less