An inventive and philosophical adventure novel about reconnecting to nature, interwoven with otherworldly images of a branching reality. This story includes, and was inspired by, a collection of abstract landscape images. 

You follow a band of misfit strangers who live in a jungle hideaway, a base for exploring an alien realm. Their adventures in these two worlds are interwoven with a materialist/spiritualist dialectic. They debate: what does civilization lose by ignoring the tangled, teeming, and becoming of wild nature?

To tackle this question, visionary benefactor Sridar assembles the team of scientists Beth and Micheal, safari guide/artist Big O, and brilliant telepathic twins D'Ahmet and Tahel. They are joined by the mysterious and possibly nonhuman adventuress Miriam.

While living in the Costa Rican cloud forest, touched by its myriad forms of life, they encounter an indigenous shaman and have bizarre apparitions and spiritual visions. They learn a metaphysical secret and struggle with malefactors who are out to steal it. All this is in the pursuit of a vital, foundational cultural transformation.

If you have -- or if you want -- an open mind about the relationship of spiritual beliefs to the physical world, this book explores the subject while it entertains with intriguing characters, solid philosophical musings on classic themes, and a fun, coherent theory of branching realities.

All this comes with numerous near-magical images of a world that might be, a world akin to Earth that is also a metaphor for the vastly aware, mutually enmeshed potential of our own ecosphere