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Molly interviews author Micheal Johnston about his new book, "Silence of the Soleri".

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About "Silence of the Soleri"

Solus celebrates the Opening of the Mundus, a two-day holiday for the dead, but the city of the Soleri is hardly in need of diversion. A legion of traitors, led by a former captain of the Soleri military, rallies at the capital’s ancient walls. And inside those fortifications, trapped by circumstance, a second army fights for its very existence.

In a world inspired by ancient Egyptian history and King Lear, this follow-up to Michael Johnston's Soleri, finds Solus besieged from within as well as without and the Hark-Wadi family is stuck at the heart of the conflict.

About Michael Johnston

Michael Johnston was born in 1973 in Cleveland, Ohio. As a child and a teen he was an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy. He studied architecture and ancient history at Lehigh University and during a lecture on the history of ancient Egypt, the seed of an idea was born. He earned a master’s degree in architecture from Columbia University, graduating at the top of his class. Michael worked as an architect in New York City before moving to Los Angeles. Sparked by the change of locale, a visit to the desert, and his growing dissatisfaction with the architectural industry, he sought a way to merge his interests in architecture and history with his love of fantasy. By day he worked as an architect, but by night he wrote and researched an epic fantasy novel inspired by the history of ancient Egypt and the tragic story of King Lear. After working this way for several years, he shut down his successful architecture practice and resolved to write full time. He now lives and writes in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.

You can find Michael on twitter @mjohnstonauthor

 

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Michael P. Johnson’s wanderlust, thirsty curiosity, as he will tell us, to explore and experience a sort of nomadic life never in one place, has allowed him to deepen friendships with exceptional, extremely stimulating men, that we could define visionary. Doing so, he had the chance to assimilate and share their openness and futuristic way of thinking. Among these exceptional encounter there will be the one with Bruce Goff, an eccentric but extremely intelligent man, who cultivated many different forms of passions from art to music, receiving the title of chairman in the School of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, despite being self-taught. The encounter over the years turned into a long term friendship. A long time written correspondence will imprint the relation with another famous man of the desert, Paolo Soleri, who at that time was working on his Arcosanti. Michael in several occasions will visit the ideal city under construction, sharing Paolo’s ideas against the insane, ruinous frenzy for the automobile and growing consumerism. Their passionate conversations focus on the aspiration towards an architecture more ecologically and environmentally respectful. Michael, as Aris Georges states, with an absolutely true and objective praise, is one of the few “artists who have never drawn a line between their life and work”. He has amply demonstrated his commitment both in architecture and in life, actively dealing with social and political struggles, marching alongside Martin Luther King, advocating for woman rights, for Native Americans, experiencing the attempts against oppression by the revolutionary movement, Black Panthers.

Paolo Soleri, architetto italo americano e allievo di Frank Lloyd Wright, fu autore di un incessante lavoro teorico il cui centro ruotava attorno a temi come l’ecologia, la vita comunitaria, l’etica sociale e il sovraffollamento globale. Temi di straordinaria attualità che affrontò con impeto già dagli anni Cinquanta, con la realizzazione di Cosanti, e vent’anni dopo con l’esperienza, ancora in corso, di Arcosanti: il “laboratorio urbano” che “si contrappone alle grandi metropoli e alle loro periferie degradate” fondamentale per l’evoluzione delle “città del futuro”.

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The Yoga of Architecture is a meditation practice that runs through the subtle energy fields of the seven chakra wheels within the human body. Each wheel represents a different endocrine gland that is connected to a vital organ. As we move from microcosm to macrocosm, the organs in the body correspond with the different functions within an arcology, a holistic ecocity design. Seeing the complexity of an arcology as a fractal or miniaturization of the planetary ecosystem, arcology becomes a living cell within the Cosmos. Unlike our present patriarchal civilization that is spreading out of control like carcinogenic tumors, a planetary networks of arcologies becomes healing nodes protecting wilderness by working as an immunity system. Using Barbara Marx Hubbard's Wheel of Cocreation to build the social architecture within an arcology, we have a way to create a morphic field necessary for its manifestation.

Arcology, a whole-systems design approach to living, is a city in the image of Woman. The Yoga of Architecture gives us topography for constructing both an inner and outer spatial relationships that leads us to the Queendom of Love. It is a pathway to creating a second genesis so that the world soul finally has a universal home. Yoga of Architecture becomes a collective spiritual practice of building a new world. The workship, a word combining work and worship of the divine, puts practice into action. Such activity not only allows us to understand of our common purpose, but to live the spirit of global unity by constructing a new sacred reality.

Please join me in doing the Yoga of Architecture meditation practice. As more and more of us follow the path of building the divine architectural green print in our hearts, we find the external means for our planetary salvation.

Arcology: evolutionary architecture; the fusion of architecture and ecology

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