Rain of Ashes is an extraordinary novel by an extraordinary man, Robert Wolff. When the book arrived in the mail, I literally whooped for joy, I was so excited to see the newest work from Wolff

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Rain of Ashes is an extraordinary novel by an extraordinary man, Robert Wolff. When the book arrived in the mail, I literally whooped for joy, I was so excited to see the newest work from Wolff. I'd gotten to know him through his previous non-fiction book, What It Is To Be Human, more recently Published as Original Wisdom.

Original Wisdom is a very special book that tells the story of an aboriginal tribe, the Sng'oi (pronounced sen-oy) that, at the time of its writing, existed in the Malaysian jungle. Since then, the Wolff has told me that the tribe no longer exists, that the Malaysian government almost bragged that the jungle had been cleared. I mentioned this to one friend who suggested that maybe, like the Aztecs, who are still in existence, the tribe merely faded into the jungle, or in with other people. That gives me some hope. Because the Sng'oi were so different, manifested such a different way of living, of relating to each other, to the forest, to nature, that it would be a great tragedy for humanity to have lost them.

The book, Original Wisdom, told of Wolff's visits with the Sng'oi and about how they lived. What first attracted me to learning about them was the idea that each morning, the tribe would tell each other the dreams they had, and then, they would base their day's activity on those dreams. And the Sng'oi talked to nature. They talked to the animals, the trees. After I read the book, my better half read it and loved it and then she shared it with our daughter, who also loved it.

So, when Rain of Ashes arrived, I was primed and ready for a magical experience in reading AND sharing. I was not to be disappointed.

Rain of Ashes is a post-apocalyptic book, about a time when most people on the planet have been wiped out by radiation, bioweaponized diseases, and a long night, caused by some cataclysmic event. It introduces you to a great group of memorable characters and takes you on an adventurous trip as they face the challenges of this crazy, after the apocalypse world. I recommend reading Original Wisdom first, because you'll see how beautifully he takes the philosophy and wisdom of the Sng'oi and uses their way of living as the way the survivors adopt as they start rebuilding the world, rebuilding the future of humanity. And really, the "new" way of living is really the way indigenous tribal people have lived for millennia, before the onset of civilization, which brought slavery, upper and lower classes, money, power, much longer work days, criime, insanity...

This is a hopeful novel that offers a vision for the future that does not necessarily require a nuclear holocaust for it to be brought to life.

This is a fast read. You won't want to put it down. I hope Robert Wolff, now in his 80's will write a sequel, if he hasn't already.

Robert Wolff is also a columnist on OpEdNews.com

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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