The Great Awakening - Webpage of Michael Sharp

Here’s me and my family, Cape Point, South Africa on the vacation leg of a recent book tour there. There’s me, the blond with the hair in face, my brilliant wife Gina, my glorious son Niko, my stunning daughter Vayda, and my divine little Tristan. Stephen my magnificent older son is missing but since he was looking after our home while we were gone, he was probably thinking of us as much as we were thinking of him.

I gotta say, SA is an amazing country. Very beautiful country. Magnificent and beautiful people. I cannot tell you how much we loved it there except to say we loved in there. But altogether too much suffering and poverty. Despite apartheid and the economic promise of globalization, millions of blacks still live in desperate poverty in this country, eking out a meager existence as slaves within the system. Formal freedom they may have, but without the energy (i.e., the money) to uplift themselves, what can they do? The System there is still set up like the system everywhere. It sucks energy from the people and deposits it in the hands of a few. Apartheid may have fallen, but The System lingers on.

But that will change. No worries. While I was down there I started talking to the people I met about how I thought that, very soon, the eyes of the world would once again be looking at South Africa but this time not in disapproval at a violent and exclusionary apartheid regime, but because of an amazing, almost miraculous transformation that would begin to occur in that country I would think by the middle of 2009, but hopefully a lot sooner.A transformation so miraculous and startling that everyone in the world would be wondering what the heck was going on.

What’s the nature of this transformation? Well I’m talking about that in the book I’m currently working which I’ve tentatively entitled “Circles.” Since I don’t want to spoil the plot or the ending, I don’t want to go into too much detail here.

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