Earth Sink is now in at least two LDS bookstores.
Find it at Line Upon Line Bookstore in Apex, North Carolina, and at LDS Book Nook in Alpine, Utah.
Here is the link to LDS Book Nook. Note that they feature “unusual” and “rare” LDS titles. Earth Sink definitely fits both of these categories!
Earth Sink is now circulated in 11 public libraries in Brevard County, and in several other public libraries across the United States.
Earth Sink will be displayed by The Jenkins Group at the Texas Library Association Book Show, April 12-15, and in various other book expos around the United States in coming months.
Stay tuned for our review of Earth Sink coming soon.
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Earth Sink is also in the Eborn Bookstore at the Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City, Utah. More to follow.
Earth Sink Book Highlights
Here’s a teaser factoid: If you look at the back cover of the book, and turn it upside down, the glowing crack in the ground spells the word “wo”, representing the woes foretold to come upon the wicked.
Below are a few pages of the book, Earth Sink, that you might find particularly interesting. Please note that Earth Sink does not read like a conventional novel. It is mostly narrative, and my personal dreams are injected into the text like islands in a sea of prose. Much of the value of the story is hidden in the prose, and it takes a reader willing to seek out the hidden messages to fully appreciate the book, much like we must seek out the hidden meanings of our own lives, which is no easy task, but well worth the effort. The story itself is fictional, and I make no claims to speak prophecies or doctrines, but I do like to say: It’s only fiction ’til it’s not.
Pages 20-21
Degrees of glory described as concentric spheres, like layers of an onion.
Pages 47-49
The adversarial “New Order” is organized prior to mortal life.
Later in the book, “The World Order” becomes the mortal arm of “The New Order” in the adversarial role. This has been happening, more or less, in current events of our day.
Pages 101-104
The mediator organizes matter by the power of his thoughts. He perceives an entire cosmology as one contiguous whole. Matter, energy, space, and time are all interchangeable and are specific manifestations of one dynamic, eternal substance.
Pages 105-121
Personal dreams, that, when put together, lead me to have some understanding of the dynamics of particles as small as protons and the formation of entire universes. One of these dreams showed me what I can only consider to be a representation of the pre-mortal inhabitants of worlds of the same order as this Earth, and their pre-mortal relationship with us who were assigned to this Earth. This has significance to me, as it has helped me understand that this earth is the seat of the atonement of Christ, which has far-reaching and eternal effects for all worlds created by Christ and populated by the direct offspring of our Heavenly Father. It also has significance to me in helping me understand that even if this earth were utterly wasted at the second coming of Christ, the eternal plans of Heavenly Father cannot be frustrated, and the atonement has been accomplished for all of Heavenly Father’s direct offspring, regardless of what worlds they are assigned to inhabit.
Pages 133-136
Personal experience, not a dream, but it taught me something about the interface between our mortal bodies and our spirits, leading me to understand that our spirits do not merely inhabit our bodies like a hand inside a glove, but are actually integrated with our bodies. This experience was perhaps something similar to what Joseph Smith described happening as he began praying in the grove, just before being visited by Heavenly Father and Jesus. If nothing else, my own experience makes me appreciate what Joseph Smith had to experience, and increases my testimony of the reality of his divine calling.
Pages 148-149
Suggests the concept of the adversary’s attempts to corrupt memories, making people believe that the mere intention to accomplish vicarious work is a memory of having done the work, when, in reality, no such work had been completed. This could be one reason for keeping hand-written, personal journals of our own lives, as a protection against memory alteration.
Pages 159-165
Personal dreams that describe various natural disasters and war-torn settings. Subsequent pages get back to the fictional storyline, much of which is likely to become non-fiction very soon. These dreams have not come to pass exactly as I had dreamed them, at least not yet, but some similar events have been in the news recently, and it is not a stretch to imagine many more occurring in the near future. These dreams have helped me prepare my mind for the things we are likely to face at some point on the earth. I may not survive all of them, but I will not be surprised by any of them, and I consider that a blessing.
Pages 171-174
The US Constitution is dissolved by corrupt politics designed to protect those who misused it to climb to power, so they cannot be removed by the same system they manipulated to gain their positions. The dissolution of the US constitution paves the way for the corrupt “World Order”.
Pages 205-208
Human longevity technology hits unprecedented breakthroughs but is applied for corrupt purposes in opposition to all that is good. An organizational structure of high world government mimics but entirely misrepresents and counterfeits the concept of leadership by a council of three and a council of twelve. Note that at this point in the book, human conception had ceased entirely. In other words, there was no one left to be born. The breakthrough known as “The Maker Project” had been unsuccessful until the last human conception had occurred. After the last human conception had reached maturity, “The Maker Project” suddenly produced results, posing new questions: If there was no one left to be born, why was global population increasing, and if people had once been concerned about overpopulation, why the paradigm shift toward orchestrating a population explosion?
Pages 298-303
Technology affords the ability to create, or render, material objects with the use of the mind and a quantum network of neural activity, like a highly advanced and intelligent wireless network that does not depend on the propagation of electromagnetic energy to function. This technology gives rise to a corrupt, false god known as “The New Messiah”, and the world has one politically approved religion, a sort of Zion counterfeit.
Pages 305-306
Personal dream of large square pits being dug by precision explosives. Initially, they seemed to be some sort of shelters, but were intended, instead, to be mass graves operated by a corrupt government.
Pages 387-408 (story ends here, so this is a spoiler)
Christ, who has been observing the inhabitants of Earth for a few decades in plain sight, literally the only light visible in the darkened skies, finally returns, and all is not well. This follows a series of overlapping, global-scale calamities, more or less representative of the woes described in the New Testament Book of Revelation. The half-hour of silence in heaven spoken of in Revelation is assumed to be about 21 years on Earth (calculated from one day for God being 1,000 years for Earth), and is fictionally dramatized in the story as being a period of dead calm, that, by itself, generates disastrous consequences. In the story, it is a period of calm before the storms.
Note that the Postface and References offer some comfort and hope.
Author website:
http://www.wix.com/ilyanlavanway/earth-sink
Earth Sink is an epic apocalyptic fiction book relevant to everyone on this
planet. The end times do not have to be horrific. We have the key to mitigate
many if not all of the terrifying prospects looming before us. Read Earth Sink
and find the key to mankind’s future. The key has been around since the 1800′s,
but only a fraction of one percent of Earth’s living population is even aware
of it, and less than that are actually doing anything about it. Virtually all
of Earth’s deceased population is keenly aware of this key, and who knows how
many of them are doing anything about it?
If you have been paying attention to any of the sociopolitical developments
in America
and around the world over the past few years, you will get a lot out of this
book. If you have been unaware of what is going on and where the world is
heading, then you also need to read this book. It will shock you to your core,
and you will not remain on a neutral footing after reading Earth Sink in its
entirety.
If the mere mention of the names of public figures such as Sarah Palin,
Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,
Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, Bill Clinton, George
W. Bush, Al Gore, Janet Reno, and many others evoke strong opinions or emotions
within your mind and heart, then you will definitely have opinions about Earth
Sink.
If issues such as abortion, gay rights, gays in the military, gay marriage,
teen pregnancy, climate change, government bailouts, health care reform, jobless
benefits, human trafficking, the economy, and current legislative practices
grab your attention, then Earth Sink will make an indelible impression with its
vivid and descriptive imagery and its high-tech extension of mankind’s ravenous
appetite for power and convenience and instant gratification. The state of
global society will defy imagination as the end draws near. Events without
precedent will be witnessed by living and dead alike. If you have ever wondered
what the end of the world might really be like, then you will have a lot to
ponder after reading Earth Sink.
For example, did you know the Colorado River did not create the Grand Canyon? Read Earth Sink and find out what did, and
then be aware that it might very well happen again, in populated areas. Have
you ever wondered what will happen to the human race when there is no one left
to be born? Have you ever considered the fact that sorcery and demonic
possessions do not always manifest as weird, obviously crazed behaviors, but
can be so subtle you might be under the influence of such forces right now and
not even know it? Earth Sink will awaken an awareness in you that your soul
cannot deny.
Author’s website:
http://www.wix.com/ilyanlavanway/earth-sink
Author’s blog:
http://earthsink.blogspot.com
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Earth Sink has received a
professional book review from Kirkus Discoveries and is currently in the
WorldCat.org Library Catalog. Earth Sink is circulated in 17 Brevard County, Florida public libraries. Earth Sink
is also in circulation at various public and university libraries across the United States, from Washington State to Washington DC.
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Earth Sink is available in
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information about the book. Library and wholesaler inquiries welcome.
Bookstores are welcome to sell on consignment, long term or short term.
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Title: Earth Sink
ISBN-13: 9780976800439
ISBN-10: 0976800438
Author: Ilyan Kei Lavanway
Publisher: Ilyan Kei Lavanway
Publication date: 24 May 2010
Genre: Fiction
Format: Paperback Perfect
Bound
Page Count: 496
Height: 8.5 inches
Width: 5.5 inches
Thickness: 1.2 inches
Weight: 1 lb. 9 oz.
Retail Price: $24.95
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Author Website:
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Tags:
Second Coming, Jesus Christ,
Aleph Ori, Betelgeuse, Supernova
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Author Bio:
Ilyan Kei Lavanway is an active LDS author. He served a
full time mission in the Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission. He earned a Master
of Science degree in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota. Ilyan has served
as a Minuteman ICBM launch officer and missile warning and space surveillance
radar officer for the United States Air Force. He served nearly 14 years on
active duty in crew operations, crew instructor and evaluator, classroom
academic instructor, and curriculum developer positions. Ilyan is an avid student
of the scriptures. He has applied his keen interest in eschatology, his
personal dreams of latter-day events, and his vivid imagination to author a
fiction book titled Earth Sink that is becoming astonishingly relevant as real
world events unfold.
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