*Book Twelve, *Return to Grace ... The Crisis and Opportunity of End Times** What follows naturally from a book on current times and its craving for authenticity is the outer — or the social, historical, current events aspect of that. For not only is there an increasing hunger for realness and truth, the times themselves are demanding genuineness and integrity of us. No less than the survival of all life on this planet is at stake. This is the greatest crisis. However, it is also the grandest opportunity for folks to find themselves and to participate in a cause beyond themselves. There has never been a time so ripe for personal fulfillment alongside and within a time so dire and having such momentous consequences. There has never been a better time for heroes to come forth and rainbow warriors to awaken. This is the grandest adventure of all time, the greatest story ever being told on Earth, and it is happening in our lifetimes. We are lucky to be here, despite the dark cloud of gloom and doom approach­ing. For we can never be better than we are able to be now. The brightest angels of our beings are being summoned at this exact time, like never before. So this book, book twelve, will explore the unique and apocalyptic character of our times ... in all its wondrous implications. *** AFTERWORD/13 of *The Secret Life of Stones: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* by Michael Adzema (2016) (complete book)