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    The New Superpower
    The New Superpower
    The New Superpower
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    The New Superpower

    By James Hilgendorf

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    Hiroshima. The Bomb. Madness.
    The Buried Dream of America.
    Quantum Physics. Buddhism.
    The Individual & The Universe.
    Reality. Mirrors. Delusion.
    The Buddha. The Real Battle.
    The Beginning and End of Time.
    The Roots of America. The Lotus Sutra.
    Electrons. Karma. Hibakusha.
    The Ceremony in the Air. Revolution.
    The Intent of the Universe.
    It's all here in this book. Come on in.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Hilgendorf
    Release dateMay 17, 2010
    ISBN9781452460864
    The New Superpower
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    James Hilgendorf

    James Hilgendorf is the author of nine books - "Life & Death: A Buddhist Perspective", "The Great New Emerging Civilization", "The New Superpower", "The Buddha and the Dream of America", "A New Myth for America", "Poems of Death: Time for Eternity", "Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age", "Maybe We Need a New Religion", and "Forever Here". He is also the producer of The Tribute Series, a series of highly-acclaimed travel films that are in homes, libraries, and schools all across the United States, several of which have appeared on PBs and international television.

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      The New Superpower - James Hilgendorf

      The New Superpower

      by

      James Hilgendorf

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      The New Superpower

      Copyright 2010 James Hilgendorf

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      From the Cover:

      Hiroshima. The Bomb. Madness.

      The Buried Dream of America.

      Quantum Physics. Buddhism.

      The Individual & The Universe.

      Reality. Mirrors. Delusion.

      Who Are We?

      Cause and Effect.

      Extraordinary Ordinary People.

      My Mother. My Father.

      The Buddha.

      Spirits of the Land. War. The Real Battle.

      The Beginning and End of Time.

      The Roots of America. The Lotus Sutra.

      Electrons. Karma. Hibakusha.

      Fishes and Birds and Bison.

      The Ceremony in the Air. Revolution.

      The Intent of the Universe.

      Happiness.

      You and I.

      The New Superpower.

      It's all here in this book. Come on in.

      *****

      Prologue

      For all of us who were not there, or who were not even born at that time, here is what happened:

      At 8:15 a.m., August 6th, 1945, the first atomic bomb used on a city detonated over Hiroshima, Japan.

      In the first fraction of a millionth of a second, the temperature at the core of this exploding universe reached million of degrees centigrade - 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface. Surreal blinding light expanded across the sky and the city, instantly vaporizing, burning and charring beyond recognition thousands of human beings. Within a kilometer of the epicenter, peoples' hearts and livers and kidneys and eyes and brains disintegrated in a fraction of a second. One man, resting on some steps, disappeared immediately, leaving only a shadow scorched into the stone.

      Almost simultaneously came an enormous shockwave, traveling at the speed of sound, smashing and grinding and pulverizing everything in sight. Raging, wind-whipped firestorms broke out all over the city.

      In a seeming moment, the city of Hiroshima had ceased to exist. The center of the city was leveled and more than 60,000 buildings were destroyed.

      Survivors describe scenes of utter horror:

      I looked around me, then gasped. The scenes before me were not of this Earth. They could be called a living hell. Shattered heads. A dazed mother covered with blood, still clutching her dead baby. A child with skin peeling from his entire body, shrieking from inside a collapsed building. Internal organs spilling out of bodies. Lines of completely naked people. Images of inconceivable carnage burned themselves into my mind, and every time I recall them, the tears begin flowing before I realize it.

      Another:

      It was exactly like a procession of ghosts. I saw one man with hundreds of glass shards piercing his body from the waist up. The skin of another man had peeled off his entire upper body, exposing a mass of red flesh. A woman was covered in blood, one eyeball grotesquely hanging out of its socket. Next to a mother whose skin had completely peeled off lay a loudly crying baby, its body an unprotected mass of red flesh. A number of corpses lay scattered about. A dead woman's internal organs had burst out onto the ground around her. It was utterly gruesome, a living hell indescribable in words.

      These words of survivors are shocking. They are meant to be shocking. They are an attempt to convey a new, and heretofore unimagined, reality.

      If there was ever any question of men's and women's power over events, it was seemingly annihilated once and for all in the summer of 1945, at Hiroshima, and then once again, a few days later, at Nagasaki.

      What happened that summer was so overwhelming, so incomprehensible in its devastation and implications, that the psyche of people everywhere folded inward. There was an enormous implosion of collective belief in the future itself. It was something that could not be faced directly. The truth of what happened had to be buried deeply. This is still our reality.

      At its deepest level, what the bomb instilled into the human psyche was a deep and all-pervading sense of powerlessness.

      We subsumed our own lives to the power of the bomb. We embraced the bomb itself. With this bomb, we became the world's greatest superpower; and from that moment, we have continued to design and build and point new megadeath weapons at all four corners of the globe that are thousands of times more destructive than the bombs that wiped Hiroshima and Nagasaki off

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