Press Release - New Book Coming Oct 9th

Press Release

October 4, 2017

Contact:   Eric Wilson

Cell Phone: 859-983-5190

Email: ewilson1776@yahoo.com

                                                                                    

New Book changing the way people view the past, present, and prepare for the future.

Every culture goes through predictable cycles of abundance and catastrophic “resets.” Eric Wilson, the director of the Kentucky 9/12 Project and former leader in the Tea Party movement has released his latest book “Cultural Cycles” and warns the United States is on the brink of its next reset, with potentially disastrous results – and he backs it up with data.

Owensboro, KY –  "Cultural Cycles" is a book written by Eric Wilson who is also a professional business forecaster for a local international company and worked in the field of analytics for over twenty years.   Through an intriguing mixture of historical acumen and big-data analytics - Cultural Cycles examines the cyclical nature of history and applies it to the United States today. Basing his observations on repeating eras and cycles from the seventeenth century to the present, Wilson reveals that the United States’ next cultural reset is imminent and posits what the consequences will be for a nation already divided. 

Predicting the Future by Looking at the Past - Chapter 1

Exert of Chapter 1 from the book Cultural Cycles (Oct 9 2017) by Author Eric Wilson and contributions by Justen Collins available @ http://www.culturalcycles.com

For over twenty-five years now – in my “day” job of analytics and business forecasting – I use past results and forecast outlooks to predict future actions and events every day. I have thrived in the corporate world by observing patterns and correlations in events and attempting to explain – not necessarily “why” something occurred – but “what” might occur next. Most times – whether people realize it or not – I am far from alone in these pursuits.

While they may not get paid to do so, most people generally try to anticipate what is going to happen in their lives.  Of course, the majority do not fully understand the statistical probabilities or potential forecast elements involved. Regardless, they still spend their time guessing what might happen tomorrow or prognosticating to their peers about the future – even if it is just which team will win this Sunday’s game.

We all make these guesses, but what if we could see into the future? Would you not want to “peer under the shroud” and see what was to come? I am not talking about learning the next winner of the Super Bowl or Lord Stanley’s Cup, but more like knowing what type of culture shifts we will see in the coming years.

Are You Smarter Than a Forecaster - Chapter 2

Exert of Chapter 2 from the book Cultural Cycles (Oct 9 2017) by Author Eric Wilson and contributions by Justen Collins available @ http://www.culturalcycles.com

Even though what I do – and forecasting in general – may seem implausible at worst and unreliable at best to many, it is also intuitive to most. Look at the chart below (figure 1) and guess where the next point will fall.

(Figure 1)

Overwhelmingly, almost everyone predicts the next point will fall below the center line and answer “C.”

Cultural Cycles - The End is Neigh

message from the Author Eric Wilson:

After five years, I have recently completed my latest book of an in depth look at the Cycles that move a culture and the next looming reset. Stay tuned for the new book coming this fall “Cultural Cycles: A Story of the History of the United States - Why It Repeats Itself, and the Next Looming Reset”.  This book uses history and analytics and most of all the readers own intuition and logic to explain the seemly rhythmic nature of history. We answer many of the questions of why various well-known historic events took place when they did and what we might be able to expect in the future.  After extensive research of historical patterns, I not only show how and why history does repeat itself but also provide insight to how America may be on the verge of the next cataclysmic reset. 

COMING THIS FALL LEARN MORE @ http://www.cultrualcyles.com

By Dawn We Will Be Free

Re-Posted by Dr. Shanon Brooks on Aug 25, 2015  monticellocollege.org/

About a year and 1/2 ago, I was teaching in Southern California. I always try to bring a lot of stories and historical relevance to my classes and in this particular class, I had related the events surrounding the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

One of my students, a quiet but attentive older lady approached me after the class and with a bit of an accent, thanked me for sharing the Hungarian history and quietly shared that she had lived through that revolution. This lead to a formal interview, which then lead to her writing this book.

GEORGETTE AT 19, JUST 18 MONTHS AFTER ARRIVING IN THE USA

At the end of WWII, the Soviet Army pushed the Nazi’s out of East Europe and began to occupy it. It was 1945 when they invaded Hungary and made it a communist state, one of the most repressed in the world.

Georgette and her family quickly went from a comfortable middle class life in Budapest, Hungary to being prisoners of one of the most horrific political systems in modern times.

Thousands of Hungarians were arrested, imprisoned, and tortured. Many died of starvation, and of foul conditions after being forced from their homes and made to live in camps.

Some were executed. Georgette and her family knew they had to escape or they faced the same fate as their unfortunate neighbors.

Book Review - Our Home by C.E. Sargent

Our Home, by C. E. Sargent

Our Home Vol I & II was written to help parents become what they should be. All aspects of home life are covered, with examples and ideas of how to establish the kind of home the Lord expects of us. This book is about the sanctity of family and family life. Discusses time-honored virtues and values only found within the family circle. Deals with raising and educating children.



Eric Wilson’s Review: I struggled with this month’s review, do I have to like it or be willing to pass this book on to a friend? After consideration I deemed I do not have to “love” every book I read nor am I the final arbitrator of a classic so…. There were some good parts but also some less good parts to borderline ridiculous. This book was recommended by Glenn Beck, Dr. Brooks, and DeMille, all whom I respect and trust their opinions. That said there is a whole lot of great nuggets of principles, values, virtues, and helpful foundational thinking for family and the life education of children. That said there are also other parts that I would question but understand the author included. Over all thought it was not well written, the author’s perspective is from a college aged kid, with neither children nor experience, at the dawn of the first turning with a clear artist archetype (if you don’t understand the last statement read the Forth Turning by Howe and Straus). To a middle aged father of three, Calvinist, and nomad archetype at the leading edge of the forth turning I just could not connect with this book fully. I said all of that to say this, read it for yourself with a discerning mind. There is a lot of great information you can glean and people a lot smarter than me that recommend this book.

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WTH Is Wrong With America - Part 1

Re-Posted by Dr. Shanon Brooks on September 23, 2014  monticellocollege.org/


I've been angry for a while now.

When I turned 50, I took pause and reflected on my life, presuming that I was at the halfway point (yes, I intend to live to see 100).

I thought about my childhood in the 60’s and early 70’s.

I reminisced my high school years and realized that my topsy-turvy life to that point had pretty well mirrored the turbulence of the era.

I remembered my fear of possibly being drafted into the Vietnam Conflict (I missed it by several years, but the possibility still seemed very real at the age of 15) and my full participation in the Cold War aboard a nuclear submarine shadowing Soviet ships of war.

Shortly after my military discharge, I became painfully aware of the poor state of my country and just how much had been lost, and I dedicated the balance of my life to the restoration of the America given us by her founders.

But then came 9/11 and the torrent of bad choices made by the American citizenry and its political leaders following that tragedy. The Patriot Act, the continuation of wars that we could never hope to win with the adopted management policies—that were and still are being used—the gargantuan unjustified economic bailouts and the rapid decline of the US dollar by the alarming leadership of the Federal Reserve, and the unabashed implementation of socialized medicine by all three branches of the federal government destroying any hope of restoring liberty and personal responsibility.

Book Review - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?”. Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form with this classic Atlas Shrugged to express her vision of existence. This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world—and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor—and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.

Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life—from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy—to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction—to the philosopher who becomes a pirate—to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph—to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad—to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

Book Review - Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell

In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the “constrained” vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the “unconstrained” vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. He describes how these two radically opposed views have manifested themselves in the political controversies of the past two centuries, including such contemporary issues as welfare reform, social justice, and crime. Updated to include sweeping political changes since its first publication in 1987, this revised edition of A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.

Eric Wilson’s Review: This book is not about Democrats or Republicans, conservatives or liberals. It is far more fundamental than that. This gets to the heart and minds of people’s ideological thinking and why. Not sure if I am naive or arrogant but I did disagree silently in the absolutes of the two “visions” but this is still an absolute must read and amazing perspective into politics and reason. Must admit it reads a lot like a textbook (which I enjoy) but like a good novel, wherever you put the book down you are anxious to learn what is coming next. This is a book not only for the serious student of political science, but for anyone who wants a better understanding of what leads honest and sincere individuals to hold extraordinarily divergent views.


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Book Review - The Fourth Turning by Howe & Straus

The Fourth Turning, by Howe and Straus

Strauss and Howe will change the way you see the world--and your place in it. In The Fourth Turning, they apply their generational theories to the cycles of history and locate America in the middle of an unraveling period, on the brink of a crisis. How you prepare for this crisis--the Fourth Turning--is intimately connected to the mood and attitude of your particular generation. Are you one of the can-do "GI generation," who triumphed in the last crisis? Do you belong to the mediating "Silent Majority," who enjoyed the 1950s High? Do you fall into the "awakened" Boomer category of the 1970s and 1980s, or are you a Gen-Xer struggling to adapt to our splintering world? Whatever your stage of life, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America's next rendezvous with destiny.


Eric Wilson’s Review: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” Everything has a purpose and in everything you may discover a cycle. This book lays out a chilling cycles that continue to play themselves over and over again much like the season spring, summer, fall, and now winter. Much like the Tyler Cycle this is a wakeup call of where we are and where we are heading. Admittedly it starts a little slow but you need to pick this book up and keep reading through it. Pay attention because if you get half way through you will be hooked. Read this, take lots of notes, and recommend it to a friend. It is one of the essential reads of our time.


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Book Review - One Second After, by William R. Forstchen

One Second After, by William R. Forstchen

New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real.. Months before publication, One Second After had already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end.

Book Review - The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli


The Prince is a classic book that explores the attainment, maintenance, and utilization of political power in the western world. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to demonstrate his skill in the art of the state, presenting advice on how a prince might acquire and hold power. Machiavelli defended the notion of rule by force rather than by law. Accordingly, The Prince seems to rationalize a number of actions done solely to perpetuate power. It is an examination of power-its attainment, development, and successful use.

Book Review - The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes 

In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through brave leadership they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation. Some of these figures were well known others ordinary people that would have been left in the shadows but holding tremendous stories. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today.

Book Review - 1984 by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skillfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.

Book Review - Towards a Meaningful Life” by Rabbi Simon Jaconson

Exert from book -  “Towards a Meaningful Life” by Rabbi Simon Jaconson.

The book reads:

In our secular society we tend to think of a leader as a person who’s well connected or who is powerful or charismatic or wealthy. We judge leaders by what they have. But a true leader should be judged by what he has not: Ego, arrogance, and self‑interest. A true leader sees his work as a self‑less service towards a higher purpose. As the sagists say leadership is not power and dominance. It is servitude. That doesn’t mean that a leader is weak. He derives great strength from his dedication to a purpose that is greater than himself.

Every generation has its Moses, a leader who inspires absolute trust, who is totally dedicated to fulfilling his unique role. He understands and appreciates each person’s role in perfecting this world and guides him or her accordingly. He rises above any individual perspective to take a global view, seeing how much each person and each issue fits into the entire scheme of the contemporary world. A true leader shakes people from their revery and tells them, no, you don’t need to live a life of desperation and confusion. Yes, you do have the ability to find meaning in your life and the unique skills to fulfill that meaning. You’re an important link in a chain of generations past. You have a legacy worth preserving and a future worth fighting for.

Book Review - Patriots by James Wesley Rawles

Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse
by James Wesley Rawles

America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse in the near future. The stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every major city. As hordes of refugees and looters pour out of the cities, a small group of friends living in the Midwest desperately tries to make their way to a safe-haven ranch in northern Idaho. The journey requires all their skill and training since communication, commerce, transportation and law enforcement have all disappeared. Once at the ranch, the group fends off vicious attacks from outsiders and then looks to join other groups that are trying to restore true Constitutional law to the country. Patriots is a thrilling narrative depicting fictional characters using authentic survivalist techniques to endure the collapse of the American civilization.

Book Review - Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin

Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin

When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny his clarion call for a new era in conservatism a #1 New York Times bestseller for an astounding twelve weeks. As provocative, well-reasoned, robust, and informed as his on-air commentary, with his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers reflected on every page, Levin’s galvanizing narrative provides a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for revitalizing the conservative vision and ensuring the preservation of American society. In a series of powerful essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the tyrannical liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming to immigration, and more.

Book Review - Conscious Creator

Posted by Dr. Shanon Brooks on November 23, 2013  monticellocollege.org/

My friend Kris Krohn has written a new book this year that is a MUST READ. It is called the Conscious Creator: 6 Laws For Manifesting Your Masterpiece Life.

Steve Palmer sent me a copy of this book months ago when it first came out and it sat on my shelf until last week when I finally got to it.  

I was moved by this story and the truth of the process that Kris and Steve so masterfully present. I am truly sorry that I waited so long to pick it up and I spent 3 hours today reading  from it to my family.

We are all familiar with the "Law of Attraction" made so popular by The Secret back in 2005. It was controversial  and "new age" and many said it was just a fad.

But Kris has taken the basic premise and laid out 6 laws that have created a real road map to change and improvement if you are serious about those things in your life.

For added emphasis I am including Oliver DeMille's review of this paradigm shifting book:

Book Review - An Education for Our Time by Josiah Bunting

An Education for Our Time by Josiah Bunting 
John Adams - billionaire industrialist, high-tech pioneer, war hero - lies dying of cancer at the age of 71. In the months before his death, Adams, through a series of letters to his lawyer, sketches a blueprint for the ideal American college. He will endow the college with his entire fortune, ensuring that his vision will become reality. This is the concept of An Education for Our Time the fictional story by Josiah Bunting. His main character in the book Adams's purpose: To train "virtuous and disinterested leaders" for a nation that needs them desperately, men and women "whose bent is to command not to chatter, to lead not to criticize, to serve not to whine, and to give rather than calculate the cost. The idea is, finally, not just an education for our time, but an education for all time, recreating the classical ideal of character, intellect, and action that America must rediscover to succeed in the next century

Book Review - "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville

"Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville

In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America and an indispensable authority on democracy.