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March 14, 2005

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From: Simon Robinson <simonralli@hotmail.com>
To: Editor@educate-yourself.org
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:30 AM
Subject: My novel is published this week - takes lead from Orwell's "1984"

Dear Ken

I run the web blog http://www.thisistherealtruth.net - if you look at it you will see that I am doing quitre a lot of lobbying of MPs right now, with some degree of success. But in parallel, my debut novel, "The Yogi Footballer" comes out on March 20th. A thumbnail and larger image of the front cover is on my web site - and please find below the text from the press release. I am hoping to get support from web sites such as Educate Yourself - since my book is published by a tiny independent publisher and I am responsible for making people aware of it.

I like you have had one or two articles published on Rense, and I know just how powerful our joint actions can be.

If you are able to post news of my novel, I would be extremely grateful. But I would be grateful if you do not post my mobile number or home address, but I obviously include them for yourself as per your request on your email page.

Regards

Simon Ralli Robinson, Scotland

Email: simonralli@hotmail.com

Web Journal: http://www.thisistherealtruth.net

Debut Novel Breaks Ground Where Orwell Feared to Tread

Novels about football are few and far between, spiritual novels about football even more so, making the debut novel by Simon Ralli Robinson, “The Yogi Footballer” potentially unique.

The story culminates with the England football team facing a potentially devastating terrorist attack on board their flight from Japan back to Britain, an attack designed to kill all on board, an attack designed to shock and outrage and fill the British people with fear. In George Orwell’s “1984”, the government created a fictional enemy “Emmanuel Goldstein”, as a propaganda tool designed to keep the common people in constant fear. “The Yogi Footballer” has been written to teach its readers just how much the concept of the international terrorism of Al Qaeda, the powerful and sinister network, with sleeper cells in countries across the world, is fantasy. But where “1984” was devoid of any spiritual dimension, “The Yogi Footballer” has at its heart the hero Benjamin Boddy, an orphan, born in Nepal, and cared for by monks in a remote mountain monastery.

What is a yogi? A yogi is a holy person from India and the Himalayan region. These people do exist, and have what some see as supernatural abilities, to walk on water, levitate, bi-locate, and become invisible. Ben is born with these skills fully developed, but as a child he is not aware that he has them. A British couple adopts Ben and his football-mad father, having no knowledge of Ben’s true destiny, allows his natural football talents to flourish.

Spotted by Southampton F.C., and selected for England, Ben becomes a premiership player with no peer; a global icon, winning the hearts of football fans around the world with his near supernatural ability on the pitch. He lives a life a world away from the tabloid tales of drinking, sex and conspicuous wealth of many of our highest profile premiership players. The only comparison with “Footballers’ Wives” is that much of the action takes place off the pitch.

The back cover of the book describes Benjamin Boddy, The Yogi Footballer, as “a new kind of hero for the aware generation.” The aware generation is this generation, who, unlike the first audience of “1984”, use the independent and not the mass media as their principal source of news, for the aware generation know that many of the alleged 9-11 hijackers are still alive; they know about the dubious stock trades before the attacks; they know about Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Vigilance, TRIPOD II, these being military and FEMA exercises on September 11th that also included a simulated live-fly hijacking of an airliner. This generation used the Internet in 2001 to watch the video of George Bush reading a book about a pet goat when the attacks happened, and this generation immediately asked why no aircraft had been scrambled. They asked all the questions that our media refused to.

As well as being a novel, “The Yogi Footballer” has a reference section at the end, with a final chapter full of references to the sources for the inspiration behind the book, and specific episodes within it. If any reader is still left with doubts about the premise of the book, by the time they read this section, and follow up on the books and web links referenced there, any lingering doubts will soon vanish.

Ultimately, for all the controversy that this novel will create, at its heart is a simple message. Global peace starts with ourselves. The power of our leaders is an illusion. They do not build their house upon the rock; they are not wise people. The story behind “The Yogi Footballer” is a story in itself, how Simon Ralli Robinson gave up a well paid job in London, to travel the world, seeking the wisest people he could find, from living in the cosmic city of Varanasi, India, where he lived with his yoga guru, to the desolate plains of Arizona, where he met and led a ceremony with the highly respected Elder, Grandfather Martin, of the Hopi people on their reservation. Although not a long novel, it is densely packed with action, wisdom and revelations, and is destined to be one of the leading underground novels of 2005.

Ordering “The Yogi Footballer”

“The Yogi Footballer” is available from http://www.innersanctumpublications.com and

http://www.amazon.co.uk ~ ISBN 0-9542421-8-1.

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