John Payne’s Books

Amazon Best Seller

The Emergence of I: How the Universe Woke Up

Uncover a life-changing understanding of your place in the cosmos.
Consciousness pulled itself out of the universe’s primordia using the rungs of matter, animal biology, and civilization. It has constricted itself to a place two inches behind your forehead...
...and it has been waiting for you to wake up.


This book will take you on a trip that will revolutionize the way you view the world. Through an exploration of history, mythology, psychology, and mystical experience, John Payne’s ‘The Emergence of I’ brings you on an adventure of the development of human consciousness from the Paleolithic to the ancient Greeks and Hebrews and forward to the present time.

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John Payne’s Short Stories