The Helianx Proposition: The Return of the Rainbow Serpent A Cosmic Creation Fable Hardcover – March 1, 2015

I shelled out $70 for this cult mythological retelling- a small price to pay for what is essentially a collector's item. The book is beautiful, the artwork and presentation have clearly had lots of work put into detail.Unfortunately, my version arrived damaged/flawed/used. It also does not have the cover image on the listing, although the book does come with a nice hardcover sheath with velvet-y fabric.Needless to say I'm disappointed in the quality of the product. I don't believe it was purely damaged in transit as the fraying on the jacket would not have been a result of mishandling after shipping considering it was repackaged in plastic.

Timothy's books are always great reads. I want more of them.

arrived in excellent condition; beautiful book

This is a book to be experienced and savored along multiple dimensions – the visual, the intellectual, and one I would call the timeless. Indeed one’s sense of time melds with the narrative and takes on a whole different rhythm; time is measured in eons as it carries one's imagination gracefully through successive waves of creation and evolution.The story is told across two-page spreads in this sumptuously rendered large-format edition. On the right side of each spread is an illustration – beautifully rendered, sinuous, almost psychedelic - upon which the author has penned an often-amusing encapsulation of events. On the facing page is the detailed narrative, which takes the reader through the annals of cosmic history, using the Helianx as protagonists.The Helianx are a fascinating cultural invention, being vast creatures who are so successful in living in harmony within their environment – feeding off cosmic energy and regulating their procreation to keep their population stable – that they are able to spend the eons in contemplation, creating poetry and song, and observing other civilizations through their telepathic abilities, and later through direct contact during their nomadic travels across the universes, and recording their cultures.As they assimilate all this wisdom, they look for a way to preserve it for eternity, and thereby hangs the tale.While this is the author's first fictional book, it incorporates themes and stories about the celestial hierarchy found in his earlier writings, including the Rebel Angels series, as well is as in such diverse sources as the Urantia book, the Bible, and the work of Zechariah Sitchin. It is delightful as a cosmic fable, yet also very intriguing as a colorful backstory to the creation myth most of us learned in childhood. The book is relatively short, and a compelling and thoroughly enjoyable read. You finish it with a sense of bemusement, and you will probably never look at time the same again.

One of the most remarkable examples of an author utilizing both narrative and visual art combined in such a way as to lead the reader into an alternative vision of human life, its origins and latent possibilities, all in the context of a richly populated universe where cross cultural exchange occurs at levels difficult to imagine, but made more transparently beautiful because of this work.Any whose spiritual imagination has led them to wonder about cosmic dimensions of intellectual and spiritual cross fertilization should read this tale of adventure by a band of space gypsies, a race of poets forced to flee their planetary home and become students of the many civilizations found along the way to realizing the aspiration of bequeathing their assembled lore to unsuspecting recipients on a backward and confused world such as this one.

"The Helianx Proposition" is a fabulous book, by which I mean it's right up there with the great fables of the world and the wonderful art they spawned, from Rumi through William Blake, even up to and beyond the Brothers Grimm. This book will surprise you because it is full of surprises, artistic and intellectual. I can do no better in praise than to quote Blake himself, who famously pointed out: "Eternity is in love with the productions of time." All hail, eternity, and all hail to those who sail in or even rethink her! Nobody today does this kind of book better today than Timothy Wylie.