Author
JAMES R. OLSEN
My Story
A BIT ABOUT ME
I have been called a Renaissance Man by the chief of staff to a past governor of Montana. I have worked with my hands. I am an engineer, manager, business owner, activist.
I worked my way through the boring stuff of textbooks in the Uniform Commerical Code, astronomy, beginning accounting, federal acquisition regulations because I needed to know it – and the stuff of visual perception because it was interesting.
I researched my way through the academic literature on wildfires, biolab safety, highway capacity and safety because certain governmental agencies needed scrutiny.
I read history, studied religious history because I was fascinated by it.
I thought about how to manage a group of people who are working on something more complicated than a single human being could understand because I wanted to be good at it.
A few years ago I decided to be a writer. My engineering work already had me trained in research. My goal is to bring well researched, exciting narratives to readers of non-fiction.
While I was paid a lot of money to get very large development programs on track, I also taught people about the I Ching. As I was working on spiritual growth, I was writing about the intense violence of Pearl Harbor because my mother was there. From these extremes came the two books below — but it was interrupted in 2020 with a politicized pandemic to create a new project, COVID WARS.
But, I am always an activist, seeking to change things for the good on the ground. So, at this point in my life, my passion is writing and activism.
PUBLISHED
I Ching of a Thousand Doors
A meticulously researched narrative in everyday language show how to use the I Ching and get the most out of The Book of Changes no matter what your viewpoint. Shows how divination with the I Ching is merely an extension of your everyday experience, allowing you to tap deeper into your subconscious to bring forth what it already knows using the I Ching. Answers the questions, What is Yin-Yang and the Dao? How did Confucius get his words in the I Ching?
Practical narratives, illustrations, mixed with Poetic Prose and surprisingly beautiful prose from Ancient China get your heart as well as your mind engaged with The Book of Changes. Key phrases explained, showing what it meant and what it means.
PROJECTS UNDERWAY
How America go it wrong when others were getting it right
COVID Wars- Non Fiction
With Chapters by:
Dr. Pam Small, PhD, Stanford. Retired research RML, NIAID, .....Professor Emeritus, Microbiology, University of Tennessee
Dr. Timothy Binder, ND, DC, ACU. Well known for Tradition Medicine
.....Prior President of University of Science and Philosophy.
Dr. Hillery Daily, ND, LAC. Naturopathic Dr, Herbologist, Chinese Medicine
.....Integrated medicine including coordination with Medical Doctors
IN REVIEW
- Non Fiction
The events in Ravalli County are a microcosm of the Americas’s response
to the COVID-19 Pandemic as individuals and institutions try to navigate
uncertain and conflicting data — anxiety, news, politics, trust, mistrust, health,
and livelihood drove America to implement one of the worst public health responses in the world.
This book uses the events in Ravalli County, the author’s official comments to the local health board, decisions made using uncertain data to discuss how to look at data to illustrate how to do the best you can in the face of uncertainty. Insight into how politics, propaganda techniques, bias affects the information we read, and how to poke through the headlines for a layperson to understand scientific literature.
~~~ Rooted thoroughly in the scientific literature, it is made accessible to the lay reader ~~~
PEARL HARBOR Project
Our mother was there, a senior in High School. Collaborative Research with Val Anderson for a series of books
PUBLISHED — by Valerie J. Anderson
COMING in awhile by James R. Olsen
Minute by minute account from both sides
What were they thinking? The American pilot, the Japanese aviator, the civilian
on the ground, the sailor on the ship, the intelligence officer, the FBI man, the
Japanese American drawn into the same story — drawn from authentic accounts
Why They Flew - Non Fiction
Mister Zero Eyes - Alternative History
What happens a grounded Japanese aviator had a good idea? Midway will never be the same.
PROJECTS PLANNED
