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Author

JAMES R. OLSEN

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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. ​

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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

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I Ching of a Thousand Doors

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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.

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PROJECTS UNDERWAY

Keyboard and Mouse
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How America go it wrong when others were getting it right

COVID Wars- Non Fiction 

IN REVIEW

- Non Fiction   

                                                      The events in Ravalli County are a microcosm of the Americass 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 ~~~

Airplane Wreck in Ocean

 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

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COMING in awhile by James R. Olsen

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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

Christ the Redeemer

t h e     Teachings  of
Jesus of Nazareth

An examination of the Gospels - what they say and don’t say
- how seeking to live them
-may be more than holding tightly to any creed.

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