OCEAN of BREATH SERIES
by
KAMICH AELK
Book 2 in the Ocean of Breath Series
For those who feel the weight of our broken world, this story is both mirror and lantern.
When Jonas Porter vanished during the merging of the halfgates, he became something unprecedented — a consciousness flowing among scales, witnessing reality through countless perspectives.
In a post 9/11 world eerily resonant with our own, the architects of that strategy mobilize to contain what they cannot control: the evolutionary awakening of consciousness. While Lakshmi and Amelia discover abilities that defy scientific explanation from inside a military black site, Bahn and Yves teach indigenous communities to harness technology that liberates rather than enslaves. Meanwhile, physicist Dr. Eleanor Wells confronts evidence that consciousness isn’t produced by the brain — it’s the fundamental current shaping all reality.
As these threads of resistance form against systems built on fear and separation, they offer a profound truth: when old paradigms crumble, awareness becomes the most revolutionary force available.
This series doesn't just envision a world where leadership arises from wisdom rather than power-lust — it charts a path through our current darkness toward a society where truth matters, resources serve the whole, and conflicts resolve through collective attunement rather than force.
The heart has opened. Now we must find our power.
Book 1 in the Ocean of Breath Series
Naval officer Jonas Porter and his team are all but fatally betrayed by the highest level of a government prioritizing world power before humanity. As the sole survivor of a fated mission, he is assumed dead and that is his greatest asset. He creates a new identity in order to survive.
Through a series of not-so-coincidental events, he comes in contact with Sariah, a multi-scale social scientist. Through her, Porter becomes aware of the toxic masculinity behind organized religion, sports corrupted by money, and nationalistic defense. Sariah leads him to his maternal lineage both past and present who teach him to follow his heart as he navigates the fabric of humanity.
Accompanied by five eccentric companions, two amazing aircraft, and technology of a scale previously unimaginable, he embarks on a dangerous global journey to disrupt materialism and ushering in in a new paradigm of consciousness.
Editorial Reviews
Review
It has been my great pleasure to watch Ocean of Breath: Heart Center evolve from a wildly imaginative energy-packed fragment into a full-blown revelatory page turner, wise in spirit and large in heart.
With the propulsive energy of an international thriller, delivered with the acute awareness of an enlightened sage, Kamich Aelk's first novel is an exhilarating adventure of the spirit and so much more. Played out across a stacked cosmos of impeccably imagined worlds distributed not by distance but by scale, Ocean of Breath catapults protagonist Jonas Porter, with the guidance of Sariah, a social scientist from a different scale, through a string of scientific and spiritual leaps that expose how ravenous materialism, driven by an impaired masculinity that seeks control at the expense of loving connection, imperils ourselves and nested worlds at many scales.
Porter, the unwitting pawn of a high-level government conspiracy, learns in conversation with Sariah that he has a crucial role to play in restoring the balance, but must rely on his intuition to find out how. He senses that the answer may rest with his lost great-great-grandmother Keiti. On meeting, Keiti presents him with an ancient jacket that has been passed down through successive generations of men in her family line.
Donning the jacket, Porter feels the love in the wool and has a vision of life as a vast tapestry extending to infinity. His mission is now clear. He must gather handmade fabrics from around the world and string them across the planet. Porter hopes that this will release the love invested in them and open people's hearts to their full humanity. With the help of five allies, some of whom hail from other scales, and two amazing technologies introduced by Sariah—gravity cancelling "gondols," and a fractal dimensional "half-gate" that allows travel between scales—Porter sets off on his perilous quest.
A rollicking read in every sense, Ocean of Breath is enriched by its varied pace and manifold expressive voice. The story's narrative line accelerates and decelerates, skips quickly cross intervals, plunges into passages laden with intricate detail, and delights with wide-eyed humor, boyish enthusiasm, and amiably dispatched scenarios. It's author engagingly elevates the taut central drama with moving excursions into Porter's youth, the world of his maternal forebears, and highly evolved indigenous cultures living on different scales. Traveling through this book's startling succession of wows, it is impossible not to be inspired. You'll find yourself making larger and larger leaps of awe-filled recognition until in a flash you realize that, like Porter, your life calls from heart's center.
~ Marc Zegans
Marc Zegans is a poet and creative development advisor. His most recent books are Lyon Street (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022) and, with fine art photographer Tsar Fedorsky, Ghost Book (Kite String Press, 2024).
About THE AUTHOR
“Kamich Aelk” is the pen name of Deaglan Ó Dónaill (also known as Walid Abdel Ismail Gaffa), a novelist, poet, critic, Egyptologist and trampoline commentator. Mr. Aelk’s oeuvre, spanning over 38 books, allegorizes the cause of Irish Unification through Nubian folklore.
Long rumored to be a djinn, or possibly faerie god-king of the Tuatha Dé Dannan, Aelk withdrew from public life in 2017, shortly after being shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novella A Shillelagh for Fatima. “It is high time I returned to the spirit realms”, he said, and vanished in a cloud of milkweed.
Reports of shadowy backstage sightings by road crew at the Glastonbury Festival and Mali’s Festival in the Desert have gone unconfirmed.
