AENEAS RETURNING TO ROME

Aeneas, wandering the modern world, has come from his encounter with himself and Eastern Culture while dwelling in a simple Korean peasant hut...a Choga, where he could confront the chaos of world surrounding him. Undergoing a personal dilemma of the clash of cultures and ideologies, Aeneas resolves this through meditation and the revelation of possibilities of a new world.

Even so, he now faces the inner demons of his own world. He is ridden by guilt because of his abandonment of Cassandra as he began his quest for a new world after leaving Troy...the ancient world now destroyed. Cassandra was his first and only love...the compelling reason why he could not return the love of Dido. Aeneas never knew the fate of Cassandra and his love for her has continued throughout time.

The Voyages of Aeneas have taken him to the four corners of the world. He has wandered from adventure to adventure. Perhaps he was looking for Cassandra or hoping to find discover himself. Yet every adventure has left him with a feeling of a void...a feeling of nothingness. He knows somehow he must return to Rome...for it was there that his journey in the modern world began. Somehow returning to Rome may help him find the part of himself that was lost when he lost Cassandra...when the ancient world was destroyed...when he began mapping the world within himself through discoveries of cultures and peoples.

Cassandra is a constant source of inspiration. Her love was intense and without qualification. Their love had grown in secret, but she was always there for him. Each time he returned to Troy, Cassandra would be waiting for him. He never knew her fate during the Fall of Troy. His world had collapsed, and he had been fortunate to escape the destruction. Had he abandoned her? Did she forgive him? He had wandered aimlessly, finally coming to a land that would become the beginning of the modern world...a place that would be known as Rome...and all roads would lead to this new world center.

The Underworld reveals the personal demons that threaten to destroy the spirit of Aeneas.

He begins a Quest, a search for meaning...to understand his destiny and the destiny of humanity.

His Adventure takes him to the Western Hemisphere to the Americas...to Brazil...Argentina...Peru... He understands that the journey he takes must be different from any adventure of the past. The modern world must coexist with Antiquity. A future world beckons.

In Asia and then the Middle East, Aeneas doubts his mission...he questions the worth of humanity that seems bent on self destruction. He is dismayed by the intolerance of ideologies that attempt to annihilate all differences..

In the Mountains of Europe and Tibet he is tempted to abandon his quest. The image of Cassandra urges him on. She is his Beatrice, an inspiration that that there is a new spirit in the world.

In Australia He explores the outlands and sees that the primitive world coexists with the present day world.

In India He detects a new spirit evolving... Is this evolution is the creation of a new species of humanity?

Destiny redefines a universe as he crosses the oceans of the world. Storms would deter him on his journey. His imagination leaps to the quest of outer space challenging our limitations, testing us to understand the struggle for survival in a hostile universe.

Returning to Rome...Cassandra is waiting for him there just as she had been waiting for him in Troy...but she is now the epitome of modern woman.... a creator of new destinies and and new sensibilities. Just as Aeneas had founded the beginning of the modern world with the establishment of Rome, he now calls upon our joining in a future world where we must achieve the excellence inherent within.