Traveler
Histories, cultures, and places that shape perspective.
About the Author
Ethan Elkins
Artist. Explorer. Storyteller. Questioner of reality.
Ethan Elkins holds a degree in Fine Arts and has long nurtured a passion for travel, history, art, and architecture. These interests laid the foundation for a life shaped by curiosity and sparked by personal experiences with the unexplained, leading to a deeper fascination with the boundaries of science, consciousness, and reality.
Curiosity and Influence
A life of curiosity. A quest for truth.
Ethan's interests have always extended well beyond any single discipline. Travel, history, art, architecture, ancestry, and personal experiences with the unexplained gradually led him toward a deeper fascination with consciousness, perception, and the boundaries of reality.
As credible accounts and disclosures surrounding unidentified anomalous phenomena entered the public conversation, those interests began to converge around larger questions.
Could multiple realities coexist? Can our perception of reality be altered? Can altered states of consciousness reveal something beyond ordinary experience?
And what happens when institutions decide that some truths are better left hidden?
Those questions became fertile ground for fiction.
History, Art & Architecture
The stories and structures that shape how we understand the past.
The Unexplained
Questions at the edges of science, consciousness, and reality.
From Inquiry to Ascensão
History provides the setting. Fiction opens the door.
The Ascensão series grew from Ethan's fascination with real events, real places, and unresolved mysteries. Rather than treating history and the unexplained as separate subjects, the novels bring them together through espionage, science fiction, political intrigue, and questions of consciousness.
Beginning with Ascensão: Revolution and continuing through Ascensão: Guhāvidyā, the series follows buried truths across decades, cultures, and institutions while asking a recurring question:
What if the impossible has been hiding inside the historical record all along?
The Ascensão Series
Stories built from questions
Ascensão: Revolution
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The series begins with a disappearance, a Cold War cover-up, and nineteen missing minutes.
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Ascensão: Guhāvidyā
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The mystery deepens as science, belief, espionage, and consciousness begin to converge.
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Ascensão: As Above, So Below
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The Ascensão story continues as the questions surrounding buried truths, history, and reality move into the third book.
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The stories are fiction. The questions are not.
Through Ascensão, Ethan invites readers to look again at history, consciousness, and the assumptions that define what we call reality.