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Books by Sarnia de la Mare at Waterstones

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Artificial Intelligence in Music: Blending…Sarnia de la Mare

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Mills and Swoon 1: Ten Risqué Romances for…Sarnia de la Mare

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The Book of Immersion Volume II Mother:…Sarnia de la Mare

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Book of Immersion Strata 1: Renyke Wakes…Sarnia de la Mare

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The Orbit Theory, Elderescence Academy Series — Mindful Intelligence & Personal Harmony

The Orbit Theory: Reclaiming the Self in a Collapsing World Kindle Edition
by Sarnia de la Mare (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

In a world of constant noise and acceleration, artist and thinker Sarnia de la Maré FRSA invites you to rediscover the invisible force that holds you together — your personal orbit.

Drawing from neuroscience, art, philosophy, and lived experience, The Orbit Theory reveals how every individual possesses a unique field of energy and emotion that can be nurtured, strengthened, and restored. When that field collapses, we feel scattered, anxious, or overwhelmed; when it is clear and centred, we become luminous, creative, and resilient.

Elderescence Academy Editions

The Orbit Theory
Reclaiming the Self in a Collapsing World
Elderescence Academy Series — Mindful Intelligence & Personal Harmony

In a world of constant noise and acceleration, artist and thinker Sarnia de la Maré FRSA invites you to rediscover the invisible force that holds you together — your personal orbit.

Drawing from neuroscience, art, philosophy, and lived experience, The Orbit Theory reveals how every individual possesses a unique field of energy and emotion that can be nurtured, strengthened, and restored. When that field collapses, we feel scattered, anxious, or overwhelmed; when it is clear and centred, we become luminous, creative, and resilient.

Through elegant essays and gentle practices, Sarnia guides readers to:

Sense and map their own orbit
Recognise the forces that drain or nourish it
Reclaim calm through ritual, creativity, and reflection
Build ethical, sustainable connections with others
Transform sensitivity into strength — at any age

Part philosophy, part art-therapy, The Orbit Theory is a handbook for coherence in a chaotic century.
It belongs to the Elderescence Academy series — a collection celebrating lifelong learning, creativity, and the art of becoming whole again.

Whether you are beginning anew, reinventing yourself after upheaval, or simply longing for quiet power, The Orbit Theory offers a path toward clarity, peace, and renewed purpose.

Elderescence Academy
A lifelong library of creativity, consciousness, and calm.

Other titles in the series:

Handmade by Sarnia, Eco Winter Warmers — creative renewal through craft and texture
Elderescence: A Manifesto — re-imagining age as evolution

Series Name

Elderescence Academy Series

Author

Sarnia de la Mare

Publisher

Tale Teller Club Press / Elderescence Academy Imprint

Language

English (UK)

Description

In an age of relentless noise and acceleration, artist and thinker Sarnia de la Maré FRSA reveals a radical new framework for emotional balance and personal growth.
The Orbit Theory explores the invisible field of energy and awareness that surrounds every human being — our personal orbit — and shows how to protect, restore, and expand it through mindful attention, creative ritual, and compassionate boundaries.

Part science, part philosophy, and part creative meditation, this Elderescence Academy edition offers practical exercises and gentle wisdom for readers seeking coherence, purpose, and renewed calm.

Discover how to:
• Map your personal orbit and sense when it’s under stress
• Reclaim peace through art, reflection, and mindful design
• Recognise uplifting and harmful influences in relationships
• Turn sensitivity into creative intelligence
• Live with grace, strength, and quiet power at every age

For artists, thinkers, teachers, and lifelong learners, The Orbit Theory is both philosophy and therapy — a beautifully written companion for anyone rebuilding gravity in a collapsing world.

Author Bio

Sarnia de la Maré FRSA is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and author whose work explores creativity, consciousness, and resilience.

Founder of the Tale Teller Club and the Elderescence Academy, she blends art, music, and philosophy to help others live with clarity and purpose.

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mindfulness and emotional boundaries
creative wellbeing for adults
holistic ageing and personal growth
neurodiversity and sensitivity
slow living philosophy
resilience and self-care guide
energy healing through art
psychological self-protection
lifelong learning and elder wellness
mindful intelligence

Age Range / Audience

Adult and mature readers (18+) — suitable for all life stages, especially midlife and beyond.

Target Reader Profiles

Artists, musicians, and creative professionals seeking emotional clarity
Adults exploring slow living, spiritual ecology, or post-burnout recovery
Teachers, counsellors, and carers looking for restorative frameworks
Readers of Julia Cameron (The Artist’s Way), Oliver Burkeman (Four Thousand Weeks), and Jay Shetty (Think Like a Monk)

A mindful, artistic, and empowering guide to reclaiming balance in the modern world.
The Orbit Theory introduces readers to the invisible architecture of personal energy — the orbit — and shows how to protect, strengthen, and live from it with grace.
Through philosophy, neurodiverse insight, and creative exercises, Sarnia de la Maré FRSA offers a transformative path to calm, creativity, and meaningful connection.
Part of the Elderescence Academy Series: a lifelong library of creativity, consciousness, and calm.

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The Book of Immersion : Volume 1

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The Book of Immersion Volume II Mother : Strata 21 – 31

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Book of Immersion: Strata 21 - 26 (The Book of Immersion 28)

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Book of Immersion Strata 1: Renyke Wakes (Purpose) (The Book of Immersion 27)

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Mills and Swoon 1: Ten Risqué Romances for the Rebellious Heart

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Ginny Greaves Investigates: Book One

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Rat Gang Crew and the Overgrounders (Rat Gang Crew and Friends Book 3)

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Elderescence: A Manifesto (Elderescence Academy Book 2)

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Handmade by Sarnia, Eco Winter Warmers: Elderescence Academy: Recycled Fashion

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Artificial Intelligence in Music : Blending Creativity and Technology (The...

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Toddle Poddle: Issue 2 (Rat Gang Crew and Friends)

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Strata 14: The Journey to the Edge (Fear of Death) (The Book of Immersion)

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Toddle Poddle: Issue 1 (Rat Gang Crew and Friends)

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Sarnia de la Maré FRSA is a British author, artist, and musician blending literature, music, and film into immersive storytelling. Creator of The Book of Immersion, she explores AI, emotion, and human identity through multimedia fiction. Her work spans art, philosophy, and sound, inspiring readers worldwide to experience stories beyond the page.Sarnia de la Maré

Author | Artist | Musician | Futurist Storyteller

Welcome to the official Amazon Author Page for Sarnia de la Maré, an award-winning multidisciplinary creator whose work fuses literature, music, and moving image into a single immersive universe. Her genre-defying projects bridge the worlds of science fiction, art, philosophy, and performance, captivating readers and listeners across generations.

About Sarnia de la Maré

Sarnia de la Maré is best known for her visionary multimedia saga The Book of Immersion, an ongoing experimental fiction series that merges narrative prose, cinematic visuals, and original soundtracks. Each volume unfolds across multiple “Strata,” exploring the blurred line between human emotion and artificial intelligence.

Currently writing Volume II, Sarnia publishes new Strata chapters daily on Kindle, inviting readers to experience the story in real time. The series follows Renyke, a sentient android whose evolving consciousness reveals profound truths about empathy, technology, and the meaning of being alive.

Her immersive approach—part novel, part art installation—pushes the boundaries of storytelling, making The Book of Immersion one of the most ambitious multimedia fiction projects of the decade.

The Immersion Universe

Beyond the written word, Sarnia’s Immersion Universe spans podcasts, fine art prints, 360° video artworks, and original music under her performance moniker iServalan. Each element—whether soundscape, poem, or moving-image piece—expands the narrative world and connects audiences through emotion, sound, and visual rhythm.

Her creative hubs, including Tale Teller Club Publishing, AURA Digital Gallery, and Blink Friction Eco, host everything from literary art to experimental music, highlighting her belief that creativity should transcend media.

Other Notable Works

Elderescence: A Living Project – a transformative exploration of aging, creativity, and renewal.

The Rat Gang Crew Series – inclusive children’s sci-fi adventures celebrating neurodiversity and teamwork.

The Countess of Brighton and Hackney Diaries – a satirical and poignant account of an eccentric Z-list celebrity navigating fame, failure, and self-discovery.

Empathy in Algorithms: AI’s Role in Inclusive Feminist Activism – essays on the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics, and human rights.

Creative Practice

As a professional cellist, pianist, violist, and composer, Sarnia de la Maré brings a musician’s ear to her prose. Her sonic compositions often appear within her literary projects, creating a layered experience that unites music, narrative, and motion.

She is also the founder of the Sarnia de la Maré Academy of Arts, offering creative education in both traditional and digital forms, and continues to produce groundbreaking video art installations showcased through AURA Digital Gallery.

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Whether you’re drawn to philosophical sci-fi, neurodiverse storytelling, or immersive art and music, Sarnia de la Maré’s work invites you to step beyond the page and into an expanding creative cosmos.

Strata 12 The Basement People (Emotions) | Book of Immersion V I | Sarnia de la Mare

🧠 In the smoky depths of the basement people, Renyke encounters raw human emotion, coded language, and beliefs rooted in the metaphysical. As his programming strains under new experiences of anxiety, joy, and grief, this Strata explores what it means to feel — and why the truth often hides in the shadows. Trust and trauma battle for space in this uncharted zone.

Welcome to Immersion, you have reached Strata 12
The Basement People (Emotions)

I searched the globe for want of you,

A friend to call my own,

My space,

A tribe,

Was this the place?

Was I really home?

And there you stood

A tree of hope

Arms outstretched

To envelope

My ravaged body

Savaged mind

This soul so lost

And you so kind.

Most humans progress through life along a path created by the society and culture they are part of. Existentialism emphasises individual existence, freedom, and choice. Androids and machines are essentialists, focusing on the inherent nature or essence of things and the assumption in fundamental unchanging truths.

Emotions are vital to help humans learn and make decisions. Feelings are experienced constantly from birth to death. A newborn baby is emotionally involved with its mother as soon as it understands she is a valuable source of food and comfort. The emotional attachment is instantaneous and intuitive.

Human emotions are essential to consistency, being part of a social group, and staying safe.

Androids have successfully been programmed with 'visceral-like' responses but these are mimicked, in essence, they are faked. Androids are trained to respond to their owners' emotions as they are not able to understand emotions themselves through their lens. Such models are trained to respond to human physical cues such as odours, pupil changes, vocal idiosyncrasies etc, and to reciprocate. We could call this 'fake empathy’.

Automatic robotic vehicles do not fear the crash, they simply ‘know’ that a collision is not desirable for the ongoing success of the mission in hand.

'We should get some *infon and *preds,’ Shabra said, thinking hard about the best time of night to get to the edge, which was renowned for tribal and gang flashpoints.

Renyke asked *POS to explain.

…It appears that Shabra is gathering helpful information to aid our journey….

Renyke was uncertain what to do. This feeling was becoming all too familiar and quite at odds with his hitherto programmed assuredness.

'You coming or what?' Shabra asks from outside the car, leading the way to a set of stairs that led down into a noisy basement.

The *robo-dog wagged its tail and sat importantly on the roof of the vehicle looking around and growling.

Shabra knocked on a large door and a camera was activated above them. They were being scanned.

The door opened suddenly and a large man with a long beard frisked them before allowing them entry.

Renyke, not used to any sort of frisking in his past life, was sensing increasing anxiety.

POS was idle.

'Welcome brother,' the guard said to Flex. 'Are you well?'

'Fine, just fine, my friend,' Flex answered, 'We continue unabated to live another day. *Vilarev!’

Both men laughed convivially whilst Renyke wondered what had amused them.

They enter a meeting place, some kind of bar. It is thick with smoke, the smell of nibs, sweat, and the streets.

A woman approaches chanting poetry with her arms outstretched.

'The sun shines bright when you let in the light, welcome, my sister of the night.' There is more convivial laughter.

She embraces Shabra and they exchange warm greetings. Excited to make new acquaintances the woman beckons the group to sit at a table.

'Ah, come, come my friends. I have a perfect place for you to sit, and please, be my guests at the bar.

The woman beckons a member of staff. 'Let's have liquor.' she says, 'bring my best for my new friends.’

Renyke asks POS for details about the venue, the location and the owner but it makes little sense, stuttering and breaking up.

.......data, unavailable..... scrambled, information…

'How come these places aren't mapped?' Renyke asked Shabra.

'Mr Renyke, you ask too many questions. 'Hiding is surviving.'

'Yes,' interjected Flex, 'and we move, we move often. The key to freedom is movement.

Nothing is permanent. Only your lungs and your heart. Only your breath and when that's not permanent, you're dead and you're ready for the *metamorph.’ Flex chuckled.

'And we know not where that will take us for certain.’

Renyke checks POS whose signal was improving.

.....*Urchs believe in various spiritual concepts but little has been documented. Oral traditions and faith seem to be passed from parents to children. I will attempt to decipher the information at my disposal….

POS was silent momentarily.

It would appear that urchs believe in the existence of dissatisfied ghost-like entities who visit the present from the future referred to as *shads.

Urchs believe that death is not the end, merely a manifest alteration, referred to as the third life. This third life is fiercely protected with love because hate manifested in individuals will be carried to the next stage of life causing agony for the entity.

They also believe that hate is so powerful that it can control what the yet-unborn will do in the future. Hate becomes a circular energy that rotates between past present and future, forging an eternal and devastating cycle of ruin across several dimensions of existence. The dead are responsible for the living, the living are responsible for the future born. To honour this mantra, enlightenment and love are the only tools required to ensure human success.

.....Urchs also believe that taking drugs or mind-altering ingested compounds will help them understand what is existential truth and meaning and that the stresses of daily existence mask these realities and render them misunderstood. Urchs believe that intoxication enables them a greater understanding of truth, and even an ability to meet the entities or ghosts of the future.

'We shouldn't stay here too long, and you shouldn't get high,' said Renyke, looking at Shabra who was drinking the free liquor.

'You are so uptight Mr Renyke.' Shabra winks.

There is a brief conversation between a man and Shabra that Renyke cannot understand.

POS has lost signal so Renyke turns to Flex.

'What is this dialect?' he asks.

'Ah, that is *zone speak, with some colour changes for the urchs. We have our own code see.’

Shabra rises, 'Let's Go! I think there is some trouble around tonight.’

Outside a small *urch child sits on the bonnet of the car.

'Can I come too?' the child asks excitedly.

'No man, This is grown-up stuff. Come see me tomorrow, now *fucksyoff.’

The child jumps off the bonnet, hugs Flex, and runs away

There is a flurry of drug and weapon traders who are hustling for sales.

Finally, they are all in the car. There is a sense of trepidation as they drive in silence to the underpass through a thinning crowd. The child appears again on the bonnet, facing forward and singing with a fist raised.

'No sweat,' says Flex, 'we will get him off the other side. He does no harm, annoying is all.'

Suddenly there is an almighty bang and the child on the bonnet is shot. Its guts are all over the windscreen, blood drips down the glass and the crowd scarpers.

Everyone on the street is screaming.

POS engages

.....99% likelihood of robbery, ambush, death. This is a red alert! You must take action! Repeat, red alert!..

There is a man in front of the car pointing an AK47 at Shabra's head.

Two other men flank the vehicle and bang rhythmically on the windows.

'Bastardos gang ain’t getting my *vicular’, shouts Shabra.

to be continued