Waking God is a fictional story that combines elements of science fiction and adventure to address long standing human issues.  It is not a story about the mythical struggle between “good and evil.”  On the contrary, it is based more on the Japanese artistic concept of Notan which sees the positive and negative, light and dark, as the required underpinnings of existence. We present the story of Adam in a new way.  After his creation God causes a deep sleep to overcome him.  God never awakens Adam.  It is in his dream that we live and breathe and have our existence.  We propose that there is no vengeful god who is willing to punish its creations eternally.  Instead, there are beings, angels, who have created this mythical god in order to maintain their existence and their power in the dream.  Michael is the leader of these angels whose goal is to keep humanity in the spiritual dark ages.  The character Mantrella in the story, is the bringer of light.  Through Eve he opens the dream to the path of wisdom through which man must experience life in order to gain knowledge and enlightenment.  This is the real God’s plan in which man, Adam, was created above the angels and slated for god hood. To achieve the plan of The Grand Architect, Adam plans to “dream himself into existence.”  He has waited and planned to combine the two genetic components of the god seed which are now manifesting in the two lead characters, Mara and Andrew.  The story, set in the near future, explores the role of secret societies in forging the battle lines in the dream and offers insights into the Templars, the Rose Cross, the Teutonic Knights, and the Knights of Malta.  Waking God portrays a world of duality in which man must take responsibility for his own destiny and not rely upon the false promises that all will be well if he obeys the dictates of organized religions.  Those who have been seen as the protectors of man have actually been his albatross as they seek to maintain a reason for their existence; i.e. to serve as messengers of their non-existent god.  We pose the thought that the promise of Jesus that “these and greater things you shall do” can only be fulfilled by a total reversal of conventional wisdom.   Adam, the Deus ex Machina, is trying to ensure that his, and therefore, our destiny becomes a reality.