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Here is biographical material on Harry Langen from his website at www.deadsearevelation.com
"Desirous as hell to participate in the revolutionary events of 1968 (and escape the school system), 16 year old Harry sold his Spider-man comic book collection and bought a one way train ticket to Vancouver from Toronto. There he got his street smarts hustling hippie newspapers for five cents profit per paper sold, cruising 'theatre row' for action. He criss-crossed Canada twice before he was 18 and settled back in Vancouver for 20 years. There he worked a variety of jobs including dishwasher, ranch-hand, cement mixer, youth worker, newspaper nightlife columnist, newspaper editor and publisher.
"In 1978, he published The BiLine magazine and distributed this monthly at retail drops and businesses throughout Vancouver's west end and Kitsilano. In 1980, he published The Wendy King Story exposing the Chief Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court, John Farris, as corrupt forcing his resignation.This book made international headlines.
"He led the Voyage of the Yashmakats in 1982 paddling and sailing a 27 foot seal fur hunting canoe along the west coast of Vancouver Island interviewing native elders about the first coming of the mammachny. He gathered 24 hours of oral history on tape from the descendants of those native chiefs who met Captains Cook, Meares, and Peres and others. During this expedition he promised the natives a book.
"In 1986 he published, Another Paradise , describing an American's (Ted Lewis) seven year experience in Fiji with his family of five. Lewis was to be known by the native Fijians as the vaka vatu (man of stone). Harry organized for publication Lewis's second book, The Keep On Going Spirit and engineered its publishing in 1996.
"He had moved to Nelson, British Columbia, in 1994 and created The Nelson Village Voice, a magazine of philosophy and hard-hitting social commentary tackling issues of social justice with gutsiness. His interviews and correspondence with Pierre Trudeau led to the publishing (in his paper) of The Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities, a document co-written by Trudeau and pored over by former heads of state including Jimmy Carter and Helmut Kohl.
"With the writing and publishing of The Dead Sea Revelation, Harry feels a sense of great relief in that he has gathered his wits and his insights and presented them to a readership with style, intelligence and passion. The reviews bear this out. This is the book, full of secrets, puzzlements and revelations that he promised his native friends of Vancouver Island. Twenty years later, he's kept his promise.
"In November of 2003 he closed The Kootenay Chronicle newspaper for lack of advertising. He is the author of a three act musical -Paracletus!- which he hopes to stage soon and is the co-author of the prequel to the Dead Sea Revelation - Dreams from Purgatory - written in collaboration with life long friend Steve Didcote of Winnipeg. He is currently writing the sequel to The Dead Sea Revelation entitled The Giver of Blessings.
"With his filmscript of The Dead Sea Revelation currently being considered by producers in los Angeles, Harry is in the whistling mode as he contemplates his favourite line from the book, 'There is no time. There never was. Just your relationship to the truth, and perhaps for you the extreme and intense peace of knowing.'"
"Desirous as hell to participate in the revolutionary events of 1968 (and escape the school system), 16 year old Harry sold his Spider-man comic book collection and bought a one way train ticket to Vancouver from Toronto. There he got his street smarts hustling hippie newspapers for five cents profit per paper sold, cruising 'theatre row' for action. He criss-crossed Canada twice before he was 18 and settled back in Vancouver for 20 years. There he worked a variety of jobs including dishwasher, ranch-hand, cement mixer, youth worker, newspaper nightlife columnist, newspaper editor and publisher.
"In 1978, he published The BiLine magazine and distributed this monthly at retail drops and businesses throughout Vancouver's west end and Kitsilano. In 1980, he published The Wendy King Story exposing the Chief Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court, John Farris, as corrupt forcing his resignation.This book made international headlines.
"He led the Voyage of the Yashmakats in 1982 paddling and sailing a 27 foot seal fur hunting canoe along the west coast of Vancouver Island interviewing native elders about the first coming of the mammachny. He gathered 24 hours of oral history on tape from the descendants of those native chiefs who met Captains Cook, Meares, and Peres and others. During this expedition he promised the natives a book.
"In 1986 he published, Another Paradise , describing an American's (Ted Lewis) seven year experience in Fiji with his family of five. Lewis was to be known by the native Fijians as the vaka vatu (man of stone). Harry organized for publication Lewis's second book, The Keep On Going Spirit and engineered its publishing in 1996.
"He had moved to Nelson, British Columbia, in 1994 and created The Nelson Village Voice, a magazine of philosophy and hard-hitting social commentary tackling issues of social justice with gutsiness. His interviews and correspondence with Pierre Trudeau led to the publishing (in his paper) of The Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities, a document co-written by Trudeau and pored over by former heads of state including Jimmy Carter and Helmut Kohl.
"With the writing and publishing of The Dead Sea Revelation, Harry feels a sense of great relief in that he has gathered his wits and his insights and presented them to a readership with style, intelligence and passion. The reviews bear this out. This is the book, full of secrets, puzzlements and revelations that he promised his native friends of Vancouver Island. Twenty years later, he's kept his promise.
"In November of 2003 he closed The Kootenay Chronicle newspaper for lack of advertising. He is the author of a three act musical -Paracletus!- which he hopes to stage soon and is the co-author of the prequel to the Dead Sea Revelation - Dreams from Purgatory - written in collaboration with life long friend Steve Didcote of Winnipeg. He is currently writing the sequel to The Dead Sea Revelation entitled The Giver of Blessings.
"With his filmscript of The Dead Sea Revelation currently being considered by producers in los Angeles, Harry is in the whistling mode as he contemplates his favourite line from the book, 'There is no time. There never was. Just your relationship to the truth, and perhaps for you the extreme and intense peace of knowing.'"
Submitted on March 9, 2009 in By David.
