Dutch born, Australian artist and author, Derk Vanderbent (aka Van Derek). Designer, Artist and Occultist came to writing through his forty year interest in astrology, art and symbolism. An early introduction to astrology started a lifetime of exploration into the occult, a theme found in most of his artwork and writing. He studied Fine-Art at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and conceived and convened OCNA, a national art and sculpture award. His first novel, The Neptune Vortex, a ten-year adventure took his research from Australia through the United Kingdom, China and Hong Kong. The novel's ontology, 'Thinkons' deconstructs the novel and deals with his metaphysical approach to creativity and explains his smallest quantum particle, the Thinkon.

Texte du rabat

A mystery long hidden along Cemetery Road. An occult thriller! Following local rumours of a long-ago massacre and buried gold, young Chinese-Australian astrologer, Lian Song embarks on a search for the truth of the fate of her ancestor, an imperial Gold Amban and his lost treasure. A multifaceted, occult mystery set in Australia, Hong Kong and Yangshuo-China. In which the characters are caught in a time vortex, during recent devastating floods in Queensland, the 1860s Gold Rush and the Chinese Taiping Rebellion. With the help of her friends in Murphys Creek, Master of the Enneagram, Lian uses this ancient paradigm and astrology to search for the lost gold. The plot of The Neptune Vortex was designed with the enneagram, it's characters with the aid of astrology. In his companion-ontology, the author presents, deconstructs the novel and in narrative form, an abstract mathematical theory about the source of inspiration at the heart of our calculated universe.