The Future Consequences of Present Actions

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In The Future Consequences of Present Actions, we meet Charles Lane, an 18th-century Transcendentalist who founded the Fruitlands commune along with Amos Bronson Alcott, the father of Louisa May. The commune fails, and the disenchanted Lane moves with his son to a Shaker village.

In his eagerness to find “heaven on earth” within the Shaker community, Lane inadvertently enlists his son into indentured servitude and learns the true cost of his utopian search.

The seed we plant today shall be the harvest of tomorrow. The Future Consequences of Present Actions is a book that speaks to the truth of our time: that every choice, every deed, bears fruit in the world to come, and how a single choice can ripple outward in unexpected ways.