The principles of Marxist Dialectic decoded, experienced, and practiced by an adventurous, time-transcending redhead, named Azurie, with inherent and cultivated magical powers but lamentable lack of leadership qualities.

Set deep into the safety of the Canadian Rockies’ enchanted Takaya River Valley guarded by the Old Goat Mountain, a large group of people is hiding away from the World War III on the unseeded territory of an ancient Native Tribe where, with the help of the Spirits of their ancestors, Rusalkas, and the mighty boreal forest, they try to build a thriving, mutually supportive community. The structure of this community gradually assumes the spatial characteristics, physical shape, and internal relationships that are aligned with the ageless configurations of universal Matter.

Written in a form of science-fiction and magical realism, Forms of Intense Intelligence, nonetheless, presents as a critical work of structuralist philosophy, feminist theory, science, and history.

Cohen’s interest is in the materiality of the human and non-human worlds and in the animacy of the objects as expressed in rites and rituals and explored by the current anthropological and philosophical scholarship.

Across times and spaces, the plot involves a Caravan of refugees escaping catastrophic events and bonding in a variety of ways. The events unfold in fantastical highland forest settings, where humans, natural elements, house spirits, mermaids, trees, mountains, birds, music, gemstones, and powerful Gods and metahumans operate together for the collective benefit of all, while the forest provides the refugees with glorious wild food and shelter.

There are four main and a few minor timelines: 2020s BCE Indus Valley, 13th century CE Crimean mountains, 2020s BCE Tripolye Culture, and 2020s CE World War III at a First Nations village, BC. The novel pursues such subjects as war, racism, religion, and Magic.

The main ideas explored throughout this novel are largely based on the trailblazing works of David Graeber, Terence S. Turner, and David Wengrow.