At some point in life we must each come to terms with the questions: Who am I?  Why am I here?  Is the Universe just a cosmic crap shoot, based on chance and luck, or is there an unseen benevolent order striving to guide us behind the scenes?

Matthew Stone, having wandered far from his soul path, is about to find out.  Launched on an amazing journey of spiritual awakening, what he learns and experiences along the way will change his life forever...and yours.

At some point in life we must each come to terms with the questions: Who am I?  Why am I here?  Is the Universe just a cosmic crap shoot, based on chance and luck, or is there an unseen benevolent order striving to guide us behind the scenes?

Matthew Stone, having wandered far from his soul path, is about to find out.  Launched on an amazing journey of spiritual awakening, what he learns and experiences along the way will change his life forever...and yours.

At some point in life we must each come to terms with the questions: Who am I?  Why am I here?  Is the Universe just a cosmic crap shoot, based on chance and luck, or is there an unseen benevolent order striving to guide us behind the scenes?

Matthew Stone, having wandered far from his soul path, is about to find out.  Launched on an amazing journey of spiritual awakening, what he learns and experiences along the way will change his life forever...and yours.

The influential Temple of Nieubi has dominated the land for many decades, resulting in the spiritual stagnation of its inhabitants. Xenia, a beautiful young temple scribe, is sent to a neighboring province to tutor the son of Vondran, a powerful landowner, who not only tries to seduce her but also wants her to reveal secret temple information. Further, a strange old man reveals to her a secret word that can bring spiritual freedom to those who chant it — hidden from the masses for many years by the temple elders. Her life will be in danger if she reveals it, but doing so could ultimately end temple domination.

Xenia must decide whether to reveal this information, succumb to the advances of the exciting Vondran, or marry the kind-hearted Zander. But mysterious Masters appear, telling her to teach the secret word to all. Can she trust their guidance? These are the choices open to Xenia – and spiritual freedom for future generations hinges on her ultimate decision.

The influential Temple of Nieubi has dominated the land for many decades, resulting in the spiritual stagnation of its inhabitants. Xenia, a beautiful young temple scribe, is sent to a neighboring province to tutor the son of Vondran, a powerful landowner, who not only tries to seduce her but also wants her to reveal secret temple information. Further, a strange old man reveals to her a secret word that can bring spiritual freedom to those who chant it — hidden from the masses for many years by the temple elders. Her life will be in danger if she reveals it, but doing so could ultimately end temple domination.

Xenia must decide whether to reveal this information, succumb to the advances of the exciting Vondran, or marry the kind-hearted Zander. But mysterious Masters appear, telling her to teach the secret word to all. Can she trust their guidance? These are the choices open to Xenia – and spiritual freedom for future generations hinges on her ultimate decision.

The influential Temple of Nieubi has dominated the land for many decades, resulting in the spiritual stagnation of its inhabitants. Xenia, a beautiful young temple scribe, is sent to a neighboring province to tutor the son of Vondran, a powerful landowner, who not only tries to seduce her but also wants her to reveal secret temple information. Further, a strange old man reveals to her a secret word that can bring spiritual freedom to those who chant it — hidden from the masses for many years by the temple elders. Her life will be in danger if she reveals it, but doing so could ultimately end temple domination.

Xenia must decide whether to reveal this information, succumb to the advances of the exciting Vondran, or marry the kind-hearted Zander. But mysterious Masters appear, telling her to teach the secret word to all. Can she trust their guidance? These are the choices open to Xenia – and spiritual freedom for future generations hinges on her ultimate decision.

Karen speaking on angels and astral travel: Karen would lay awake in bed at night and meditate on the vastness of the universe, and the celestial beings that floated around her bedroom so freely, clothed in vibrant colors of light. Karen felt the occasional tap on her shoulder by the angels, being very sensitive she acknowledged the slightest brush of the angels wings, with the faintest vibrations they brought. She heard the sound of angels wings fluttering over her while laying in her bed, she could even feel the the breezes on her brow, Karen smiled and enjoyed this experience.

Renee Lewis is a native of Southern California.

Tails: Swimming Both Ways

is written in an avant-garde style. Let’s call it Fyschese.

Fyschese may seem challenging at 1st – like learning a new language.

U will have 2 use peripheral vision

                                                        FREE YOUR MIND!

Tails: Swimming Both Ways

chronicles the adventures of your N dearing androgynous protagonist Fysche…

who left the city of Angels 2 go in search of the meaning of life & love…that

age old paradox. Fysche’s rambunctious escapades thru Europe R set from

mind-boggling Munich 2 panoramic Prague, scintillating Sweden thru

utopic Amsterdam with pit stops in the French Riviera and a crash course of

Italy.

What else?

Fysche falls in and out of love painfully

                                  disco ver the joys

                                   X perience It’s feelin’s

                                     share the boys

                                         love the women!

Fysche parties

            philosophises

              pharmaceuticizes

Highlights of Tails: Swimming Both Ways

· odd numbered pages

· even numbered pages

Final E, U can C that this story is very much in the stream of consciousness.

The consciousness is 1 of the streams that Fysche plays around in. Well.

N joy!

Tails: Swimming Both Ways

is written in an avant-garde style. Let’s call it Fyschese.

Fyschese may seem challenging at 1st – like learning a new language.

U will have 2 use peripheral vision

                                                        FREE YOUR MIND!

Tails: Swimming Both Ways

chronicles the adventures of your N dearing androgynous protagonist Fysche…

who left the city of Angels 2 go in search of the meaning of life & love…that

age old paradox. Fysche’s rambunctious escapades thru Europe R set from

mind-boggling Munich 2 panoramic Prague, scintillating Sweden thru

utopic Amsterdam with pit stops in the French Riviera and a crash course of

Italy.

What else?

Fysche falls in and out of love painfully

                                  disco ver the joys

                                   X perience It’s feelin’s

                                     share the boys

                                         love the women!

Fysche parties

            philosophises

              pharmaceuticizes

Highlights of Tails: Swimming Both Ways

· odd numbered pages

· even numbered pages

Final E, U can C that this story is very much in the stream of consciousness.

The consciousness is 1 of the streams that Fysche plays around in. Well.

N joy!

Tails: Swimming Both Ways

is written in an avant-garde style. Let’s call it Fyschese.

Fyschese may seem challenging at 1st – like learning a new language.

U will have 2 use peripheral vision

                                                        FREE YOUR MIND!

Tails: Swimming Both Ways

chronicles the adventures of your N dearing androgynous protagonist Fysche…

who left the city of Angels 2 go in search of the meaning of life & love…that

age old paradox. Fysche’s rambunctious escapades thru Europe R set from

mind-boggling Munich 2 panoramic Prague, scintillating Sweden thru

utopic Amsterdam with pit stops in the French Riviera and a crash course of

Italy.

What else?

Fysche falls in and out of love painfully

                                  disco ver the joys

                                   X perience It’s feelin’s

                                     share the boys

                                         love the women!

Fysche parties

            philosophises

              pharmaceuticizes

Highlights of Tails: Swimming Both Ways

· odd numbered pages

· even numbered pages

Final E, U can C that this story is very much in the stream of consciousness.

The consciousness is 1 of the streams that Fysche plays around in. Well.

N joy!

Dominion is a paranormal experience riddled with universal truths.  It is a story of majikal proportions dealing with creation and destinies.  I say majikal in the sense that all things not understood are deemed to be of majik.  Yet in truth it is not.  It is the knowledge set forth by creation long before any soul ever came into existence.  Yet we, humans, deem it unattainable.  An issue far beyond what we should know.  What if this were not true?  What if the knowledge is there for all to know, to understand?  This is precisely what is being disclosed within the covers of Dominion.

In Dominion Cynthia Neves, a mother of four, finds herself suddenly recalling the experiences of her youth.  The encounters with the great One who discloses to this very soul what truth is.  Yet in this life that knowledge was buried deep within the subconscious mind to be brought out during a time of revelation.  It is during this time Cynthia must confront all of her being in a frightening paranormal evolution that clearly defines her very existence.

While this self discovery emerges Cynthia must also deal with an egotistical, philandering husband who has one goal in life, to get rid of his wife.  Yet her husband’s plans come apart by unusual means.  The celestial angels of Dominion confront Cynthia with a power even she was not aware existed.  They send a guide, a soul newly departed from Earth, to guide her through her mission, as he too must complete his.

Cynthia is swept into an existence of exquisite love and damning hate, angels and aliens, spirits and souls, heaven and hell.  These whirlwind encounters bring forth lessons, truths, then ultimately an understanding only a master soul could comprehend.  This journey discloses what her true purpose in this life is, if only she can get beyond her fear!

Dominion is a paranormal experience riddled with universal truths.  It is a story of majikal proportions dealing with creation and destinies.  I say majikal in the sense that all things not understood are deemed to be of majik.  Yet in truth it is not.  It is the knowledge set forth by creation long before any soul ever came into existence.  Yet we, humans, deem it unattainable.  An issue far beyond what we should know.  What if this were not true?  What if the knowledge is there for all to know, to understand?  This is precisely what is being disclosed within the covers of Dominion.

In Dominion Cynthia Neves, a mother of four, finds herself suddenly recalling the experiences of her youth.  The encounters with the great One who discloses to this very soul what truth is.  Yet in this life that knowledge was buried deep within the subconscious mind to be brought out during a time of revelation.  It is during this time Cynthia must confront all of her being in a frightening paranormal evolution that clearly defines her very existence.

While this self discovery emerges Cynthia must also deal with an egotistical, philandering husband who has one goal in life, to get rid of his wife.  Yet her husband’s plans come apart by unusual means.  The celestial angels of Dominion confront Cynthia with a power even she was not aware existed.  They send a guide, a soul newly departed from Earth, to guide her through her mission, as he too must complete his.

Cynthia is swept into an existence of exquisite love and damning hate, angels and aliens, spirits and souls, heaven and hell.  These whirlwind encounters bring forth lessons, truths, then ultimately an understanding only a master soul could comprehend.  This journey discloses what her true purpose in this life is, if only she can get beyond her fear!

This is a novel about Dr. Faustus. It is an updated version of the play written by Christopher Marlowe in the late 16th. century. The work is about a young college professor, Dr. John Faustus, who inherits a book of magic spells. The temptation of using the book causes him to struggle over whether or not to sell his soul to the devil; and the consequences that he could incur after the sale. There is a subplot of humor in the novel as his secretary and her boyfriend try to steal his book of spells. It ends with Faustus realizing he alone is responsible for his fate. He has the power to break the contract, and change, but will he? Although there is religion throughout the text, it is not a religious piece. It is more of a philosophical work. It´s focus is more on the decisions people make and how they are responsible for them. Faustus is given the opportunity to avoid going to hell, but to do so he must change. Is this his fate? Or free will?

This is the story of one little boy in Rwanda who is orphaned because of AIDS. It is a fictional story, but the reality of thousands of such cases in Rwanda and in all of Africa is documented. The projected figures indicate that the AIDS epidemic is going to worsen, creating more orphans, more children raising their brothers and sisters, and more very sick children. In Rwanda the situation has been intensified by the effects of the 1994 war and genocide. The author/illustrator spent many hours researching the material for this book. She realizes she has only scratched the surface of the real struggle to survive in Rwanda, but it is a struggle, not a total defeat, and there are some in the international community whose support ensures that there will be survival. The Rwandans do weave peace baskets from sisal and other natural fibers. These baskets are made in a centuries-old style and have designs woven into them using natural dyes. Inside each basket is a message of peace which best expresses the hopes of the Rwandan people at this time. These baskets may be found for sale at several websites by searching for "basket weaving in Rwanda," or "Rwandese baskets." The sale of the handmade peace baskets is helping the Rwandans earn the money to live and to purchase medicine. This book is dedicated to those who heal the sick and comfort the sorrowful by their work and presence in Rwanda and in all of Africa. These books have been self-published by the author/illustrator so that all the books and the entire revenue from their sale may be donated directly to the groups actively involved in alleviating the suffering from AIDS in Africa.

Arc on the Horizon is a story of a man, who, in trying to trace the origins of his great grandmother, moves closer and closer not only to his roots in the land of his ancestors but ultimately his place in the universe. It is a narrative of love, not just of the heart but also of the soul. Furthermore it is a story of romance, not just between two persons who discover their connections in a previous life, but within the context of their former life-role in the history of a nation struggling to find itself in the modern world. In this attempt to connect and relate the narrative shifts through differing perspectives and corresponding epochs patching together themes of reincarnation, philosophy, lofty quilts of myths, legends symbols and imagery as it traverses the vestiges of India to find meaning in the life of two little known personalities as the architects in India’s first struggle for independence.

We first meet the narrator as a yogi of sorts aboard an Air India jumbo jet heading for Bombay. Even though the tone is relaxed and casual we feel that things are not what they seem and soon there is a forced landing in Paris. In a brief sweep we get the background of the narrator: he comes from a humble sugar cane plantation in the Indo Caribbean and after studies at London he occupied an enviable position as a former diplomat in the higher echelons of the United Nations; we are also told that his great grandmother had an important role in the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and that she, rather than the Rebellious Queen, the Rani of Jhansi, was perhaps the real power behind the Jhansi throne -that princely enclave in the Bundelkhand which was a power to reckon with at the height of the Mogul hegemony. In many ways she practically stage-managed the Mutiny, which not only lasted for more than one full year, but in whose turmoil the concept of India, as a unified nation, was born.

As the plane lands the narrator meets his nemesis in the person of Rani Roy, a Belgian writer who is on her way to India to do research for a book she is writing on the Rani of Jhansi. They are told the plane is unable to fly and there is not another flight till the next day. Fate has them sharing a suite in a Parisian hotel which looks remarkably like something they experienced in Cusco, Peru. This is where intrigue takes us on a tour de force of the Peruvian Andes, the Sacred Valley of the Incas and the Peruvian Amazon, and where Rani manages to strip away his confidence as a yogi only to reveal his nakedness and vulnerability to the power of the flesh. But this is no ordinary flesh: the woman he comes in contact with is very much the vision of his childhood dreams, the person whom he knew as Agee, his great grandmother. Even when his hands fall on Rani’s breasts, they are the breasts of his great grandmother, nursing him as her very own. He is caught in a web of conflicting emotions, which shatters his mind to the core of his very soul. Still, his yogic eye is resolute and gradually his nemesis is transformed into something far greater than anything he had ever imagined. There is little doubt about the former identity of Rani Roy, but could it be that he is the reincarnation of his great grandfather, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Jhansi, and Rani´s emissary at the court of the Mogul Emperor at Delhi. Is it possible that he has met his wife of a former life, and if so would it be wise to reveal this knowledge to her?

This is the main conflict of the story, for it is the narrator’s contention that there is a prime directive among yogis, never to divulge what they know unless the sadhak’s “student”, is ready and willing to receive such knowledge. Moreover, we are informed by the narrator that such knowledge about the nature of the soul, especially as it relates to former past lives, is better for the student to be guided and the knowledge attained within the framework of their own experience. And the narrator proves this by sharing his own experiences in the long period of self unfoldment, taking us through his frustrating periods of yogic discipline and the intense "suffering” which came in his encounter with his spiritual self.

Of course within the major plot of the story there are subplots, like the escapades in the Peruvian Andes in which sickness and health not only anticipate what is to come, but from this panoramic view of the world and its problems, much of which has to do with the history of civilizations, there is the crystallizing process of working out how we deal with these problems. This idea of distillation and synthesis is carried throughout the book until we come face to face with the narrator’s tortuous experience through the Sacred Valley of Haridwar and Rishikesh, and later, especially to the end of the book, the eventual abduction of Rani in Srinagar. In each of these there is the recurring motif in which we are clued to the nature of conflict and the tools of resolution. In each episode, the suffering in the characters preempts the long agony and suffering of India in differing states of consciousness. Even in the characters longing for love and consummation, when it finally arrives, within all the deftness of its eroticism, it is offered in the glyph of that fine balance between sublimation of the cursive sex drive and the bolstering of pure spiritual consciousness. This is where mind and matter meld in the collective spirit to produce a unity of being where the two souls are again given birth in the flesh to reveal not only their present and former lives but the relevance and purpose of their being on earth. In this way the theme of reincarnation is merely a foil about possibilities: a window into forgotten worlds, glimpses into the ever-present consciousness, which continue to define our expanding universal civilisation, both in the present and the future.

The book matches the greatest of Indian tapestry for richness of colour, unity of design, intensity and care of weave, as well as allusions to the foibles of history. There are a number of highly intellectual reflections on Indian art, architecture, philosophy, religion and the early history of successive struggles to lay the foundation for a national ethos skillfully embedded in this esoteric story of romance. Even so, this is not just a book about India, for there are many references and historical parallels between the colonial experience of the people of India and other colonised areas of the world. Indeed, it is no accident that the story started aboard a jumbo jet only to touch down in Paris moments later to get insights into paradoxes of order in the developed world as well as from where we get a penetrating view of the broadside of Peruvian life caught up in the tail end of colonisation. From the high point of the Andes, we see with the diplomat’s eye the double standards of development in other parts of the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia.

Of course, this expose is only introductory, for as they descend back to Paris before their arrival in Delhi the story goes on a quest, which rises slowly through a series of flashbacks until they reach the highest peak of all in the high altitudes of the Himalayas. From this high point all the parallels are brought together in a bittersweet climax, only to be undermined in the denouement by the dark side of the post imperial order of the universe where synthesis is given in the skilful blend of the motives for the terrorist’s cause and the violence and destruction it unleashes for no other reason than to make a point. It is here too where the theme of reincarnation is reexamined, in The Arc of the Horizon, not just as a method for working out problems of history, but to offer compelling insights into creation and the meaning of life. It is where the enigma of religion is played out to the fullest and where the divisions of Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, are seen as the spoils of conquest in the history of civilisations. Indeed, the tragedy of violence we see perpetrated on Rani and the narrator is symbolical of the dialectic of violence espoused in such lofty domains in pursuit of balance of power, safeguarding the national interest, or arming one dissident group against another, but in effect the resultant suffering is slovenly tested on those least aware of the divisions of society, nation, or the ghostly intrigues of neo colonialism perpetually worming its way around the globe to reformulate the international order to its own likeness.

Arc Of The Horizon is a compelling story told with compassion and feelings for the plight of the human person caught up in the harsh realities of a declining world order. In every step of the way the reader is drawn into the heart center of the narrator and shares in his pains and sufferings as well as his delights in the interplay of love, so very deep that we immediately experience with him the very meaning of soul. In its mystical and metaphysical appellations the reader gains important insights into the art of living as well as clarification of visions into the art of conflict resolution. Thus, by the time the last page is read, there is the urge to either go back to the beginning or pick up the next book that is in the making. In either case there is the intense desire to follow the narrator and save humanity from the jaws of the universal civilization. For, in the end it is for this reason that the narrator and his companion, reborn in their all-embracing holistic knowledge and experience, decide to travel around the world and teach the yoga of love.

This is the first in a series of three volumes but as an independent work it stands on its own merit as an important piece of fiction; it is remarkably suited for cinema; and, when the other two volumes are completed they would adapt nicely to a television series.

Volume II, Legends of the Emperor´s Ring, was published in 2004 and Volume Three, The Yoga of Love was published in September, 2005.

As a story of romance, it goes beyond body to the mystery of soul. It offers insights into Indian history, philosophy, reincarnation, religion, myths and folklore to such intriguing depths that not even writers like V.S. Naipaul could hope to reach.