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White Bird is finished!
Paperback, Kindle and ePUB versions available.
The ePUB is only on lulu.com now but it will appear on iBookstore and other places soon.)
I spent years in Calcutta and Madras (now Chennai) as a scholar, doing field work for a Ph.D. However, in the 1970s, a degree in Indian studies did not lead to a job. WHITE BIRD came of wishing I’d had time to go to Nepal and into the Peace Corps.
Reading about thirty books satisfied my long-latent interest in Nepal and Tibetan Buddhism. A fierce trek up the Annapurna Valley topped it off.
The novel is in the tradition of writers bringing the East to the West, like E.M. Forster and the Victorians Alexandra David-Neel and Madam Blavatsky. White Bird draws on Tibetan Buddhism which spread out of Tibet by Chinese force after 1959. Half a century later, Buddhism is well known in America.
If you like reading about a character's discovery of Buddhism, shamans, séances, and sex, it's for you.
The ePUB is only on lulu.com now but it will appear on iBookstore and other places soon.)
I spent years in Calcutta and Madras (now Chennai) as a scholar, doing field work for a Ph.D. However, in the 1970s, a degree in Indian studies did not lead to a job. WHITE BIRD came of wishing I’d had time to go to Nepal and into the Peace Corps.
Reading about thirty books satisfied my long-latent interest in Nepal and Tibetan Buddhism. A fierce trek up the Annapurna Valley topped it off.
The novel is in the tradition of writers bringing the East to the West, like E.M. Forster and the Victorians Alexandra David-Neel and Madam Blavatsky. White Bird draws on Tibetan Buddhism which spread out of Tibet by Chinese force after 1959. Half a century later, Buddhism is well known in America.
If you like reading about a character's discovery of Buddhism, shamans, séances, and sex, it's for you.
New non-fiction book
As of May, 2021, my new fat book on New Age thought is done. (New Age: New Answers to Deep Questions)
How did this happen? I thought I was done with fiction, for a while. Goofed off. Felt done with big wishes. Went to a meeting about Near-Death Experience, and the questions people asked made me frustrated. I wanted to explain how many of these things are part of one belief system that has some coherence. Then I thought: so EXPLAIN IT.
I joined the club: “explainers of the esoteric.” Turns out, a loooong tradition, of hearty souls like Dolores Cannon, who wrote and wrote and spoke and spoke, tirelessly. (A LOT OF CRAZY ADMIRABLE PEOPLE whom I got to know better.) Each of them put out extraordinary effort—decades of thought, research, writing, with a passion for THE PARANORMAL. I could AMPLIFY it. Be a librarian, which I am.
They say, "Write the book you want to read." I wanted all the New Age stuff on a historical timeline. My mind was spinning for decades.
Now I can contemplate my decades and the ones before them, and see how people make history and culture and inspire each other.
How did this happen? I thought I was done with fiction, for a while. Goofed off. Felt done with big wishes. Went to a meeting about Near-Death Experience, and the questions people asked made me frustrated. I wanted to explain how many of these things are part of one belief system that has some coherence. Then I thought: so EXPLAIN IT.
I joined the club: “explainers of the esoteric.” Turns out, a loooong tradition, of hearty souls like Dolores Cannon, who wrote and wrote and spoke and spoke, tirelessly. (A LOT OF CRAZY ADMIRABLE PEOPLE whom I got to know better.) Each of them put out extraordinary effort—decades of thought, research, writing, with a passion for THE PARANORMAL. I could AMPLIFY it. Be a librarian, which I am.
They say, "Write the book you want to read." I wanted all the New Age stuff on a historical timeline. My mind was spinning for decades.
Now I can contemplate my decades and the ones before them, and see how people make history and culture and inspire each other.
A YouTube Channel based on my book
Also, please check out the YouTube Channel that will deliver short (5-min) tutorials on topics covered in my new book, NEW AGE: NEW ANSWERS TO DEEP QUESTIONS.
You can see me talking only in the Intro/Hello video. Otherwise, I use PowerPoint and voice-over, with many book recommendations.
New Age Librarian on YouTube : https://bit.ly/3ycfpCT
Topics will include: What is New Age? Reincarnation. Near-Death Experiences. UFOs and Extraterrestrials. Psychics and Mediums. Channeling. A Timeline of the New Age Movement. Labyrinths. Yogis. Shamans. Adventurers Seeking Buddhism. Energy Healing. The Emerging Science of Subtle Energy. And so on.
You can see me talking only in the Intro/Hello video. Otherwise, I use PowerPoint and voice-over, with many book recommendations.
New Age Librarian on YouTube : https://bit.ly/3ycfpCT
Topics will include: What is New Age? Reincarnation. Near-Death Experiences. UFOs and Extraterrestrials. Psychics and Mediums. Channeling. A Timeline of the New Age Movement. Labyrinths. Yogis. Shamans. Adventurers Seeking Buddhism. Energy Healing. The Emerging Science of Subtle Energy. And so on.
Roots of My Writing
About my fiction: WHITE BIRD, VILNIUS DIARY, and MY BOAT IS SO SMALL (pending)
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