Visionary Fiction

In this brilliant retelling of the classic tale about the transcendent power of love, author Stephen Mitchell writes, "There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs.” While the frogs never become princes, over the course of an ordinary marriage, a prince may turn into a frog. However, Mitchell tells of a different kind of love story. This adult fairytale is the story of a meditative frog's love for a rebellious princess, how she came to love him in spite of herself, and how her refusal to compromise helped him become what he was truly meant to be.

A struggling photographer Thelma searches for direction in her life. She is drawn to a group conducting plant medicine ceremonies on a mysterious farm in Florida’s southern Everglades. After drinking a mescaline tea made from the San Pedro wachuma cactus with the group, she receives an unusual message and meets a young Persian man suffering from kidney failure, named Saman.

A groundbreaking book in the tradition of The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, The Mosaic, by marketing expert and activist Daniel Bruce Levin, invites you to see the world from a new point of view - one that focuses on what connects us to each other and brings us happiness. The Mosaic follows the journey of Mo, a boy who loses his parents two years apart on the same day.

Soulwaves is a metaphysical and cosmological adventure across space and time. Soulwaves are the missing dark energy and dark matter that cosmologists can’t find. They bond people to people, moons to planets, planets to stars, and stars to other stars to form galaxies. When this book proper begins in 2059, China has become the predominant force on the world stage. You will discover that events on planet Earth, and all other sentient planets, are nano-managed by greater and even more pervasive forces.

The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibing drugs and literature in equal measure, funded by brief periods of employment or "on the dole" in Dublin. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth.

This captivating story combines mysticism, quantum physics, and an exploration into the nature of reality. In the early hours before dawn, a scientist secretly slips into a darkened laboratory and steals a strand from an ancient cloth. This cloth has a special and profound origin, one that some would do anything to possess, while others want it suppressed. How could this small, seemingly insignificant item change the course of the world? Years later, a mysterious man appears in New York City. Who is he, what is his connection with the ancient cloth, and why has he arrived at this time?

Книга Две жизни — мистический роман, который популярен у людей, интересующихся идеями Теософии и Учением Живой Этики. Первая часть романа повествует о глубоких духовных поисках героев, горьких разочарованиях, а также дальних путешествиях в поисках истины... Этот текст был написан известной оперной певицей, ученицей К.С. Станиславского, солисткой Большого театра Конкордией Евгеньевной Антаровой (1886–1959). Как вспоминала сама Кора Антарова, книга писалась под диктовку во время Второй мировой войны и являлась знанием, переданным через общение с действительным Автором посредством яснослышания.

A Light in the Tunnel is about realistic heroism. It tells the story of those trying to find purpose and peace in their lives by shedding layers of self-consciousness and social pressure.

Join Asbestos and the other 12 heads in their spiritual and philosophical journey through life and death. Meet Pin Head the hyper-active, hyper-critical, hypocrite; Figure Head the mystic mathematician; Pot Head the shamanistic high school teacher; and Dead Head the politically-active radical environmentalist. You'll meet a host of unique personalities in this humorous and thought-provoking philosophical fiction novella.

In 1872, the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact, but the crew was gone. They were never found. While on a voyage to Africa, an unproven young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle hears of the Mary Celeste and decides to write an outlandish story about what took place. This story causes quite a sensation back in the United States, particularly between sought-after Philadelphia spiritualist medium Violet Petra and a journalist named Phoebe Grant, who is seeking to expose Petra as a fraud.

"If a fable is a legendary story of supernatural happenings," Mr. Swann says, "or a narration intended to enforce a useful truth, then these four are fables - which shouldn't be confused with fairy tales targeted only for children. These, then, are tales for kind and loving people of all ages." These fables came to Ingo Swann as a gift from a part of himself: He awoke four mornings in a row and literally had to write them.

The inner circle of the philosophers of Pavi Bujdam are a close group of friends who include a renowned artist, a mathematician, musicians, dancers, theologians and an astrologer, who all live with the great philosophical question of what lies beyond the mere surrounding their almost trouble-free land. In their meetings together they are always exploring their philosophies, an exploration in which the listener is invited to share in the form of the entertainment of the story.

Following the coronation of Charles III, Scotland’s most revered artefact, ‘The Stone of Destiny’ arrives at its long-term home in Perth Museum. Desperate to rebuild his shattered credibility, Gill is working hard on several stories along the Firth of Forth. But he’s presented with a problem when the discovery of an ancient inscription in a ruined church throws question marks against the authenticity of The Stone. On the trail of an age-old story, Gill finds himself opposed by someone prepared to kill to prevent the truth from being revealed.

The loss of love in all its forms seems to be firmly entwined within the very fabric of life's intricate tapestry. The heartache it inevitably unleashes becomes an intolerable burden, at times plunging you into the deepest depths of despair and suffering. It seems that it is only in those darkest times that your quest begins in earnest to seek out answers to quell your inner turmoil. Maybe that is the truest purpose of suffering in your life, to propel you on a journey to the revelation of your true inner power as a Divine being. "The Well" is a fictionalized journey of such a discovery.

Тайные общества и поиски бессмертия, древние книги, старинные типографии, подземные читальные залы, пыльные склады потерянных артефактов и блестящие хранилища данных "Гугла", зубодробительные шифры, визуализация данных, настоящий квест, настоящая дружба, многообещающая любовь и, как ни странно, драконы. Все это свалилось на веб-дизайнера Клэя Дженнона, потому что он, потеряв работу и бесцельно блуждая по Сан-Франциско, ненароком завернул в круглосуточный (и, между прочим, вертикальный) книжный магазин.

Mother in Name Only is the transparent, sometimes painful, and always poignant portrait of Myrna Kaye—held inside for almost her entire life.

Erik Bernstein wasn’t afraid of death. He was afraid of life. He battled with inadequacy and the feeling that he never belonged. He became an expert at deflecting intimacy to mask his shame, lies, self-doubt, and bad choices. From the time he was eleven years old, or even younger, death was never far from his mind. Needless to say, death was front of mind as he sat in the back corner of the synagogue, watching his own funeral.

En El camino del arquero conocemos a Tetsuya, un antiguo prodigio del arco y la flecha que ahora se encuentra retirado de la vida pública, así como al jóven que viene en su búsqueda. El chico tiene muchas preguntas, y mientras las contesta, Tetsuya ilustra el camino del arco y los principios de una vida con propósito.

Sweeney is a druggist by trade; Danny, his son, is in a persistent coma, the victim of an accident. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the Peck Clinic, a fortress-like haven in a post-industrial city overrun by gangs. Doctors there claim to have resurrected two patients who were similarly lost in the void.

Though still recovering from that harrowing experience, she is getting used to her new life on another world. Just as she begins to accept what has happened, strange events take root at the Bhrean palace. If she does not help, her closest friend and new way of life are in danger. Val Dolan grapples with his birthright. He never asked for it, yet to neglect his duty is to bring the downfall of a kingdom. When he discovers odd behavior in the palace staff, he knows that if he does nothing to fix the situation, chaos is the outcome.