Bøger af Edward Fahey

As a small boy, frail in body and spirit, Ed taps into lives that had been lived and lost long ago. They dig through him like lingering nostalgia for days he can't quite recall. Pathologically sensitive, he feels what friends and family hide even from themselves. Depressed, overwhelmed, he's afraid to reach out into life.Ed leaves for college as the Vietnam War deadens souls and riots tear cities apart. When he is drafted he refuses induction, knowing that if he ever finds himself in a paddy facing an armed enemy soldier, he wouldn't be the one pulling the trigger.Hitching a ride west with a strangely wise cowboy, he is pulled ever more deeply into the bizarre and the impossible. Meeting healers and miracle workers, he sorts through his own darkness and power, learning from experience that death is only temporary.Ed teaches massage school in southern California, his life spilling over with unbridled passion now of a more erogenous sort, but even bliss comes with challenges. Sometimes we must be destroyed to be reborn. Ed has to crawl from the wreckage of his own being; finding healing, joy, love, and fulfillment; one naked truth at a time."Entertaining Naked People" is Magic Realism. It is today. This is not wizards and hobgoblins. There is magic in the Real world for all of us.Sometimes it only takes a little clearer form of loving to set it free. As Ed discovers in our story, sometimes we search long and hard for it only to find it's been inside us all along.

There are places on this planet not confined to the logic of men or limitations of science. Pagans may have erected strange mounds, or circles of giant stones there. Religious seers built great cathedrals or temples where those stones had once stood. Legends spread about miracles and healing wonders, and for centuries pilgrims flocked in from all lands.Or they may have been left alone, unknown but to the few; tended by very special beings.Something inside a few troubled souls draws them to such centers when they're ready.In our modern-day fictional tale, four people with very different backgrounds, each scarred by a horrific childhood, meet at a place of healing where one's most crippling darkness must be faced down. In the rubble of their lives and broken spirits they learn that in their weaknesses lie their most profound strengths. In their festering wounds they find hope.In "The Gardens of Ailana" we see through the souls of mystics, experience laying-on-of-hands from the healer's point of view. Feel at home among wonders and magic.We may find answers to some long-troubling questions: What if everything does serve some purpose?When is it not right to forgive?Beyond all the religious hype, what happens when I die? When my child dies?How does karma work? - And this time say it so I can understand it.Is there any ultimate balancing of goodness and wrongs?In this moving, mysterious tale of redemption, we explore that intimate pain we all carry inside us, marveling at the rich complexity of the human spirit.And at the simple beauty and logic of what lies beyond.Or they may have been left alone, unknown but to the few; tended by very special beings.Something inside a few troubled souls draws them to these centers when they are ready.In our modern-day fictional tale, four people with very different backgrounds, each scarred by a horrific childhood, meet at a place of healing where one's most crippling darkness must be faced down. In the rubble of their lives and broken spirits they learn that in their weaknesses lie their most profound strengths. In their festering wounds they find hope.In "The Gardens of Ailana" we see through the souls of mystics, experience laying-on-of-hands from the healer's point of view. Feel at home among wonders and magic.We may learn to heal ourselves and others.We might find answers to some long-troubling questions.What if everything does serve some purpose?When is it not right to forgive?Is there any ultimate balancing of goodness and wrongs?What happens when I die? When my child dies?In this moving, mysterious tale of redemption, we explore that intimate pain we all carry inside us, marveling at the rich complexity of the human spirit