A week ago I quietly published my book, Things in Heaven and Earth, knowing that fullscale publicity would follow on later. Life has its own agenda and the more life-experience there is behind me, I see that taking new ventures at a steady pace is better than rushing headlong into a series of mistakes. So I am quietly (sometimes noisily!) planning the best approach for getting the book “out there”, starting with what I know and who I know, before venturing into the marketplace of a world that is unfamiliar to me. Where better to begin than by sharing my thoughts on the book; the process? I am part of the story, one of its characters, not only in the book but as a living “afterword”; a continuation of the past into the future; that which is both in time and out of time.
As I begin to get feedback about the book, questions are asked, such as: Why is the subtitle: “A story of love, mystery and transformation”? The simple answer is that it is about all three of these topics, each one being inseparable from the other. Overarchingly it is a love story that breaks the boundaries of conventional love stories and reaches far beyond the limitations of time and description. On the face of it two strangers meet and fall instantly in love, but it turns out to be far more than that which happens to most of us at some point in our lives. Whatever our beliefs about spirit, soul, essence, life-force, there is clearly an energetic impulse that sometimes collides with another’s energetic impulse. Once this happens changes occur for the two people involved. In this instance, what happened to these two profoundly influenced not only their own lives, but those of others who came into their orbit. They seemed to radiate an energy, “like two poles of a rather strange battery” as one person describes it. Hence the mystery that, though felt, is indescribable. That it transformed the couple for the remainder of their lives is beyond question. A section of the book is devoted to interviews which demonstrate the deep insights and wisdom they both imparted long after they met. That it appears spiritual or mystical in content is more down to the questions of the interviewer, labels of which they never claimed for themselves. Whatever it was, the imprint of what happened and what they say is still acutely alive now.
So although I may have waffled a bit here, you can perhaps get a sense of the reason for the title Things in Heaven and Earth, and the subtitle: A story of love, mystery and transformation.
You may enjoy checking the book out on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-Heaven-Earth-mystery-transformation/dp/1527265811