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Fragrant Heart

by Howchi Kilburn

Wu, the Wandering Taoist, has become intrigued with the story of Jesus spending forty days and nights alone in the wilderness. With the help of Gordon, a being who interfaces between this world and the spirit world, he goes into the wilderness in imitation of Jesus. His Taoist background helps him be in a state of openness toward whatever experiences come his way. Instead of being alone he finds that a variety of spirit beings show up to provide guidance, illumination and even revelations. Among those are his twin flame, with whom he has not had conscious contact for many lifetimes.

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Another Butterfly

by Howchi Kilburn

In support of dreaming into existence a more quintessential way of being, the four friends have been learning from Grandmother Xochitl and from Mother Earth Herself. Journeys of soul and spirit have shown them an array of marvels that usually remain unseen.

Wu, Daphne, Atsa and Aiyana embark on a road trip across Northern New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment. Their destination is family, but along the way beings from more golden planes of existence, who have lived forever in these mountains and canyons, invite them into dimensions filled with ease and wonder. Among their guides alongthe way, perhaps the most magically talented one masquerades as a middle-aged middle-American tourist in an RV. As a shape-shifter he is also sometimes a lovely alluring woman or a sweet loving mother.

The friends are shown the birth of Turtle Island and practice ancient forms of initiation. They each flower in their own unique way on an endlessly evolving quest toward ultimate truth, which is polymorphous and flashes a melange of intriguing faces.

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Monking Around

by Howchi Kilburn

They are an unlikely pair: Wu, the wandering Taoist, and Daphne, young, blonde, energetic and devoted to the practice of martial arts, meditative states and other-worldly journeys. Their teacher is a medicine woman in a remote village in New Mexico devoted to the ancient traditions. Taoists, pagans and shamans engage in a sustainable way of living with lots of mystical ecstasy.

Goddess speaks to them through angels, nature spirits and the Ancient Ones, who still have enclaves in remote places on earth. They whisper in the wind and rumble from inside the earth with voices of etherial, maternal and erotic love, while clarifying the Original Instructions given to all humans.

Shape-shifting, communion with animal and plant allies, journeys into the Spirit World and healing ceremonies are among their masteries and mysteries. It's a training program to develop skills and responsibilities, so they may play their part in the creation of a new world.

Monking Around is an enchanting story, in which Howchi Kilburn portrays how tuned-in people can create a way of life that is sacred, ecstatic and harmonious. Perhaps we can be those people.

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Other books by Howchi Kilburn

Arks of Rainbow Light

Recently divorced Will travels from California to visit old friends at a country commune in New Mexico. His future is rather uncertain. There he meets Nina, and they begin to fall in love. They ride horse together; she regales him with tales she's gathered in her studies of folklore at Sarah Lawrence University. He spent the sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area. His background in psychedelic exploration makes him very receptive to everything she presents. They meet a Native American Medicine Woman who encourages them and amplifies their relationship. She helps them do ceremonies together and begin their play on the edges of other-worldly experience.

Nina has plans to spend a semester abroad in Paris. In France the couple visits a number of spiritual and artistic locations. They have many sensuous and extra-sensory experiences in these places, and then successfully experiment with their own telepathy with each other. Everything they see and do reflects back to and augments their growing multi-level intimacy.

Arks of Rainbow Light is available on Amazon

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Sacred Triangles
(Arks of Rainbow Light Book 2)

Sacred Triangles is the story of a ménage à trois, whose success is based on a profound sense of spiritual connection with one another. No one is ever excluded. Many traditional stories are re-interpreted in light of the primacy of the feminine in human history and mythology. The three main characters are devoted to manifesting the philosophical ideals that were articulated in the sixties and lived as truth in ancient times.

While spending a semester in Paris, Nina meets and forms a relationship with a fellow student, Camille, who invites Nina into a group of pagan women, Les Femmes Violettes. When it's time for Nina to return to the U.S., she invites Camiille to join her there. Nina has alreay informed her soulmate, Will, that she has fallen in love with another woman. Will, who is somewhat older than Nina, embraces her relationship with Camille, as she has described it to him by phone and mail. Will and Nina have also stayed connected with each other through telepathic love-making.

When Camille comes to Northern Caifornia, she and Will quickly form a bond with each other and the ménage à trois is born. Camille becomes pregnant, and the three decide they will all be parents to the expected child. Nina's university studies lead her to investigate cooperative communities and corporations. She pursues her research and the three begin formulating ideas to form such an entity together with others of like mind. Nina and Will's friends in New Mexido have already launched such a community. When Nina and Camille travel there, Camille meets Granny Eva for the first time. She is an older Native American Medicine Woman, who immediately recognizes Camille as one of the special ones.

Sacred Triangles is available on Amazon

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Flowers In Their Hair

Flowers In Their Hair is available on Amazon

Zane Morgan's odyssey through the decade of the sixties begins with a hitchhiking trip to San Francisco at the age of seventeen. He quickly becomes embroiled in the events of the times. The drug scene walks in his front door. Military draft seeks him out with the intent to destroy, so he believes. He learns to keep on running in the hope that "they" won't catch up with him. He beats the draft by convincing them that he is too crazy for the army. The "crazy man act" proves useful on several subsequent occasions. Street demonstrations, petty crime and student uprisings are on his list of approved activities. He lives like a nomad even during his periodic stays in San Francisco, the home base he returns to, each time a journey completes itself because he ran out of money, temporarily ran out of places to go, or simply ran out to gas and needed the recharge of the Bay Area hippie Mecca to get him energized for the next foray into the unknown.

There are also considerable journeys into inner space via the medium of LSD and other mind-expanding substances. With many fellow travelers he watches the boundaries of ordinary reality dissolve, shift and recreate themselves in vivid Technicolor and communion with what appears to be other worlds. LSD seems to accelerate time so that there is a feeling that lifetimes may have been lived within a few weeks. Sometimes he is confused by all this time-traveling and wonders who he is. Relationships are intense but short, passing from passionate enthrallment to vague disinterest within a matter of months. Yet the grief of loss and the fear that "they" might eventually catch up with him is also inescapable. He goes from atheist to passionate believer and experiencer of all things spiritual. He studies Sanskrit, Zen Buddhism and Native American prophecies. His travels in Mexico open him to ordinary people with huge hearts who don't judge him negatively in spite of his long hair and beard. He makes a lot of mistakes and suffers the consequences. He has brushes with the law and even gets locked up for awhile, an experience that exposes him to influence from a whole different underclass than the streets of San Francisco.

He follows leaders, but only for a short time until he's off and running once again on his own trip. He has brief encounters with some of the famous people of the era including Cesar Chavez, Janis Joplin, Chet Helms, Zen Master Suzuki Roshi, Stephen Gaskin and several Black Panthers. They all contribute to his accumulation of wisdom. Is he seeking love or enllightenment or both? He seems to find elements of both, but they are ephemeral and tend to dissolve with the rapidity of an acid vision. The question becomes if there is a way to hang on to the beauty, the truth and the understandings of how to live a better life. Perhaps there are more skillful means than psychedelics, more skillful means than sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

Is it karma, a random roll of the dice, or kismet that leads him to a crossroads and a choice that leads him either to commitment to a life with his true love or devotion to a serious spiritual practice?

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Email Howchi at keithhowchi@howchi.net

The Author

Howchi Kilburn is a long-term practitioner of meditation, Tai-Chi, yoga, psychotherapy, immersion in nature, and playing with his grandkids. A Northern California denizen, inspired by the non-fiction writings of Marija Gimbutas, The Living Goddess, and Riane Eisler, Sacred Pleasure, he has been writing stories based on their descriptions of human life in ancient times. Could human beings for thousands of years have lived a peaceful, agrarian existence, honoring their nurturing Mother Earth in ceremonies emphasizing joy and pleasure and the familial relationship of all life? Can that peaceful, joyful consciousness find places and ways to thrive in the modern world? Find out by reading Monking Around, Another Butterfly, and now his latest release, Fragrant Heart, all available at Atmosphere Press.

"As an author whose formative years were spent as a hippie in San Francisco, I continue to chart the course of those who experienced dramatic and simultaneous openings to the sensual/sexual and spiritual sides of human nature. Sacred pleasure is the concept which provides a departure point for a long exploration of the potential for ecstatic reverential unity in human relationships.

I self-published one book set in the sixties, Flowers in their Hair, which began the spiritual, sensual journey. Since then I have been writing about the evolution of the people and concepts so colorfully revealed through the use of psychedelics and exposure to the many paths of Spirit.

My understanding of intimate relationships is informed by more than twenty five years experience as a marriage and family therapist, and as a participant in sacred ceremony drawing from Native American, European pagan, Asian mystical and other sources."

~ Howchi Kilburn