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The Heart of Magic is an extended exercise in reflective imagination— what I call a philosophical fantasy. The three books tell a long story spanning fifty years; a story of lovers, families, friends, villains, mysteries, and intricate riddles. Book One, The Tears of Night, describes the dimension worlds created by the Earthlings of the ark-ship […]

Introduction to the Series
 
 
 
The three books which comprise The Heart of Magic are a fusion of two of my life-long loves, science fiction/fantasy, and philosophy. The separate but connected stories take place over a fifty-year time-span, in a future several hundred years from now, and are set in the Tau Ceti star system, twelve light-years […]

The Journey to Shambhala

Part 1
Unlikely Heroes

Chapter One
Greta, Galen, and Four Eyes
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, […]

The Journey to Shambhala

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The Journey to Shambhala is the last in a three-book philosophical fantasy series called The Heart of Magic. I call them philosophical fantasies because the three connected tales do more than simply tell a long, intricate story spanning fifty years. They are also a sustained act of reflective imagination in which the […]

The Magical Children
 
Part One
One for All and All for One
 
Chapter One
 
The Prince, the Princess, and the Half-Breed
Here today, up and off somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement!
Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
When King Richard Lionheart of Port Royal died, he left behind a kingdom which had been at peace for […]

The Magical Children
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The Magical Children is the second in a three-book series called The Heart of Magic. In Book 1, The Tears of Night, the reader is introduced to the dimensions – hundreds of artificially created worlds that exist in a ring around the star Tau Ceti. It tells the story of two young lovers, […]