Thunderbroom is a saga of one woman's quest to find a spirituality which made sense to her.  Many people these days have reached a dead end in their spiritual lives. What do you do if you feel that all traditional spiritual systems of both East and West seem both empty and meaningless? That they lead only to collapse and loss of vitality? Where can you go and what can you do to find spiritual meaning?

The answer is simple. It is called spiritual liberation. And it can be had by anyone who possesses courage to break free of the suffocating religious traditions of the past. Framed in a series of e-mails from an older woman to a younger, Thunderbroom can show you how to practice the kind of spiritual self-reliance necessary to find valid truth and meaning in your life.  The book is also a highly entertaining take on all the spiritual folly currently running rampant in the land, up to and including modern Neo-Paganism (which turns into a saga of the Goddess that failed).  Thunderbroom also offers up a new and intriguing theory to explain why traditional belief systems no longer provide much spiritual solace, and it ultimately envisions a new form of spiritual richness which can be had by anyone.

Digital copies of Thunderbroom are now available here as PDF or HTM (paperback copies will be available from Lulu in the near future). But save trees--read ebooks!

 

 

 

 

The present author likes to consider herself both a pragmatist and a rationalist. If something doesn't make logical sense to me, I don't bother with it.  Therefore it will perhaps be surprise the reader to discover that my second book is about divination, specifically about divination with Tarot cards.

Now how can divination be thought of as either rational or pragmatic? Isn't something as ridiculously arcane as fortune-telling supposed to be some kind of unscientific con-artist nonsense? Indeed not.  Done carefully, intelligently, and rationally, divination can become one of the most valuable skills you can ever acquire.

Tarot Unbound is a different kind of Tarot book.  Unlike the vast majority of Tarot books on the market today, this book does not focus on "what the cards mean" (these meanings, of course, vary from author to author, and who can say say which "meaning" is correct?).  Nor does it bother with all that hidden secret magical esoteric foolishness which your average high-school mind thinks belongs to Tarot.  Instead this book will focus on what you truly need to understand in order to divine correctly:

• What exactly is the future, anyway?
• Are our lives preordained, or do we have free will?
• What can you reasonably expect when you consult an oracle?
• What is the most effective oracle you can use?
• How can we use an oracle to make better choices in our lives?

Questions like these are what matter in successful divination.  Once you realize that a good oracle is an aid to rational thought, instead of some kind of spook show, everything about your life will change for the better.  You will be able to think more clearly, make better decisions, and live more contentedly.  Tarot Unbound can show you how.

I hope to have Tarot Unbound completed in 2010.  In the meantime, if you're curious about Tarot but don't know where to start, I recommend the following books:

• Exploring the Patterns of the Tarot, by Norma Cowie. 
• Choice Centered Tarot, by Gail Fairfield. 
• The Tarot:  History, Mystery, and Lore, by Cynthia Giles.  Her other book The Tarot:  Methods, Mastery and More is also worthwhile.