STORYTIME TAPESTRY

Nov 8, 2005

Press Release

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TO: ? Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

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? The Gift of Gabe

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AUTHOR??™S NAME: Brian Joseph? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ? ? 

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URL: http://www.giftofgabe.com/

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EMAIL: brianjoseph@giftofgabe.com

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? ? ? ? ? ?  NOVEL RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT?  SPIRITUAL MEANING

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Brian Joseph??™s recently published novel, The Gift of Gabe, has many readers wondering about the meaning of many well known song lyrics. The novel is the story of?  an accidental meeting with an eccentric old man who claims that people who have had

similar?  experiences can communicate these experiences to each other in ways that are not readily understandable to most people. An even greater claim made by the novel??™s main character is that during certain creative states some people can channel the Universal Mind and often be unaware that they have done so. What readers are finding remarkable is that the novel gives examples of?  songs they are familiar with and interprets them in a new way. Example after example is given by the main character who uses emerging scientific paradigms as well as various spiritual schools of thought to explain his view that the Universal Mind?  communicates to us through poets and musicians. Those cited include John Lennon and Paul McCartney as well as others.

The author cites: Plato who said that poets can utter great and wise things that they themselves do not understand, Socrates who spoke of this in his Apology to the Athenians,some of the Sufi who call this shathiyat which is poetry/prose that comes during what they call an ecstatic state,and Joseph Campbell who called it poetry from the transcendent realm. One of the more controversial claims made by Gabe is that this poetic language is the ???speaking in tongues??™ that biblical Paul spoke of.

The Gift of Gabe also explores the rise in interest in consciousness and Gabe claims that there is a new culture rising on the planet. Readers have been startled by the conclusion of this book that creates a new genre beyond visionary fiction.