God willing, Spiritual Stories For The Heart should be released in late October or early November of 2006.

Although told in a largely original fashion, a number of the short stories in Spiritual Stories For The Heart are very loosely based upon either time-honored stories of the mystics, or built around various, essential spiritual insights drawn from their teachings. Other stories are wholly original but are still rooted in a traditional spiritual perspective.

In either case, the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Moreover, considerable poetic license has been taken in the telling and/or re-telling of some of these moral tales.

There are 55 entries, encompassing 331 pages, in this collection of short stories. The themes of these stories explore various dimensions of importance to the perspective, values, purposes, intentions, and nature of the mystical tradition.



Chapter Headings

A Problem And Its Solution
Cul-de-sac
Commitment’s Reward
Etymology
Crisis
Job Well Done
Becoming An Artisan
Successor
Battling An Enemy
The Other Side
An Event
Humble Beginnings
Snake Charmer
What’s In A Word
Who Goes There?
Storm
Building of Rome
A Gift
Absence
What’s Your Secret?
Mirror, Mirror
Dream On
What Would You Do?
Focus
Confessions
As Many Loaves...
Seeking
Blindman’s-buff
Taximan’s Service
The Worthless Son
Point-Counterpoint
Bidding For Services
Status Report
Independent Evidence
Leaving
Asceticism
Poison And Its Antidote
Dependence
Phoenix Rising
The Ceremony
Original Intent
Prayer Revealed
Three Amigos
Curiosity Shoppe
Inheritance
A Father Complains
Falling Upwards
Dancing With the Moon
The Crying Beggar
Fantasy
No Time
Asymmetry
Depressed King
The Interview
Reunion

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