{"product_id":"the-tao-of-mysti-s-h-marpel-9781393934981","title":"The Tao of Mysti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI'd been left out here, alone. By an oil-burning lamp. In the cold, uncaring desert.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was my only comfort until dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as the first of dawn started bringing the earliest glimmer of what I could see with my human eyes, I woke to some snuffling sound near my head.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening my eyes, not relishing the hot day coming, I saw the nose of an animal near my face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rise, little one.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI sat up. And saw eye-to-eye with a female coyote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was not young. Scars criss-crossed her front legs. Her eyes showed wrinkles of her experiences. Her udders dried and smaller now, but obvious she had born many litters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We have miles to go. Leave your lantern. Carry that dolly if you want. They are hunting us - you and me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt that the old mother coyote walked off a pace. And looked back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was the only life I could see in this parched desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo I followed as she led me to my new home.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranscript of opening lecture to nursing students\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHello and welcome to this lecture series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs students of Rochelle's Lazurai Nursing School, you occasionally run into the rare spirit-turned-mortal, goddess, and other extreme metaphysical types, I've been invited to bring you up to speed on these and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMostly because, I think, that when me and my friends first arrived on earth Earth, we caused a bit of concern as we were all soon being treated in an old saloon by your most senior healers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plus-side was that we all recovered. Even though there was - and is - nothing more intoxicating in that saloon of Hami's than the good looks of those who visit it. And the good food, of course.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(laughter)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you probably didn't hear was that there was a mental-metaphysical side to that treatment that had to be addressed so your physical \"laying-on-of-hands\" could do its wonders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou see, I was involved in transporting all these wild girls to Earth. One could bend time and space with her organic tesseracts. Another was a trained outer-space killer and assassin, who 'graduated' when she terminated her last teacher. The third had actually been a self-aware star. (Yes, the kind that burn radioactive white heat and live for billions of years - not the ones with their name in bronze on Hollywood Boulevard.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(laughter)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese were just your average, run-of-the-mill girls next door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(laughter)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of these gals got interested in human life on Earth, and I just helped them make the transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, I was basically one of the \"walking dead\" - since no doctor or hospital could cure me, and the only thing keeping me alive and in one piece was my own dogged determination to solve my own puzzle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, after I got all these three gals here, they all were involved in an explosion that left them unconscious and nearly dead themselves. I arrived shortly after, just to meet with John - that adorable mystery writer - who I knew could help me figure this out. Yes, he's got a reputation through the galaxy...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(laughter)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, but we'll get into how distant perception works in a later lecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat John's good at, besides digging a story out of you, is connecting the dots. I mean, he writes mysteries for a living, so that's gonna rub off on you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat brings up how he got Gaia to bring Akashi out of retirement to make a house call.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkashi is that god of all knowledge. Kinda like Saturn, but loves stuffed pastry. So Gaia played a trick on John and had him show up with one of Hami's pastries in his hand...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScroll Up and Get Your Copy Now.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. H. 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