
| "Two new volumes come from Harmony books and they form part of the Crystal Soul Merge Series. They are novels, they each stand on their own, they are fresh and remarkably perceptive about new-age concerns." The Book Reader, Vol.IV,No.5, November-December, 1990
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THE CRYSTAL SKULL: DESTINY'S COURIER by T.K. Lebeau is the first volume in the series. The writing is uncommonly good. The tale is about a mystical relationship that several people go through. It is a group soul that is struggling for the rest of itself. The opening scene depicts Eddie's confusion at losing everything and finding himself in a primitive area. He recounts his experiences with Cash Wilson, a man condemned to die in prison, who listens to Eddie relate his strange experiences with Laura. "Poor Eddie. His greatest sin had been of thinking that he was above sin." Kara and Dr. Lewin and Pat combine to weave a mysterious plot beyond life and death, to do with a spirit realm, with two entities who formed a twin soul who "needed a repository for their combined experiences. The particular instrument in their case was the crystal skull; it contained the accumulated knowledge, understanding and growth of both souls over their many lifetimes. The only way to utilize this growth was to incorporate it into a human life on earth!" The goal is to work together to better this earth and we are given a final warning. "By denying your responsibility to change poverty, hatred and war, you are promised a return in which you again will face them in a way perhaps more grim even than this." |
THE CRYSTAL TUNNEL by T.K. Lebeau is the second in the Crystal Soul Merge Series. This present one is a metaphysical novel that is another facet of the group soul. Jackson Cody meets Katharine Allison who reveals to him that the Harmony group soul "cannot achieve its purpose without the cooperation of still another soul group, a soul group that can recover the hidden secrets needed by Harmony." New identities reveal themselves in Susan/Miranda and Mama Kate/Katie, personalities merge into greater Wholenesses. This is a novel of a hidden dream and a lost destiny and an ancient remembrance: "We came to this place as do salmon to the headwaters, seeking the eternal birthing zone. We alternately soared in the skies like birds and hibernated beneath the earth's surface in series of tunnels. But, upon taking the form of men, we gradually lost our skills of communicating and interacting with nature. We forgot the ecstasy of floating through the air as a pristine snowflake. We disallowed the grace and freedom we felt as trees waving our leaves in the breeze. We shed the guileless innocence and trust that enabled us to coexist with every other aspect of being. Now, for thousands of years, we have sought the source, the interconnectedness, that vitality from which we sprang." Each entity forms different unified characteristics. Each struggles to find the rest of itself. "I know that we are both more and less than we think we are. Like sound and light, we stretch out from either side of that which is visible and audible. We form an infinite spectrum, realizing only a tiny portion of our totality." Exquisite novels that speak alive to a new age of wholeness. |
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