Bøger udgivet af R. Roderick Rowe

In this final book of the trilogy of Jamari and the Manhood Rites, Jamari completes the many challenges of the Manhood Rites. He is welcomed as a full adult into his community. Then outside forces invade tribal lands and his world is upended. Jamari is working to complete his first major undertaking as a shaman in the form of a spirit totem pole for the Elk Creek Tribe. Shaman Vision is calling him to a task that frightens him beyond belief as it forces him to recall the most painful happenings in his young life and then face the meaning of those events. He is building a working relationship with the Sophia Shaman, highest representative of women shamans in the tribe. Along the way he discovers that he can hear trees! Danger, excitement, stunning achievement despite many human shortcomings await. The reader has every chance of discovering more about themselves within than they ever do about Jamari. From the Developmental Editor: "Holy Brother/Mother/Father/Sister of God! Randy, you're not a writer, you are a prophet! And you have delivered the message with courage and love. Blessed be. I am in total Awe! Namaste' my friend."

1100 years into our future, in a culture where your ear buds are constantly fed the latest government sludge, one man is asked to venture into a wilderness. A wilderness where technology is anathema, and where he must learn to think his own thoughts again. It's the year 3115,and Priest-Applicant Justice Preston is sent to the ancient home of the Jamari to research his life and miracles.His boyfriend and guide introduces him to the people known as the Tuatha De Cernon. Stagmen. Fauns. Satyrs. Pixies, dryads, nymphs and others. These people have come through a portal opened by the legendary Jamari a thousand years before. They've been living amongst us in secret for all this time.And he discovers ancient memoirs written by the Sophia Shaman, boon companion to the Jamari. In her own words he finds proof the Church of Jamari has been subverting the teachings of the legend they claim to follow. Any rumor of this discovery will bring the inquisition and the enforcer priests into his life in dangerous and deadly ways.He can turn the fragile relics over to the church knowing they'll never be seen again. Or, he can find a way to make them public and become HERETIC.Cernon, High King of the Tuatha De, wants to use the discovery to entice the church into violating a millennia-old agreement and then have his people come out of seclusion.Justice can choose to be the bait in the trap, or flee into exile with his boyfriend Ian. Ian, as a practicing shaman, has his own deadly secrets from the church which has long forbidden any spirituality outside the influence of the priests.In his soul-searching, Justice must choose from so many options and deadly paths he finds it near impossible. But time carries him inevitably into his eventual fate.

Part One and Two of the Jamari and the Manhood Rites Trilogy in one volume. Jamari and the Manhood Rites In the year 2115, in the post-apocayptic Pacific Northwest,The Elk Creek Tribe remains society's best hope of survival--promoting harmony, and the sharing of resources therough a strict code of values. He's spent his life as a sheltered youngling of the tribe. But now, young Jamari is ready to take the next step. Through a series trainings and challenges he must undergo the process that will transform him from a boy into a man. As he undergoes the rigorous physical and mental training, Jamari also finds himself delving into a new world of self-discovery. He is discovering forbidden feelings for his mentor in the Night Studies even as his leaders challenge him to accept the Rule of Attachment. Jamari Shaman Eager to become a tribal sub-chief and warrior, the Manhood Rites reveal underlying talents as a shaman, taking Jamari down a new and undesired path. Physically tested, he journeys with and expedition to the coastal areas to render salt for his tribe. He enounters other peoples who live outside the tribal influence, at times with disastrous consequences. Along the way he must also find passage into his own spirit and soul, unearthing unsuspected talents and skills. The powers he discovers will destroy him if he can't determine his own life path.