TITLE: “Yancey Gates: A Dialogue With Self”
RELEASE DATE: April 20, 2017
AUTHOR: Arthur Telling
CATEGORIES: Metaphysical/New Age
PAGE COUNT: 310
ISBN: 978-1543007053
IMPRINT: Gaia’s Essence
KEYWORDS: Buddhism, Occult, New Age, Metaphysical, American Indian,
World’s Fair, Spiritual, Religion
ONE LINER:
A
spiritual theme in a developing San Francisco World’s Fair gives Planning
Department employee Yancey Gates a pathway for awakening the mind.
SYNOPSIS:
Yancey
Gates seeks enlightenment, while enduring a mundane job plagued with office
politics at the San Francisco Planning Department. Opportunity arises when a
dynamic new California governor proposes a world’s fair in San Francisco having
a spiritual theme.
Yancey’s
job in Planning takes on new life as the governor’s plan drops into his lap,
and carries him to a Northern California Buddhist monastery where present
moment awareness is a way of life, and to a fiery American Indian chieftain
whose distrust of the White Man threatens the governor’s plan.
Remaining
steadfast as he navigates through challenges and pitfalls, Yancey’s focus stays
on the question of his
real
purpose, his reason for living, and he brings you, the reader, along a
tumultuous journey towards enlightenment.
GUEST POST:
To better understand the natures of things, the West separates the various qualities, experiences, and mental vibrations of the person into separate and distinct categories. This may have begun with the Greek thinker Aristotle, called the father of categorical logic. But the East has a different history and a very dissimilar philosophy: there are no real distinctions, all the qualities of the Self being of the mind. Both sides certainly do have merit, there is truth in both concepts.
Yancey Gates is kind of sitting on the fence, versed in Eastern philosophies but living and dealing with Western beliefs on a daily basis. He’s pretty much alone, something of a kook in our 9-5 business climate, yet would be very much at home in Eastern society.
\I had actually begun writing a novel I would call “World’s Faire”, about a contractor who was hired to plan construction of some of the elements of a Fair that would reach beyond the boundaries of such a typical happening, encompassing the entire region. It was to have a spiritual theme, and our protagonist, the contractor, would be forced to deal with the spiritual connections to the fair: a Buddhist monastery and a tribal Indian chief. But the book stalled after I had written just a couple of chapters and I put it aside.
Along comes a new idea, and a fresh start on a new novel, Yancey Gates, about a very spiritual person. And I realized I could put these two books together; Yancey Gates and World’s Faire. But I had a problem to overcome, for both books had begun in first person present – a writing style and tense that I’ve come to favor; it brings immediacy and some tension the moment. And besides, spiritualism focuses on the Self, so making the Self paramount aids in conveying the metaphysical information central to this book.
I solved the problem of two first person characters (usually a no-no in writing), by dividing the book into several “parts”, a new part beginning whenever there is a change in lead characters. Now readers can experience the mind and thoughts of persons of varying degrees of spiritual awareness. And there is a yet bigger similar type change in a later part of the book which I’ll not get into here.
The purpose of Yancey Gates, the novel, is to bring readers into the experience of a man who is seeking to overcome the world, putting all of his mental resources into it. If this book succeeds, it will help readers to identify the various states of awareness, and to progress in awakening the mind, and to measure his progress in doing so by putting a yardstick up to his various past and present perceived states of awareness.
The World’s Fair is a sidebar, a project dropped into Yancey’s lap in his capacity as an employee at the Planning Department, in San Francisco where the new World’s Fair will be headquartered. It comes out of the author’s imagination; a grand World’s Fair unlike any other Fair that has ever been known. The spiritual theme offers great opportunity for Yancey to progress in his spiritual role, but similarly turns up the worst in his superiors at Planning, who are bent on finding influence with the Governor, who is driving World’s Fair project.
The cast of characters, with their human failings and strengths, who enter and interact in Yancey’s world will spur him on, helping him to complete his final journey one day, and if readers feel so similarly motivated, this book will have been a success.
Yancey Gates is kind of sitting on the fence, versed in Eastern philosophies but living and dealing with Western beliefs on a daily basis. He’s pretty much alone, something of a kook in our 9-5 business climate, yet would be very much at home in Eastern society.
\I had actually begun writing a novel I would call “World’s Faire”, about a contractor who was hired to plan construction of some of the elements of a Fair that would reach beyond the boundaries of such a typical happening, encompassing the entire region. It was to have a spiritual theme, and our protagonist, the contractor, would be forced to deal with the spiritual connections to the fair: a Buddhist monastery and a tribal Indian chief. But the book stalled after I had written just a couple of chapters and I put it aside.
Along comes a new idea, and a fresh start on a new novel, Yancey Gates, about a very spiritual person. And I realized I could put these two books together; Yancey Gates and World’s Faire. But I had a problem to overcome, for both books had begun in first person present – a writing style and tense that I’ve come to favor; it brings immediacy and some tension the moment. And besides, spiritualism focuses on the Self, so making the Self paramount aids in conveying the metaphysical information central to this book.
I solved the problem of two first person characters (usually a no-no in writing), by dividing the book into several “parts”, a new part beginning whenever there is a change in lead characters. Now readers can experience the mind and thoughts of persons of varying degrees of spiritual awareness. And there is a yet bigger similar type change in a later part of the book which I’ll not get into here.
The purpose of Yancey Gates, the novel, is to bring readers into the experience of a man who is seeking to overcome the world, putting all of his mental resources into it. If this book succeeds, it will help readers to identify the various states of awareness, and to progress in awakening the mind, and to measure his progress in doing so by putting a yardstick up to his various past and present perceived states of awareness.
The World’s Fair is a sidebar, a project dropped into Yancey’s lap in his capacity as an employee at the Planning Department, in San Francisco where the new World’s Fair will be headquartered. It comes out of the author’s imagination; a grand World’s Fair unlike any other Fair that has ever been known. The spiritual theme offers great opportunity for Yancey to progress in his spiritual role, but similarly turns up the worst in his superiors at Planning, who are bent on finding influence with the Governor, who is driving World’s Fair project.
The cast of characters, with their human failings and strengths, who enter and interact in Yancey’s world will spur him on, helping him to complete his final journey one day, and if readers feel so similarly motivated, this book will have been a success.
AUTHOR BIO:
Arthur Telling, born in San Francisco, California, grew up on the San
Francisco peninsula, and presently resides across the bay in Oakland with his
wife. A lifelong search for meaning and purpose in life, brought him to nearby
Berkeley, with its rich metaphysical environment. He has authored several novels, and has
written numerous stories and articles. His articles have regularly appeared in
online conscious lifestyle magazine OM Times (www.omtimes.com) including
the January 2017-C issue “Jane Roberts, the Seth Books: An Overlooked Giant” and August 2016-B issue “Son of Man May
Not Have Been Jesus”. His article “A Different Jesus Message” was
published in the November 2011 AMORC online Rosicrucian Digest. His article
answering the question “How are the mind and brain related?” appeared in
January/February 2008 edition of British Journal Philosophy Now. His
website is www.arthurtelling.com
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