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Alice A Bailey
Isobel Blackthorn's portrait of Alice Bailey is at once intimate and authoritative, entertainingly readable and densely researched. Alice A. Bailey: Life & Legacy delves into the life and times of British aristocrat and Christian missionary turned theosophist whose writings, esoteric school and organisations provided the foundations of the New Age movement. A woman who counted among her friends Eleanor Roosevelt and Grand Duke Alexander of Russia. A survivor of horrific domestic violence, controversy dogged Alice Bailey from the moment she joined the Theosophical Society and rose to prominence as teacher and scribe for a master of the wisdom known as the Tibetan. She was accused by purists i...
The Drago Tree
Haunted by demons past and present, geologist Ann Salter seeks sanctuary on the exotic island of Lanzarote. There she meets charismatic author Richard Parry and indigenous potter Domingo and together they explore the island. Ann's encounters with the island's hidden treasures becomes a journey deep inside herself as she struggles to understand who she was, who she is, and who she wants to be. Set against a panoramic backdrop of dramatic island landscapes and Spanish colonial history, The Drago Tree is an intriguing tale of betrayal, conquest and love, in all its forms.
The Legacy of Old Gran Parks
Set in Cann River in Australia's rugged southern wilderness, The Legacy of Old Gran Parks is a tale of a remote town haunted by a legacy, a legacy with ominous consequences. It's a warm evening in the autumn of 1983 when Miriam Forster rolls into town in her broken down car. Frankie the deer hunter, is up in the forested hinterland with her gun. Old Pearl the fisherwoman sits on her front deck down by the lagoon with her whisky and her dog. And Emily, the English backpacker, scrubs out the pie-encrusted kitchen at the roadhouse. All is not well. There's a hoon doing donuts at the crossroads and screaming down the fire trails in the woods; a suspicious-looking city-slicker with two small children, squatting in Fred's shack down by the lake; a beanie-headed, gaunt guy convalescing at Poinnt Hicks Lighthouse; and an acne festooned creature in the hotel room next to Miriam, thrashing about in the night.Gran Parks is stirring. Who will survive? Who will get away? Who will stay?
All Because of You
Infused with gentle optimism, eleven uncompromising stories explore, each in its own way, the nature of sacrifice. At once dark, poignant and witty, Isobel Blackthorn's first collection of short stories depicts intimately and honestly the travails and heroic responses of women and men confronting the pith of their lives.
A Perfect Square
When pianist Ginny Smith moves back to her mother's house in Sassafras after her breakup with the degenerate Garth, synaesthetic and eccentric artist Harriet Brassington-Smythe contrives a creative collaboration to lift her daughter's spirits: an exhibition of paintings and songs. Mother and daughter struggle to agree on the elements of the collaborative effort, and as Ginny tries to prise the truth of her father's disappearance from a tight-lipped Harriet, both are launched into their own inner worlds of dreams, speculations and remembering. Meanwhile, another mother and artist, Judith, alone in a house on the moors, reflects on her own troubled past and that of her wayward daughter, Madeleine. Set amid the fern glades and towering forests of the Dandenong ranges east of Melbourne, and on England's Devon moors, A Perfect Square is a work of remarkable depth and insight.
Spiritual Leadership
A documentary memoir of Twelves, an esoteric group attempting to make the world a better place through structured meditations.
The Indigo Flame
A collection of esoteric fiction, 'The Indigo Flame' contains four standalone novels from author Isobel Blackthorn, now available in one volume! The Drago Tree: Haunted by demons past and present, geologist Ann Salter seeks sanctuary on the exotic island of Lanzarote. Ann's encounters with the island's hidden treasures becomes a journey deep inside herself, as she struggles to understand who she was, who she is, and who she wants to be. Set against a panoramic backdrop of dramatic island landscapes and Spanish colonial history, The Drago Tree is an intriguing tale of betrayal, conquest and love. The Unlikely Occultist: Librarian Heather Brown discovers the fascinating life of Alice Bailey - ...
Asylum
Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia on a holiday visa. She applies for permanent residency with no hope of success. Resisting advice that she marry to stay in the country, Yvette invests her hopes in a palm-reader's prophecy that she will meet the father of her children before she's thirty. She's twenty-nine. Set in the excoriating heat of an endless Perth summer, against the backdrop of asylum seekers locked in detention, Asylum is a gripping tale of loss and belonging that is dark, absurd and hilarious by turns.
The Cabin Sessions
The Cabin Sessions is a confronting, hard-hitting, dark psychological thriller told with acid wit. Themes of abuse are explored through minds distorted by fear and corrupted by hatred and delusion; this is a tale in which redemption is gained in unexpected ways. It's Christmas Eve when hapless musician Adam Banks stands on the bridge over the river that cleaves the isolated village of Burton. A storm is rolling into the narrow mountain pass. He thinks of turning back. Instead, he resolves to fulfil his obligation to perform the guest spot at The Cabin Sessions. He should be looking forward to it, but fear stirs when he opens the door on the Cabin's incense-choked air. Philip Stone is already there, brooding. He observes with a ruthless eye the regulars, from sleazy barmaid Hannah Fisher, to old crone Cynthia Morgan. Meanwhile, Philip's sister, Eva, prepares to take a bath. It's a ritual - she's a breath holder. At twenty-eight, Eva has returned to Burton to finish the business of her past, as memories begin to surface concerning one fateful day by the river and the innocence of her beloved brother...
The Unlikely Occultist
Discover the fascinating life of Alice Bailey: a long-forgotten occultist widely regarded as the Mother Of The New Age. Back in 1931, Alice is preparing to give a speech at a Swiss summer school. Soon after, she is put on Hitler's blacklist. What Alice doesn't realize is the enormity of her influence to the world, and the real enemies who are much closer than she thinks. A dynamic and complex figure, Alice Bailey's reach was huge. She was influential among people and organizations of global power, including the United Nations. Yet today she is maligned by fundamentalist Christians, Theosophists, Jews, academics and above all, by conspiracy theorists. Are any of these groups justified in rejecting the unlikely occultist?
