This book answers the puzzling question “What kind of a God could have created a world such as this?” A very ancient and simple teaching, going back to our origins, to our essence, reveals how spiritual beings of light became so lost, so disconnected from themselves and the world around them. Awakening is a guidebook for those beings not content with the meaningless ego world of consumption, corruption, and suffering. It is a road map for those beings of light with a deep yearning to return home. To return to love, to trust, and to truth. Awakening helps to identify the ego, the source of the madness and mayhem, for if one seeks to defeat an enemy it is helpful to be able to identify it, to understand it's strengths and weaknesses, and to know it's Achilles heel. The place where it cannot hide, the place where a simple meditation can administer a mortal blow. This is a book about God, his beginning, his fall, and his ultimate redemption. This is a book about you.
Growing up different is never easy, but Michael, a deaf young man from a small town, knows that he must find his true family beyond his biological one. He struggles and fails to find others of his kind until he attends college in New York City. There, we meet a variety of people from a deaf gay family of sorts: Eddie, an older accountant aching for love; Lee, an effeminate dishwasher with a pronounced weakness for red-haired men; Vince, a charismatic dancer who lives intensely no matter the state of his health; Neil, a brooding woodcarver who becomes a deaf woman’s obsession; Stan, a lanky stock boy at the A&P on Christopher Street; Ted, a hard of hearing college student with ambivalent feelings about the deaf community; and Rex, an ASL interpreter who avoids his own emotions during the early days of the AIDS epidemic... More Info @ QueerMojo »
Advocate Days & Other Stories
Mark Thompson
Mikey is a spirited but self-destructive survivor of sexual abuse, a gay Latino native New Yorker caught somewhere between Catholic guilt and club kid decadence looking to fit in as part of a family. Instead, Mikey delves into a demimonde of petty thieves, prostitutes, and pushers. Haunted by a father that Mikey has never met, a difficult childhood, recurring nightmares, the reality of death, and Christ, the story unfolds through the ‘80’s and ‘90’s following him on his journey through a fascinating world filled with Santeros, transsexuals and voguing queens. More Info »
Maladaptation
L.A. Fields
Sixteen-year-old Marley Kurtz is an incurable bookworm who is sent to a program for “maladapted” youth in Loweville, Colorado after his parents discover he has been having an affair with a man forty-three years his senior. Once there, Marley befriends the wry yet optimistic Missy, who is fifteen and pregnant in the lowest town on earth, and falls in love with Jesse, an ice-eyed sociopath with an outlaw for a father and a corpse for a mother. As the stress of the summer causes Marley’s physical and mental health to decline, it is unclear which of his new friends has the worst influence on him, or whether the instruction of a small town’s Baptist-run therapy group will do more harm than good to everyone involved. More Info @ QueerMojo »
DeVante's Coven
SM Johnson
Vampires, mortals, and Tony, who's something else altogether, are all beholden to DeVante for protection, though each has a special talent. DeVante notices this and begins to suspect that an outside force has brought all these children to him for some nefarious purpose. Before he can put the pieces together, the whole group is snatched and held for ransom. The price? Help a vicious vampire from DeVante's past take over the mortal world. The monster would use their talents against them, but the coven discovers that together they can defeat even the strongest evil. More Info @ QueerMojo »
The Elijah Tree
Cynthea Masson
The Elijah Tree is the story of a young boy who is birthed in the fire of a mystical vision. Around him move Chava, Shira, Eli, and Jael—the adults who love him but who live in conflict with one another. Estranged from Chava, Shira struggles to find her place in the world while raising Elijah and mourning the death of her lover. One day at the beach outside her cottage retreat, Shira loses sight of Elijah and fears he has drowned. But then a stranger, Jael, finds him hidden within the rotting trunk of a tree. Jael’s act of returning son to mother brings her and Shira together through bonds of desire and faith. More Info »
Love Hard: Stories 1989-2009
D. Travers Scott
For the first time, the best pieces of D. Travers Scott’s celebrated short fiction from the past twenty years are gathered together. Love Hard collects work originally appearing in award-winning anthologies, underground queer ‘zines, erotica magazines, and live performance, along with new stories never before published. Together, they offer the first comprehensive overview of Scott’s ongoing explorations of masculinity, sexuality, cities, family, love, and the power of writing. All stories are newly revised for this collection. More Info @ QueerMojo »
PLAYBACK
The Magick of William Burroughs
Ashé Journal #2.3 Revised & Expanded
Newly revised and expanded issue of Ashe Journal focusing on the magical philosophy of beat writer William S. Burroughs. Issue includes: Feature articles by Phil Hine (Condensed Chaos), Cabell McLean, Douglas Grant, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Painful but Fabulous) and Sven Davisson; fiction by Cordelia Elizabeth Grafton, Mogg Morgan (The English Mahatma), Bruce Watkins; poetry by Ruth Moore (Spoonhandle), Trebor Healey (Through It Came Bright Colors), and Miriam R. Sachs Martin. More Info »
Christ Like
Tenth Anniversary Revised Edition
Emanuel Xavier
Mikey is a spirited but self-destructive survivor of sexual abuse, a gay Latino native New Yorker caught somewhere between Catholic guilt and club kid decadence looking to fit in as part of a family. Instead, Mikey delves into a demimonde of petty thieves, prostitutes, and pushers. Haunted by a father that Mikey has never met, a difficult childhood, recurring nightmares, the reality of death, and Christ, the story unfolds through the ‘80’s and ‘90’s following him on his journey through a fascinating world filled with Santeros, transsexuals and voguing queens. More Info @ QueerMojo »
Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
Capt. Adam Seaborn
First published in 1820, Symzonia is the first fictional work to explore the hollow earth theory. The tale tells of Captain Seaborn's expedition to the North Pole to discover the entrance to the hollow earth. A classic early work of utopian fiction (perhaps the first American example), Symzonia is also a great seafaring tale complete with a mutinous crew member. Seaborn discovers the entrance to the Earth and finds inside our planet a technologically advanced civilization. More Info »
Buddhist Pslams of Shinran Shōnin
Shinran Shonin was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He was the founder of the Jodo Shinshu school of Pure Land Buddhism.
Buddhist Psalms presents a concise introduction to Shinran’s teachings on Pure Land Buddhism. Shin Buddhism’s teachings focus on devotional practices, especially centering on Amitabha Buddha. This edition of the classic work is annotated to assist the reader in understanding the numerous Buddhist terms and references. More Info »
Tristram Burden’s short stories, poetry and articles on contemporary occultism and self-transformation have appeared internationally in a variety of journals and anthologies. This is his debut novel, a finalist in the 2006 Project: Queerlit contest. He currently resides in Bath, England where he's recording his first album and writing a TV series in-between working on his second novel. Check out his novel My Hero: A Wild Boy's Tale
Farrell R. Davisson (1919-1993) worked
for years as a staff writer, critic and editor for daily Variety in
Chicago. Davisson taught journalism at Penn State University. His
journalism, criticism and poetry have appeared in Variety, Avante
Garde, The American Fisherman and The Maine Times.
Davisson's work appears in Ashé Journal
#1, Ashé Journal
#5.1 and Ashé Journal #7.1. His novel Trial of the Innocent will be published by Rebel Satori in 2010.
Sven Davisson is the founding
editor of Ashé! Journal of Experimental Spirituality.
A rebel-publishing pioneer, Davisson edited the small, yet groundbreaking,
zine mektoub from 1989-1995. During that time, he also
received a degree in Queer Theory from Hampshire College and studied
photography with Jerome Leibling of the New York Photo League.
In addition to Ashé, his work has appeared in Abrasax:
Journal of Magick & Decadence, sneerzine, The
New Aeon, mektoub, Lambda Book Report and Velvet
Mafia as well as the collection I Do/I Don’t: Queers
On Marriage. Davisson's work appears in Ashé Journal
#1, Ashé Journal
#2.2, Ashé Journal
#2.3, Ashé Journal
#3.1, Ashé Journal
#4.1, Ashé Journal #5.4 and Ashé Journal #7.2. <Author
Website> (Photo: Nathaniel Bamford)
Bryan Dini is a latter-day practicioner
of dandysme in the Baudelairean sense, who knows how to capture
modernity in its fleeting moments, post-it, and saunter flaneur-style
into the nostalgic twilight. Dini subscribes to the UNIBROW philosophy:
high-brow, low-brow, uni-brow. The dandy without the asceticism,
the "doctrine of elegance," who knows of what base metal
is made our gold. In that order. Old-school faggetry, queercore
style. Aesthete-as-athelete. Dini's work appears in Ashé Journal
#3.3.
Trebor Healey is a gifted poet,
whose collection Sweet Son of Pan was recently released
by Suspect Thoughts Press. He received The Ferro-Grumley Award
for Fiction for his 2003 novel Through It Came Bright Colors.
In addition to Ashé, his work has appeared in Velvet
Mafia, Blithe House Review, Lodestar Quarterly and
numerous anthologies including Queer Dharma, Law of
Desire, Out of Control , Bend Don't Shatter among
others. Healey's work appears in Ashé Journal
#1, Ashé Journal
#2.1, Ashé Journal
#2.3, Ashé Journal
#3.2, Ashé Journal
#4.2 and Ashé Journal
#5.2. Read an interview in Ashé Journal
#2.3. Trebor's short story collection The Perfect Scar will be released by Rebel's Queer Mojo imprint this spring. (Photo: Martin Cox)
Cynthea Masson is a professor in the English Department at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada. Her academic research and publication areas comprise medieval visionary literature, medieval alchemical poetry, and the contemporary works of Joss Whedon, including Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Her first novel The Elijah Tree will be released by Rebel Satori this year.
Ruth Moore was born in 1903 on
a small island off the Maine coast. During her long and successful
carreer, Moore published 14 novels, three collections of poetry
and many short short stories. Her books included the New York
Times bestseller Spoonhandle that was made into the
film Deep Waters by 20th Century Fox. In 2004, a collection
of her short fiction, When Foley Craddock Tore Off My Grandfather's
Thumb (edited by Sven Davisson) was released postuhmously
by Blackberry Books. Moore's work appears in Ashé Journal
#1, Ashé Journal
#2.3 and Ashé Journal
#3.2. (Photo: Eleanor Mayo)
J. Warren holds a Masters degree in Literature from University of South Alabama. He is currently working on a doctorate in English Studies at Illinois State, concentrating on literature for adolescents, graphic novels and gender theory. Check out his novel: Stealing Ganymede
Emanuel Xavier took the New York
City spoken word scene by storm in 1996, quickly becoming one of
the most significant voices to emerge from the neo-Nuyorican poetry
movement. Following in the tradition of writers/performers like
Miguel Piñero, Xavier captivated audiences with a fresh
and poignant brand of art that celebrated sexuality, Latino heritage,
and the often brutal streets of New York. He is the author of two
collections of poetry, Pier Queen and Americano,
and a novel Christ-Like. Read an interview
in Ashé Journal #4.2. Xavier's work appears in Ashé Journal
#3.3. The tenth anniversary edition of Christ-Like will be released by Rebel's imprint Queer Mojo this spring. (Photo: Leo Toro)
Ashé Journal
All in all, Ashé is an interesting and wide ranging journal.
Written from an experiential point of view the majority of works are reflective,
insightful or inductive of further interest. The decision to give a voice
to those not usually heard and to incorporate issues which are normally seen
as 'taboo' within mainstream spiritual circles, or which incorporate unusual
analysis makes it both an exciting, brave and challenging work. -Lou
Hart, philhine.org.uk
ASHÉ journal is the most relevant and interesting occult journal nowadays...
-PAN.OR.RA.MA
Madder Love edited by Peter Dubé
Overall, this is a well balanced collection, showcasing some vivid and unusual writing; a collection I recommend dipping into. -Rainbow Reviews [Full Review]
This anthology may be just too far out there for you. But if you’re willing to try something different and stretch your brain, you may find the erotic possibilities of surrealism. -Kathleen Bradean, Erotica Revealed [Full Review]
Stealing Ganymede by J. Warren
...J. Warren's prose is so beautiful and literate that I found myself riveted... -Amos Lassen
Starry Dynamo & its author
This is an interesting and—to use Davisson’s own term, experimental—book that deserves to be read, written by an important character in the long term history of Gay consciousness. -Toby Johnson in White Crane Journal
The Starry Dynamo is a compelling and seductive collection. Sven Davisson’s work is erotic, haunting, spiritual and unafraid to take chances. A bold and riveting book. -Emanuel Xavier editor of Bullets & Butterflies and author of Christlike
The bastard lovechild of William Burroughs and Aleister Crowley—or was he spawned of an orgy involving Rashneesh, Pan, Ginsberg, Foucault and a dozen or so of Burroughs North African wildboys?—Davisson’s vision is a rich distillation of subversive thought. -Trebor Healey author of Sweet Son of Pan
An incredibly versatile religious scholar with a unique mind and equally complex personality... -Raul Canizares author of Cuban Santeria: Walking With the Night
Dim Star Descried [in Peter Dubé's surrealist collection Madder Love] "is a beautiful pitch-perfect literary urban fantasy." -Rainbow Reviews
Awakening
