[.ca] Waking Maya (ISBN 1413421512)

Wow, Great Read!:
I loved this book!! It was a great adventure, compelling, new age idealogy, upbeat, and very contempory. I loved reading about Maya, she was a smart, intuitive, main character, and also very likable. After reading this book, I felt really good, uplifted. Plus I wanted to research some of the neat paranormal things that I never heard about. Very interesting new concepts for me. I definitely recommend this book, it's a great read!

If you loved the Celestine Prophecy you'll love this one.:
Twenty years after her father's mysterious disappearance - she was a mere child at the time he vanished - Maya Burke comes upon this elusive father's journal with a fifteen-page message addressed to her. The unbelievable coincidence of her finding the journal at all proves a true synchronicity, a manifestation of some of the far-reaching reality-changing ideas her father's message purveys. Maya decides to go on a journey to find him. Her precognitive dreams convince her that she has inherited her father's psychic talent. The author's style is beautifully descriptive, and when he paints with words is in some places outright poetic. Maya's journey is full of adventure and psychological and spiritual revelation. The central theme is the powerful energy of vortexes, and the reader is treated to the amazing expansion of consciousness that can occur to open-minded subjects when they find themselves in such a location. The book is full of suspense. I couldn't put it down.

A fascinating read:
I read Waking Maya in a few days, frankly, because I couldn't wait to get to the end. It's a real "page-turner," serving as a carefully plotted mystery, psychological study, and a work of metaphysical exploration. The main character of Maya, a young woman, in search of her missing father, is very real and complex. Goldie is a sensitive and illuminating writer, exploring the strange twists and turns of our thought processes with the skill of a depth psychologist. But what was of most interest to me was finally the "metaphysical" exploration of a non-local world in which energy circulates, connecting and causing events, and those with sufficient extrasensory powers can read and influence cultural happenings. This may seem outlandish, but Goldie is drawing on well-documented research (for example, sponsored by the Stanford Research Institute and utilized by the U.S.Government) into remote viewing and other parapsychological events. You can read about such phenomena elsewhere (see, for example, Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe, Michael Schmicker's Best Evidence and Russell Targ's Miracles of Mind) but Goldie makes them come vividly alive in this gripping novel.