Neon Nirvana: A Romance of the New Age

In a novel about the New Age culture set in Texas, a screenwriter and an artist discover through his past life regressions that their past and future destinies are mysteriously intertwined.

Boston, MA (PR Web) March 29, 2004 -- In what Joseph Campbell might call doing creative mythology, in Neon Nirvana fictionist and anthropologist Jim Stallings entered the popular New Age world of "past life regression" therapy through writing a novel; the resulting narrative frames the encounter of a man and woman at a New Age summer retreat near Padre Island, Texas.

The novel uses the ancient mythic plot of the visit to the underworld (here the unconscious stored memories of past lives), as Yvonne Cienfuegos guides Isaac Blackford into his karmic past through his descent into his life dreams".

Through this lucid dreaming journey together Isaac and Yvonne discover their soulmate destinies are mysteriously and redemptively intertwined.

In the Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne, still a Romantic skeptic after his stay at the communal Brook Farm, wrote his gentle social satire of the New England Transcendentalists. In Neon Nirvana Jim Stallings similarly applies the techniques of literary fiction, the well-told story and social satire to transport the reader into a uniquely realized, creative journey inside our New Age, while also weaving that mythopoetic experience into the larger social tapestry of contemporary America. The mystery of past life regression reveals a curious bond between a psychic artist and a burned out Hollywood screenwriter during a long hot Texas summer.

Jim Stallings is an anthropologist, fiction writer, and a senior news editor with Thomson Dialog. He is also the author of Tales for Commuters & Other Time Travelers (stories) and Hunters In The Fog: War Diary to Screenplay. He currently lives near Boston not far from the site of the Brook Farm commune.

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ISBN: 0-595-30675-6 (paper); 0-595-66192-0 (hardcover)

publication date, spring 2003; price: $17.95 (paper); $27.95 (hardcover)

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