Journey from the Keep of Bones

by Michelle Miller Allen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938513362
• ISBN13: 9780938513360
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Amador Publishers
• Length: 376 Pages

Customer Reviews

Journey Connects the way the Head Bone Connects to the Neck Bone

You know the old song "The head bone is connected to the neck bone. The neck bone is connected to...' author Michelle Miller Allen builds her novel JOURNEY FROM THE KEEP OF BONES just like the song, making one connection after another and letting the reader put the whole visual picture together for him or herself. The result is a fascinating and quirky read that jumps between eras and across space, connecting people through psychic channeling, physical objects, and past lives. Two Mesoamerican jaguar priests and their mates promise to return together in a future life. That turns out to be in New Mexico. They don't know each other but each recognizes that he or she is supposed to meet the others, when the encounters occur. As they sort out who they are, Miller takes a look at modern life from angles ranging from spiritual, to saterical and everything in between. the book carries a thought provoking, but exciting message: Don't be scared. Go through life prepared for love beyond your wildest dreams. Michelle Miller Allen has a poet's command of the English language, agood sense of humor, and a sense of the craft of writing that will keep your nose in JOURNEY FROM THE KEEP OF BONES. The story does take a while to put together. You need to be patient and hang in there with it for a while before it starts really making sense. But if you are willing to trust the author to take you some place neat, you'll have a joyful adventure.

Disturbing

Being a cold, logical person, I was at first cynical about this book. But I found I had to read it again. Miller Allen has given us a tantalizing glimpse of something unknown to most of us. More! Bob McCallum

Journey From the Keep of Bones

This fascinating novel weaves an urban love story with a mythic tale of courage, honor, betrayal and commitment. In visions, dreams, "accidental" encounters, and spiritual searching, the characters fulfill an ancient pact through their very modern challenges. With wit and insight, Miller-Allen probes the deepest issues in relationship, creativity and spirituality while exploring how destiny and karma shape current passions and partnerships. Beautifully written, thoughtful and funny.

Thoughts on Journey From the Keep of Bones

I have met Motorcycle Woman. She comes around a lot. I was almost surprised to see her in Journey but not really. But she is the free one, not like the clich? of motorcycle freedom, but the one who rides over the sun going down, urging you to follow. Maybe to your happiness, or maybe to your doom. A friend either way. In Journey she is a stranger's character, crossing peoples lives. I think I am a Travis Dylan. I once pulled a large blade out of the ground in Albuquerque. It wasn't a jaguar knife, more Roman. What is a jaguar knife anyway? I've seen them on the net, but the jaguar knife in Journey is something different as blades go, as you read of its power. Mine was just there, in the ground up to the bright silver hilt, close to the sidewalk. They were digging an area for a new building. A friend gave me this book. She said it reminded her of me always telling that story. Reminded her?? The part of Journey and Travis Dylan and his blade was very amazing to me, beyond coincidence. It made me stand still. I believed my blade had some effect on my life, all the while I kept it, and after I let it go to a collector. Since it appeared to me in New Mexico, it did not surprise me that funny things started to happen. That has always happened when I have been there to the desert and the mountains and come away again. When I first read Journey it was startling to meet a part of myself. This was farther along. The book is a series of paths I have walked. How did she create this story of Travis Dylan and his blade? Do people go around finding blades in the ground everywhere? So who was this author, who knows the ancients and mixes them with modern men and women I know too in such a whirlwind of wisdom and foolishness--how many women have you met that live in the desert and wear 1940's multicolor cowboy boots? When she could be in a penthouse in the city? And did this author know about my blade? As I read the story, was she looking at me from the page? In my mind? No, can't happen...Maybe it was another telling of the Future King. The Sword in the Stone, and all that, but then not at all. How do Mesozoic priest brothers connect with an old Anglo Saxon legend? I know someone who has read Journey several times, and is still reading it. He once wore a blade. One of those deep readers...I will have to do the same, to really understand. This book will spin you around. You may decide to swim away with it...you may find your own blade on your journey here. I'm still reading.