Chymical Cook

by Jay Bremeyer and Jay Bremyer

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886449317
• ISBN13: 9781886449312
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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A magical romp of a book, magnificent in its implications.

THE CHYMICAL COOK: A True Account of Mystical Initiation in the Georgia Woods, by Jay Bremyer (Station Hill Openings/ Barrytown, LTD., 1996) In the summer of 1969, thinking to attend a yoga workshop, Jay and Sara drive to Georgia, which sets the stage for their adventure by dropping them from their Kansas, university student, `60s activist lifestyle, right into the redneck South of the time. Synchronicities begin to erupt in every direction, and they encounter a quirky sprite of a woman, Elsie, who quickly draws them in to the idea they need to spend some time with her. They return home, gather some friends, and come into Elsie's mystical circle for a life-changing experience. With her ear cocked to inaudible voices, she exposes them to riddles, to paradox, to true magic, to great good humor. They are transported to other realities, challenged to understand and grow, confused and confounded. She feeds them well, seems to be everywhere they individually happen to be, and gives them simple chores fraught with meaning. She urges them to look at all they encountered for the hidden messages. Bremyer writes this true account in a compelling, fast-moving, poetic waterfall prose, a particular style that urges the reader to see the layer upon layer of meaning skillfully tucked in between the words. The book is one that begs multiple readings, and is likely to be ear-marked and underlined and annotated, and returned to again and again. The magic of this book is that for every question answered, two more arise, and the reader is invited to actively partake and participate in the juicy great mystery openly available to all. The Chymical Cook is a golden read, one from the pots of the successful alchemist. __ Jan Thatcher Adams Whole Health Editor of The Edge, Exploring the Evolution of Consciousness (Excerpted from "Seeds of wisdom sown with Bremyer's Chymical Cook" which appeared in the February, 1997 issue of The Edge.)