Eighteen-year-old Estelle Perdue has driven herself over the edge. Racing against the limits of insomnia and an unforgiving time clock, she succumbs to sleep while driving home from a music festival. She is saved from the ditch by the most fortunate circumstances — or is she? Unable to tell where one dream world ends and another begins, Estelle’s dark night culminates as an unlikely band of fellow travelers she had met on the road collaborate with her lifelong antagonist and guide her to an ultimate catharsis.
Author Archives: Waldo Noesta
I and I: A Perennialist Theory of Reincarnation and Cyclical Time
Essay/non-fiction. E-book, 143 pages, apx 35,100 words. $10 via ND Media Bookstore Release date: June 4, 2023 “Dream interpretation? Statement of faith? Visionary insight? Nugget of truth from the collective subconscious? Jungian symbolism? Wishful thinking fantasy? I suspect it involves a little of all these…” Noesta’s most ambitious non-fiction project to date takes a deepContinue reading “I and I: A Perennialist Theory of Reincarnation and Cyclical Time”
Everything You Probably Thought You Knew About Pantheism Is a Half-Truth…OK Maybe Two-Thirds.
The John Toland Ideological school of Pantheism needs to step off, sit down, and have a brief history lesson.
Not One, Not Two
The part is not the whole…but it also isn’t *not* the thing of which it is a part. As Alan Watts is so often quoted in pantheist circles as saying, “A wave is a function of what the entire ocean is doing,” and so is the feather of a duck. If you point at a duck’s feather, you are also pointing at the duck that grew it as part of its body. Your ability to isolate your attention on the feather does not remove it from its natural context of duckness.
The Continuing Story of Ananias and Sapphira–Deluxe 2023 Edition
E-book (PDF file)–85 pgs, apx 26,200 words. $8 via ND Media Bookstore In the New Testament’s Book of Acts, a mere eleven verses tell the story of Ananias and Sapphira, two sadsack converts who were caught defying the rules of the first Christian community in Jerusalem and promptly “gave up the ghost.” Based on theseContinue reading “The Continuing Story of Ananias and Sapphira–Deluxe 2023 Edition”
A Sort of Homecoming: Central Coast Revisited, 2010
Birding in the Face of Terror began as a short story completed a few months after 9/11/01, with little beyond a journalistic account of the events on and around the bus trip with the American Birders Association to the three sites we visited. Upon finishing it, I knew there was an avalanche of related material and many thousands of words left unsaid, so I started expanding it into a novel. But sometime in mid-2002, my efforts hit a major psychological wall, and the project went on the shelf, not to be picked up again until 2009.
Birding — From China with Love: The Landmark Tours
In Act IV of “Birding”, I spent a good deal of time describing Pedro’s bus trips with Chinese tourists to Yellowstone and many other national parks of the West in the summer of 2001. I’ve always wondered whether readers would assume this was one of the fictionalized elements of the novel, with a workload thatContinue reading “Birding — From China with Love: The Landmark Tours”
Pez King Teaser (Chapter 1)
Once, upon the timeless arc of the circle of time, there was a peasant. He lived in a small village in the heart of the Kingdom, near the towering, cloud-obscured mountains where the King was said to dwell. Ordinary in most ways, the young peasant was exceptionally passionate and devout in his worship of theContinue reading “Pez King Teaser (Chapter 1)”
The Four Evolutionary Stages of Human Consciousness
Note: the following material is grafted mostly word-for-word from a long section of monologue in Chapter IV of “The Peasant and the King.” I consider it more of an extract than an excerpt, for I did take out all the elements that put it in the context of the story with characters speaking and listeningContinue reading “The Four Evolutionary Stages of Human Consciousness”
The Peasant and the King
Fiction. Paperback, 334 pages, apx 65,000 words. $20 for author signed copy via ND Media Bookstore; $19.95 via Barnes and Noble DIY E-Book Edition $5 via ND Media Bookstore E-book, $2.99 via Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, or Book Locker. Release date: April 15, 2022 “Be humble for you are made of stardust; beContinue reading “The Peasant and the King”
Not One, Not Two 