  C. M. MAYOAuthor of Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution, etc. |
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NOVEMBER
2014 "Over Burro Mesa / The Kickapoo
Ambassadors" is
#14 in the projected 24 series of podcasts about the Big Bend
(including the US-Mexico border region) of Far West Texas. The next podcasts
will be: P.S. If you're
anywhere near by, don't miss Chaplo's show at the Museum
of the Big Bend
until January 18, 2015. |
| = = NEW REVIEWS FOR METAPHYSICAL ODYSSEY INTO THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION: FRANCISCO I. MADERO AND HIS SECRET BOOK, SPIRITIST MANUAL =  In
case you missed the last newsletter,
my latest
book is a blast-your-somberero-off rewrite of the Mexican
Revolution. Reviews have been coming in. "Suspend your disbelief, dear reader, and spend a few moments with the Spiritist Manual. After its introduction by Mayo, I started in on it, expecting to be bored silly as I usually am by most ritualistic spiritual manuals— excluding writers like Blavatsky...and what some now refer to as the "Neo-Modernist Buddhists:" Jack Kornfeld, Mark Epstein, Jakusho Kwong Rosh, Alan Watts, and the late prison guru, Bo Lozoff. Despite my affection for these writers, it was with heavy heart that I embarked on the pages of The Metaphysical Odyssey. But, I am here to tell you: they were, if you pardon the expression, a revelation..." — Carlos Amantea, The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities READ the complete review "Few have read and interpreted the soul of Mexico as Mayo has... Mayo’s signal achievement is to be the first translator of a much stranger book of Madero’s, his Spiritist Manual (Manual Espírita, 1911), and to include it in her study of Madero’s metaphysical vision...[Mayo's] translator’s notes and her research into Madero and related arcana such as the Biblioteca Orientalista have produced a long and winding study that satisfies both with its thoroughness and with its titillating other-worldiness.... Metaphysical Odyssey is as entertaining as it is informative. In the end, though, it is more. It’s somewhat haunting. This derives partly from Madero’s valor and genuineness and partly from the cri de coeur of an entire nation seeking a new way." — Peter Thompson, EZRA Translation Journal READ the complete review "Interesting, in an odd way, as the 90 page “Spiritist Manual” is, it is Mayo’s own story of how she came to translate the book, that holds you. The strange paths of research and scholarship it led her into that makes up the bulk of her own “Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexico Revolution”....we are embarking on a journey into the — not unknown, but forgotten — intellectual past. Mayo — who after all is a travel writer, among her several talents — is our guide on what is as much her own "Metaphysical Odyssey” as a journey down roads less traveled, but with one heck of an unusual view." —The Mex Files READ the complete review  This book is now available in paperback,
Kindle, and in Spanish.The opening pages can be read in the
October issue of the free on-line SOL
Literary Magazine, |
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Thanks
to my guest-blogger, historical novelist Claudia H. Long: |
= NEW ON THE WEBPAGE = |
 For
MEXICOPHILES: Updates on the Recommended
Books on Mexico
page. |
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CREATIVE
WRITERS:
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for Writers
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April 18, 2015
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