C. M. MAYO
Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution:
Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual

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November 9, 2017







November 11-12, 2016
Alpine, Texas
Center for Big Bend Studies Conference
Sul Ross State University
Friday November 11, 2016
10:30 AM Panel on the Mexican Revolution with C.M. Mayo, Heribert von Feilitzsch, and Roy "Ben" Brown
C.M. Mayo to discuss her book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual

Read the edited and expanded transcript of this talk


March 2016
Jeffrey Mishlove interviews C.M. Mayo about her book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual for "New Thinking Allowed"

Part One


Part Two


Part Three

RECENT NEWS & EVENTS
Feb 11 @ 12:45 PM Tent A
C.M. Mayo reads from Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution

(For information about C.M. Mayo's workshop and panel at this conference, click here.)
December 2, 2015 Guadalajara, Mexico
Feria de Libros

6:30 PM Salón Antonio Alatatorre
Presentación de libro
Con Rose Mary Salum y María Teresa Fernández Aceves
C.M. Mayo to present the Spaish translation by Agustín Cadena, Odisea metafísica hacia la Revolución Mexicana, Francisco I. Madero y su libro secreto, Manual espírita
October 7, 2015, El Paso, Texas
Centennial Lecture for the University of El Paso Texas
6 PM
C.M. Mayo: "On Writing About Mexico: Secrets and Surprises"
Read a transcript
March 30, 2015, Stanford CA
6:30 PM
Bolivar House

582 Alvarado Road
Please RSVP to Jessica Barajas jbarajas (at) stanford.edu

C.M. Mayo will discuss her book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual.

She will also discuss her translation, the first, of Madero's Manual espírita of 1911.
These two events, for the Spanish edition published by Literal Publishing, Odisea metafísica hacia la Revolución Mexicana, translated by Agustín Cadena, will be in Spanish.

March 19, 2015, Querétaro
11 AM
Librería Nuevos Horizontes de Juriquilla
;
presenta la Dra. Lucía Beltrán.

March 19, 2015, Querétaro
7 PM
Código Áureo - Gerardo Proal Galería
, 5 de Mayo #80, esquina Altamirano, Centro Histórico; presentan el Dr. Andrés Garrido del Toral, cronista oficial del Estado de Querétaro, y la Dra. Guadalupe Zárate, investigadora del INAH. Habrá vino de honor y firma de ejemplares. Teléfono 214 1497.
February 25, 2015, Mexico City
7 PM
Centro de Estudios de la Historia de México CARSO
(in Spanish)
Presentation of the Spanish edition translated by Agustín Cadena, Odisea metafísica hacia la Revolución Mexicana, Francisco I. Madero y su libro secreto, Manual espírita por C.M. Mayo. With: Rose Mary Salum, Literal Publishing; Luis Cerda; Dr Javier Garcíadiego; Manuel Guerra de Luna; and Dra Yolia Tortolero Cervantes.
Vino de honor. Cupo limitado. Favor de reservar.

January 29, 2015, La Jolla, California
University of California San Diego
Center for US-Mexico Studies
3:30 PM - 5 PM
Free and open to the public
C.M. Mayo provides a rich introduction and the first English translation of “Spiritist Manual,” the secret book by revolutionary and former Mexican President Francisco I. Madero.

The podcast of this event is now available. Listen in anytime on podomatic or on iTunes (free).

C.M. Mayo at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD: Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual
Recorded on January 29, 2015 in La Jolla, CA, at the University of California San Diego Center for US-Mexican Studies: C.M. Mayo discusses her new book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. (Approx 1 hr 11 minutes)

January 13, 2015, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
(in English)
PEN San Miguel.
The Miguel Malo Audtorium at Bellas Artes
6 pm.
Admission is 100 pesos, which includes a complimetary glass of wine with dinner at Vivali's across the street.

Madero's Secret: C.M. Mayo talks about her latest book of nonfiction, plus a translation, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. The podcast of this event is now available. Listen in anytime on podomatic or on iTunes (free).

December 2, 2014 Mexico City
Recinto de Homenaje a Don Benito Juárez, Palacio Nacional
UPDATE:
Moved next door to the Palacio del Arzobispado, Moneda 4
(en español)
5 pm free and open to the public

C.M. Mayo to speak on Francisco I. Madero y su libro secreto, Manual espírita, as part of the conference on Francisco I. Madero. Ignacio Solares will also speak about his novel, Madero, El otro.

Moved next door to the Palacio del Arzobispado, Moneda 4




November 29, 2014 Tepoztlán, Morelos, México 
(en español)
1 pm
La Sombra del Sabino

Avenida Revolución 45. Tel. (01 739) 395 0369 informes@lasombradelsabino.com.mx
Book Presentation with Q & A and signing
Odisea metafísica hacia la Revolución Mexicana: Francisco I. Madero y su libro secreto, Manual espírita

The English original edition, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual, will also be available for purchase and autographs at this event.






November 12-15, 2014 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
American Literary Translators Association Conference:
"Politics and Translation"
www.alta2014.org


Thursday November 13
@ 11 am

C.M. Mayo to discuss Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution:
Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual

on the panel "Talking Politics & Religion: New World Texts."

@6 pm Bilingual Reading
La Perla Mexican Restaurant

C.M. Mayo to read her translation of a short story by Ignacio Solares

Saturday November 15
@ 11:15 am
C.M. Mayo on the panel "Why Translate? The Case of the President of Mexico's Secret Book"

Read the transcript of this talk here.




October 26, 2014 Austin, Texas
Texas Book Festival
11 am - 12 pm
Texas State Capitol:
Capitol Extension,
Room E2.016

Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution:
Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual
By C.M. Mayo








February 4, 2014
This book is now available in paperback and Kindle..............
For the Spanish edition, Odisea metafísica hacia la Revolución Mexicana, Francisco I. Madero y su libro secreto, Manual espírita,
click here.

 November 21, 2013

The Kindle edition with the all new book-length prologue, Metaphysical Odyssey Into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero's Spritist Manual Introduced and Translated is now available.

Note: If you purchased the original Kindle edition of 2011, titled Spiritist Manual, which had a brief introduction, amazon.com offers a free update. (Go to Manage My Kindle on your Kindle.)

(A paperback edition and Spanish Kindle, paperback and limited editions will be available shortly.)

Some events for this book will be scheduled for 2014. If you would like to be notified, sign up for the free newsletter here.

New: a page about issue 6 of Helios, 1911, the Mexican Spiritist magazine which featured news about President Elect Francisco I. Madero and the Spiritist Manual (claiming, falsely, that "Bhima" was not Madero). There is also a page with the English translation of the text on the cover; the masthead; an advertisement for the Spiritist Manual; and the first page of an article about Francisco I. Madero.
Just posted: the podcast of C.M. Mayo's talk about Madero's Spiritist Manual for the PEN / Sol Literary Magazine Reading Series in San Miguel de Allende, February 22, 2012.

Note: In this talk I mention that I had not been able to find a copy of the original Spanish edition, Manual Espírita, anywhere on-line. Shortly after I posted this podcast I found this free PDF download available from a Mexican government website. — C.M. Mayo














February 22 San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel International PEN and Sol Writers' Aloud Series:
4 - 5 pm
Café Santa Ana, Biblioteca Pública, Insurgentes 24
C.M. Mayo, author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and translator of Francisco I. Madero's Manual Espírita, 1911. C.M. Mayo will read from and discuss her introduction to and first English translation of Mexican Revolutionary leader and President Francisco I. Madero's 1911 Spiritist Manual.
and
Gerard Helferich, author of Stone of Kings and Humboldt's Cosmos

$70 pesos (includes $35 pesos of cafe refreshments; the other 35 pesos benefits the SOL/ PEN Scholarship Fund.)





January 30, 2012
Rose Mary Salum, editor of Literal, interviews C.M. Mayo about translating Madero's Spiritist Manual, for the Literal Magazine blog






Spiritist Manual
will be published by Dancing Chiva
as an e-book this November 11, 2011. To be alerted when this title is available, please join the Dancing Chiva mailing list.

C.M. Mayo will present and discuss the work and its importance in understanding the Mexican Revolution on November 10, 2011 at the Author's Sala Reading Series in San Miguel de Allende.

>For more information, and more events, please visit C.M. Mayo's events page.

 

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Now available in paperback, Kindle, and in Spanish, also in paperback and Kindle.