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The Way Beyond

The Life and TImes of Halycon Sage

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Halycon Sage, founder of the Post-Modernist Minimalist Neo-Symbolist Pseudo-Realist School of Literature, has voluntarily disappeared. He is hoping to save the world but is also fleeing the Mail Pile. Sage, a person of mystery who may be a Native American male, meets some odd characters: Petulant critic Basel Vasselschnauzer, confused genius Alexander Preisczech, a Romani woman, assorted gang members and secret agents, and a shadowy figure of evil. Sage has a faithful equine companion, No-Name Stupid (the original "Horse with No Name"). But even with Stupid's dedicated assistance, can the grea...

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Karima Vargas Bushnell (M.A., Intercultural Relations) has written three books at the borders of metafiction, literary fiction, and science fiction-The Last Book Ever Published, The Book of Squidly Light, and Sage's Multiverse-Miniseries-all dealing with the dimension-bending reality of mysterious mini-book author Halycon Sage. Her writing also includes Voices on the Waves: A Multicultural Comedy-Drama in Three Acts; co-authorship of Cultural Detective: Islam for Nipporica Associates; and a Master's thesis based on in-depth qualitative interviews of immigrants, refugees, and Native Americans on the subject of being bicultural. Karima herself is multicultural by birth and inclination, descended from a half German-Jewish mother and a father whose Hispanic heritage had a strong Native American component, with a bit of Europe on both sides. She has described herself as "a short part-Hispanic, Irish-fiddle-playing, Jewish-wisecracking, somewhat-Black acculturated Sufi Muslim," a small demographic to be sure. Karima has taught Intercultural Communication at Metro State University, University of St. Thomas, and Antioch's Weekend College, and for over 20 years designed and presented workshops exploring the borders between cultural realties and ways to bridge them. Indeed, borders and border-crossings are the themes that unite all her work: not physical borders, but spiritual, mental, and emotional ones, including the border between intellectual activity and spiritual discovery. Karima was a student of the late Lex Hixon, a.k.a Shaykh Nur al-Jerrahi, a scholar and spiritual explorer who walked these paths before her. Over a lifetime, she has been immersed in the study and practice of several world religions and has given workshops and written articles on Sufism, Islam, and Cross-Cultural Mysticism. A khalifa (Representative) of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi order, Karima directs the Light Upon Light Sufi Center and regularly leads the Sufi zikr ceremony of music, movement, and prayer. She has a husband, three grown children, two cats, a garden, and many visiting birds and chipmunks. She believes that the most important (and closely related) issues of our time are social justice and the saving of our beautiful and only planet.