Follow an ex-con, shaman trained, private detective trying to solve what appears to be a satanic ritual sacrifice. As he investigates a powerful and wealthy families’ dark secrets, he finds love with a beautiful Native American journalist. Under the guidance of a Medicine Man he engages in a spiritual battle with the soul of a young woman hanging in the balance. Drawing from Day’s shamanic training and personal experiences Roy has written what he considers to be a realistic book about spiritual warfare and the fight between good and evil as it exists in the modern world. Readers should be warned that although the author disagrees when people call it a work of horror, it has terrified some readers causing some sleepless nights
Once you get off the reservations, most Americans have no idea of the beauty and transformational power of a Medicine Man running a Sweat Lodge. Northern Paiute shamanic healing practices were kept secret for countless thousands of years until Evelyn Eaton and Roy Day revealed them for the first time. Ostensibly written as an anthropology thesis about the effects of Christianity on traditional Northern Paiute ritual practices, this book is really the story of Grandfather Raymond Stone, Grandmother Eve Eaton, spiritual healing, and Roy's personal journey as he was trained to be a shaman.
"The Shaman Between Worlds by R. E. Day Jr. gives us a clear definition of the teaching of the divine spark that appears in both Western and Eastern mystical traditions."
This three-book autobiography in poetry covers the first forty years of an unusual life. He begins as a soccer star and senior class president, who four months after graduation falls seven stories, who then in a wheelchair, writes, coaches, practices Karate, and spends three years training to be shaman. Although Day is what Bob Marley calls “a natural mystic,” like so many of his generation, he dealt with periods of partying too hard and exhibiting what seemed like self-destructive behavior. His first forty years - his spiritual journey, his loves, the dark side, all the near-death experiences, political, religious, and social commentary, his love of Nature and Mother Earth - it is a complex life revealed in poetry. Although Day began writing poetry in early adolescence, the first book begins his senior year and covers the next turbulent twelve years. The second book in the trilogy is a complete love affair and covers a couple of years. The third book is more or a normal poetry collection taking him to forty. Roy has attempted to make it almost exclusively poetry, but has supplied enough prose to provide context for the interested.
Book 1 .
There is a rhythm to life, fall to winter, spring to summer, the Moon waxes and wanes, the tides rise and fall, and some people are struck down and have to rise back up. Sometimes repeatedly. This book covers the loves and passions of a young man, and what it feels like - to be a victim of the war on drugs, to fall seven stories wide awake, to go through rehab, study Okinawan Karate, go to the Sweat Lodge, train to be a shaman, have a mystical love for Nature - and what it feels like to travel the journey from being a Southern Baptist reject to become an esoteric Sweat Lodge Christian
Book 2
This second book of the trilogy is an entire relationship in poetry. From first meeting to heartbreaking good-bye the complete relationship is chronicled. Although adultery is generally accepted as immoral and wrong in our culture, at least 13% of married people have succumbed. Roy met a psychologist whose musician husband had cheated, confessed, and told her to get payback. Roy was the payback, but then they fell in love. But as time went on she wouldn’t leave her husband and he met dangerous Gabrielle. If you love poetry and romance, you may read it compulsively start to finish in one sitting, and you wouldn’t be the first.
Book 3
Although Roy Day never accepted the reality that he had a death wish, his friends and family did and commented on it repeatedly. He just thought he went at Life real hard. Roy experienced multiple near-death and close call experiences. His family quit counting at thirteen, some estimates run up to eighteen. Roy fell seven stories, went into the White Light and came back; and that was just the beginning. At times on a spiritual journey, and other times he drove too fast, drank too much, and had multiple girlfriends. After the Death Wish poems, there are sections of political, historical, and social commentary poems, Earthsongs/Goddessongs, and a section of Religious, Mystical, and Occult poems.
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