If you had asked me when I was a much younger man if I believed in the paranormal, I would have said “No” but we most likely would have had a nice conversation about it. The supernatural, ghosts, ESP, channeling and all that was always fun to talk about but not something I saw as truly real. And to be completely honest, I viewed people who strongly believed in such things as a bit odd, gullible, or just plain deluded.
As life usually does though, it smacked me upside the head when my dad died and showed me how wrong I was. Losing my father not only shook me to the core, but some surprising events surrounding his death lead my wife Barb and me into investigating the paranormal.
The result of our investigation? Well, we both became believers in the infinite possibilities beyond what we had previously considered as the normal everyday physical aspects of our lives. Our experiences in this area multiplied so much that we began to see paranormal activity as normal. Quite a switch for both of us but such an important change that we wrote the nonfiction book for adults titled, An Explosion of Being: An American Family’s Journey into the Psychic. Written a number of years ago, it openly and honestly tells about our explorations into the world of the paranormal.
In the process of publishing Book I of The St. Augustine Trilogy, Barb and I agreed to resurrect An Explosion of Being with a New Edition at the same time. We thought trilogy readers might find my background in real life paranormal experiences of interest.
Actually, the cover you see here is new but somewhat similar to the original one done by Parker Publishing, an imprint Prentice Hall. Because we liked that initial cover, I asked cover designer Michael Lynch to come up with something close. Did he ever! Very nice job Michael. Much better than the original. He also did the exceptional designing for the trilogy book covers.
More on the real life aspects of the paranormal later.
Take care.
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