Dream Maker
Dreams, past lives, and a powerful healing technique.....The novel starts innocently enough with a depressed man in modern-day Berkeley, looking for answers. He has a series of dreams that show him another dimension. In his wakeful life, Martin's life is falling apart, but he also finds a stranger, Mojo, who is what he's not: peaceful and whole. Mojo seems to be working in conjunction with Martin's dreams to point him to a pilgrimage, of all places, Hawaii.
Guided by his dream Images, Martin makes his way to a hidden beach where he meets a Kahuna. This man takes Martin on an astral trip to ancient Britain, a world in chaos with the Roman Empire collapsing and invaders and bandits taking over. In the middle of all this Martin encounters a powerful mystic, Maria Lerna, whose job seems to heal the world so that it may survive. Martin soon learns that he is witnessing a past life, and he learns what he neglected to get that time: the true meaning of life.
It's a fun read that makes you think. I learned a lot and am grateful for this book. It also has that feeling of truth to it. I wonder if it really happened?
I was impressed by Dream Maker's accurate historical content and interesting facts and thesis I'd never heard before; It's obvious that Ambrosious is King Arthur, the year, circumstances and geography is all there; The legendary elements are enticing...the sword in the stone, Maria Lerna's magic (Marli= Merlin) put it in believable context.... a word of mystical powers.
What's unique is the Roman setting but it makes sense since the Romans had hust left after 400 years.
Also now I see King Arthur as a sort of savior, a mythical figure whose role is far more critical than I thought.
If anything the novel is too short; Grigor Fedan seems to know his history; I wish he had gone deeper into it.
Frankly I am not much of a fan of the new agey things like reincarnation, meditation, astral travel.