In the Shadow of the Sphere: A Journey of Heart & Spirit

Costa Ricas unexplained granite monolithsThe Stone Spheresserve as the jumping-off point for author Thomas Youngholm, who has skillfully woven together elements of SciFi, Romance, Mystery, and Spirituality to create a new high standard for Visionary Fiction. This story of personal transformation will quickly find a place in your libraryright next to books by Richard Bach, Dan Millman, James Redfield, and Youngholms international bestseller, The Celestial Bar. In this intriguing tale, musician/composer Jonathan (Digger) Taylor has embarked on a perilous rafting trip down a Central American river. He hopes the change of scene will wash away the last several weeks of his life. Instead, the journey is nothing at all like hed planned. A beautiful, mysterious woman leads him deeper into the rainforest, where he meets a wise man, a black jaguar, shocking tragedy, and a host of individuals who change his trajectory forever. In a parallel story, Diggers girlfriend is propelled through her own journey into the unknown After many startling twists and turns, neither of them emerge from the Costa Rican jungle as expected. Written for those who long for a good story along with their dose of Truth, Youngholm has provided the best yet in this new genre of visionary fiction.

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Chapter 1 A rhythm played within the junglefor those who cared to listen. The notes of death had followed Digger more than three thousand miles into the Costa Rican rainforest. Now they reverberated around him as he stood within the lush jungle enveloping him in an array of colors, textures, smellsand sounds. As the realization seeped into his con-sciousness, he chuckled to himself: there was no escape. Closing his eyes, he listened with the ears of a trained musician. He heard again the persistent sound of falling leaves tearing from their branches and brush-ing against limbs on their journey to the rainforest floor. There, amongst all the other leaves, they landed gently, with a soft, brittle rustle. The sound of death. Digger mused about the variations of that sound, and how it occurred in cities and countrysides all over the world. Then for a brief moment the jungle held its breath and became still. Waiting. Waiting for the inevitable. It was all part of the cycle of light and shadow, inhalation and exhalation, life and death. The jungle ex-pected it; in fact, it needed it to survive. A gust of wind rustled the forest canopy. Digger opened his eyes as more leaves tore from their birthplaces, then twirled overhead and landed at his feet. A flash of lightning filled the sky and outlined the rich foliage that thrived along the riverbank. Instinctively, like when he was a little boy, Digger counted the seconds before he heard the thunder to determine how close the storm really was. One-thousand one, one-thousand two, one-thousand thr

About the Author

Thomas Youngholm, author of the international best-seller The Celestial Bar, spent more than two months in a remote area of Costa Rica researching this, his second novel, nearly losing his own life on a rafting trip when fiction and reality converged. He presently lives in San Diego writing, lecturing, and presenting seminars that promote balance for individuals and organizations. He has worked as an adolescent and family counselor, restaurant owner, training specialist, business consultant, and is a sports enthusiast and musician.

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