Large format edition of the novel "Winning Without Victory" - Book 4 of the series "The Lodging for the Rose" This novel is fiction, focusing on universal love as a force for universal good. Except, who cares about the universal good in a world of darkness, greed, poverty, and terror of war? Isn't love something we put on a rose leaf, reserved for special occasions, or with a smile that we parade with a purpose, or an emotion that we must hide when it is not convenient or is not allowed? We sooner build empires by force than love universally, but we always cry like frightened children when...

"Seascapes and Sand" Book 5 of the series "The Lodging for the Rose" (Large Format Edition) The novel is fiction. It deals with the momentous 'sea' changes in the political world that we set our hopes on with a glimpse of the world of universal love unfolding in the background. Too often we find, however, that we have built on sand in both arenas. But should we not have built at all? Honest sparks of love keep us going, often unrequited, but they remain love nevertheless. With them a gentle constancy unfolds amidst the tides of the ever-changing 'seas.' In time the initial sparks become a...

"The Flat Earth Society" is Book 6 of the series "The Lodging for the Rose" (Large Format Edition - Magazine Style) The novel is fiction. It explores an aspect of modern society that few people are eager, or even willing, to look at. The general perception is that imperial fascism, financial looting, political insanity, military atrocities, and so forth, are items that are so far outside the realm of daily living that they appear completely irrelevant as if they didn't exist. We like to see a world that is 'flat, ' that is safe and simple, rather than how it really is. The second aspect that...

"Glass Barriers" Book 7 of the series "The Lodging for the Rose" (Large Format Edition) The novel is fiction. It deals with a paradigm-shift that begins when discoveries of science pull us up to a higher level of thinking about our world and ourselves, and then pull our social marriages up to that level behind it. Surprising things can happen then. Suddenly, barriers that had stood for ages become transparent and breakable. Here a story begins that unfolds in India. The story is not rooted in India's long spiritual history. Rather it is rooted in a 19th Century American discovery of spiritual...

Coffee Sex and Biscuits Book 8 of series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose. (Large Format, Magazine Style) The novel is fiction. It is as purely a fantasy as are the daydreams in society about a world enjoying peace built on military power, and financial riches built on stealing rather than producing. What sets the fiction in the story apart, is its daring to look beneath the surface and explore the brighter aspects of our humanity that have been kept artificially dark. The exploration is powered by a deep-reaching honesty with oneself in numerous interlocking dimensions with a thread of...

Endless Horizons Book 9 of the epic series The Lodging for the Rose - Large-Format Edition (Magazine style) The novel is fiction, though it addresses one of the great challenges that we face as human beings, to discover the trends that have a boundless potential, whereby we get away from pursuits that are self-terminating and collapse our world into chaos. The dividing line is explored through the threads of romance and love. Here, old limits are pushed aside as irrelevant and counterproductive, even limits imposed on love, sex, and romance. In universal love we find that we love not what we...