Tales of the Crystal Sailor Log 1 This story is a combination of factual places and sailing experiences. Located in the Santa Barbara Island group off the California coast. During a passage from San Diego to Ventura, California I was struck with an epiphany concerning collecting and doing research on the rare Lemurian Seed Crystals from Brazil. Later I am to learn we are to build a lemurian Grid on a Vortex I must locate on Santa Cruz, Island. The adventure builds as we must locate an Earthkeeper Crystal that is necessary to open Portal to the next dimension. This will be fought over by...

This is a long lost biography of the composer Franz Peter Schubert. It dates from 1886, and has been updated and enhanced by over 400 scholarly notes. It was written by Joseph Bennett an English music critic and librettist. Despite being one of the earliest Schubert biographies in English, it is not well known, presumably because it was not published as a book, but as a series of 9 articles in the magazine The Musical Times, between January and September 1886. It is sufficiently unknown that it does not appear in the big Schubert bibliography from Willi Kahl in...