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Brian George''s debut collection of personal essays invites the reader on a journey beyond the normal categories of space, time, and narrative structure, toward a further shore of multidimensional and more-than-human experience. These are "essays" in the sense of attempts or explorations of a subject which is too vast, and too profound, yet also, paradoxically, too familiar (to some deepest part of us) to be exhausted by any one expression or approach. As George puts it, "The book is not quite a collection of essays, or the fragments of an autobiography, or a record of inter-dimensional journeys, or a work of metaphysics, or a sociopolitical critique, or an attempt to formulate a contemporary mythology-although it has elements of all of these." To read Masks of Origin, and to re-read it perhaps, and to live with all that it reveals, conceals, and intimates, is to risk encountering the unfathomable within ourselves as much as in the art. As George recursively unravels the contours of his peculiar spiritual landscape, we begin to see aspects our own world history and generational trauma transfigured-as in a psychedelic mirror-in a startling new light. Yet the only drug administered here is the noötropic of poetic language. (You may still wish to avoid operating heavy machinery while under the influence of this book.) With penetrating insight into the soul of post-industrial America and a rare ability to invoke transpersonal states of knowing (even accompanying the thrill of the unknown) in the reader, and with a metaphysical bravado that any dada surrealist might envy, there is also-how to say this?-a down-to-earthness about George that softens our defenses. In Masks of Origin, we meet the artist not only as a cosmic traveler and esoteric yogi, but also as a schoolboy, a son, a rebel, a lover, a teacher, a friend/enemy, and a family man-in short, as a person with adventurous goals but few pretenses. As we follow George in the probing of his origins, we may find that we have suddenly drawn much closer to our own.

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They fight injustices with complete disregard for laws and are passing this legacy onto their successors, the pairing of Barry Parker''s long lost son and a young Chinese girl from Hong Kong. They use Taoist principles and spiritual practices as part of their training regimen, in between taking down a crooked Irish developer in cahoots with a Chinese people and drug trafficker. To further their own business, an Iranian friend scammed in a Spanish property deal asks them to help get his money back. A complete disruption, an elaborate fraud, and a violent raid bring down the Irish developer and his business. The Chinese connection is discovered during their raid and leads them to kidnap a corrupt Chinese diplomat to get Chinese State Security off their backs. The young pair smuggle witnesses out of China along with evidence on the diplomat. It ends with a handover for the ransom of the diplomat in a classic London bridge setting aided and abetted by bees and birds strangely summoned by their mysterious colleague Lin Fu. Fast-moving and often sensual, their adventures traverse the globe, their experiments with magical, esoteric practices produce mysterious but believable results that leave you wondering if that could really happen. The whole team is an eclectic mix of free spirits, always anti-establishment and unconventional.