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"In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world." ---Federico García LorcaOne is the other's strength. They are just too similar. Their pull is like that of a magnet. Even before the twins formally met, they still felt each other's emotions, thoughts, and energy. On an energetic level, the presence of the other twin is so strong it's almost like being with the other half constantly. The brothers' union moves them to live toward their highest destiny -- to walk on fire. They remain divinely tested to the degree that they emit crystal light and pure unconditional love. The level of telepathy shared by the twins lets them almost hear each other out loud -- at times even see each other across distance. The lesson about Spain's foremost poet/playwright Federico García Lorca is that the poets who are alive are a threat to repression, but dead poets can be safely embalmed as national legends or treasures. The secrets of the past still hold their power for revenge, if exposed. But Garcia Lorca is maybe more important today as a symbol than as a poet. Today things are not so much about Federico García Lorca but about memory and history-- about how poets are given most of their power not by those who love them, but by those who fear them. The image of union with God through pain was particularly very important to the spirituality of the past and indeed remains important today since this concept is at the heart of almost all Christian asceticism. Even the American tales of Edgar Allan Poe which reflect "the complete desire of fusion with the beloved being...ends in vampirism...[and]...nervous ecstasy." Sublimation in vampire mythology is always enacted in the surrogate sex act: The relationship between sexual ecstasy and religious ecstasy is represented vividly in St. Teresa of Ávila's rapture -- ending with the piercing of her heart with an angel's flaming dart. Her ecstasy is an expression of her spiritual desire to be one with God -- the spiritual reception of God's saint...as St. Teresa serves Him as a lover, Even while she actually becomes Him. "One cannot avoid the shadow unless one remains neurotic, and as long as one is neurotic one has omitted the shadow." --Carl Jung. How we live our lives revolves around our ideas about how we define death. What world you end up living in depends at least in part on your use of language. Does the sleep of reason produce monsters? Or does the dream of reason produce monsters? Monsters and nocturnal creatures come alive when reason is inactive. In Hell matters are worse: men kill and devour each other. Art replicates or divulges memory: art as the forgotten, art as experience. What if art does not always reproduce memory? Maybe memory loss is the true source of someone's artistic creative ability.

The menu needed altered severely. Not fit to consume or eat: that's how folks viewed the politics served to them in Kentucky. Candidates didn't level with the people. Dishing out negative advertising throughout the campaign sickened voters. Forking over the most massive helpings of money-the key ingredient-enabled a Carey Lucas and Hayward Thomas primary victory. A diet of deceit and greed--consumed by the congressman and his daughter, Myra (the apple does not fall far from the tree). The congressman's daughter and best friend, Royce VanArsdale, lead exciting, rich, tumultuous lives in the Bluegrass' thoroughbred racing world. Royce VanArsdale and Leila Nichols share a rich lifelong history of eccentric, family secrets among the Bluegrass elite. Their friendship tears apart as the congressman's daughter weaves a web of deceit and lies. US Congressman Carey Lucas pockets the largest pool of money of any departing member of Congress--$700-thousand--free to take his campaign chest by not running for office. Corruption of the Highest Order. Congressman Carey Lucas' actions reflect one of the reasons why the public holds Congress in such low esteem. It validates their concern that there are a lot of people who get into politics to benefit themselves financially. The money was not supposed to be a special interest pension fund, but was contributed to the Lucas election campaign. By running for governor against the millionaire horse breeder, Congressman Lucas could pocket that money (by not seeking another congressional term). The US representative broke that promise he made while running for governor-to "not keep any of that money." He put into his pocket what remained in his congressional campaign fund...bad politics, bad taste, and bad for the Republican party. The congressman misleads the public with press releases--including remarks about the Persian Gulf War (used to benefit his campaign). Protagonist Royce VanArsdale, along with others, fight anorexic behavior--struggling to tame their fight for perfection, demanded by extremely wealthy and successful families who often expect too much. The politics, itself-along with substance--is purely anorectic....

Normally when you hear hoofbeats you think about horses. Maybe sometimes you should think about zebras. Vampires may be scary, but for some people they aren't half as frightening as falling in love. This novel changes the traditional paradigm of a vampire.Triston Fallonside and Rodrigo García Olza are as close as two friends can be. Their friendship developed after a clandestine benefactor offered Triston a scholarship to Spain's most exclusive equestrian riding school, right after the puzzling death of his mother. Decades earlier, Triston's father, a world-renowned Kentucky thoroughbred veterinarian, was killed in a mysterious accidental fall off a Barcelona cliff.Rodrigo's mother, a young, well-known world-class Olympic horse jumper, suffered a puzzling, agonizing death weeks after the birth of her son. Hence, Rodrigo García Olza's grandfather, Spain's most famous matador, is left to raise his grandson. The media frenzy escalates around two of Spain's most famous sports figures from a single family -- both caught up in a baffling murder mystery tied to Triston Fallonside's Kentucky Bluegrass family.Not until several years after Rodrigo and Triston graduate college, Rodrigo relocates from Spain to Triston's inherited family farm in his quest as a thoroughbred trainer. Pieces of a 27-year-old murder mystery (and its connection to Triston's father's tragic death) begin to unfold. Two ghosts, both residing within Fallonside House, provide clues that solve decades of secrets: a conundrum that shakes both Rodrigo and Triston to the core of their being. But foremost, for Rodrigo García Olza and Triston Fallonside it is all about horses, bourbon, Depeche Mode, and enjoying life to the fullest...A vampire will intentionally pretend to be anything you want to believe it is for the single motive of draining life force energy. In the media the vampire is used to communicate the message of a feeling of mortal alienation from God, and a wish to conquer that alienation. Often the vampire in literature pushes the reader and main character on a spiritual journey with both religious and psychological elements to aid in their comprehension of the value of their existence. A vampire may convey isolation but has a strong religious or spiritual quality representing the transcendental agent through which individuals and societies may confront questions about their innate goodness or evilness -- a belief in God, and the possibility of the afterlife.Instinctual entities exist only to siphon our life force by fabricating paranormal diversions to create our experiences: to mimic whatever is needed to feed off our energy to assist their own. Beings pretend to be ghosts, demons, angels or anything our imagination gathers to invoke an emotional response.

"We have art in order not to perish of the truth" -Nietzsche. Is there anything any more attractive than natural self acceptance? Believing in yourself is the magic that makes anything happen.God doesn't hate witches; he hates that they open a spiritual realm's door and let demons enter. Triston Fallonside and Rodrigo García Olza's love interest, Clarisse Bouchard, reveals a long hidden secret that's magical. Magic is about responsibility to ensure your magic comes from a desire to create harmony. Magic is about learning to control forces within yourself. Magic is only science we don't understand, yet. Could anything worse happen to anyone than to be completely understood? The cave in Salamanca, Spain was a cursed crypt of the Old Roman church San Cebrian rumored to have a crypt where the devil taught classes on dark magic to seven disciples. Witchcraft creates a type of spiritual wound, perhaps a spiritual and physical death in people. Witchcraft could potentially destroy any human being's soul who practices it religiously. It is the initial energy pattern of another individual that attracts soulmates, who possess an identical or similar energy pattern. Soulmates master life lessons together, encouraging each other's greater soul growth.Your soul displays itself by the people you attract. Evolving vampire Rodrigo García Olza learns true evil can conquer death. Evil lies dormant for ages to defeat it.

The entire idea of a vampire through the earliest recorded history has helped people make sense of their own world. The vampire today serves a totally different purpose than the historical paradigm. Social experiences described by true vampirism appear to be those related with a sense of difference. Many true vampires start their accounts by declaring that they always felt "weird" inside and uncannily different to those around them. Their vampire awakening made real sense of this experience. The fifth novel in the Rodrigo García Olza Vampire from Spain series traces the protagonist's ancient historical attachment to the horse with the help of an art gallery by the Masters. As evident in the most prolific art, religion plays a paramount role in the overall evolution of the vampire. Faith in God remains the ultimate triumph over the demon. The vampire provides a vehicle for answering questions about the ultimate meaning of life. If there is a God, then is he damned? The vampire seeks to question religion and faith...Toda idea de un vampiro a través de la historia registrada más temprana ha ayudado a personas a dar sentido a su propio mundo. El vampiro hoy sirve a un propósito totalmente diferente que el paradigma histórico. Experiencias sociales descritas por verdadero vampirismo parecen ser los relacionados con un sentido de diferencia. Muchos vampiros verdaderos iniciar sus cuentas declarando que siempre sintieron "weird" inferior y asombrosamente diferentes a aquellos alrededor. Su vampiro despertar tenía sentido real de esta experiencia. La quinta novela de Rodrigo García Olza vampiro de la serie de España traza antigua apego histórico del protagonista al caballo con la ayuda de una galería de arte de los maestros. Como es evidente en el arte más prolífico, la religión desempeña un papel primordial en la evolución general del vampiro. La fe en Dios sigue siendo el triunfo final sobre el demonio. El vampiro proporciona un vehículo para responder a preguntas sobre el sentido último de la vida. ¿Si hay un Dios, entonces es él maldito? El vampiro busca religión pregunta y fe...

Fog occurs naturally in San Francisco: fog not unlike fog that engulfs San Francisco's Alcatraz Island, where Rodrigo García Olza mysteriously arrives underwater. Many so-called vampires worldwide are really demons. At least for this island, many theologians propose that that demons created vampires by entering and animating corpses the Ohlone Indians buried on Alcatraz Island. When Spain's explorers intruded upon the ancient burial grounds the natives avoided, many of the dormant evil spirits were awakened and have yet to be quieted - despite valiant efforts through the centuries. To compound an already looming festering problem, after the Spaniards desecrated the Ohlone burial grounds, the village chief cursed Alcatraz Island so no white man can ever live there. (It is no coincidence that the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was abandoned in 1963 after only 30 years.) Vampire Rodrigo García Olza initially realizes he landed in San Francisco to eradicate one of the Earth's most ancient and powerful demons (a vampire) born out of sorcery in ancient Mesopotamia/Rome, summoned into this earthly plane from some other realm. A morgue on Alcatraz Island has no history of use but appears to harbor secrets, including a mysterious possible connection to Purgatory. A world renowned San Francisco independent filmmaker casts Rodrigo in a film adaptation of Federico García Lorca's "The Butterfly's Evil Spell," with Alcatraz Island as its location.Later Rodrigo discovers his more complicated purpose: freeing Spain's greatest poet and dramatist, Federico García Lorca from Purgatory. In the process of solving two separate profound mysterious, he discovers both are linked. Rodrigo collaborates with two companions to solve the missing pieces of two puzzles of related phenomena -- foremost San Francisco fashion photographer Liam Mannering, and Audrey Hepburn "Breakfast At Tiffany's" doppelgänger, Holiday Dampiere.

His deepest fear is desire. In what way are you afraid of your own power of longing? Are you ever unwilling to release the full force of your passion, concerned that it might drive you out of control or lead you awry? Has the original owner of Fallonside House property been a vampire for over a century? Who haunts Fallonside House? And why? Can Rodrigo, Triston, and Micah communicate with the dead through the ghostly, magical qualities of a mysterious cameo? Is the Smithsonian Institution hiding details of past archeological discoveries that would rock our present understanding of the past? Did they really take a barge full of unusual artifacts (related to American mummies/giants) into the Atlantic and dump them? Rodrigo, Triston, and Micah make startling cave discoveries, leading to the revelation of a rewriting of history.The three explorers find a secret in a secret room at Fallonside House. Subsequently, an adventure ensues where they discover hundreds of mummies in a cave on Kentucky property. Micah finds a cameo that lands in Rodrigo's hands, which completely alters their conception of a plethora of supernatural events outside this dimension.Vampire Rodrigo García Olza wants to make sure at least one part of him always stays untamed, incapable of being categorized, and not enslaved by routine. He wants to remain intimately connected to all that is mysterious about his life. Rodrigo doesn't want to be involved in anything conventional: he is fascinated by the unusual, the unconventional, and wants to challenge limitations. Freedom dominates his desires. Since he is a bold spirit of experimentation, he wants to be unpredictable, eccentric, and controversial. Vampire Rodrigo wants to learn to know and be comfortable being his unique self.Vampires and consumptives are the living dead. Vampires offer a corporeal image for tuberculosis/consumption, lending shape to an unseen evil that slowly but surely drains away life. Consumption is often thought of as not a physical but a spiritual disease, an obsession, or visitation: as long as a dead consumptive relative's body shows blood still in its heart, it is proof enough that a supernatural or occult influence steals from it for death -- and is working to drain the blood of the living into the heart of the dead, resulting in a speedy decline. Vampires and tuberculosis are very much alike because both are consumption -- each walking corpses. Pale skin, eyes sunken, a chest that's caved, even the blood dripping from the corner of the mouth: these make-up visual characteristics of a tuberculosis victim. How could consumption lead the rational human mind astray to confuse it with a vampire's existence? Accounts of vampire attacks correspond closely with the symptoms of consumption. Consumptives suffered at night mostly -- awakening coughing and in pain. At times they reported a heavy feeling, like someone had sat on their chest. With the progression of the disease, ulcers and cavities formed in the lungs and victims started coughing up blood, which lingered at the corners of their mouth and stained their bedclothes. When vampire hunters discovered liquid blood in a corpse's vital organs, they mistakenly thought that death was not complete -- that "liquid proclaims life." Burning the corpse sped-up the needed and irreversible process of dying. Burial prematurely has been proposed as a reason for the original belief in vampires. Vampire Rodrigo García Olza wants his higher mind to eliminate the mystifying features of ignorant concepts of reality -- to experience the connection between the human mind, universal mind, and higher intelligence. Rodrigo wants to make sure at least one part of him always stays untamed, incapable of being categorized, and not enslaved by routine. Rodrigo García Olza, the vampire, wants to remain intimately connected to all that is mysterious about his life."Nothing changes until it's changed in everyone's memories." --poet Alice Notley.

Theater and art can be viewed as a form of religion. The live event of theater can be seen in the light of a spiritual service, ceremony, and ritual. Both theater drama and religion thrive on ambiguity. Some truths may only be witnessed in the dark; and embracing the darkness is sometimes required to stop it. Vampire horse trainer Rodrigo García Olza, his two brothers, and equine sidekick, Micah, often feel compelled to thank someone, blame someone -- and realize this is the notion of God and the Devil. Like most others, they cannot wholeheartedly believe that everything that happens to them is their own doing. Lately, the biblical tale they recall from their childhood about The Tower of Babel, Babylon, its relation to Fallen Angels, and Apocalypse prophecy seems to be creeping into their lives regularly now. What doe it all mean? A mysterious, eccentric, wealthy New York theater director builds a theater in their town, and beckons Livingston, Rodrigo, Triston, Micah, and Clarisse to employ their creative talents to takeover the production. They like the idea of theater as a possible substitute for many people who have been hurt by organized religion: that the opportunity for transcendence and community established in theater replaces religion. Could the Antichrist be living among them today? The whole idea of blood being shed to give another eternal life mirrors vampire lore. Legend amongst the Hebrew people speaks of Judas Iscariot, betrayer of Christ, as the original vampire...

A ghost story in New Haven, Connecticut--or is it? A paranormal study of Karen Carpenter's haunting reincarnation mirrors the current rise of Higher Consciousness--culminating with the Mayan Calendar's 2012: an exploration of the Mayan connection to the reincarnation of Karen Carpenter's strange arrival at the brooding and forboding Ravencraft mansion. Four attractive female band members--drawn to one another--experience a series of bewildering and charming adventures that parallel past lives. The role previous lives play upon anorexia reigns paramount. Does time really exist?