Meditations In My Favourite Places In Southern Africa: A Travelogue For Inner And Outer Jounries

Meditations In My Favourite Places In Southern Africa: A Travelogue For Inner And Outer Jounries

Explore the splendours of Southern Africa. Visit wide open vistas, coastlines, deltas, forests and mountain ranges. Journey through space and time where the end of each and every chapter takes you through a meditative, unveiling of the seven chakras. Indulge yourself in the wonder of nature! "In this evolutionary book Gail has presented the most powerful combination of Nature's captivating beauty with inner, spiritual awakening..." -- Foreword: Ram P. Varma Born on November 1, 1958 in Carltonville, South Africa, to a mine mechanic and an architectural draughtswoman, Gail Evans as a child dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer. In spite of winning awards and obtaining honors in her ballet exams, her life took another turn and the ballet fell away to be replaced by Speech and Drama, for which, after four years training, she obtained a Higher Diploma in 1980 from the Pretoria Technikon. For the next six years she starved in the garret, as her mother warned her she would do if she followed this career path, working in radio, on stage for P.A.C.T (The Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal), in television shows, as a telecine operator for the S.A.B.C. (South African Broadcasting Company), doing theatre reviews for the arts magazine Scenario, and more often than not, waitressing in order to put a roof over her head and food in her mouth. In 1985 she married an engineering geologist and spent the next couple of years traversing un-charted territory in Southern Africa in an old Landover, top speed eighty kilometers an hour, with carrycots wedged between the dashboard and the back of the seat, a large supply of water purification pills in order to make up babies bottles and a hoard of plastic bags in the glove compartment for dirty nappies. It was during this time,largely due to the influence and experience of writing for the arts magazine Scerario, that she became addicted to the keys on a type writer. Thus began a fourteen year journey through type writers, to computers, lots of research and many nights of soul searching, culminating in her first published title, "The Firstborn Of God. Resolving the Contradictions in the Bible." Since publishing "The Firstborn of God" in 2000, Gail explored the genre of fiction as opposed non-fiction and published "Time Trials." So ........ you have arrived in this Africa, in this love of mine my friend. Welcome home. Oh? You do not think that this is your home? Did you say that you are just a traveller here? Ummm, I wonder...... This is where humanity originated thousands of years ago. This is your motherland where the rocks that lie beneath your feet are the firstborn of her womb and her palpitating rivers and pounding waterfalls are her first rush of life. How long has it been since you left her embrace, to wonder across deserts and oceans and plains? How many tribes and nations have you spawned and raised,how many adventures are written across your face? Keep still now. Can you feel it? Your heart? Can you feel the rhythm beating in your chest? Is it not the same as when the lover returns? As when the child raises its arms and kisses your cheek? As a long lost friend calling you on the phone? Hush now and remove the shoes from your feet. You will have no need of them here. Free feet feel. Feel the soil. Feel the beat. Feel the beat in your heart and in your feet. And in time you too will dance like a joyous child. Welcome home! Excerpt from the Prologue: Meditations In My Favourite Places In Southern Africa. Gail Evans. (copywrite 2001)