T.L. ORCUTT

NOVELIST

FEATURED BOOKS

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NOVELS

COLLATERAL KARMA
Collateral Karma opens as Rickshaw Lubowski (formerly Bob Kramer in Jamayah), has ditched the Path of Return in search of more tangible things - like sex, drugs, occultism, and sorcery. As a result, he falls victim to a curse cast by an evil leader of a ceremonial cult who practices ritual sex and black magick. Rickshaw’s descent into the world of sensation and desire incurs mysterious nightmares all too real, starting with the obsessively expected death of his new fiancé. Seeking help wherever he can find it, Rickshaw meets a blind fortuneteller who seems to know more about his destiny than anyone should. While fighting for his life and the life of his friends, our hero realizes all too late the bad karma of his ways.
Only when Rickshaw loses touch with reality, when his loved ones and Jamayah face almost certain death, does his mentor appear. Together, they join forces with shamanic sorcerers in an attempt to reverse the deadly curse.

JAMAYAH - Adventures on the Path of Return
Set against the Aquarian optimism and affluence that dawned the new millennium in 1995 San Diego, JAMAYAH - Adventures on the Path of Return is an adventure marbleized with humor, rooted in magical realism, and riveted by the mundane realities of war, street violence, and romantic sensuality. Already in mid-life crisis by a recent divorce and now unexpectedly terminated from a lucrative career as a biochemist, baby-boomer Bob Kramer has difficulty reconciling Jamayah, an unlikely multicultural guru who mysteriously recruits him as an apprentice on a mystical path designed to transform the common perception of reality through three initiations: empowering paranormal abilities, neutralizing self-glorification, and realizing one s self as an immanent function of Spirit.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!
Awakening in the Land of Human Beings

Economic interests of corporatism favor the citizenry being kept in constant fear with the full cooperation of the alarmist media. As a result, the population becomes overwhelmed. Individuals have less time for knowledgeable participation in the political process. People generally end up trusting the corporate state to take care of exaggerated fears that sire confusion, anger, and criticism. Such fears dissipate optimism into destructive depression and inertia, imprison people in an emotional frenzy, and provoke a siege mentality that obscures awakening. And this book is all about awakening! Awakening represents awareness in and of the present. Second, it requires discovering and directing a personal destiny and living this vision. Finally, awakening means working with congenial souls toward a world community and earth consciousness with the values of human freedom, cultural dignity, global integrity, respect for the planet, and a conscious sustainable co-evolution of society, culture, and nature.

MAGICIANS OF THE SOUL -
Exploring the World of Paranormal and Mystical Experience

Magicians of the Soul chronicles paranormal and mystical experiences in the author's life. These are true stories about real people without the names being changed. Featured are Alan Watts a few months before his death, Tilak Fernando, Gia-Fu Feng, Master Liang Ting Shuk, George Nakashima, Anna Franz, and Geshe Lobsang Tsephel representing His Holiness The Dalai Lama. The developmentally sequenced chapters focus on mystical awakenings, paranormal experiences, Taoism, martial arts, Zen, intentionality, spiritualism and mediumship, and the reincarnated wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism. Each chapter is divided into two sections - an event the author experienced followed by an academic Commentary on the transpersonal theme. The extensive End Notes include one hundred thirty clarifications for those who might benefit from further exploration and references.

SELECTED WORKS

NOVEL
JAMAYAH - Adventures on the Path of Return
JAMAYAH is about an “ordinary guy discovering a world that is not so ordinary,” a world qualitatively different from the homogenized perception that glorifies grasping and aversion. Baited by the uncharacter-istic guru, Jamayah, into experiencing the optimal possibilities of human awareness, Bob Kramer bumbles through a series of orientations designed to empower paranormal command and cosmic awareness. His adventures include out-of-body flight, past-life realization, shamanic exorcism, soul-retrieval, lucid dreaming, channeling spirit guides, and Zen golf from a maverick master. Rooting the spiritual adventure are the mundane realities of a strip bar romance, homeless humility and violence, and the horrors of war.