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About cdsmiller17

I am an Astrologer who also writes about world events. My first eBook "At This Point in Time" is available through most on-line book stores. I have now serialized my second book "The Star of Bethlehem" here.

How Did George Gurdjieff Know, All Those Years Ago?

Posted on June 12, 2021 by cdsmiller17

A Meeting With a Remarkable Man It seems the most unlikely of links: Whitley Strieber follows the ‘sensing’ exercise as suggested by George Gurdjieff. This brought the light of his soul to the attention of the ‘visitors’. Creating this type … Continue reading →

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The Problem with Time Travel: We Know Where, But Not When

Posted on June 11, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Time Passages I’m not being glib, here: these things happen all the time, it seems. You travel along a road in the country, one that may have even been familiar to you at some time in the past, and suddenly, … Continue reading →

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Revealed: The True Spirit Behind the Communion Experience

Posted on June 10, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Anne Strieber (August 25, 1946 – August 11, 2015) Sometimes, one wonders if the death of a spouse is such a traumatic experience that everything that occurs after it seems to take on extra significance. Such is the case with … Continue reading →

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I Love It When Several Streams of Thought Converge

Posted on June 9, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Whitley Strieber (June 13, 1945) As I intimated in my post yesterday, I’m reading Whitley Strieber’s latest book, “A New World”. It’s good for me since this book goes back to the original narrative of the events covered by “Communion”, … Continue reading →

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Returning to the Scene in the Library

Posted on June 8, 2021 by cdsmiller17

A New World (2019) It’s hard to believe that more than 35 years have passed since Whitley Strieber had his close encounter of the third kind. Since Anne, his wife of 45 years, died in 2015, Whitley has come to … Continue reading →

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How John le Carré Describes George Smiley to His Readers

Posted on June 7, 2021 by cdsmiller17

A Murder of Quality (1962) If you’re like me, you would have probably thoroughly enjoyed the Smiley Trilogy (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, “The Honourable Schoolboy” and “Smiley’s People”). But I had never read one of the early books that introduced … Continue reading →

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Was There Something in the Air That Year?

Posted on June 7, 2021 by cdsmiller17

No Man’s Brother (1984) There I was, writing a book about furtrading in the Canadian North, and suddenly I realized I’d been pipped at the post. Obviously, these things happen, but it knocked the wind out of my literary sails. … Continue reading →

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The Beaver House (VIII)

Posted on June 6, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Chapter Eight Meanwhile, Pierre was dreaming, too. But his dream was not pleasant. In fact, he was having a nightmare about his close brush with death at the hands of his Mohawk capturers. Scenes of scalding, joint amputations, beatings and … Continue reading →

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The Beaver House (VII)

Posted on June 5, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Chapter Seven Kijik lay on her mat, a satisfied smile playing at the corners of her lips. She’d been dreaming of her god-spirit and he had been showing her intimacies that had so far eluded her experience. With each dream-vision, … Continue reading →

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The Beaver House (VI)

Posted on June 4, 2021 by cdsmiller17

Chapter Six “To begin with, I was adopted in my early teens by a Mohawk family. They saved me from a torturous death and to them I shall be eternally grateful. Then I escaped from the tribe by killing three … Continue reading →

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