This book takes the reader on an extraordinary journey. Using his skills as a dowser, the author explores the realm of Earth mysteries -- megaliths, ley-lines, barrows, beacon hills, and other ancient features -- and puts forward some startling, but nonetheless highly plausible ideas. He reveals a view of our world that links past and present, a world that hints at a magical technology linking people and place; a world whose energies could perhaps have been harnessed in the past to improve the quality of life. It is also a plea for us to rediscover the profound connection with place that our ancestors knew, and to begin to heal a relationship with land that has been badly ravaged by the values and assumptions of the modem world. "Needles of Stone" has long and rightly been considered a classic. With the addition of new chapters, this 30th Anniversary edition allows the author to bring the work up-to-date and gives him an opportunity to reflect on what has happened since the book was first written.
Jackson "Sonny" Malloy is haunted and hunted. Haunted by the unexplained death twenty-three years earlier of 16-year-old Dinah Bible. Hunted by a hired gun determined to kill him for what he knows about a political scandal. When Malloy learns that Dinah's death was no accident, he searches for her killer while the hired gun searches for him. All paths lead to the treacherous and ominous Graves Point.
Award-winning author and journalist Tom Graves in "Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers" collects the best of his long-form journalism and profiles as well as his in-depth interviews with a variety of curious personalities. The lead piece is "My Afternoon with Louise Brooks" about Graves's encounter in 1982 with the reclusive silent film legend Louise Brooks. He was the last journalist ever to sit bedside with Miss Brooks, who allowed very few people into her life. Also included are Graves's 1979 sit down with the king of Southern grit lit, Harry Crews, his discovery of the first Elvis impersonator, his search with the help of Quentin Tarantino to find actress Linda Haynes, who had vanished from Hollywood. Included are also Graves's in-depth question and answer interviews with: Frank Zappa, Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones, Lee Mavers of the cult band the La's, and Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Some of Graves's best essays are also part of this anthology: his piece on the Sex Pistols in Memphis, an apology for biographer Albert Goldman, a revisit of Woodstock, and more. Tom Graves is known for his award-winning biography of bluesman Robert Johnson, "Crossroads," and the acclaimed grit lit novel Pullers. In addition he was the Consulting Producer for the film Best of Enemies about the 1968 Buckley-Vidal debates and was the publisher and editor with Darrin Devault of the book Buckley vs. Vidal.
As he struck out down the canyon with his rifle, revolver, and possibles bag, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. The canyon walls were the same, The sagebrush was the same, And The eagle floating on the air current above the canyon was the same. Then it hit him; the wagon trail wasn't worn deep into the canyon floor. Daniel Strong, a fifty-one-year-old man of the twentieth century, Is catapulted back in time To The early settler days of the 1840s, An era when trails were haunted by outlaws and wild animals, blizzards threatened those traveling afoot and in wagon trains, and tales of gold and silver spurred the poor and downtrodden West. With basic survival knowledge and knowledge gleaned from his love for US history, Daniel faces the trail with new acquaintance Lou Thompson and her son, Tommy, where he assumes the role of caregiver and protector, all the while providing psychic vision as to what will take place as the years pass by. Faced with challenges in every direction, Daniel and Lou brave the rough terrain of the Nevada desert as they make their way to Carson Valley, Nevada. Although Daniel embraces his new life, he is unable to forget the wife and family he left behind and wonders if he'll ever be reunited with his old life-whether he wants to or not. Come along on an exciting trail ride, thick with adventure and danger, To High Rock Canyon, by author Tom Graves. Daniel Strong, a fifty-one-year-old man of the twentieth century, Is catapulted back in time To The early settler days of the 1840s, An era when trails were haunted by outlaws and wild animals, blizzards threatened those traveling afoot and in wagon trains, and tales of gold and silver spurred the poor and downtrodden West. With basic survival knowledge and knowledge gleaned from his love for US history, Daniel faces the trail with new acquaintance Lou Thompson and her son, Tommy, where he assumes the role of caregiver and protector, all the while providing psychic vision as to what will take place as the years pass by. Faced with challenges in every direction, Daniel and Lou brave the rough terrain of the Nevada desert as they make their way to Carson Valley, Nevada. Although Daniel embraces his new life, he is unable to forget the wife and family he left behind and wonders if he'll ever be reunited with his old life-whether he wants to or not. Come along on an exciting trail ride, thick with adventure and danger, To High Rock Canyon, by author Thomas Graves.
During the summer of 2016 author and journalist Tom Graves was exasperated after ruining his third batch of fried catfish that season. Recently divorced and having to cook for himself he thought he'd like to get cooking lessons from an elderly African American lady who would teach him her kitchen secrets. His favorite food by far was soul food which he found similar to the Southern country cuisine he'd been raised on. He did not want a chef to give him lessons; he wanted a kitchen cook, someone whose recipes he could duplicate with relative ease. A reverend friend of his in Memphis introduced Graves to 80-year-old Larthy Washington who had been her church cook for over 40 years. She agreed to teach Graves and for one year they met bi-weekly at her church for lessons and tastings. Soon after they began, Graves thought the recipes and stories Ms. Larthy told him would make an excellent cookbook. And so the cookbook Cooking with Ms. Larthy was born, filled with 100 recipes from Ms. Larthy plus an array of special guests renowned for their soul food cooking. The book is not only filled with soul food recipes, many of which contain wonderful descriptions and asides, but stories that put soul food and its history in its proper context. Graves is a natural-born storyteller and foodies and cooks everywhere will enjoy the writing as well as 100 sumptuous soul food recipes that work well for beginning cooks as well as kitchen and cookbook veterans.
Anyone can learn to dowse-for precious metals, missing persons, water, the solution to a problem, or a myriad of other objectives. All that is required is practice, awareness, and a working knowledge of basic dowsing principles and mechanics. Tom Graves’ guidebook provides the tools whereby your natural ability to dowse can be turned into a reliable skill. One of the oldest arts and sciences known to man, dowsing is widely used today in fields as diverse as medicine and archeology. The Diviner’s Handbook moves directly into the firsthand experience of dowsing and the heightened sense of awareness that is the dowser’s most important ally. With clear, insightful explanations and generous illustrations, the author shows you how to: • Make and use simple, effective dowsing instruments • Develop dependable methods of analytic and intuitive interpretation • Experiment with a wide range of traditional and personal dowsing techniques • Locate people, objects, and information; diagnose illness; and attune with plants and animals Each of us is capable of detecting the subtle emanations and vibrations that surround us. The Diviner’s Handbook helps you develop your own, individual talent and technique for dowsing as a key to greater knowledge and the time-honored art of divination.
From the days of ancient Greece, people have hurried their steps as they passed by—or, Heaven forbid, walked through—a cemetery after dark. Indeed, over the centuries we’ve developed many a superstition to protect ourselves from restless graveyard ghosts. Haunted Cemeteries exhumes more than two dozen stories of some of the most actively haunted graveyards both in this nation and abroad, including:DIV • The Greenwood Hauntings: Greenwood Cemetery in Decatur, Illinois, is one of the most ghoulish graveyards in America’s Heartland, sporting at least five individual entities, a gaggle of ghost lights, and a whole trainload of Civil War dead./divDIV • Pretty in Pink: The ethereal ghost of the Pink Lady floats over the graves of the Yorba Cemetery in Yorba Linda, California—on June 15 of even-numbered years, that is./div • The Queen of Voodoo: The restless spirit of Marie Laveau, the nineteenth-century Queen of Voodoo, is said to appear in New Orleans’s St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in the form of a gigantic black crow or a phantom black hellhound—when she’s not walking through the French Quarter.
Cincinnati Cemeteries is not only a history of graveyards and their occupants. It also investigates the culture of death and dying in Cincinnati: from the infamous Pearl Bryan murder and the 19th-century cholera epidemics, to the body snatchers who stole the corpse of Benjamin Harrison's father and the notorious "resurrection men." In a city teeming with immigrants and transients these "sack 'em up" grave robbers had ample opportunities to supply cadavers to Cincinnati's medical schools. And if fresh graves weren't available, they lurked for victims in the saloons and the dark alleys of Vine Street and the West End.
In a lighthearted, engaging, and refreshingly open style, two of the most experienced dowsers in present-day earth-mysteries research explain what can and does go wrong in dowsing practice, and what to do to get it right.
Crammed into battered buses and less than road worthy bush taxis, or hanging on to the back of a series of pollution spewing mopeds, Tom Coote journeys along the lush but disease ridden Slave Coast of West Africa and then up through the Saharan trade routes into the environmentally devastated dust lands of the Sahel. Travelling through Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Mali - some of the poorest and least developed countries in the world - we find ourselves amidst a battleground of 'end of days' ideologies. Dealing with such themes as freedom and slavery, the resurgence of superstition and its threat to rationality, the corporate colonisation of the unconscious, and the modern day construction of tradition, this irreverent travelogue will take you to places both magical and macabre.
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