The Waterbearer - Softcover

Repath, Austin

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ISBN 10: 0969739907 ISBN 13: 9780969739906

Publisher: Reed Pr, 1994

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Repath, Austin

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About the Author:

Austin Repath is author of four books including Mass Media and You and Getting Out of the Box, as well as the video, The Last One and The Millennium Fable. Repath has travelled extensively through Canada and Britain and the USA speaking about the Millennium and telling his stories of future possibilites. The former Humanities professor has been called by many, a visionary writer.

Review:

Science fiction, myth and allegory mingle and merge in this fascinating and important book. Its hero is a scientist at Centrex, the axis of domination and control on planet earth. He has doubts about his relationship to his girfriend; his best friend is turning against him and his work has been stuck for months. Now he is hearing a voice; repeatedly it announces that he is within the final working out of human destiny, "The future of mankind depends on you. You have not much time. You must choose."

Repath so deftly pulls the reader into his story that the impact is as personal as it is powerful. Along with the characters, we work out the understanding of its truly crucial issue: good and evil; facing the forces of darkness within ourselves; acceptng that the choice is truly ours; knowing that the Light always stands ready to help if we ask. The book has rightly been called meditative; it leads us deep, to the end of the Great Enmity and the promise that ends the story, "Now things we never thought possible can happen." -- Light of Consciousness Journal

The Waterbearer is a futuristic novel exploring the Aquarian Warterbearer archetype as a healing presence. The characters are Richard, a time/space researcher and Pamela, an entertainer resource who are misfits in an over regulated government with a control center called Centrex. They free themselves from Centrex and begin their inward journeys. Richard is flung into another dimension called the Medieglot, the jumping off place for angelic beings waiting to assist humankind in the next evolutionary step. He undergoes an initiation of intergration, merging the opposite polarities of Michael and Lucifer, angelic symbols of light and darkness.

Pamela, pregnant, journeys to her native Ireland where she discovers, with the help of a wise crone, her spiritual power and the gift she has to offer the world. An intriguing story of spiritual evolution told by a visionary novelist -- ReView magazine, formerly NAPRA Trade Journal

The millennium has come and gone without any sign of the Saviour. The entire Middle East and the Mediterranean had been destroyed, and earth is ruled by Centrex, a mind-numbing, totalitarion cyber-government. From this broken world, two lovers emerge to weave an extraordinary story of passion-- not only sensual passion, but that of the transcendent human spirit to unite with its divine source.. In The Waterbearer, Repath creates a powerful Christian allegory of the clashing forces of light and dark that split our personal and collective words today. As each lover goes spinning through layers of time, alternate dimesions and the myths and demons of the human psyche, this story becomes a grand Passion Play for two. It moves beyond tired dogma and millenial Second-Coming-of Jesus frenzy to a new spiritual covenant, symbolized by the eternally flowing power and hope of the Christ-Spirit's love. -- Magical Blend magazine

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