Writer. Mystic. Pragmatist. Curious Soul.
Here are links to: “Häling and the Scottish Templars” & “Voyage of the Templar Guardians“ For those who have interest in reading more, here we go! Book Two Cast of Characters Character designated (H) as historical figures were contemporary of the Häling narrative. But all Häling characters and their personalities were purely fictional. The…
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Somehow, time passes, leaving only fleeting particles of what we call memories to settle into our bones throughout the year. Yet, the days of the Solstice feel different. The three days (in the northern hemisphere) from Dec. 21st-24th holds a very special place in my heart. To me, this window of time is more than…
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Oh what fun it is to celebrate the birthing of a project into the wider world! And like the birth of a child, the release of a new book brings a constellation of double sided coins. The novice writer dreams of publishing a great work, filled with hope of changing the world through their written…
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It’s FINALLY HERE!!! Voyage of the Templar Guardians: Book Two of the Templar Chronicles is now available on Amazon. Voyage of the Templar Guardians takes The Temple Chronicles beyond Scottish shores into unfamiliar places lost to time in a continuation of the Haling and the Scottish Templars. Young Templar squire Adam and his sister, Hannah, must escape war-torn …
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Signs and symbols abound in The Häling and the Scottish Templars and most of them are introduced early in the story. The prologue begins the saga with unconventional spiritual language. These recurrent mystic motifs impart their greetings in the first scene and hopefully will become companions as the challenges and adventures unfold. Once could even say that…
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It seems as though the past several months has been very consistent: that the only constant in life is CHANGE. Like so many of us, I have found myself tying up loose ends in the mist of strong winds of change. How to stand strong while going with the flow? From evaluating what is working…
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PART 4 continued from PART 3 Flying over the Alps, destined for Klagenfurt Austria, those strange stirrings I had felt in Scotland returned. It was a resonance that I would grow very fond of in my many flights to meetings. I only knew that I was happy and grateful! The plane landed in the midst…
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Continued from PART 2 All was not lost because one day, I met Brother Jim, a Rosslyn Chapel docent with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Chapel. Jim and his wife became my dear friends. They supported my quest and offered their hospitality so that I could test the waters with a meeting of the Sauniere…
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Along the west coast of the United States, folks call the lowest tides of the year ‘Spring Tides.’ In a stroke of good fortune, I was recently in the right place at the right time to experience the lowest tide of the year at Haystack rocks’ Marine Gardens at Cannon Beach, OR. As I set…
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L.S. Berthelsen 