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Talk at Fields Book Store, 1419 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, (415) 673-2027, <http://www.fieldsbooks.com>, Thursday, March 18, 2010, 8:00-9:30 p.m. on "The Secret Life of Genius: Hidden Esoteric Texts of Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, William Butler Yeats, and Carl G. Jung."
 


 

THE SECRET LIFE OF GENIUS
How 24 Great Men and Women Were Touched
by Spiritual Worlds

by John Chambers


ISBN-13: 978-1-59477-272-6 / ISBN-10: 1-59477-272-X. Quality Paperback. June 25, 2009. 6’x 9’. 336 pp. 24 b&w illustrations. Imprint: Destiny Books. Inner Traditions/Bear & Co., P.O. Box 388, Rochester, VT 05767. 1-800-246-8648 / (802) 767-3174, Fax: (802) 767-3726, <http://www.innertraditions.com>, $18.95.
 

"Rare and penetrating glimpses into the paranormal dimension of the creative lives of 24 famous artists, scientists, and politicians. From Benvenuto Cellini to Churchill and Carl Jung, this book offers fresh perspectives on the achievements of greatness.  Written with grace, wit, and quiet erudition—heartily recommended." - Michael Grosso, Ph.D, author, Soulmaker, The Millennium Myth.

"John Chambers has penetrated to the core of human genius, and found it has less to do with raw intelligence than we previously assumed. The two dozen, extraordinary individuals he examines—despite their radical diversity—all share something in common; namely, the application of spiritual experience to life. Chambers thereby unveils the most empowering secret available to every man and woman." - Frank Joseph, editor-in-chief, Ancient American magazine, author, Survivors of Atlantis, Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America.


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In January 2008, Inner Traditions/Bear & Company <http://www.InnerTraditions.com>, of Rochester, Vermont, published a completely revised and expanded edition of Conversations with Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo (New Paradigm Books, 1998) under the title


 VICTOR HUGO'S CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD
A Literary Genius's Hidden Life

by John Chambers

Imprint: Destiny Books. ISBN-13: 978-1-59477-182-8. ISBN-10: 1-59477-182. 0. $18.95. Paper. 384 pages. 6 x 9. Three illustrations.
 




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Things to do on Jersey when you're dead...This intriguing corner of the great novelist's life is exceptionally well documented in Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World, by John Chambers. Chambers, the first person to translate the séance transcripts into English (in an earlier edition of this book), does a fine job of evoking the atmosphere of the exiles' home away from home, their bitter homesickness and burgeoning fascination with the occult. His book is unusually well written for a study of this kind, laced with keen character sketches and absorbing sidelights on William Blake, James Merrill, and Kabbalah. He presents the facts without undue speculation and lets his readers draw their own conclusions....Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World is a superb contribution to literary history and to the study of the paranormal. I recommend it highly." - Michael Prescott, April 28, 2008.  For full text, click on <http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2008/04/things-to-do-on.html>
 

"Focuses on Victor Hugo's exile on the island of Jersey, where he and his friends escaped the reign of Napoleon III and where he transcribed hundreds of channeled conversations with various incarnate energies from beyond. New age collections will find it an intriguing addition." - Midwest Book Review, April 3, 2008 (Oregon, WI).
 

"...Hugo comes across as a complex man - as one would expect - egotistical and selfish, overbearing towards his family, yet sensitive and passionate on occasion. He was also capable of surprising insights, musing on time running backwards, or prefiguring David Bohm's holographic universe. While not convinced that the séances were "the greatest... adventure into the supernatural that has ever been recorded", I would agree that this is a fascinating story, and it is told in an engaging way." - Tom Ruffles, NTHPOSITION Online Magazine, March 2008. For full text, click here:  <http://www.nthposition.com/victorhugosconversations.php>
 

"I assure you you will be entertained, amused and will find yourself pondering the conversations included in this book.  It is a fascinating volume." - ZODIAC BISTRO.
 

"I picked up this book as a lark, but to my surprise it turned out to be a fascinating read full of forgotten little tidbits of history." - SME, Bookworm Collective, Jan. 25, 2009.
 

"Chambers’s writing is somewhat redolent of the style of some French popular biographers of the 1950s, such as André Maurois. This is not a criticism by any means. Quite the opposite, in fact: the novelistic way in which he presents a certain number of scenes – all conscientiously documented, one should add – makes for very pleasant reading and helps to better grasp the ambiance of the time." - Dr. Vittorio Frigerio, Head, Department of French, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Dalhousie French Studies, No. 86, Spring 2009.


ROCK STAR POWER PROPELS HUGO’S CONVERSATIONS
 (June 17, 2008)  A mention of Victor Hugo’s Conversations with the Spirit World by rising 28-year-old Brit rock star Natasha Khan in an interview in the Manchester Guardian for Monday, June 16, sent sales of the book soaring on AMAZON.COM.UK (and probably in bookstores).  MORE...


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NEW PARADIGM BOOKS

 

New Paradigm Books ceased publishing in the summer of 2008.

 

Those interested in acquiring a copy of IN SEARCH OF THE UNITIVE VISION: Letters of Sri Madhava Ashish to an American Businessman 1978-1997, compiled with a commentary by Seymour B. Ginsburg, should contact Mr. Ginsburg at <syginsburg@aol.com>

 

 


NEW AGE BOOKS ABROAD
 For complete information, go to
NEW AGE BOOKS ABROAD page at
 <http://www.newpara.com/new_age_books_abroad.htm>



UNESCO's 2007 bibliography of translation  (Index Translationum)  lists some 1.7 million books from 130 countries in 820 languages.   Most of the translations are from English into a
foreign language.  Topping the list of number of translations from the native language of a single author (including all titles by that author) is Agatha Christie, at  6,362. No. 2 is  Jules Verne, with 4,021 translations. Rounding out the top ten are: 3. Vladimir Lenin (3,497); 4. William Shakespeare (3,435); 5. Enid Blyton (3,433); 6. Barbara Cartland (3,315); 7. Danielle Steele (2,767); 8. Hans Christian Anderson (2,624); 9. The Brothers Grimm (Jacob, 2,382, & Wilhelm, 2,374); and 10. Mark Twain (2,022).

Y
ou may not be able to join this select list of oft-translated authors.

But you may be able to join the company of authors who have had at least one translation of their book published.
 

New Age Books Abroad:
Interested in Selling Lucrative Foreign Translation Rights to Your Book?


 
Every year, foreign publishers in 400 countries publish thousands of translations of U.S. and U.K. books from both major and small publishers, including from the authors of self-published books. New Age is a topic especially in demand.

It costs you nothing to sell translation rights to your books.  The foreign publisher handles translating, editing, printing, etc.  You receive royalties and an advance against those royalties.

If you are a self-published author, the challenge lies in making foreign publishers aware of your book.

You can do so through NEW AGE BOOKS ABROAD.  We are a catalog that is e-mailed (PDF) to 5,000 foreign publishers every three months.  Each quarterly issue contains 30 or more New Age titles.  A foreign publisher, seeing your ad, may ask you for a reading copy, then may decide to buy translation rights to your book.

New Paradigm Books’s Conversations with Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo sold translation rights to publishers in seven  countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Latvia, Mexico, Brazil, Italy and Lithuania) through ads placed in NEW AGE BOOKS ABROAD.

The closing date for our next edition (Volume 7, Number 5) is November 1, 2009.   We also send out single-title, one-page advertisements.

 

Some FOREIGN EDITIONS published from ads in
NEW AGE BOOKS ABROAD:

Ruh ve Madde Yayinlari, of Istanbul, Turkey, published a translation of Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? by Robert Schwartz (Whispering Winds Press) in February 2009.

Prozoretz Publishing House, of Sofia, Bulgaria, published a translation of Conversations with Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo (New Paradigm Books) in July 2006.

Archetypo Publishing, of Thessaloniki, Greece, published a translation of The Parthenon Code: Mankind’s History in Marble by Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. (Solving Light Books) in  Summer 2006.

Editura Mix Srl, of Brasov, Romania, published a translation of To Bee or Not To Bee by John Penberthy (Panorama Press) in May 2008.


 

For complete information, go to our NEW AGE BOOKS ABROAD page. Click on
 <http://www.newpara.com/new_age_books_abroad.htm> (This page also contains 14 back issues of NEW AGE BOOKS ABROAD stored as PDF files.)

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

JOHN CHAMBERS/NEW AGE BOOKS ABROAD, 1921 Kinvarra Way, Redding, California 96001, Tel: (530) 244-5952, FAX: (866) 212-0445, <darbyc@earthlink.net> <http://www.newpara.com>