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One continuous comment we hear in various ways from single people we talk with around the world is that they would very much like to be able to connect with other single like-minded people who are also on their spiritual path...

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GETTING THERE, (a novel)

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Winner of ‘Best Visionary Fiction of the Year’

The International New Age Trade Show

Denver, CO, USA, 1999

Adam Baker, an eco-farming consultant, is separated from his wife, lonely, estranged from his family . . .totally miserable. Walking on a deserted beach, he meets Selph, a precocious, overweight, wisecracking, sloppily dressed teenager, who appears out of nowhere and claims to be his long-sought spiritual teacher. Wanting to get Adam’s attention, Selph brings a long-dead seabird back to life. Thus begins this funny, insightful, dramatic, and fast-paced adventure about the meaning of life.

With Selph’s wit, antics, and not-so-gentle guidance, Adam evolves from embittered selfishness to understanding life, death, and the spiritual basis of the universe. Against a background of passionate romance, injury, pain, and the harsh beauty of Australia, this magical story will enlighten and entertain and inspire you to appreciate and celebrate life, no matter what the circumstances of “fate” may bring your way.

REVIEWS:

“Finely crafted and profoundly moving, Roads’ well-written narrative intrigues on many levels, each past-life experience and present-life event contributing to Adam’s emerging wholeness, right up to the climactic and thrilling denouement. With deft assurance and powerful writing, Roads convinces the reader that one really can succeed in ‘getting there.’" - NAPRA ReView

“Michael Roads has written a funny, hard-to-put-down novel about Everyman at the end of the twentieth century in Australia. . . . A story of romance and adventure as well as spiritual insight, it’s a great read and would make an excellent gift for a friend or family member who delights in novels with a metaphysical flavor.” - Convergence Magazine

READERS QUOTES:

“I have never before written to an author of a book of which I have read. However, your book Getting There has inspired me so much that I just had to write to you and express my heart felt thanks. It has made me sit back and rethink my life in ways I never had imagined. Again, I want to thank you for your inspirational book.” - Diane K., CA, USA

“This is the first time I have ever corresponded with an author, and I read a lot! I just this minute finished reading your new book, Getting There. Enjoyed it immensely! Thanks for the good ending so I can give it to my daughters and it won’t make them cry . . . too much! Congratulations . . . hope it becomes a best seller. I love it! Thanks again.” - Richard Q, AR, USA

“WOW!!! I just finished Getting There and I think it’s your very best so far! That’s saying a lot, because I’ve devoured all of your other books two or three times each. They have been a huge inspiration to me. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for sharing with us all." - Daryl M., CA, USA

“During the last weeks, I read your books without stop and I want to say thank you to you for the inspiration and enrichment I got by taking up the content. We are a therapeutic center and treat diseases with classical homeopathy. This means we understand illness as a disharmony of the vital force, coming up by something which is calling ‘central delusion’ - for example: ‘I am not worth being loved’ or ‘everybody is my enemy.’ These central delusions are the origin of diseases. We find, your Book Getting There (Der Junge ohne Schatten) is an excellent description of the ‘inner wound’ and its healing and we give it to our patients for reading, to support their process of healing. We see an enormous influence from the book, in opening their eyes and seeing their own responsibility for their health. We are very happy about this, because it supports a new kind of therapy.” Werner S., Germany

“My name is Susan Jones and I am the artist who painted the cover for your book entitled Getting There. I have read the book and I must say that it is truly spiritually uplifting and beautifully written. I am proud to have my painting grace your wonderful book. I understand that it is doing very well. Keep up the wonderful work!” - Susan J., VA, USA

“I have just finished Getting There. I LOVED it. More!!! Give me MOOOOORE!!! The story grabbed me right away. I wept a lot in the reading. I have to say what an amazing book! A book that reached it’s denouement in the Enlightenment of a man. Where else is there such a novel? Could there be one? Is there another such author? Great stuff Michael Roads. Many thanks.” - Boetie T., South Africa

“I just wanted to say thank you for Getting There. It’s the best I’ve read in too long a time, and I can’t say how much happiness and peace it stirred in me reading it. Those moments were golden, and just as when Selph clapped, the sun and everything else was made a bit brighter because of you and your book.” - Tim M., OR, USA

“Thank you!!!!” It’s hard to put into words what I feel in my heart, for there are many beautiful adjectives I could use and each one would not even come lose to the depths of my gratitude for the work you have done. Your books simply take my breath away. I’m glad that there is someone who is embodied such as yourself who has experienced these things because it brings it to a substantial whole. Thank you!” - Caralee M., UT, USA

“I have just emerged from two wonderful days of reading Getting There in which I hardly ate or slept, and I feel utterly changed inside. It spoke to me in an indefinable way . . . Your characters felt like old friends and in turning the last page I felt the kind of loss that one feels when one must be separated from a loved one for a time. It is a harsh reality that there are not more Awakened ones wandering the earth, but I am heartened by books like yours and others that are separating the dark waters which have clouded our vision . . .” - Isabel G., Kingston, WA, USA

371 pages (1998)

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