SUNRISE STORIES & MOONLIGHT TALES: FROM THE MOTHER'S GARDEN

SUNLIGHT STORIES AND MOONLIGHT TALES are the author's first venture into fiction. The main characters have something in common. Following their hearts, they understand that becoming more is better than having more, and self-giving is more rewarding than self-interest.

Jose Mariposa tells of a young Costa Rican boy's love of butterflies which leads him eventually to a powerful and mystical meeting with the goddess of Beauty and Love.

The Night of the Moths is a saga that spans twelve centuries culminating in the lives of Lucie and Lucas Siegerman, whose destiny is to bring the wisdom and culture of indigenous people into a visionary international project revolutionizing our relationship with the global environment.

The Hawai'ian Maserati shows how a Big Island agricultural family of native Hawai'ians joins forces with a prominent Chinese family specializing in feng-shui. Under the guidance of their gruff kahuna master and the goddess Pele, the gods descend to ignite a new dawn for our relationship with the earth. The Night School listens in on a meeting of several close friends who share their mystical dream experiences in a quest for deeper self-knowledge and to understand the nature of consciousness itself.

THOMAS PLISKE is the author of the books LIGHT, TRUTH AND NATURE and A HIMALAYAN HOPE AND A HIMALAYAN PROMISE (Pacem in Terris Press) which explore the spiritual basis of humanity's evolving relationship with the earth. He is also the author of many scientific papers in ecology and entomology.