Mandalam Series of Metaphysical Adventure — Volume 1
Journey to Mandalam
Jeremy just wanted a cup of coffee. He pulls into a quiet little town on the Oregon coast, figures he’ll stay a while — it seems friendly enough. What he doesn’t know is that somewhere above him, a starship from the planet Tandalar just got blindsided by something enormous while testing a new space drive. The crew is picking themselves up off the floor, shaken to their cores.
Down below, a middle-aged eccentric in the same small town is feeling an odd pull toward a massive anomaly lurking near the coast — and thinks he could use some company. Through a string of unlikely coincidences, five very different humans and a crew of star travelers end up thrown together, tumbling into adventures across inner and outer dimensions, brushing up against strange beings, and chasing destinies none of them saw coming.
Big questions surface along the way: Who are we, really? How did the cosmos get here — and why these particular people? As it turns out, both space and consciousness can be bent in surprising ways, and everyone — human and alien alike — comes out the other side changed.
The first of three books in the series. 376 pages.
Mandalam Series of Metaphysical Adventure — Volume 2
Beyond Mandalam — The travelers return with a new mission — but hidden forces have other opinions and plans, and time is not being generous.
Beyond Mandalam
The star travelers are back — and this time they come with a new mission and an ultimatum. What they don’t realize is that not everyone wants them to succeed. Hidden forces, human and otherwise, have their own ideas about how certain powerful objects should be used, and they’re not about to step aside politely. Secrets from the past resurface and tangle with the present, sometimes giving our travelers a boost, sometimes pulling the rug out from under them. Along the way, some go through shifts so deep they barely recognize themselves — glimpsing something in their own nature they never suspected was there. But are these inner revelations genuine, or just the mind playing tricks in the pressure of extraordinary circumstances?
The second book in the Mandalam series, continuing the journey through space, time, consciousness, and the wisdom hiding inside all of it. 388 pages.
Mandalam Series of Metaphysical Adventure — Volume 3
Song of the Spiritship — The trilogy’s questions of awakening and union reach their culmination, as love and time converge at the edge of eternity.
The journey that began in Journey to Mandalam and deepened in Beyond Mandalam now turns inward — and outward — further than ever before. As Earth, Tandalar, and the Crystal worlds draw closer together, old questions of identity and connection give way to a harder one: now that we know who we are, and how we’re bound to one another, what do we do with that knowledge?
At the heart of this final turn stands an ancient figure who has been quietly shaping events since the beginning — a presence both playful and immense, more trickster-sage than savior, testing character before revealing power. Around him, old companions face new temptations: the pull toward enlightenment as a personal possession rather than a shared gift, and the question of whether wisdom and power can survive traveling the same road.
Love, memory, and the strange architecture of time itself become the terrain of this volume, as one soul waits at the edge of eternity for another to finally arrive — and the universe holds its breath to see what they’ll do once she does.
Song of the Spiritship is the third volume in the Mandalam Series, bringing the trilogy’s questions of awakening, union, and purpose to their culmination.
