This collection of poetry, written by Terry L. Rath, consists of a lifetime of people, places, experiences, journeys and interactions. The wonder of God's amazing creation has been the grounding source for Terry's blend of poetry. He has categorized his verse into six sections, consisting of "Landscapes, Seasons and Nature," "Inspirational Thoughts," "Family and Friends," "Reflections," "Destinations," and "Books and Music." Terry and his wife, Sandy have traveled to most of the states in this nation, as well as Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Each locale has had its unique effect on his inspiration to write. The thousands of people he has been in contact with over the years have also been a major contributor to his poetry. Above all, he credits God for supplying all things necessary to complete this collection. He is currently working on a second collection of poems for his next book.

"Thoughts of a wanderer" is a collection of thoughts at different times in my life that came alive subsequently or during the course of interaction with situations or people from time to time. Many of the incidences mentioned in the book are real.The topics have not been selected purposely in any chronological order as human lives are not tailor made to sequential events. When one is alone and starts pondering over the past experiences many reminiscences pass through in the mind. I have attempted to put some of those experiences in an analytical manner.We are all wanderers, in some way or the other, in the journey of life. Sometimes, I feel firmly that life is not limited between one's span of birth and death. There may be differences of opinion on this but, when one considers the stream of thoughts popping up in one's mind, either in the waking stage or dream stage, can we confine them only to our present life! The presentation through this book is an attempt to touch upon human values and cohesiveness of the entire universe in a bond of unity within which each life form exists.

In the second book of the Astral Wanderer series, the dread Wanderer screams across a sea of cancerous flesh in a craft of unbridled speed and destruction, bound for the heart of the undying forest, and the daughter he forsook in ages past. On his journey, he must contend with incarnations of his terrifying past; pirates who have abandoned their souls to the ceaseless hunger; the whispers of insanity that claw at his mind; and a star-maddened captain hunting him to the eye of creation itself.

Charles Robert Maturin's well-known novel, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), occupies a high-point in Gothic literature. Lurid, vivid, sacrilegious, paranoid, anti-Catholic, painfully tortuous and gleefully drawn out in its depictions of suffering, its title character tries to find victims miserable enough to take over his bargain with "the enemy of mankind." Maturin displayed his talents of "darkening the gloomy" by interweaving tales of Melmoth's intended victims: the Englishman Stanton, ensnared into an insane asylum; the Spaniard Moncada, trapped in monasteries and prisons of the Inquisition; Immalee, an innocent child of nature; Elinor, a Puritan maiden crossed in love, blighted by cruel deception. All are confronted with Melmoth's icy seductions. Maturin's uncanny aptitude for alternating vertiginous intensity with brooding melancholy and despair leads the reader to a dark side of the psyche where the heavy price paid for redemption often tests human fortitude and conviction beyond the limits of endurance."

The One Mind: C. G. Jung and the Future of Literary Criticism explores the implications of C. G. Jung's unus mundus by applying his writings on the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the quantum to literature. As Jung knew, everything is connected because of its participation in universal consciousness, which encompasses all that is, including the collective unconscious. Matthew A. Fike argues that this principle of unity enables an approach in which psychic functioning is both a subject and a means of discovery—psi phenomena evoke the connections among the physical world, the psyche, and the spiritual realm. Applying the tools of Jungian literary criticism in new ways by expanding their scope and methodology, Fike discusses the works of Hawthorne, Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and lesser-known writers in terms of issues from psychology, parapsychology, and physics. Topics include the case for monism over materialism, altered states of consciousness, types of psychic functioning, UFOs, synchronicity, and space-time relativity. The One Mind examines Goodman Brown's dream, Adam's vision in Paradise Lost, the dream sequence in "The Wanderer," the role of metaphor in Robert A. Monroe's metaphysical trilogy, Orfeo Angelucci's work on UFOs, and the stolen boat episode in Wordsworth's The Prelude. The book concludes with case studies on Robert Jordan and William Blake. Considered together, these readings bring us a significant step closer to a unity of psychology, science, and spirituality. The One Mind illustrates how Jung's writings contain the seeds of the future of literary criticism. Reaching beyond archetypal criticism and postmodern theoretical approaches to Jung, Fike proposes a new school of Jungian literary criticism based on the unitary world that underpins the collective unconscious. This book will appeal to scholars of C. G. Jung as well as students and readers with an interest in psychoanalysis, literature, literary theory, and the history of ideas.