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One day is enough to change the routine of life.For Irene, a doctor in the children's oncology department, whose understanding of life ranged mostly between life or death, she was usually a staunch critic of everything that comes outside of the realm of science, her routine was changed by the story of her best friend David.In a forgotten and remote part of the world, where David goes for investigative journalism, his field of work, there he experiences a personal transformation.In the Temple of Redemption, he goes through the nine circles of initiation, thereby he is introduced with the nine largest secrets of life.Number nine is not randomly chosen, neither was a circle randomly selected.The fear that he had until that point prevented him to understand the universal truth and love, but there, on that distant part of the world, with every new initiation, fear disappeared, because he was realizing the ease of wisdom and acceptance. He recognized that life is a bridge with a lot of illusion like a broken mirror. He learned to get along bit by bit, imperfect to perfect, by accepting his own duality as a natural state of mind and spirit. In the end this knowledge and profound truth finally acquitted him of embedded prejudices, proving that there is always a beginning and never an ending.Read to find out how David's story deviates from the stale routine of everyday person and how life itself is a mystery that reveals on every page of this novel.

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
Date de parution	30 octobre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528972284
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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The Winter Made of Glasss
Vera Cudina
Austin Macauley Publishers
2020-10-30
The Winter Made of Glasss About the Author Dedication Copyright Information © Synopsis Black Stains on White Clouds The Temple of Redemption The Garden of Statues The Bridges of Good and Evil Bridge One Bridge Two Bridge Three The Cradle of Life Four Seasons Love Dreams Swan Lake Mirrors of the Future A Touch of Silence When Tulips Blossom
About the Author
Vera was born on a winter night on February 23rd. She spent the first years of her life on a farm surrounded by hills. Although she had travelled a lot and seen many places, Zagreb, Croatia, where she lives now, is her favourite destination. When she was in law school, she finally realised where she belonged. The love of her life had always been medicine, especially psychiatry. She wanted to study human psyche but life led her in a different direction – towards the study of the soul. She is a consultant, mentalist, parapsychologist, radio and television anchor, painter and a columnist.
Dedication
I dedicate this to you, to everyone.
Every man is his own greatest mystery.
Copyright Information ©
Vera Cudina (2020)
The right of Vera Cudina to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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Synopsis
The novel was inspired by a true story.
Irena is a doctor in a children’s oncology ward. She compensates the emptiness she feels in her marriage by completely immersing herself in her work. This is all emphasised by the fact that she has never experienced the joy of motherhood. She is a staunch critic of everything that comes outside of the realm of science. Scientific facts are for Irena the beginning and the end. Birth and death. Everything else is just trivial guessing, sensations of the brain, empty suggestions. However, the story of David’s experience will shake her unconditional faith in the exact.
David is Irena’s best friend. He used to work as an investigative journalist, but one piece of news he published almost cost him his life. After that, and a mysterious disappearance of his beloved girlfriend, he dedicates himself to making documentaries. He travels a lot to unknown and unsafe parts of the world as he replaces conformism with living on the edge. He is trying to forget his past this way, but he still stumbles regularly on that path. Until one day.
On that fateful day, in a remote part of Africa, David’s life changed completely. In a desire for new sensations and excellent reporting, he allows a local witchdoctor to perform a ritual on him. This resulted in a sense of infinity, something he wanted to keep even after the ritual was over. But that distant piece of land, that forgotten part of the world, a bridge to another dimension, was part of a much bigger puzzle. It was suggested to him, and to his cameraman, that they should leave for the Temple of Redemption.
David and his cameraman accept the proposal, each one because of his own reasons. David’s reason is the key to the whole novel, as his former convictions were very firm. As they travel to the Temple, although he is trying to hide his anxiety with ironic comments, the guide’s words slowly begin to affect his consciousness.
As they arrive to the Temple of Redemption, he meets nine beautiful women. He is given a room with some unusual furniture, including a broken mirror. Everything seems imaginary but coursing with some intense energy whose pull he cannot resist. Maya, the leader of the women, explains to him the process he is about to go through – nine circles of realisation, much like nine months of pregnancy, are needed to create a human being.
In the Temple, as he goes through the initiations, David slowly realises the true purpose and meaning of life. He learns of the power metaphysics has over the material world, each day he continues the path to mastering spiritual techniques, he gains insight into the way he can connect his old knowledge to his new realisations. Most importantly, just when the dust was starting to settle on his memory of her, he meets his long-lost girlfriend, Barbara, and finds out he has a daughter, Livia, with her, a girl who was born and raised in the Temple.
When they come home, their family bliss begins as they start to implement everything they had learned in the Temple. They seem to live just like everyone else, but without the familiar weight of stress, fear and other negative companions of life.
Every now and again, they remember each of the initiations. The most important part of the experience was the Letter of Life, something that never ends. Those were the foundations on which they lived their every new moment, but they would add a familiar old shade from time to time. They never became secluded or isolated from the rest of the world. On the contrary, the world lived with them and inside them. Nobody could take away from them their faith in the universal truth anymore. It was the fourth member of their family. Invisible like a breath, it was a magical lamp whose power was enough to nullify the cruel darkness around them and burn imposed habits and expectations with that very spiritual breath.
The literary treat at the end of the novel is Livia’s close encounter with death. This is where Barbara’s and David’s inner peace is fully visible. And it is this peace, along with their friend Irena’s help, that turns something that seems impossible into possible.
When tulips blossom, Livia blossoms as well. She holds a white rose in her hand at her parent’s wedding, a symbol of her future, of her birth from death.
Black Stains on White Clouds
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony filled the room with energy. I’m like a widow, Irena thought to herself as she gazed at Emil’s photo which was placed just above the fireplace, in a somewhat kitsch frame. She smiled at the man of her dreams – at her husband. It had been almost ten years since they swore eternal love to each other in the church of St Cross. The fairy tale ended abruptly when Emil got promoted, which meant a lot of business trips for him. They never even got to become close, and already they were becoming strangers. Although she kept trying to explain to him how much she missed him, he proved too stubborn for her to change his mind. Tired of all the yearning, she wondered if her husband was even aware of what he’s missing. How elated he was every time he would come back and tell stories of new technological breakthroughs. ‘If technology can give him more love than I, so be it,’ she concluded. She would continue to love her husband and try to cure her loneliness with writing. Pen and paper were Irena’s best friends. She lived through more turmoil with them than with her husband.
She never experienced the joys of motherhood. Nor would she in future. After many failed attempts, she wiped her tears once and for all. She could have adopted an orphan, but Emil’s reserved support extinguished that desire in her. Still, every time the holiday season would come, she could never suppress her sadness. Many years passed before she realised the real reason why this joy was denied to her. In some way, she fulfilled the role of a parent by working as a doctor in a children’s oncology ward. The kids loved her, and she loved them back. They healed each other. Although Doctor Irena had to fight malignant demons who tirelessly weaved their webs in her beloved children’s bodies every single day, she never gave up. While some people had a fetish for shoes, jewellery and other accessories, her fetish was a daily dose of quarrelling with death.
She would compare her unborn children to white clouds. The black stains of disease on her white clouds she eventually grew to accept as something inevitable. But to accept someone’s final departure… That’s where she would succumb like any mother. She would deliver the truth about their children’s health to the parents with cautious optimism because she always wanted to spare them of an emotional breakdown. Her years of experience taught her that miracles can happen even with the most difficult cases. Because, as she often told terrified parents, “To be honest, it is difficult to predict how an organism will react.” And since her own emotions sometimes also needed some kind of support, this sentence is what she would use in situations like that. Doctor Irena’s relentless battle for every child’s life went on, much like a soap opera in which the viewer always hopes for a happy ending. Considering the fact that she was no mere viewer but the main protagonist in a battle between life and death, hope had no place in her thoughts. She left hope to those who had no choice. Her choice was science. She studied it with the same zeal as when she was a student. She never stopped promoting the claim that the power to stay alive as long as possible depends on the human knowledge. But, as she would often discuss with her colleagues, knowledge is a process which demands trus