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by Misha Ha Baka (Author)
Confessions of a Lonely Mystic short talk is a collection of ten short stories. The Lonely Mystic recounts encounters with the paranormal. He witnesses an apparition of the recently departed, and Spirit Guides who come in the form of colorful characters or can assume animal shapes. A parade of departed spirits invades his space as do droves of insects and birds. The backdrop can be Mexico, the North East or family experiences in Poland. The time frame can be recent, decades away or during the Holocaust. God and Spirit find ways to clearly reveal their presence and participation in the life of a Lonely Mystic.
Author Biography
Parented by recently immigrated Holocaust survivors seven days after arriving in New York City, he was born in Brooklyn where many unusual people are born.: ) During the 70's he studied Do In, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Acupressure, and Tai Chi. A scholarship to study Chinese Medicine brought him to a Buddhist University in South Korea; attending in 1975. In 1985 he obtained another scholarship to study Chinese Thought: His 337 page thesis was titled a Comparative Study of the I Ching and the Analects of Confucius and shed new light on the inner workings of the predecessor of binary arithmetic and computer programming. In the 80's he completed Portraits of the I Ching. It consisted of Japanese Sumi-e ink photo-realistic black and white paintings depicting scenes from his life which correlated to the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching, The Book of Changes. In the 80's he also obtained his MA in Asian Studies from the Institute of Asian Studies at St. John's University Misha Ha Baka has penned several other works including Tree House Pond-a photo-poem book, Confessions of a Lonely Mystic small talk - a book of poems and Portraits of a Lonely Mystic - an illustrated series of fictional novels. He has a BA in English Literature, a MA in Asian Studies and has studied healing and mystic thought in Asia, England, Israel and in the United States. He is an ordained spiritual healer and an ordained member of the clergy. He is also a fine artist, a graphic artist, a photographer, a musician, a composer and a music producer with dozens of albums of original music such as Passion, Miracle and Ancient, to name but a few.
