Pirate's Gold

The Trans-Oceans Pirate Voyage And Subsequent Conversion To Higher Awareness Of Captain Jeb Cornwallis Is Recounted In These Pages Devoted To Narrating Those Tumultuous Times; A Great Three Decker Ship Stolen From The King‘S Navy Manned By Four Crews From Lesser Buccaneer Sloops Released On The Open Sea To Terrorize Merchantmen Worldwide From The Open South Atlantic To The Exotic Indian Ocean. This Vivid Saga Ultimately Describes Greater Issues Confronting Each And Every Individual Symbolized By This 18Th Century Tapestry Of Greed Lust And Final Redemption As Jeb Cornwallis Steps Off The Pages Of Fiction To Walk A Path Steeped With Mysticism A Journey Of The Soul Where Good And Evil Have Parted Their Veils--To Reveal A Richer Greater World Just Beneath The Darkness Of Closed Eyes. . Trained As A Warrior An Accomplished Villain Leader Of Other Professional Cutthroats The English Pirate Seems An Unlikely Candidate For Liberation; But The Movements Of The Universe Can Only Be Divined By Those Whose Intuition Has Developed Enough To Formulate The Future. Captain Jeb Cornwallis Remains A Heroic Figure Preeminently A Man Of Action Whose Responsibility To Nearly 900 Men Aboard Their Invincible Warship Unknowingly Prepares Him For Higher Initiation. He And His Nefarious Crew Are Commoners Taken From Europe’S Wretched Poverty Slums Rogues Wishing For The Comforts And Respect Given Arbitrarily To Blue Blooded Aristocrats A Luxurious Existence Only Dreamed Of By Ordinary Humanity. Pirates These Prolific Thieves Who Now Terrorize Earth’S Oceans Inevitably Gravitate To The Fabled Orient Where Intricacies Associated With Spiritual Living Have Long Since Been Incorporated Into Every Day Thinking--The All Important Moment So Dear To The Western Mind Trapped By Its Machinations Now Redefined By An Older More Subtle Biological Culture.. Aboard The Mighty ‘Royal Sovereign’ Renamed Werewolf By Jeb Cornwallis And His Rowdy Murderous Crew A Voyage Both Tumultuous And Triumphant Begins; To Explore An 18Th Century World Carved From The Jungle Riches Of South America Africa And Far Off India. A Fascinating Epoch Journey Into The Psyche The Inborn Destiny Assigned Every Human Being There Is No Turning Back For These Desperate Corsairs Driven By The Goads Of Opulent Greed Incessant Desire. Every Turn In The Road Leads To Another. Fate Has Conspired With Benign Higher Forces To Change At Least One Human Being That Fabled One In A Million Whose Time Has Come; To Shine Like A Volcanic Star-- From Inside Out Through The Glass Door That Leads To Paradise Alive With Celestial Fine Jewels The Lantern Lights Of Cosmic Phenomena. Captain Jeb Cornwallis Awakens From The Gruesome Trance Of Mortal Life To Change Logic To Intuition The Relentless Invisible Yogic Eye Where All Things Great And Small Are Seen.About The Author--John Patrick Ranney Was Born Near The End Of The Great War In 1945 A Native Southern California Product Growing Up With The First Wave Of ’Baby Boomers’ The Fifties In Busy Suburbia Its Free Laid Back Lifestyle Encouraging Tolerance Environmental Sophistication. The West Coast Developed Its Own Lush Compromise From A Melting Pot Of Many Races And Nationalities. As A Child The Author Devoured Libraries Encouraged By Two Generations Of Teachers The Intellectual Protégée Of Their Quest And Then Events Led To His Exciting Experiences Of The Counterculture Of The Late 1960’S An Eyewitness To Those Momentous Days.. Writing Poetry And Prose For Nearly 40 Years John Ranney Brings The Variegated Viewpoints Of Many Traditions And Mind Sets Into Play As Lyric Prose Is Once Again Brought To Life Homeric Novels That Are Soon To Follow ’Pirate’S Gold’; His Own Yogic Pursuits And Globe Trotting Since Age Twenty Providing Him With A Unique Key To The World Psyche Those Mystical Religions Of Asia Whose Ancient Light Still Shines Through Mankind’S Evolutionary Spiral.