Hades' Melody
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When a recent college graduate with a smoking habit is called to serve on the board at his local church, he immediately struggles with separating his public and private lives. His fantasized ideas of religion suddenly become dangerously real as he's enmeshed in a perfect storm of events which leads to, of all things,spending three extremely paranormal days behind bars. When it's all said and done, it seems as though he has entered through the gates of hell and been released to the flip side of life.
There, friends and family often appear as enemies and everyone speaks using a strange, coded lingo. With a mind full of problems, but no solutions, he tries to navigate in this bizarre new world, experiencing strange phenomena on the highways, unnatural episodes during house visits and hospital stays, and futuristic visions while at sea. He journeys across the United States trying to get home, veritably touched by a host of eclectic men and woman along the way.
Hades' Melody is a remarkable coming-of-age memoir which unabashedly explores abandonment, solitary spirituality, prophecy and the dark songs of language. It's a spectacular narrative that delves into the psyche of an individual searching for answers during the subtly explosive dawn of a new era.
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spiritual awakening
[spir-i-choo-ul l] [uh-wey-kuh-ning]
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One of two things had to have happened. Either I had forgotten to put the food inside, but still turned it on, or the bowl had somehow magically jumped out of the machine and onto the counter. It was my first real brush with paranoia, and after the fear had gone, I could do nothing but laugh at myself, just to make sense of what had just taken place.
Apart from the frequent bouts of suspicion, I liked smoking blunts so much that I began keeping the seeds and planted a marijuana plant of my own. I kept it in my dorm room window, and it grew like a weed. It sprouted so fast and tall that I had to kill it prematurely. With my limited knowledge of horticulture, I was unable to make the plant grow the flowers I knew I needed to really get high, but decided to try and smoke it anyway. When the stems and leaves dried, I made a vain attempt to roll it into a blunt. But after lighting up, I noticed that it wasn’t the same as the weed Muhammad had given me. It tasted different, like I was smoking spinach or green beans.
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