Frank Perry

In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society. Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller's life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb. The tale is also the precursor to a meeting between the writer and the infernal miracle worker, Lucia--a meeting that ultimately forces the writer to make a fateful decision about her own inner essence. Carnality is a novel about the universal need for spirituality and truth--not to mention a good story--set in the seemingly unspiritual grimy underbelly of society.

A young couple shared first love one summer, before leaving for different colleges. They swore enduring love, but their romance ended abruptly with a single email. They didn't see each other again. After almost twenty years and the burdens of adult responsibilities, they both retained the memory, never forgetting that magical time in their lives. Their lives had taken different paths, living far away from childhood homes. Then, through a chance encounter at a resort, they arrive at the same place and time after half a lifetime apart. They've both changed, but still feel an attraction as they had in their youth. They want to know each other again, but it could be impossible now with different circumstances and responsibilities. The situation is complex and dynamic, changing frequently, with emotional upheavals. It could just be an impossible dream.

Frank Perry, author of Himalayan Sound Revelations, presents a unique guide to the whole world of the singing bowl and its companion instruments, the tingsha and drilbu. Chapters cover : · what is a singing bowl · how are they used · their history · how to choose them · their relation to the chakras · when and why to use them - with specific attention to seasonal rituals. This eminently readable book will take the bowl player beyond the first steps and right into the world of sound and meditation.

This compendious, but very readable, volume by one of the legends of Tibetan Singing Bowl playing has quickly established itself as the definitive study. Particularly useful is the wide scope of the book, which includes not just Tibetan bowls and the techniques used to sound them, but, also, Chinese bells, drilbu and ding-sha, the planets, elements and chakras, cymatics, overtones and partials, nada yoga, mantras, symbolism and the astrology of the bowls, their relation to western music, Pythagoras and Newton and the psychic integrity and true awareness of the bowl user. There is almost nothing that is not here. Although Frank Perry was one of the earliest practitioners of Himalayan Bowls in the 1970s, his music has remained profoundly experimental, so that there are techniques in this book not to be found elsewhere, alongside the clearest and most detailed analysis of how to 'play' the bowls, a combination of simple and technical that shows in Perry's bestselling albums Deep Peace and Celestial Harmonies. Frank's writing is, also, a revelation of his personal contact with living Himalayan Masters, his immersion in esoteric traditions, meditation and mysticism and his understanding of other art forms such as the paintings of Nicholas Roerich, where he is an expert. This new edition of the most important book in its field contains a new appendix on the power of sound and new quotations.