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Orest Stocco

Orest Stocco

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Introducing Georgian Bay Author, Orest Stocco

Born with a spiritual restlessness that could not be tamed by my Christian faith, I became a spiritual seeker when I discovered reincarnation in Plato's Dialogues at the age of fifteen. I grew up in a small town in North Western Ontario, and at twenty-one I had my own pool hall and vending machine business; but my restless spirit called me away to seek out my destiny, and I sold my business and sailed to France.

In the Alpine city of Annecy, in the Haute-Savoie region of France I had a dream that called me to my destiny. I entered into the mind of every person in the world and took every question they had ever asked and reduced them all to one question: Why am I? I returned to Canada and went to university to study philosophy to seek an answer to this haunting question, and by "chance" I discovered Gurdjieff, the redoubtable teacher of a system of transformative thought that he called "the Work." His teaching excited my restless spirit and compelled me to seek out the answer to man's disquieting question in the fast, often tumultuous currents of daily living.

Santa's Birthday Gift

Santa's Birthday Gift

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<p><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Santa’s Birthday Gift was written in response to a grandchild’s question, after reading the story of the Nativity.<span>  </span>She asked, “But where’s Santa?”<span>  </span>This story tells the story of the Nativity and then goes on to tell the story about how when Jesus is born, Santa sees the star at the North Pole and travels to see the baby.  Since he is a toymaker, he brings his bag of toys - and offers them to the Christ Child, and then to all the people of the town.  His birthday gift to Jesus is a promise to bring gifts to all good boys and girls each year on the Christ Child's birthday</span></p>

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“This journey home to God is nothing more than a journey to our true, spiritual self.” KEEPER OF THE FLAME is a modern day Pilgrim’s Progress. It is the story of one soul’s spiritual quest that spans the centuries. Reincarnation is central to the story. From the narrator’s first primordial human life on earth as “Grunt,” where he experiences the dawning of self-consciousness, through to his lifetime as Phaedrus, student of Pythagoras, to Samuel the Essene, when he studied the same secret teaching as Jesus Christ, to his lifetime as the infamous “scoundrel of Paris,” a black slave in southern Georgia, a dishonored textile baron in Genoa, Italy, to a self-exiled English aristocrat, the narrator completes his spiritual quest for his true self in his current lifetime. KEEPER OF THE FLAME opens the doors to the deepest mystery in life: What is man’s relationship with God? The answer will surprise you!

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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="color:#17365d;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">“This journey home to God is nothing more than a journey to our true, spiritual self.”<span>  </span></span></font></span></em></strong></p> <p></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#17365d;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span>            </span></span></font></span></p> <p></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">KEEPER OF THE FLAME</span></strong><span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> is a modern day Pilgrim’s Progress.<span>  </span>It is the story of one soul’s spiritual quest that spans the centuries.<span>  </span>Reincarnation is central to the story.<span>  </span>From the narrator’s first primordial human life on earth as “Grunt,” where he experiences the dawning of self-consciousness, through to his lifetime as Phaedrus, student of Pythagoras, to Samuel the Essene, when he studied the same secret teaching as Jesus Christ, to his lifetime as the infamous “scoundrel of Paris,” a black slave in southern Georgia, a dishonored textile baron in Genoa, Italy, to a self-exiled English aristocrat, the narrator completes his spiritual quest for his true self in his current lifetime.</span></span></font></p> <p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="color:#1f497d;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">KEEPER OF THE FLAME</span></strong><span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> opens the doors to the deepest mystery in life:<span>  </span>What is man’s relationship with God?<span>  </span><em>The answer will surprise you!</em></span></span></font></p>