Porter’s mines
Roberta Asteri
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this book and my idea of a book
I wanted to take stock of where I'd come from with my journey and my spiritual quest and share what useful things I could come of it.
I had a travel diary I'd written in New York, too short to be a book, too long for a story. I took its essence and incorporated it into a new text, which it seamlessly intertwined with, highlighting what they had in common: synchronicity, which from that moment on manifested itself as the book's main vibration.
For me, a book is an ideal formula of lightness; combined with usefulness and the discovery of truth, it becomes a timeless communication between beings of all dimensions and a limitless manifestation of providence. Among the entertaining twists and turns of more or less probable but not impossible events, it contains something to improve the lives of those who read it. Here I've disseminated valuable information for health, true antidotes to certain poisons, and for research. I stopped for almost a year because I lacked the final reference on this. The inner connection I felt wasn't reflected in an external body of information that would make what I felt I'd arrived at accessible to others (including me) in a comprehensive and even "official" way, without wishing to be self-referential. When I found it in the books of Seth/Jane Roberts, I was able to finish the book. Indeed, the bibliography plays a very lively and open role in this text; it's not just a matter of reporting references from shared authors, but references that overlap with my own real experience. The third type of sharing concerns historical-geographical mystifications, because one cannot journey toward inner truth while ignoring external truth, that is, without knowing at least some of what lies hidden beneath the planet or in the folds of recent history.
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The book was born from unspeakable moments forever imprinted in me. Their power is unparalleled and cannot be contained in a book, but a book can pay homage to them. Then it expanded into photos, reflections, and platforms that broaden access to the book and what made it possible: the relationship with the Spirit and the communication between those who ask and respond, or simply between those who live. Each of us experiences the Spirit differently. Sharing this testimony was prompted by the very contact of special days and was born from my profound desire to remain connected to those moments, a sort of luminous pact that is not forgotten no matter what happens next. An answer greater than any question, an uncontainable, indescribable answer, yet one that can nevertheless fill other pages, which will find their place here.
The beginning
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One day
I leaned against the counter and looked at all the colors behind the barman. I had never seen so many colored bottles in one place, maybe it was the light from that beach that made them shine like this. But I really couldn't take my eyes off it. The sound of the sea came lightly from the white deserted beach. The barman looked at me with two eyes that seemed to come from that water, just a little darker but just as inviting.
«What do you want in your cocktail?».
There was everything behind him. I could have chosen anything.
«Energy, Love and Freedom». I replied.
«Excellent choice, and to what extent?».
«In equal parts, I think» I said.
«Then you want the house cocktail. Your favorite fruit goes on top».
I watched him mix those three ingredients up to fill the glass wich beaded with a light layer of frost. The thick glass only made those colors more inviting, which remained partly on their own but also moved towards each other, giving life to unexpected gradations. It seemed that that dosage had the power to give a particular life to what made it up. I reached out and before drinking I felt my thirst, human thirst, and the long journey it had made.
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Reading activates resonances with the text, which raise questions, sometimes conscious and sometimes unexpressed. Our energetic system translates them into clearly visible external situations from which we can extract answers or which offer them directly.
In this book, the protagonists investigate reality from every angle, from what they put in their shopping carts to the options available to humanity. They begin to dig, and the more they dig, the more they find, so they go ever deeper, discovering previously hidden connections that reveal themselves through new paths, both internal and in life. This is the first book to land in a space where books, those who write them, those who read them, those who inspire them intersect... a Free Company conquering its own heaven. Because like carpets, armchairs can also fly.
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Synopsis
With an inquisitive spirit and in the name of a "widespread awareness" of which every human being is a part, Prani and Porter venture into the concreteness of foods and cities, understood as living patterns. Prani's diary in NY is a loving dialogue dotted with responses from the most diverse perspectives. The search for authenticity in what they eat will lead to the discovery of equally hidden truths about poisons habitually placed or "hidden in evidence," which are often overlooked. The final dialogues, increasingly "purified," will lead both into the metaphysics of the differences between spiritual visions, observing their perceptions both in relation to these and as clues to a "final" investigation that unfolds in a continuous dialogue between reality and the human psyche that delineates it and leads to self-discovery.
Story
How many levels does an investigation have? The protagonist, Prani, began reading detective stories as a child, and as an adult she continues to observe every phenomenon in reality with the eye of someone seeking a hidden truth. For her, the complete truth is a combination of various ingredients to be brought together in an elusive ideal recipe, and she investigates those that compose her reality: the quality of food, the spiritual threads for her personal flying carpet, her perceptions. These become synchronous and transform into a diary-dialogue with the city of New York when the past, left behind in the wake of the plane that brought her there, ceases to interfere. A new life begins among the tulips of Oregon, where she meets her pen pal Porter, the owner of an organic café, and the characters who revolve around her: the magical clogmaker Vincent, and the faithful waitresses Jasmine and Jeanette. She and Porter have just begun their search for the new recipe when the legacy of three mines bursts into their daily lives. The two friends set out to explore, while a black car appears on the foggy roads they must travel. Prani, certain it's a killer car, prepares for a journey that will take them into an unexpected environment, full of discoveries but also more or less real dangers. Prani manages, thanks in part to her diary, to prevent them, and Porter finds love. Once they leave the mines, Porter, however, will be unable to remember anything, despite having a tangible legacy. After many new organic dishes, the two friends will treat themselves to a long vacation on the other side of the country, amidst beauties bearing the austere imprint of Indian chiefs and settlers. The last day will be crucial: Prani will discover the ineffable recipe and a precious piece of her personal quest, while a charming young man she met years before will enter the lobby of the B&B where they departed, bringing unanswered answers and a new question that opens up about the future.
Biographical note
I was born in the Tuscan province and express the value of a simple yet rich land through art, architecture (industrial design), and the study of energy. Through writing, I illustrate realities beyond time or alternative realities that can dialogue with the one we live in. The portrait of the human figure combines with inner exploration, and thus I observe humanity within the context of its evolution and a universe ready to respond to it with an appropriate language, yet sometimes filled with false myths and hidden truths of all kinds that hold it back as if in a cocoon. My love for radionics and radiesthesia manifests itself in the final pages of the book, in a way that gives it a second life.