Featured Interview With Brian Rhodes
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Greetings to the loyal descendants of the sacred Cymry, the brave and eternally courageous Celtoi, and a hale and hearty how do you do to all the sons and daughters of the Tuatha Da Danan, my name is Brian Rhodes and I am as of 2015 57 years into this present incarnation. The Book I am promoting here is called the Song Of Merlin Volume one, it is a magical romp and play through the energy of a Merlin who is young and old, time and space, male and female, and yet neither and all. It is a story that uses both poetry and prose to move the story, and like all bardic tomes it is meant to be read aloud, by reading it aloud you get the flow of the words, and the natural supernatural magic that is in them.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always been a reader, I started writing when I was nine, I wrote one work, destroyed it,then wrote it word for word again, destroyed that one and then rewrote it a third time and of course again it was word for word the same, so I feel I have a love and a drive for writing. With The Song Of Merlin I was given the idea by a friend, and that as soon as I hung up the phone on her, having finished our conversation, the opening piece just roared into my awareness. (Upon a winter solstice, on Cornwall’s tempestuous shore, a world of ice, snow and sleet, slush around a pilgrims feet, and so a window between worlds opens up once more.)
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
While I was growing up I had a very bad speech impediment, so my father bought me the complete works of William Shakespeare, and I would walk around a paddock in rural Western Australia reading Shakespeare and through this I developed a love of both poetic prose and the use of poetry as a magical tool. I tend to read anything that appeals to me at the time of my reading, it may be a simple fiction, or a page turning thriller, it could be either fiction or non fiction. I am inspired by writers who seem or appear to even break the barriers of writing, an example would be the book Merlin by Robert Nye, it is in two parts, I believe that part one is brilliant, the mix of poetry and prose, is magic itself, but then it appears to fall away in part two, it is like part two was written by an entirely different person.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I have another two volumes of Merlin works in a similar vein, but the masterpiece is a major work on alchemy, consisting of five volumes on five zodiacs, the western zodiac for the body and earth, the Chinese zodiac for the mind and air, the psychological zodiac for the heart and water, the spiritual/metaphysical zodiac for the soul and fire, ending with the transcendental zodiac for the spirit and quintessence. It also incorporates a thirteen chakra system, the first four on the vertical rising up through the body from earth to gnostic, using four signs per chakra, the last zodiac, the transcendental is on the horizontal where it incorporates each chakra in terms of distance and connectivity, hence it starts with the mineral and the earth chakra and ends with the transcendental and the gnostic chakra. It is also about as I said distance and connectivity, the mineral and earth chakra are based on a one to the power of one, then each energy doubles, so that by the time we get to the transcendental and gnostic chakra we get four thousand and ninety six to the power of four thousand and ninety six, that is 4096 followed by 1,000,000,000,000. A big number indeed.
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