True Nature Spirits and Ghosts was written and illustrated by my son Sorrel Bergman when he was 6, 7, and 8 years old. I... More > have tried to present the loose pages in chronological order. He told me about his experiences at the time and then I pestered him until he recorded them on paper. I didn't know what to think about fairies before I observed Sorrel's encounters with them, but then I became a believer. Sorrel taught himself to read and write and type during the summer following 1st grade. We were living in a new age spiritual community. For Vitae and me it took up much of our time and energy so that Sorrel spent his days alone reading, writing, and drawing. < Less

This self-help book teaches you how to construct and interpret, for yourself as well as for others, a personal numerology... More > chart for spiritual awakening . It's main feature is to guide you toward a better understanding of your life purpose. Your chart will provide you with insights regarding your innate talents, the obstacles you face, the achievements you can realize in your search for self-realization. By having a firm understanding of your true soul purpose for this life, you can dissolve the struggles you have had to deal with in the past. You will discover your true path, which will lead you toward a life of blessings and fulfillment.
Vitae has studied and counseled spiritual concerns for the past thirty years. He has been using the art of numerology as a central tool for his work as spiritual counselor. < Less

These stories were written during the early 70's. I lived in that town a number of years. Eventually found myself sharing... More > the life of the hippie element. Spent my days on the street. Made jewelry from horse shoe nails. Keenly observed the life around me. The result became Berkeley Tales. Twelve pieces comprise the collection. To the casual observer most of the street people came across as misfits or worse just downright freaks. But actually, like everyone else in those years, they were people aching to share love generally stumbling into unusual ways of finding how to do it. Myself included. < Less

A year after his son's death, the author turns to sailing as a means of alleviating his grief. The narrative follows his... More > learning the art of sailing and his initial voyage. There is an inner journey as well. It takes the reader along a spiritual path that entails the connection the author, his wife, and his son had with a Native American spiritual teacher. Life's most heartbreaking tragedy, the death of one's child is explored in ways perhaps not ordinarily perceived as grieving. This work was written in 1993, now published for the first time. < Less

True Nature Spirits and Ghosts was written and illustrated by my son Sorrel Bergman when he was 6, 7, and 8 years old. I... More > have tried to present the loose pages in chronological order. He told me about his experiences at the time and then I pestered him until he recorded them on paper. I didn’t know what to think about fairies before I observed Sorrel’s encounters with them, but then I became a believer.
Sorrel taught himself to read and write and type during the summer following 1st grade. We were living in a new age spiritual community. For Vitae and me it took up much of our time and energy so that Sorrel spent his days alone reading, writing, and drawing. < Less

War correspondents sometimes lose their nerve. Sylvia is no exception. An ambush kills her three colleagues. She barely... More > escapes with her life. Her body is shattered. Single, middle-aged, demoralized from several failed love affairs, her career in jeopardy, Sylvia’s perspective has become fear driven and distorted.

A lover from twenty-five years back, the most important man in her life, unaccountably resurfaces, adding to her sense of crisis. And worse, her only friend suddenly dies from cancer. Sylvia has no one to confide in. She is forced to examine the premise of her life entirely on her own. Faulty assumptions and conclusions abound. She tells her story to an invisible "counselor," weaving past and present to a climactic and satisfying ending which surprises her and the reader. < Less

A study course for becoming a professional numerologist. Includes: Nine preliminary lessons to get you started - An Appendix... More > for refining your interpretive technique - An Automatic Chart Calculator - A Chart and Interpretation Template. With these tools, plus a continuing online teaching forum, you can realize your goal of becoming a professional numerologist. < Less

Meet Afga Somerset, former James Madison University student and one time promising poet, now a town character getting... More > nowhere in his life, only deeper into his head. But when his best friend is found dead, presumably murdered, Afga becomes the center of a police investigation, and his inner/outer life shifts into high gear.

Meanwhile, long-standing preoccupations continue to haunt Afga's life: his emotional battle over a failed marriage; his ex-wife's new lesbian romance and its impact on her eight year old daughter for whom Afga has become the official baby-sitter; and above all else, the surreal dialogue he conducts with a father who disappeared long ago. All leading to discoveries that solve more than one mystery, while creating a few more.

AFGA is a picaresque novel with serious as well as comic overtones. < Less

A year after his son's death, the author turns to sailing as a means of alleviating his grief.

The narrative follows his... More > learning the art of sailing and his initial voyage.

There is an inner journey as well. It takes the reader along a spiritual path that entails the connection the author, his wife, and his son had with a Native American spiritual teacher.

Life's most heartbreaking tragedy, the death of one's child is explored in ways perhaps not ordinarily perceived as grieving.

This work was written in 1993, now published for the first time. < Less

This self-help book teaches you how to construct and interpret, for yourself as well as for others, a personal numerology... More > chart for spiritual awakening . It's main feature is to guide you toward a better understanding of your life purpose. Your chart will provide you with insights regarding your innate talents, the obstacles you face, the achievements you can realize in your search for self-realization. By having a firm understanding of your true soul purpose for this life, you can dissolve the struggles you have had to deal with in the past. You will discover your true path, which will lead you toward a life of blessings and fulfillment.
Vitae has studied and counseled spiritual concerns for the past thirty years. He has been using the art of numerology as a central tool for his work as spiritual counselor. < Less