Real Dragons Don't Cry - Softcover

Nabhaniilananda, Dada

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1881717402 ISBN 13: 9781881717409

Publisher: Innerworld Publications, 2015

Synopsis

If you took Lord of the Rings, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Alice in Wonderland and the Bhagavad Gita and put them in a blender, the odds are that you would not end up with this book. But perhaps something like it.

Part fantasy, part surreal comedy, and part spiritual coming of age adventure, Real Dragons is a story related by an alien to an Earth child as they travel to our planet. He tells her of his first mission here in the fourteenth century when he was sent by his master to find the last seed of the microvita tree, whose mysterious power had the potential to transform our world.

The microvita tree was destroyed in the sinking of Atlantis long ago, and only an evil necromancer and Joe, the last dragon from Atlantis, know how to find it. One problem. The dragon eats people.

About this title

About the Author

Dada Nabhaniilananda, aka The Monk Dude, was born in 1955 in New Zealand. In addition to being an author of both fiction and non-fiction he is a yoga monk, a musician, and a keynote speaker.
During his first year at University studying English literature and music Dada developed a deep interest in oriental mysticism and decided to become a yogi. In 1979 he was ordained in India as a monk and an Acarya (spiritual teacher) of the spiritual movement Ananda Marga (the Path of Bliss).
Dada has won several international song writing awards, recorded eight musical albums and performed and spoken in more than forty countries, including playing to more than 10,000 people at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit where he appeared onstage with the Dalai Lama.
His book on meditation has been translated into eleven languages and is a standard text for meditation teachers all over the world. 
Dada lives in California where he continues to write and teaches meditation at UC Berkeley.

From the Back Cover

In Book One of The Microvita Tree, the intrepid Doctor Dogalogue travels to Earth in the fourteenth century to recover the last remaining seed of the microvita tree in the long-submerged ruins of Atlantis. If he can find the seed and replant it, this magical tree when it blossoms will release a flood of spiritual energy that will transform the planet, ushering in a golden age of enlightened consciousness. But the only ones who know how to find Atlantis are Nefarious, the evil wizard, and Joe, the most fearsome dragon in the universe.

"Dada has opened the door to a new Wonderland." - Lewis Carroll

"If I was still alive this is the book I would love to have written. -The ghost of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"I gave the book to Krishna but he couldn't get the New Zealand humor." - Veda Vyasa, author of the Bhagavad Gita

"... nowhere near as good as Lord of the Rings, but it is a lot funnier." - The ghost of J.R.R. Tolkien

"They'll publish anything these days." - William Shakespeare

From the Inside Flap

Long ago a great master from another world appeared on our planet and planted a magical tree on the island of Atlantis, the microvita tree. The subtle microvita energy from the tree gave the Atlanteans special powers of mind, raising them above other peoples, enabling the birth of a great empire.
But the true value of the tree lay in its hidden promise. When it blossoms, after hundreds of years, it releases a flood of spiritual energy that will transform the planet, ushering in a golden age of enlightened consciousness.
However, as the tree grew, an evil necromancer, Nefarious, began to manipulate the mysterious microvita energy for his own dark purposes. Using its power he bred new species, ultimately spawning the great and terrible dragons, the ultimate weapon of war, thus setting the idyllic kingdom on the path to its own destruction.
Our story opens thousands of years later, in a time when the age of Atlantis is a near forgotten dream, and civilization has stagnated, mired in ignorance and conflict.
But not all have forgotten the promise of the microvita tree. Far away on his home planet, the master still lives, and turns his attention to the suffering of a world in need, sending an emissary on a secret mission to re-awaken the power of positive microvita on the earth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Innerworld Publications
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881717402
• ISBN 13: 9781881717409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296