July is a novel, a love story, a romance, a thought provoking comedy, possibly a tragedy. It's a wonderful story about our joys and our sadness and how we each choose to move through and experience the human emotional anomalies of Love, Commitment, Forgiveness, Fear of Loss, and Second Chances. And how sometimes, the masks we wear prevent us from expressing what needs to be expressed in the moment.
July is an exploration of just how we create what we experience, and experience what we've created. It's about love found as it was meant to be, and then pulled apart from projected imaginings. It's about understanding that as an aspect of energy, love is. Simply and completely.
July is also about not getting stuck in the past. About releasing old baggage and moving forward in the now. It's about understanding that the veil that separates a damaged past from our present, really does need to be an impenetrable curtain if we plan on moving forward with love.
Inevitably, July explores the sensitive nature of relationships and the tiny threads that can tug and pull us in two different directions at once as a past love affair is mysteriously rekindled. So follow the path of second chances for July and Wheeler on a invitingly familiar journey into the unknown, framed within moments of recognition, all too familiar. From the beginning, through lifetimes of touching, teaching, and learning, their experiences will play with your mind. For July and Wheeler, love will find a way, at some point, in some reality, possibly in some distant now, when the understanding is that disconnection never really occurs and where the shadow of fear no longer resides.
For a writing career that began by writing lyrics with a well known Pop singer back in the mid 60's, Jeff Gutterman has managed to put pen to paper for nearly thirty years now. In the late 70's his articles on a wide number of subjects contributed to a variety of national magazines, while the early 80's brought forth his first screenplay, his entry into script writing for television, mostly sit-coms, and his movement into the realm of the theater in the latter part of the decade. For the last seven years his main focus has been books, with an orientation toward both fiction and non-fiction.
A practicing hypnotherapist as well as an accomplished writer, Jeff's background in parapsychology began in the late 60's, when a number of personal experiences from sleep deprivation allowed him to familiarize himself with the world of precognitive visions -- from psychic phenomena to new realities to the early signs of what is being called the New Age. In the late 70's he was fortunate enough to reacquaint himself with an old friend through a channeling session, a well known entity who claimed to be "an energy essence no longer be focused in physical reality" -- and began a discourse on an on/off basis that lasted for over a decade.
Jeff remains passively active (Ah, the seeming contradictions) as both a student and teacher whenever he can. Extended academics include both a BA and BS in general business, including minors in the areas of architectural engineering, psychology and sociology. Additional graduate studies followed in psychology with a major emphasis being placed in the arena of the parapsychology thought.
Earning such labels as "eclectic" and "diversified," from those who know him best, Jeff has been professionally involved in more than twelve different industries over the last thirty years, making him feel as though he's lived a number of lifetimes this time around. Maintaining friendships of over forty years from people with diametrically different personalities attests to these labels, as does one look at the magazines and reading materials strewn across his coffee table -- National Geographic, Worth, Food and Wine, Sierra, Book Magazine, Los Angeles, and ION from the Institute of Noetic Sciences. An avid reader, his library contains hundreds of books, covering several walls in his home. Defining himself as a passive extrovert, Jeff lives with his imaginary dog Dakota in a very pleasant area of Los Angeles, his native landscape.
