Hello. This is the author, John Rhodes, and this is the sixth chapter of my San Francisco podcast novel and free audio book: “Little Bird Told Me”, entitled “Amateur Telescopes”. For a period in my life I used to build amateur telescopes and that is what inspired this chapter. The bit about the Hubble Space Telescope not being parabolized, and most amateur telescope makers knowing better than to not parabolize their mirrors is absolutely true. I made two telescopes, both of which I parabolized. This stor...
Hello. This is John Rhodes with the 5th chapter of the free San Franciscan serial version of my podcast novel and free audio book: “Little Bird Told Me”. This chapter discusses rebirth in its psychological, spiritual, and physical sense, in relation to acceptance of our small demeanor in this world, as in: “The small becoming great”. The “Little Bird” in us all, can tell us of greater things, much like Little Bird, the Indian named Mike does with Steve and Maria. May I remind you to buy my book in it ful...
Hello. This is John Rhodes again with the 3rd chapter of my San Francisco podcast novel and free audio book: Little Bird Told Me. The chapter is entitled: Looking for Accompaniment. In this chapter the main character there, a musician named John, was inspired partially from my experience of hearing beautiful old antiquated hymns in churches in the poor section of town in San Francisco, and also, the satirical part about his first therapist was my take on the inefficiency of psychological care in the wor...
Hello. This is the second chapter of the free serial audio book, and podcast novel: Little Bird Told Me. I got a good response from you people for the first two weeks. I got about 1500 listens. Please tell your friends about it if you can, and help me launch my mystic book podcast to real success. Please remember that you can always go to www.audible.com and buy the whole book for at the most 10 or 11 dollars. On iTunes it goes for around 9 dollars, only thing is it is hard to find on iTunes. If you type...
Hello! This is, John Rhodes, author of, “Little Bird Told Me”, the first podcast novel to be, so far as I know, successfully posted in free serial form from a web site, and on http://www.audible.com , in its full paid version. Scott Sigler the Science Fiction writer tried to do this but ran into some contractual conflicts and was taken off Audible. So in a way this is a first. I know Scott. We go to the same Podcast Meetup.
This book will be produced serially for about a year on this site, one chapte...
This is John Rhodes with my podcast, “Little Bird Told Me”, and this is chapter 15 of my mystic podcast novel and free audio book, entitled, “Enlightenment From the Far East and a Manure Gas Energy Plant”. In this chapter Maria and Steve scheme to start a organization in India. I’m going to be brief about this intro because I screwed up on this bi-weekly post. I thought I was on chapter 16 and had already posted it when I realized I hadn’t posted Chapter 15, so I want to get this chapter out to you so yo...
Hello. This is John Rhodes, author of “Little Bird Told Me”, and, I decided to include in my podcast a pledge break, although hoping you don’t consider me a copycat of PBS. In this recording I will go over some of my background in writing and my constant effort at producing my writing with my own money, while at the same time trying to be innovative in a new form of media, podcasting. Starting from around 1997, I started writing, and have been writing steadily for about ten years now. I published in the ...
Hello again. This is John Rhodes and this is the 16th Chapter of my serial podcast novel and free audio book entitled, “Installing a Gas Plant in the Guru’s Ashram”. This chapter discusses the feasibility of manure gas plants on a small scale in India. I don’t want to go into too much detail about the plot, but obtaining methane from camel and cow manure in India and having the poor of India use it for cooking, rather than letting them burn their dry germ infested dung straight to cook their food, is a m...
Hello. This is John Rhodes with chapter 18 of my podcast novel: Little Bird Told Me. It is entitled: "Planning for More Evidence, Maria's Real Parents, and Marriage".
Detectives are not usually philosophers but in this book they get to share the nitty-gritty truths of this hip dou and help confirm their sublime truths for them. I think that when facts are properly presented, most anybody will believe in them as if they were everyday fact. I think this is something that the left doesn't employ enough...
This is the last chapter of my podcast novel: “Little Bird Told Me”, entitled “Togetherness, The I Ching, and the Honeymoon in Nepal”. In the last part of the chapter I discuss the Maitreya Buddha, the Future Buddha, in relation to Maria’s child. I have come to believe it is possible to become enlightened much like the Buddha, or in this case give birth to an enlightened child. A little earlier in the chapter I mention “Treading” and “Conduct”, in the sense that if we learn to “Tread” in the same path a...