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What does it mean to live as a mystic in the kaleidoscope of everyday urban life? Acclaimed author Andrew Ramer, a modern-day prophet, opens the door to a lifetime of luminous encounters with the unseen. His stories shimmer not from a mountaintop monastery but from apartment buildings, city streets, and family kitchens in New York and Oakland. Walk beside Ramer through more than seventy years of extraordinary tales. From his first memories in the womb to intimate encounters with dead ancestors, angels, and God, his journey will awaken and transform you--while calling you deeper into your own spiritual life.

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""Eli Andrew Ramer has had mTany identities over the years: storyteller, angel-whisperer, channeler, prophet, sage. Here, he stands before us naked--yet surrounded by the magical beings, synchronicities, and spirits who have been his guides since before he was born. In these tales, the mundane mingles with the supernatural, the painful with the profound. I can say with certainty that you have never read a memoir like it."" --Jay Michaelson, author of The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales ""A work of luminous honesty, self-knowledge, and wisdom. Ramer is a writer who manages to combine--in all his many books--earnestness and levity, a keen awareness of life's joyous gifts and innumerable tragedies. Perhaps a prophet, certainly the author of luscious prose."" --Steven J. Zipperstein, author of Philip Roth: Stung by Life ""With humor and vulnerability, Andrew invites us into the terrain of his inner world--from the presence of a vanished twin to angelic visitations and moments of revelation sparked by bees, books, and subway rides. If you've ever longed for a story that makes space for your own truths, memories, and your shimmering path toward wholeness--this book is for you."" --Sheri Hostetler, author of So We and Our Children May Live ""This poetic memoir is a song of invitation. To recall. To live. To dream. More than anything, it is an invitation to loosen the bounds of time and space that tether us. Andrew's words delight the senses, evoke the imagination, and free the spirit. And the ending holds an even deeper invitation: to know ourselves as 'Earth Healers, ' and to act from this most expansive self."" --Pat Plude, author of The Art of Radical Listening ""Lily Tomlin once pondered, 'Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?' Given his penchant for hearing voices, remembering places he'd never been, and having encounters with beings from other realities, Andrew Ramer wondered as a child if indeed he were crazy. Happily, he learned to channel his experiences in ways that allowed him to forge profound connections with kindred spirits. Tales of an Urban Mystic is a delicious exercise in life review, as Ramer introduces us to the people, places, realizations, and visitations that formed him and led him through his 'amazing journey to Now.'"" --Don Shewey, author of Daddy Lover God: A Sacred Intimate Journey ""Mystical dreams, angels, reincarnations, radical faeries, ancestral visitations, spirit guides . . . all pop in and out of Andrew Ramer's embodied, self-revelatory life story. Tales of an Urban Mystic is a captivating, heartfelt journey through the multidimensional life of a great writer and super cool human."" --Annie Sprinkle, author of Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover ""This book is an excellent example of how some of us reach a level of spirituality or understanding, yet not in the same way. Different journeys, without any reference points, other than showing up for life. I've known Eli Andrew Ramer for over three decades, and he's an extraordinary example of what spirituality actually represents."" --Karen Haughey, author of Angels: Guardians of the Light ""Professor Ramer is of what Dolores Cannon hails as 'the First Wave, ' the vanguard, the pioneers, the bellwether. And though he is from the prosaic side of the uterus, I am deeply honored to proclaim him brother. Indeed, brother-in-arms, as we fling open the doors to that ineffable effulgence that has been quietly knocking since before time was tim

Author Information

Andrew Ramer who now goes by the name Eli, is the coauthor of the international bestseller Ask Your Angels. A maggid, or sacred story teller in the Jewish tradition, he is also the author of several acclaimed books that bridge the worlds of angels, queerness, and Jewish spirituality, including the Lambda Literary Award finalist Two Flutes Playing. His most recent book, Ever After, reimagines the afterlives of eleven iconic Western writers. He lives in Oakland, California.

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