2008 USA Book News Best Book Award -- WINNER
James Nemec is really a playwright but also a talented healer. Touch the Ocean is his first book in a trilogy centered around the craniosacral approach to health and healing. The second book, Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell will be published this year. The third, Awake and Asleep, will likely be in 2010. He is intimately familiar with the abstract levels of life and is able to convey them to the reader.
The ocean has a lot of meaning here. James describes healing sessions involving himself, his patient, and dolphins. His profoundly gentle treatments can be even more gently performed while his patient floats in the ocean in the presence of dolphins. The results are remarkable. There are other, larger meanings for world consciousness but I would let James himself explain.
James and I discussed the blue color used on the cover at length. He feels the blue of the ocean is healing and connects us to the blue of the sky. We tried to make that blue on the horizon as close as possible to the subtle energetic blue he prefers. Four-color process printing as it is, we are limited to its spectrum of color in the destructive color mode of ink on paper. James understood and accepted it. Then asked for more blue, but this time an ocean blue.
In Journeys, the subtle color of blue makes a comeback on the cover. The figure illustrates the body's chakras -- energy centers -- over a luminous grid of body-mind-time-space. The forehead disappears into a blue flower which is what I call a refinement of James' vision of the subtle energetic blue glow. We'll see how that flower evolves over time, won't we, James?
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