Time & Transformation: A Novel of Mayan Mysticism

by Colette Obrien

The first time Colette Obrien, a noted Northern Californian therapist and creative artist, journeyed to the Yucatan, she realized that the Mayan civilization's attitudes toward time, transformation, and spirituality hold deep significance for questing men and women today. The Mayan culture had a wisdom about the meaning of life that is no longer available, lost long ago in the jungle. The Classic Maya created a civilization of astonishing sophistication, invention, and harmony. With their understanding of mathematics and astronomy, they conceived the world as based on time and transformation. Their home in the Yucatan was the enlightened Athens of our hemisphere. Drawing on actual events and beliefs of the Mayan culture, Obrien has crafted an unusual and profound novel of love and betrayal, religion and transcendence, where the needs of the gods will be fulfilled by mankind, and human culture will regain its balance. This is a message sorely needed in our own time. For the Maya, time was everything.

364 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2008

About the author

Holding a master’s in clinical psychology, Colette Obrien has practiced as a psychotherapist for thirty years, with an emphasis on the exploration of dreams and myths along with the development of the feminine in both the individual and the collective.

She has authored the historical novels: Time and Transformation, The Nobility of the Robe, and most recently, Echo the Ancients. All of her novels reflect her interest in spiritual and psychological growth with an emphasis on feminine development.

She’s been a travel writer and photographer for twenty years, publishing in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States and
Canada.

Colette is a member of Left Coast Writers in Larkspur, California, Baipa, and a presenter for the California Travel Writers Conference.

She lives in Mill Valley, California, with her dog and ca,t and her three grown children live nearby.