"Circumstance and Romance"

"Circumstance and Romance" tells the story of Edward Essex and his series of fortuitous encounters and startling experiences and the amazing discoveries he makes as an imaginative young boy, curious university student, and inquisitive adult; discoveries which teach him the hidden secrets of hypnotic phenomena and the mysteries of extra sensory perception awakening his innate psychic talents resulting in his progressive development into becoming a consummate psychic performer and gifted mentalist with an incredible ability for magnetically attracting and influencing people. Taking place among and surrounded by the romantic settings of the Cote d'Azur, St. Tropez, Paris, London, Oxford, the English country-side, the plantation worlds of the deep south around Savannah, Biloxi, and New Orleans, and the lavish Renaissance worlds of Venice, Italy the story sheds light on the hidden meanings in the random events of peoples' lives and the metaphysical nature of reality with relevant insights about life and how to live it; the fundamental laws of attraction between men and women and how to influence and shape the circumstantial forces which determine if romance and love will come into one's life. Woven together like a complex tapestry depicting scenes and events played out on colorful stages in drawing rooms and salons of castles, chateaux and manor houses amid the settings of social events of the season, week-end retreats, sumptuous dinner parties, yachting regattas, costumed balls, festivals, and fairs are riveting descriptions and fascinating examples of hypnosis, mind reading and psychic revelations performed by Edward as he astonishes the guests and participants with intriguing demonstrations of what seems implausible and impossible. Replete with riveting descriptions and scenes of amazing divinations' and predications' made by him with tarot cards, palmistry, Ouija boards, gem stones, astrology, numerology, pendulums, psychometry and magical items such as crystal balls and pyramids all intermingled with his upbeat comments, observations and speculations about esoteric subjects as diverse as out-of-body experiences, déjà vu, psychokinesis, telepathy, psychometry, teleportation, time travel, parallel and multi-universes, ghosts and even quantum physics showing the possibility of all things being interconnected and because his unique and unusual talents bring him social notoriety, numerous connections and invitations he frequently finds himself trying to escape from personal entanglements and humorous predicaments since at the end of the day he is mostly interested in eventually finding a long lost love and intuitively feels and senses that she is near but somehow just out of reach. The picture of Edward Essex and his path through life provides a visual feast disclosing the mysteries of the psychic world being played out in an exotic and glamorous world including snapshots of arts, fashion, cuisine, and music producing a cinematic glimpse into a world of mystery disclosing the secrets of how to influence the circumstantial nature of love and romance.