Mark Jay Mann

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Jay Mann was born in Houston, Texas on March 25, 1945 (1:35am CWT). His love partner, Diana Zelaya, passed away on March 24, 2018. He had been caring for her for the previous 5 years while she progressed through Alzheimer’s disease. They had been living together for 41 years in Eugene, Oregon

In October, 2019, Mark Jay Mann published Afterlife Lovestreams (My journeys through caregiving, grieving and into beyond life dimensions to reconnect with my past love). This book is being distributed both as an eBook and print book. He writes in the Prologue to this book: “As she passed, I made a promise to her that I would find her in the afterlife dimensions. This book covers the weeks before she passed and my grieving and adjustments during the weeks after she passed. This book is also the result of my own journeys into beyond life dimensions using what I refer to as my spiritual imagination.”

In October, 2011, Mark Jay Mann published his novel, Homeless Mysteries, Homeless Intimacies and began distributing it as an eBook on Amazon Kindle. He completed a manuscript of this novel during the years from 1989 to 1991, but in 2010 decided to revise it and publish it on Kindle. This novel is a romantic suspense story set against a dangerous and harsh urban setting dominated by economic inequality and greed. The main character, Gibson Calhoun, is a 37-year old man, trying to survive on the streets of Portland, Oregon, where homeless men and women are being murdered by a serial killer. Gibson’s consciousness often fades away into altered states of consciousness, and he does not know if he has psychic abilities or suffers from a psychosis.

In August of 2010, Mark Jay Mann published A Collection of Wordstreams (Prose Poems & Vignettes -1972-2010, and began distributing it as an eBook on Amazon Kindle. Poetically, among his major influences are Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Italo Calvino, Rumi, William Butler Yeats, William Blake, Bob Dylan, Ursula Le Guin, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, John Lennon, Rabelais, Roger Zelazny, Sylvia Plath, e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca and Dane Rudhyar.

In 1996, the American Federation of Astrologers (AFA), Inc. published his book, Astrology for the Absolute Beginner, and in 1998, he was awarded The Paul R. Grell Award, “In Recognition For the Best Book Published by the AFA During 1996-1998. This book is written for both advanced and beginning readers, and is a psychological-spiritual workbook using astrological archetypes to assist individuals to explore and develop their unique and special potentials, Astrology for the Absolute Beginner. This book also explores how the meanings of the signs, planets and houses are derived from phases of cycles of our solar system related to time and space.

Mark Jay Mann has a BA in English Literature and a MA in Counseling Psychology, both received from the University of Oregon. He is a Jungian-oriented Licensed Professional Counselor and a Nationally Certified Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor. Writing projects he hopes to publish in the coming years include additional collections of wordstreams (prose poems and vignettes), astrological case studies, and a book defining a practical and spiritual holistic model of life based upon insights gained from his metaphysical, psychological and spiritual studies.