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THROUGH FOREST MIST, Book 2 of The Long Reflection...

Posted by Jasper Lee on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, In : Romani Gypsy

COMING HOME TO THE TREES by Patrick Jasper Lee is now available!

Posted by Jasper Lee on Thursday, June 19, 2014, In : Romani Gypsy

IT'S NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! If you purchase a copy to read, please leave a review with Amazon, or visit me on Facebook or Twitter to comment. Enjoy!

IN RESPECT TO THE BEES...

Posted by Jasper Lee on Sunday, May 25, 2014, In : Romani Gypsy

TANGLED DREAMS: Our Need for the Otherworld and the Romani Shaman

Posted by Jasper Lee on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, In : Romani Gypsy

‘We live within the knots of our tangled dreams, rarely emerging

from the depths we painstakingly create for ourselves.’

Patrick Jasper Lee, Romani Gypsy Chovihano and author.

In the accompanying photograph I am performing a shamanic healing ritual at The Goddess Show in Brighton, which took place around five years ago. It was a public affair, and although you can’t see them, there was quite a large audience watching the ritual up on the stage. The p...

DANCING STARS!

Posted by Jasper Lee on Thursday, January 9, 2014, In : Romani Gypsy

How beautiful the dancing stars! - '... my father explained that in his vision there was a sheet of pure blue silk and it was being stretched out across the earth by invisible spirit hands. Sometimes this sheet was smooth, other times silver coins were being tossed upon it like a great many dancing stars. He said that when it was being shaken by all those unseen hands, billowing and ballooning so beautifully, he couldn’t take his eyes off it. He knew we would all somehow have to fall upon i...
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BORROWING OLD ROMANI TRADITIONS AND OMENS

Posted by Jasper Lee on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, In : Romani Gypsy

Did you know that by studying and observing old traditions and simple omens, as people used to do in the past, you can help yourself find luck and success, and remain healthier? This is not a joke. If earlier traditions can once again begin to have a place in our society, it will give us some constructive and positive help, psychologically. What do I mean by that?

Traditions and rituals were practised by folk everywhere, all over the world, for thousands of years (yes, thousands, literally), a...

MOVING WORDS FROM HORKI'S TALE...

Posted by Jasper Lee on Thursday, August 15, 2013, In : romani gypsy aspie

'Our homeland is beyond a great water. Our homeland will be found where we are able to fall off the edge of the land in the place where the sun sits down in the west.'

The forthcoming BEYOND A NEAR WATER, first in the trilogy THE LONG REFLECTION, contains two tales: HORKI'S TALE and RUSLO RUK'S TALE. Iuzio the Immortal begins the story of the journey taken by generations of nomadic Romani Gypsies across Asia on their search for their true homeland: the place where they belong, 'where the sun s...
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My Life

Posted by Jasper Lee on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, In : romani gypsy aspie

A quote from We Borrow the Earth: an intimate portrait of the gypsy folk tradition and culture. It's been popular and has whizzed around the Facebook network. The Romani gypsy aspie is here to stay.