Thirteen senses : a memoir / Victor Villaseñor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villaseñor, Victor.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villaseñor, Victor--Family.

Villaseñor, Victor.

Authors, American--20th century--Family relationships.

Authors, American.

Families.

Mexican Americans--California, Southern--Biography.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican American families--California, Southern.

Mexican American families.

Mexican American authors--Family relationships.

Mexican American authors.

California, Southern--Biography.

California, Southern.

Families--California, Southern.

Authors, American--Family relationships.

Southern California.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 509 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Rayo paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Rayo, 2002.

Summary:

A memoir of the author's parents that begins with the 50th wedding anniversary of the former bootlegger Salvador and his wife, Lupe. After the shock of Lupe's rejection of the word "obey" in the ceremony, the family examines the love shared by Lupe and Salvador.

Contents:

Part 1 Wedding Vows August 18, 1979, Oceanside, California

Chapter 1 Such a man and woman aren't measured from their heads to their feet, but from their heads to the sky, for these people are giants

who know the Thirteen Senses of Creation! 3

Part 2 Honeymoon August 18, 1929, Santa Ana, California

Chapter 2 And so he, the nineteenth child, having come to his mother at fifty years of age, now found his second truelove, and ... they married 23

Chapter 3 And so she, the child who'd been conceived on the night that a meteorite struck the Earth, was now a married woman and she was in love! 48

Part 3 Moontalking End of August 1929, Carlsbad, California

Chapter 4 And so they'd now entered into the Garden of Eden, God's first couple

a man and a woman who of their own freewill chose the way of the Almighty! 71

Chapter 5 The Devil saw their happiness, their joy of being in Holy Union with the Almighty, and so he smiled, creeping down from the Tree of Knowledge to intercept them 85

Part 4 Suntalking September 1929

Chapter 6 And so their mothers had, indeed, taught them both about Love and God, but it was now Life, la Vida, that was to teach them the lessons of el Diablo! 113

Chapter 7 And so shedding their outer skins, they now came to know each other as only young lovers can who've stepped forward in the full commitment of matrimony 145

Part 5 La Vida Loca

Chapter 8 And so the Gates of Heaven opened wide and a flash flood de Amor came pouring forth out over all the land

Bursting with Vitality! 179

Chapter 9 The Devil was tired, really exhausted, but still he was a long way from giving up. One way or another, he was determined to slip past that old She-Fox ... but then he heard the Singing of the Stones! 201

Chapter 10 Love was in the Air! Amor was Everywhere! The Wilds of Life, la Vida, were now leaping with the Fires of Hell and Heaven Here upon Mother Earth! 238

Chapter 11 Heaven was laughing con carcajadas! Love, love, Amor was now Creating a whole new Paraiso on Earth as it was in Heaven! 269

Part 6 Heaventalking

Chapter 12 And so Humanity was now being called upon to Sing and Dance and Praise the Second Coming of the Lord! 293

Chapter 13 The Devil himself had now come Full Circle and he, too, was anxiously awaiting with Flowers in Hand for the Second Coming of the Lord! 322

Part 7 Earthtalking

Chapter 14 God was Happy! Papito was Smiling! Singing "through" every Stone, Tree, Raindrop, Blade of Grass

He was So Moved! 343

Chapter 15 Lightning flashed across the land and Thunder roared through the canyons with the Holy Voice of Creation 362

Chapter 16 The Devil was Whirling, Swirling, Dancing

he was so Happy! He was still working the Earth, giving choice between Good and Evil, but Now each Night he, too, went to be with Papito Dios! 389

Part 8 Illumination

Chapter 17 God was Whirling, Swirling, Dancing! His Children were finally Awaking to the Light and Loving each other as much as they Loved Him! 415

Chapter 18 And so Adam and Eva stepped forward, not blaming each other but united in Love, Respect, and a Natural Awe for One another

Reflections of the Creator 437

Chapter 19 Of their own Freewill Adam and Eva now chose to go out of the Garden, away from their familias, and into the Wilds of the World

for they had absolute Faith in God and in their Amor! 445

Part 9 Rebirthing

Chapter 20 In the Wilds beyond the Garden, Adam and Eva now found themselves bringing the Light of God to friend and foe alike

Lucifer and Papito were Working as One once again! 451

Chapter 21 They'd met Death and they'd found Death to simply be another Holy Opening to the Creator's Corazon

Beat, Beat, Beating throughout the Universe! 464

Chapter 22 Adam and Eva now both Knew that it wasn't the Devil who'd ever tempted them

it was their own Mirror that Reflected their Doubts and Fears 475

Chapter 23 GOD and Lucifer were Dancing and Mary and Jesus were Clapping

all the Forces of the Heavens were at last working Together once more 487

Chapter 24 The Sixth Sun was now arising fast for an All New Day. People would no longer be able to tell where the Heavens ended and the Earth began 492

Chapter 25 All was back in Balance, All was back in Harmony and at Peace, generating Wisdom through our Thirteen Senses from Heaven to Earth

All One Song! 497.

Notes:

Sequel to: Rain of gold.

ISBN:

0060935677

9780060935672

OCLC:

50697645