UPCOMING PROJECTS
Live, Die, Repeat: One Woman’s Wild Ride on the Cycle of Life and Death
Coming 2024
Reincarnation Karma: One Woman’s Wild Ride on the Cycles of Birth and Death explores the matter of life and death and the paradoxically illusory nature of all being from a distinctively personal perspective. Based on translucent memories of past lives, it chronicles the story of my spiritual evolution as I have transmigrated through four lifetimes, twice as a Jew in the West and twice as a Buddhist in the East and examines the illuminating threads that tie this intricate tapestry together. The resulting narrative, which spans twenty-five hundred years, is colorful, compelling, and, while it reads like a novel, inescapably invokes questions about the essential nature of human consciousness and the purpose of the karmic journey. Interested in my work? Contact my agent (info@serendipitylit.com)
THE FRAGRANCE OF NARCISSUS
Coming 2025
THE FRAGRANCE OF NARCISSUS is a fictionalized account of the love affair between Lady Mori and Zen Master Ikkyu that took place in Kyoto during the fifteenth century. It is a detailed and explicit record of one woman’s journey from worldly confusion to transcendent sexual and spiritual empowerment, told against a background of medieval upper-class Japanese life and customs, Buddhist practice, and the Zen arts.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RANDE BROWN, LCSW is a founding board member and formerly the Executive Director of the Tricycle Foundation, publisher of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, America’s leading Buddhist magazine. With a degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, Brown lived for many years in Japan, where she was Associate Director of the International Division of the Institute for Religion and Psychology in Tokyo. Upon returning to the U.S., she founded East West Communications, a leading force in cross-cultural programming between Japan and the United States for over 20 years. A well-known translator of Japanese spiritual and cultural texts, Brown co-authored the New York Times bestseller Geisha, A Life with Mineko Iwasaki (Atria, 2002), which has been translated into 18 languages and is still in print. A graduate of the first Foundations Course of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, Brown served as a volunteer Chaplain at Beth Israel Medical Center and is a founding member of the Center’s board. Her experience as a chaplain inspired her to become a licensed psychotherapist and psychoanalyst with a specific interest in the intersection of Buddhism, spirituality, and psychology. Brown is a graduate of the Silver School of Social Work of New York University and a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology. She is currently in private practice in Greenwich Village and has recently finished a new book, Reincarnation Karma: Practical Wisdom for our Time, that will be published in 2024.
