For half a century Zacharias O’Bryan has captured listeners’ imagination with his stage plays, his fireside tales and his songs of adventure. The grass-grown, tumbled-stone castles of Ireland, the dark-chambered Toltec tombs of southern Mexico, the Anasazi cliff dwellings of the American Southwest—these are lands that speak to O’Bryan. And now, rafting into a parallel universe via the roadless river canyons of Southern Oregon, you meet the characters who live beyond the fireball lightning--the blue disembodied souls who contemplate our world from the Chamber of Minds in the depths of the lava tubes.   As a lifelong admirer of JRR Tolkien, Mark Twain and Hermann Hesse, Mr. O'Bryan believes that our stories are our culture--that the solutions to today's problems and the paths to fulfillment lie in the spiritual nuances of the mind rather than political posturing. Although Mr. O'Bryan is a lover of cinema, his deepest devotion is to the free imagination allowed by music and books.   With over twenty-five years experience rafting the wilderness rivers of the West, no author is more qualified than O'Bryan to place an epic fantasy among the forest creatures and white water rapids of North America's lonely canyons. He welcomes you on this journey.

A magna cum laude graduate of the writing program at the University of California, Mr. O'Bryan has seen his plays performed, has listened to his musical compositions performed in weddings and on the radio, and has been delighted with the three-continent reception of his new eBook "Spirit Thorn, a Tale of Parallel Worlds."