Gerald Glaskin
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Gerald Marcus Glaskin was a Western Australia
n author. Although he won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1955, his works were received more favourably in Europe than in Australia where he had virtually no public profile, and he lived mostly in Asia and later the Netherlands, until returning to Perth in 1968.
Glaskin's extensive time overseas may have been because of the oppressive Australian moral climate of the period against homosexuality. In 1961 he had been charged with indecent exposure (presumably while sexually cruising) on a Perth beach.
His published works were extensive. He wrote poetry, short stories, and novels. Some works also included issues of science fiction
and new-age spiritual guidance related to the interpretation of dreams. He was also involved in the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
A resident of Cottesloe
, he was enthusiastic for its beach environment. As a writer in Western Australia conditions were not always supportive of the profession.
Glaskin's novel A Waltz Through the Hills was made into a 1989 film of the same title.
The Christos Experiment (or Christos Phenomenon), a phenomenon discussed by several of Glaskin's books, is an Altered State of Consciousness
that can produce extraordinarily vivid and realistic Out-of-Body Experiences
, Past-Life Experiences
and Other-Life Experiences.
His most commercially successful workhttp://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:tUS635rTBcEJ:aawp.org.au/files/Fisher_0.pdf+%22gerald+glaskin%22+dutch&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj_CTIA6ur6Qd1JlWDB3yeKEDZIx01oJN7_FDZgswszhyoxudPnC7Qw37gh_2OxcwV5XuQ-kpE9pYG7RAhppyXdFawmsF4inh0jI7VRzcTsq7BVAXZhXgc8ntlTMmXa1mKY0Dfq&sig=AHIEtbSLUmVHSxupUQ3CdYU0yxyTnLsczw was a novel about a homosexual love affair, No End To The Way (1965), published under the pseudonym Neville Jackson. Interviewed in later life about the novel, Glaskin said: "It was banned in Australia and the paperback publishers, Corgi, researched the Australian censorship laws, and discovered that the book could not be shipped to Australia. So they chartered planes and flew them in". It may have been inspired by his relationship with Leo van de Pas, whom he met in a gay bar in Amsterdam, and lived with in later life.
Glaskin was also silent financial partner in The Coffee Pot, a popular Perth meeting place for homosexuals, bohemians and students which was established in the 1950s by Dutch Indonesian migrants, and was then the city's only late night cafe.http://www.outinperth.com/index.php/reviews/art/hot-steaming-cup-of-nostalgia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
n author. Although he won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1955, his works were received more favourably in Europe than in Australia where he had virtually no public profile, and he lived mostly in Asia and later the Netherlands, until returning to Perth in 1968.
Glaskin's extensive time overseas may have been because of the oppressive Australian moral climate of the period against homosexuality. In 1961 he had been charged with indecent exposure (presumably while sexually cruising) on a Perth beach.
His published works were extensive. He wrote poetry, short stories, and novels. Some works also included issues of science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
and new-age spiritual guidance related to the interpretation of dreams. He was also involved in the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
A resident of Cottesloe
Cottesloe, Western Australia
-Transport:Cottesloe is served by Swanbourne, Grant Street, Cottesloe, Mosman Park and Victoria Street railway stations on the Fremantle line. Various bus routes along Stirling Highway and through the suburb's western and eastern sections link Cottesloe to Perth and Fremantle. All services are...
, he was enthusiastic for its beach environment. As a writer in Western Australia conditions were not always supportive of the profession.
Glaskin's novel A Waltz Through the Hills was made into a 1989 film of the same title.
The Christos Experiment (or Christos Phenomenon), a phenomenon discussed by several of Glaskin's books, is an Altered State of Consciousness
Altered state of consciousness
An altered state of consciousness , also named altered state of mind, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking beta wave state. The expression was used as early as 1966 by Arnold M. Ludwig and brought into common usage from 1969 by Charles Tart: it describes induced...
that can produce extraordinarily vivid and realistic Out-of-Body Experiences
Out-of-body experience
An out-of-body experience is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of one's body and, in some cases, perceiving one's physical body from a place outside one's body ....
, Past-Life Experiences
Past life regression
Past life regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of past lives or incarnations, though others regard them as fantasies or delusions. Past life regression is typically undertaken either in pursuit of a spiritual experience, or in a...
and Other-Life Experiences.
His most commercially successful workhttp://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:tUS635rTBcEJ:aawp.org.au/files/Fisher_0.pdf+%22gerald+glaskin%22+dutch&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj_CTIA6ur6Qd1JlWDB3yeKEDZIx01oJN7_FDZgswszhyoxudPnC7Qw37gh_2OxcwV5XuQ-kpE9pYG7RAhppyXdFawmsF4inh0jI7VRzcTsq7BVAXZhXgc8ntlTMmXa1mKY0Dfq&sig=AHIEtbSLUmVHSxupUQ3CdYU0yxyTnLsczw was a novel about a homosexual love affair, No End To The Way (1965), published under the pseudonym Neville Jackson. Interviewed in later life about the novel, Glaskin said: "It was banned in Australia and the paperback publishers, Corgi, researched the Australian censorship laws, and discovered that the book could not be shipped to Australia. So they chartered planes and flew them in". It may have been inspired by his relationship with Leo van de Pas, whom he met in a gay bar in Amsterdam, and lived with in later life.
Glaskin was also silent financial partner in The Coffee Pot, a popular Perth meeting place for homosexuals, bohemians and students which was established in the 1950s by Dutch Indonesian migrants, and was then the city's only late night cafe.http://www.outinperth.com/index.php/reviews/art/hot-steaming-cup-of-nostalgia
Works
- A world of our own (1955)
- A minor portrait (Barrie Books, London, 1957 - fiction)
- The mistress (Panther BooksPanther (publisher)Panther Books Ltd was a British publishing house especially active in the 1950s and 1960s, specialising in paperback fiction. It was established in May 1952 by Hamilton's Ltd and titles carried the line "A Panther Book" or "Panther Science Fiction" on the cover...
, 1957 - fiction) - A lion in the sun (Varrie and Rockliff, 1960 - fiction)
- A change of mind (Doubleday, 1960 - fiction)
- The land that sleeps: Travel and adventure in the virgin west of Australia (Doubleday, NY, 1960 - travel)
- A waltz through the hills (Barrie and Rockliff, 1961 - fiction)
- A small selection of short stories (Barrie and Rockliff, 1962)
- Flight to landfall (Barrie and Rockliff, 1963 - fiction)
- The man who didn't count (Delacorte Press, 1965 - fiction)
- The road to nowhere (1967)
- Bird in my hands; a personal experience (Jenkins, 1967)
- Windows of the mind: Discovering your past and future lives through massage and mental exercise (Wildwood House, London, 1974)
- Two women:Two novellas (Ure Smith, Sydney, 1975)
- Worlds within: Probing the Christos experience (Wildwood House, London, 1976)
- A door to infinity: Proving the Christos experience (Wildwood House, London, 1979)
- One way to wonderland (1984)
- A many-splendored woman:A memoir of Han Suyin (Graham Brash, Singapore, 1995)