An
interview with Gabrielle Silva about her ebook, 'Blue Treasure'
By Abigail Wright, producer for MirandaProductions.com
Abigail
Wright: What was the inspiration for writing Blue Treasure?
Gabrielle
Silva: Initially I wanted to share a powerful spiritual technique
that I had learned from several different sources and I thought
it would be fun to weave it into a romantic adventure story set
on a treasure ship. I was the cook for some months on a psychic
treasure ship in the Bahamas. I've always been fascinated by pirates
and treasure hunts. Who isn't?
AW:
Yes, there's certainly a pervasive mystique around the eternal
quest for treasure. Your background is more as a musician. How
does that fit in with writing a novel?
GS:
I was a jazz singer and a song writer. Songs can happen in 5 minutes.
Blue Treasure was like a very, very, very long song. I was living
with my boyfriend in a beautiful home on top of a mountain when
I got the message that it was a good time in my life to write
a novel. I went to the library and got books on how to write fiction
and I read them for a couple of weeks and one day I knew it was
time to start writing.
AW:
So you just went into a room and started writing?
GS:
I've always had this thing where I wake up in the middle of the
night and do 3-5 hours of my day. It's such a quiet, private time.
So I had a little room with my computer set up and I'd slip across
the hall and more of the story would come through. I got the title,
Blue Treasure, as I was writing the first paragraph. I had no
idea what it meant at the time. It was like the story was hovering
in that room waiting for me to show up each night.
AW:
That was the winter that we first met! I remember I took care
of your cockatiel when you went sailing in the Caribbean.
GS:
Oh that's right! It was so amazing to go hang out in the pirate
world while I was in the middle of the first half of the book.
I worked on it for about 6 months and then I took a year and did
a lot of deep ascension work. When I was prompted to come back
to the project to finish it I was given a cute little zen cottage
on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound to house sit for 6 months. There
was a grand piano and a hot tub and a totem pole in the yard and
the most magnificent view of the Olympic Peninsula. I had no money
so I had to just stay home and write. It was perfect.
AW:
So the book evolved over a period of two years?
GS: The long
song went on and on. The second half really opened up and there
were a lot of surprises for me. It became a wonderful cosmic romance
that embodied the technique that I mentioned and then went on
to spend time in a much lighter, non-dualistic dimension. I really
wanted to attempt to describe the lightness, the freedom beyond
our dualistic 3-D world. I say 'attempt' because it's so difficult
to bring that world into the symbols of words and descriptions
which are particularly mental.
AW:
Is this what sets Blue Treasure apart from other romantic adventure
stories?
GS:
Yes, the main character, Madeleine, is a portrait of a woman who
is most passionate about finding NOW, and staying there. She's
also passionate about sharing that passion with a partner, which
she does with the first mate on the ship.
AW:
I noticed that you didn't back down on describing their interactions.
This could be the first spiritual adventure story with great sex
AND a food fight!
GS:
It's all such a great part of life in 3D. It's also why Blue Treasure
is definitely NOT a children's book. I recommend it for 16 years
and up.
AW:
Sort of a PG-13/R rating?
GS:
Absolutely.
AW:
Then what does Blue Treasure have to do with your main work of
30 years, Ragananda, the Earth's first chakra doll?
GS:
I think the thing that the two projects most have in common is
that they both contain gifts to enhance life here on Earth and
also a great deal of support for expanding into lighter worlds.
AW:
How so?
GS:
They both celebrate the Smile in a unique way. When I first started
doing The Innergalactic Ministry of Smiles sixteen years ago my
biz card had on it, "You CAN take it with you…".
The Taoist Inner Smile is the foundation of the Ministry of Smiles
and it's very definitely the practice that naturally brings Light
into the brain and 'lightens up' the whole of human life.
AW: Didn't
Mother Teresa have something to say about smiling?
GS:
One time she was asked, "What do you think is the most valuable
thing a person can do in the world?" And her reply was simply,
"Smile." As the light flows between us through smiles
we're building our human relationship with the unseen, the fundamental
JOY that permeates our universe. Ragananda calls it "The
Laughing Lights". There are many paths to it, but the simplest
and, I believe, most effective, is the spiritual path of smiling.
It bypasses the mind and all of its qualifications; it's a direct,
'right now' transmission of the unnamable straight from the heart.
AW:
Wow, that IS pretty simple. Do you think that someone reading
Blue Treasure could follow the instructions of the technique that
you mentioned?
GS:
They can if they want and intend to. It's very simple to explain,
a little trickier to do. It takes a great degree of persistence
and desire to break out of the mental approach to perceiving and
ALLOW the bigger, natural intuitive ability of the human form
to make its GIGANTIC and consistent report - which is that all
of this creation is an integrated part of ourselves!
AW:
This is good news! This second edition of Blue Treasure as an
ebook contains eight TouchDrawings by Deborah Koff-Chapin, the
author of the popular 'Soul Cards'. Do you consider them illustrations?
GS:
Deb is a dear friend of mine for decades. She did the wave icon
for the original publication of Blue Treasure. As I was finishing
up getting it together to be an ebook I went through my personal
stash of her wonderful unpublished drawings and found seven that
I feel compliment the experience of reading the book. They are
subtle and provocative and make it an even more beautiful offering.
I didn't want to include any illustrations that might interfere
with a reader's own imagination.
AW:
So if you were to describe Blue Treasure in '25 words or less',
what would you say?
GS: Blue
Treasure is a rollicking story of a group of worldly people having
an interdimensional, sensual, spiritual experience on a psychic
treasure hunt. It's been a great gift to me to be blessed with
the writing of it and I sincerely offer it as a gift to anyone
who is interested in a REAL adventure! Thanks for coming over
for lunch, Abby.
AW:
Well, you're a great cook! Maybe that's one of the many things
that you and Madeleine have in common?
GS: I
wish I had her hair. : - )))))))))
