Chaplin Family Member Releases Remarkable Testimony
Member of Hollywood’s beloved Chaplin family reveals life-long connections to a powerful secret society, an ancient kabbalah legacy and the real-life Holy Grail!
THE PORTAL: AN INITIATE'S JOURNEY INTO THE SECRET OF RENNES-LE-CHATEAU By Patrice Chaplin
Quest Books • September 2010 • ISBN 978-0-8356-0888-6• $16.95 pb • 288 pp
Patrice Chaplin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Chicago, IL– September 1, 2010– The Portal is the true and startling disclosure of respected British writer Patrice Chaplin. Picking up where Patrice’s previous memoir City of Secrets: One Woman’s True-life Journey to the Heart of the Grail Legend leaves off, The Portal details Patrice Chaplin’s 21st century initiation into the Holy Grail’s deeper mystery.
To unveil the sacred and prehistoric purpose of what is now Rennes-le-Château, Patrice had to live the myth of the famed priest Bérenger Saunière, a fellow initiate who rose to recent cult popularity due to modern-day bestsellers such as Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The DaVinci Code. This real-life memoir documents Patrice’s little known purifications and the deadly pilgrimage they prepared her for.
It was 2003 and City of Secrets was in the process of being published in the UK. The charismatic Jose Tarres, real-life custodian of the Holy Grail, great friend to remarkable talents such as Salvidor Dali, Jean Cocteau, Umberto Eco and Simone de Beauvoir, and forever the love of Patrice’s life, had suffered a near fatal heart attack. With Jose then in his seventies, the power of death as a silencer threatened the survival of his society’s guarded knowledge. Patrice had thoroughly researched Jose’s documents and testimony with his permission for the writing of City of Secrets. But upon its completion, Patrice confessed she still did not fully understand the puzzle revolving around the legendary, yet very real, golden cup. “So what was the secret behind the secret?” Patrice asked. With simple resolution, Jose said “You have to do what they did in every century, the initiates. You have to do the Journey”.
Jose’s matter-of-fact assignment comes to life in this deeply profound memoir. Under the guidance of Jose’s teacher, a mysterious recluse and one of the few true living Kabbalists, Patrice embarks in 2004 to ‘Tread the Seven Stars Under the Great Bear’. Through activating the eleven sacred sites along the French/Catalan border, Patrice journeys detachment, death, and rebirth. Unlike some unfortunate initiates, Patrice lived through Mt. Canigou’s great secret, and more so, was decreed to tell about it. What she discovers in the end—startling as it may be—is space/time’s inextinguishable truth: What it is to be “human”, and to be “of” this earth. The mystery of our origins has been imprinted upon our planet from time immemorial. The time for us to remember has come; this journey is now a gift for everyone.
A story of love and magic steeped in the truth, a story that will stay with you years after you read the last pages.
—Kathleen McGowan, New York Times best-selling author of The Expected One, The Book of Love , and The Poet Prince
Patrice Chaplin is the first author in decades to add something original to the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery.
No one else has been so involved in the decipherment of a century-old secret that could give a quantum leap in our evolution.
—Javier Sierra, New York Times best-selling author of The Lady in Blue
The Grail mystery: Patrice Chaplin lived it and is conveying its incredible nature to the reader.
—Phillip Coppens, author of Servants of the Grail and The Stone Puzzle of Rosslyn Chapel
PATRICE CHAPLIN, journalist, author and playwright, has written twenty-eight books; her novel Siesta became a film starring Jodie Foster and Isabella Rossellini. As a Bohemian in Paris she spent time with Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. When married to Charlie Chaplin’s son Michael and working in Hollywood, she collaborated with Lauren Bacall, Miles Davis, and Salvador Dali. She resides in London. Connect with Patrice at http://facebook.com/PatriceChaplin & http://PatriceChaplin.com
Patrice Chaplin interview documentary via Vimeo : http://vimeo.com/7180485
Buy The Portal now on Amazon ( http://amzn.to/b78cqT ) and at better bookstores everywhere!!!
Read an Excerpt from The Portal at: http://questbooks.net/PDF/PortalCh2.pdf
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