Talking Stones

A story of adventure, love, and enrichment! Embarking on three life-changing journeys, the main character, Gerald Joubert, searches under a few universal and unisex "stones" for insights. Dr. Gerald Joubert is a divorced lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. He is a competent lecturer and leader with sound character and performs his lecturing duties diligently, while addressing social issues such as the quality of university and secondary school education, advocating for a national secondary "job-oriented curriculum," which accommodates different types of intelligences to reduce poverty and unemployment. He also works at cracking some "stony ideas" toward creating a new type of democracy.

Gerald's three interwoven journeys are the following:

He follows the luring voice of a diamond prospecting adventure together with his brother, Hugo, and two others. The journey comprises excitement, brotherly love, and interesting conversation about diamonds and minerals they prospect. It also includes the magical voice of nature's geology, animal and plant life, and night sky. Furthermore, the adventure leads them to early war and diamond discovery history in Namibia and the culture and spiritual beliefs of the original San people, which lead to the heart-racing search for the Spirit Mountain treasure.

Gerald's second journey is a romantic one that involves Rika, a new geology "stone" lecturer at the university, who is also careful to select the right partner the second time around. She joins the prospecting trips, and they dig up and display the features they value in a life partner, which stones in life clog their love wells, what spiritual gems they live by, and their passions and personality preferences to determine whether they together possess the stepping stones toward bliss.

The third journey is when Gerald hears more than the voices of stones and nature, namely the voice of the spiritual realm. Unknowingly, he steps into the realm of the occult. He spends reflective time in the courtroom of his conscience to reclaim his spiritual dimension as the true core of humanity.