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    God's Gangsters
    God's Gangsters
    God's Gangsters
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    God's Gangsters

    By Xavier Killeen

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    Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes. (Jung)
    Gods Gangsters Is a short story of 13,500 words that takes place over a three day period, in the life of a sixteen year old African American drug dealer and gang member, Walter Butz. Walter was raised by very religious parents, who believe in a literal translation of the Bible. This narrow religious view completely turns him off to any belief in God. After the death of his father, a clergyman, he falls in with his brother-in-law, a gang leader and drug dealer in Brooklyn. It is after being shot by rival gang members; the young Walter is wounded, and begins a Journey or realization that there is a deeper side to being human, a spiritual side. With the help of a few guldes along the way, he is able to alter his perception of reality, and in this truer light, change his life.

    Imagination is more important than knowledge, is a quote from Albert Einstein. Considered a cerebrell, logical, calculating, conscous intellect, there was also another side to his thinking. The feeling, instinctive, intuitive subconscious, the source of a higher consciousness. This is a story of rediscovery of a greater self; we are all part of.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781483622354
    God's Gangsters
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    Xavier Killeen

    Xavier Killeen is a graduate of Nassau Community College and attended SUNY where he studied creative writing, philosophy and political economy. A truck driver and Teamster for thirty one years, he is married and a father. His mother was a famous model in the fifties and father a salesman; but that didn’t keep him from a life where he crossed paths with an assortment of colorful New York type characters, including drug dealers, gang bangers, a few Irish Republican Army members and finally an arrest in 1974, where he faced two to four years in prison. “Sometimes you have to be in the dark to see the ligtht”. He got his life together and now has something to share.

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