Overview: Unleash the radical, transformative power at the heart of the world’s great wisdom traditions. Of the many paths up the mountain, that of Crazy-Wisdom, although one of the lesser travelled, presents a dramatic and formidable climb to those that are so inclined.

Now for the first time, the true spiritual landscape of the wise-fool has been laid bare and its features and principal landmarks revealed.

Verdict: For those not fully aware, Crazy-Wisdom, or as it is sometimes called in both small and big screen presentations Divine-Madness, is a spiritual practice and teaching style in Tibetan Buddhism (and other traditions) that involves challenging conventional norms and expectations through unconventional, sometimes disruptive, behavior.

This can manifest as a paradoxical approach, where actions seem contradictory to the perceived image of holiness, aiming to disrupt spiritual pride and foster a deeper understanding of reality.

The way that I was brought up with its knowledge is that Crazy-wisdom is about having a free mind, one that is not held down by preconceived notions or cultural conventions. Crazy Wisdom is about living in this moment, rather than having all of our perceptions colored by what we think about the past, the future, or the ideas we have about things.

The idea behind Crazy-Wisdom is that sometimes those of us that aren’t Enlightened don’t really understand those that are, very well. Enlightenment is the realization that Samsara and Nirvana — normal reality and transcendent reality — are actually the same, that there is no separation between self and other.

Written in two parts, loosely based on the theory and practice of this so-called Crazy Wisdom, The Monkey in the Bodhi Tree: Crazy-Wisdom & the Way of the Wise-Fool from author Jason Brett Serle is the first comprehensive look at this universal phenomenon, from its origins and development to the lives of its greatest adepts and luminaries.

In addition to the theoretical foundations laid down in Part I, Part II deals with its practice and aims to demonstrate Crazy-Wisdom in action. To this end, 151 teaching tales from around the world have been meticulously gathered and retold to illustrate the methods of the great masters and adepts - stories that not only give practical insight but also, like Zen koans, can be used as contemplative tools to illuminate and provoke epiphany.

From the enigmatic Mahasiddhas of ancient India to the eccentric Taoist poet-monks of China, from the uncompromising insights of the Buddhist Tantrikas to the unconventional wisdom of Sufi heretics and the utter surrender to God displayed by the Fools for Christ, this book will take you to a place where the boundaries of logic and reason dissolve and enlightenment awaits those daring enough to venture forth.

About the Author - Jason Brett Serle is a British writer, documentary filmmaker, musician, Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) Master and licensed hypnotherapist with a particular focus on psychology, spirituality, wellness and human potential. He has written articles for Jain Spirit and Watkins magazines, as well as interviewing Eckhart Tolle and Amado Crowley. He currently lives in Marbella, Spain.

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Overview: How does the global transformation that humanity is now traversing relate to the journey of the individual soul?

This profound yet accessible guide instructs readers to navigate uncertain times and circumstances by trusting one’s sixth sense.

Learn practices and exercises to help you distinguish your soul’s intuitive calling from your rational mind, ingrained patterns, and societal influences; learn from the author’s numerous case files of spiritual readings with individuals just like you.

Verdict: The wisdom in each chapter of The Art of Sensing: A Guide for Staying True to Your Soul’s Journey through Challenging Times by author Carole J. Obley Will guide you in overcoming fear, gaining clarity of purpose, and evolving spiritually.

Thus the end result is greater joy, comfort, and inner peace - regardless of what is happening around you and in the world.

Coming prepared with having communicated with souls who have crossed into the spirit world through thousands of private and group sessions, the author now brings forth an extremely concise, yet magnificently experience-imbibed new book that clearly shows the reader how to walk the path of spiritual transformation - and in a way that needn’t be feared, nor should ever be maligned by naysayers, for it is dutifully researched and comes with an impassioned, heartfelt soul of prose throughout.

Citing examples from her numerous case files of mediumship readings to showcase just how when we are having bad times ourselves these most horrid of moments can still help us to grow beyond what we think we can achieve, or who we even are at that most lowest, most darkest of moments, what we get evenly spread within her chapters are notes of spiritual insight and the fact that, and above all else, knowledge is most definitely a power (and can be used to face our personal challenges, our darkest of days successfully head on).

This most wondrous of new books on the subject matter to hand not only encourages the reader to embark on their own spiritual inner journey but provides a wealth of guidance to help with such a new exploration of your soul.

Thus this book inspires and guides in such a way that, once read, you will for sure be picking it up again a few months down the line to read over and over again. It’s just that good, you have my own newly soul-sensing word.

About the Author - Carole J. Obley has communicated with souls who have crossed into the spirit world through thousands of private and group sessions. She has earned a reputation as the real deal among psychic mediums. She travels nationally to speak and teach workshops as well as maintaining a practice in mediumship based near Pittsburgh, PA.

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Overview: Deep in the woods of the Winnodov property sits the abandoned theater. Something mysterious happened during the last performance there - the same night Mr. Winnodov disappeared.

Eight years later, it’s happening again.

Verdict: A group of mischievous teenagers sneaks into the theater. And now, one is missing. When 12-year-old Beth Shoner learns who the missing teen is, she sets off with two friends to find him. But what they discover is more astonishing than they could ever have imagined.

Now, Beth must defeat an evil plan unleashed long ago that threatens to destroy countless worlds, including their own.

Now, it’s novels like this that get my blood pumping, my inquisitive thoughts racing and the pages turning as here within The Abandoned Theater: Alderland Series, Book 1 from author Dana Robertson we, and most assuredly, get one of the best YA fantasy reads of the past few years.

Bringing forth, and veritably from the off, a genuine, heartfelt and impassioned layered sense of excitement, curiosity, anticipation, trepidation, fear and oh-so much more, the scene setting alone draws you instantly in, always continuing to color the mind’s eye landscapes, never allowing you to wonder, even for a second, what the placement of wherever they may find themselves would look, or even smell like.

My goodness, that cerebral imagery is highly profound here, not to mention the wondrously sculpted characters, their dialogue, their allured to vocal tones, and so much so that I sat down with this book one early morning this week and come a few hours later I found myself closing it after Chapter 33 had drawn to a close on page 171, having read it all straight through, a smile on my face and a profound sense of absorbed completion waving over me.

The locations drawn, the immersive prose, along with the ongoing character developments is just phenomenal here and thus allows the reader to seamlessly move through Robertson’s eerily enchanting worlds as if they themselves were tagging along for the ride of a lifetime!

About the Author - Dana Robertson lives in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. She completed a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Psychology with Trent University in Peterborough Ontario, followed by a graduate creative writing program with the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, Ontario. She writes mystery, fantasy, science fiction and middle grade. The Abandoned Theater is her debut novel and book one of the Alderland Series.

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Overview: Dog trainer and former soldier Graf is exiled from society, cast into the Wanwood, a cursed forest in another world teeming with horrific monsters and other dangerous obstacles.

But Graf is not alone!

Verdict: As Graf embarks deeper into the seemingly endless forest, searching for any sign of civilization or refuge, he meets bizarre allies, a lovestruck shapeshifter, and a supernatural helper known simply as the Traveler.

Will Graf and his companions find refuge in Sanctuary, a safe haven for the lost and weary? Or might some things be too good to be true, could a sinister secret jeopardize Graf’s newfound paradise?

Written by a 32-year-old English teacher from Florida, Journey of a Forsaken Rose: A Novel by author Kenneth Kelly is a brand new storytelling prose that doesn’t pull any punches, whilst at the same time it exudes a definitive, and highly impassioned story that will most definitely become fast alluring to the YA community (and further).

OK, sure, the AI book cover is a little distorting as to the whole of the sum of its parts that encapsulates this powerful tale, but within its 25 chapters gets lovingly revealed a most dutifully written, artfully created, scenically colorful, and wholly invested set of characters and evolving landscapes that tells more than one tale, believe me on that.

The story is engaging from the off, as Graf stares down a tavern from across the street, his urge to storm it with his ax barely being contained, and thus kicks off our acknowledgement of Graf, who he is, what his inner monologue is, what his motivations are, and so as he meets bizarre allies, a lovestruck shapeshifter, and a supernatural helper called the Traveler along the way, we are there by his side step for step, stride for stride, battle upon battle.

About the Author - Kenneth Kelly is a 32-year-old English teacher living in Plant City, FL. He has always had a passion for writing and has been writing in one form or another as far back as he can remember. He began teaching about 5 years ago to try and promote writing and inspire creativity to younger generations. Outside of work and writing, he is an avid Dungeons and Dragons player and an accomplished martial artist in multiple disciplines.

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Overview: Within the flow of the Severn, Britain’s longest river, resides a Goddess who, for millennia, has governed the cyclical nature of life and death in mythic and subtle ways.

Whether known as Sabrina to the English or Hafren to the Welsh, this book is an invitation to dive deep into the currents of time to explore her identity and power.

Verdict: From the age of the Celts to the tragedies woven together by the medieval clerics, right up to the modern day, this book illuminates an ever-evolving, powerful divinity associated with boundaries, transformation, and magical Salmon.

Combining personal insight, lore, academic research, and exercises to connect to her waters, within these pages of Pagan Portals - Sabrina: Discovering the Goddess of the River Severn from author Brett Hollyhead we traverse the historical tales of a Goddess who is the heart and soul of the landscape.

Stories such as this have always been a family fascination, in truth, and this is one that I myself grew up well aware of. But, for those unaware, the goddess of the River Severn is known as Sabrina in English, and Hafren in Welsh. The name Sabrina was given to the river by the Romans, and it is believed the river was named after a nymph who was thrown into the river and drowned.

Dating back to at least the 2nd century AD, when the name Sabrina was first recorded by the Romans, in Welsh, Afon Hafren is the full local name for the River Severn. Indeed, it is also one of Britain’s most beloved rivers whose name was one of the first recorded back then as the aforementioned Sabrina, a Latinized version of an earlier Celtic name thought by some scholars to be Samarosina [meaning land of summertime fallow].

As the author tells us within the pages of this thoroughly engrossing new prose on this Goddess, tracing back to the roots of the tale, the story of the goddess Sabrina and the River Severn is fundamentally a story about a woman that is given to the river and becomes a part of it through time.

Thus he brings forth within this diligently written, and profoundly impassioned new book, the historically known facts along with the more freely renounced lore, all whilst deep diving into who she was, where she came from, and what it all means to us currently living here today - and yet also manages to suggest practical exercises for actually working with the historical deity and the region itself today.

About the Author - Brett Hollyhead, also known as the Witch of Salopia across social media, is a practicing Welsh Marches Folk Witch, workshop leader and a public speaker at regular Pagan related events/ conferences throughout the United Kingdom. He’s a member of the Cylch y Sarffes Goch Coven (Circle of the Red Serpent) alongside Mhara Starling and Moss Matthey. He’s also a member of OBOD and a guardian of the Doreen Valiente Foundation. He lives in Wrexham, UK.

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Overview: Vatican Daughter, from author Joni Marie Iraci, is a novel steeped in Italian culture, unafraid to confront Vatican corruption, and infused with suspense, thrills, and historical facts.

Verdict: Set in Rome and Venice - with a brief stop in Magallanes, Chile, and New York City - Vatican Daughter propels the reader deep into the heart of Italy.

Ensnared by its vivid descriptive language, you will be transported and immersed in this plausible, suspenseful story as it takes you through various cities, tasting their foods along the way, with different characters.

At the same time, you will meander along the medieval palazzos of Rome and Venice, sip the wine, explore the countryside, ride the train, step behind the walls of Vatican City and its papal gardens, and imagine experiencing the loss of a child at the hands of men who would go to any means to avoid the exposure of Vatican corruption, papal indiscretion, and the Vatican’s long-buried secrets.

In what is a wild ride that includes scenically-sculpted prose that takes in the Vatican City, the city-state surrounded by Rome, and, importantly here, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church and the home of the Pope, along with some breathtaking envisionments of Magallanes, Chile, and a noisy New York City, Vatican Daughter: A Novel is a book that I didn’t know I was going to read in just two sittings - and yet I did.

At all times character driven, yet always mindful to create expansive environments for them to find themselves within for the readers mind’s eye, these aforementioned evocative settings tell one story, sure, but the main one, the spurred on, sometimes spiraling, deliciously complex narrative that drives all we read is just, well, a true blessing to behold upon every page turn.

Engaging, intriguing, profoundly impassioned and never once mundane, sure the captivating settings are a highlight of the storytelling, but without the thrilling prose, the exciting moments, the strong characters and their inert will to continue to push forward, this whole book could have just ended up being a travelogue for those seeking to visit the noted regions!

But it is far, far from being such a thing, as I hope I have successfully brought your attention to, for Vatican Daughter is more than just a thrilling tale, as it also features an artful balance of states - physical and mental - along with a healthy spoonful of historical fiction and family drama, all wrapped up neatly within a very well researched thriller ala The Da Vinci Code.

Simply put, Vatican Daughter by author Joni Marie Iraci is a story of a young woman who relentlessly searches for her child while coming head-to-head with the most powerful entity on earth. It focuses on serious female-centric issues and the Vatican’s controversial, scandalous, and hypocritical behaviors along with amiably taking you along for the ride at the same time.

About the Author - Joni Marie Iraci is a retired Registered Nurse who returned to school in her later years to pursue her love of writing, earning a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Columbia University. She is a member of the Author’s Guild and American Pen Women. When not writing or buried in a book, she loves tutoring essay writing to college-bound high-school students. She lives in Naples, Florida, and New York City.

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Overview: Over a career of more than 40 years, Joe Denham has trained many salespeople through stand-up presentations and lectures. Now he shares those lessons and his knowledge in The Sales Professional with anyone who has a strong work ethic and wants to succeed in sales.

This book not only seeks to help existing salespeople who want to succeed - who doesn’t? - and it’s also for people who want help getting started in a career in sale

Verdict: Many good sales staff in the corporate world become quickly disenchanted because of a lack of early sales success, generally due to a dearth of real guidance and structure in the way they approach their chosen careers.

This book aims to bring some discipline and professionalism into the way they conduct business. Experience is not something you can buy.

However, when someone like Joe Denham passes his experience on to you through a book like this, with explanations and an understanding of the sales process that are logical, simple, and straightforward, you will benefit beyond your expectations.

In short, here in The Sales Professional: How to Build a Career in Sales by author Joe Denham, you will quickly learn from a successful businessman himself and with 42 years of sales experience across multiple industries behind him, just how to go about being the best salesman you could ever hope to be!

We are all buyers. We buy things every day of our lives. We are all experts in buying, we just may not realize it. The reason we buy things is that we have a problem to solve. If you just moved into an apartment and you have nowhere to sleep, then you visit the bed store and buy a new bed. Problem solved.

So, nobody buys anything that does not solve a problem in their life. Every material thing in our daily lives must be bought, so it follows that someone must sell those things.

For within each step in these supply chains a salesperson has negotiated with a buyer. A price agreement has been made and a sales commission earned. Has the salesperson sold the item or did the buyer simply buy the item?

Salespeople must understand their role in the process. They must allow people to buy the best solution which solves their problem. If you start your sales career with this perspective, you will succeed!

And thus here within one of the most diligently sculpted, articulate and wholly grounded new books on the subject, the author showcases his Denham Method to being the best sales professional that you ever hoped you could be, whilst at the same time his guidance is something that you will be expressing gratitude toward for all your days moving forward.

About the Author - Joe Denham has setup and grown four very successful businesses in his lifetime. His first major success was when he sold his computer based training business located in Dubai for $10m in 1997. He then had his own TV Show on Sky Television in the UK for 4 years, while he owned and operated a farm in Brittany, France.

And in 2009 he founded VegTrug - an innovative raised garden bed which people use to grow their own vegetables at home. That business sold in 2012 and Joe continued to run the business as CEO until 2023. He now lives in Norfolk, UK.

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Overview: A found journal whose author wishes to remain anonymous. After losing his family in a tragic automobile accident, one man’s reason to go on living is stripped away.

That is until one day, by chance - some might call it serendipity - he overhears a conversation that moves him to consider a new life. A man needs to be killed, and our protagonist decides to kill him.

Verdict: But he doesn’t stop there. Keeping a journal at every step of his way, our anonymous protagonist archives the subsequent events, taking the reader through his accounts of the men he kills and the causal antecedents that facilitate these assassinations.

Attempting to come to grips with the life-shattering car crash while trying to make sense of the moral ramifications of his deadly acts of vigilantism - the ethical assassin kills only men who need killing - he tells us his story while attempting to navigate the dangers of doing so.

In what is his very first, and expertly sculpted debut novel, Doctor William Ferraiolo brings forth the layered tale of a damaged, broken, confused, yet now destructively motivated and driven soul whose newly cultivated path is one of elimination over mindful preservation.

Now, whether it be true or not, the mythology of this person’s journey actually originates within the opening Editor’s Note, where we are told that the text of the book is taken from a leather-bound journal found lying on a table at a diner in Sonora, CA.

There is no indication to the identity of the author and the book is published without any claim regarding its authenticity, thus the events described herein may have occurred, or they may have been invented to some degree or other.

Regardless, and whether or not everything written might be completely fictious, the substance of the prose written by Ferraiolo is as addictively, and therein irresistibly engrossing as any novel has any right to be, whilst at the same time bringing forth a powerfully gripping story about a man who only kills those who deserve to die.

For this is his judgement of these people because of what they have done to harm the innocent. For his assessment of the people he has killed is correct or, at the very least, morally defensible. This is, at any rate, what he tells himself.

About the Author - William Ferraiolo received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. Since then, he has taught philosophy at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. A practicing Stoic, Ferraiolo has published numerous articles in a variety of professional and academic journals. His bestselling first book, Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure, was published in 2017. William lives in Lodi, CA.

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Overview: Humankind has the capacity and know-how to create Earth-honoring cultures in a new way for new times. By tapping into ancestral memories, taking what’s best from the human potential movement, and collaborating with present-day indigenous peoples, we can find our way home.

Practicing the key ingredients of a lasting culture is an ecstatic way to live. This book shows you how.

Verdict: Having founded Sacred Earth Network (SEN), a visionary not-for-profit environmental advocacy group, author Bill Pfeiffer (aka Sky Otter) has always followed his own heart, his own self-induced directionality when it came to his always-on-point Earth-honoring culture.

Indeed, his innate dedication and all-embracing passion to heal our alienation from the natural world around us led him to write Wild Earth, Wild Soul, which is itself an invitation to remember our essential self and reclaim the wisdom that springs from our innate earthliness.

It has been more than 10 years since the first edition of this book presented readers with a novel idea: Why don’t we modern humans practice the successful cultural skills of our indigenous ancestors?

In so doing, we can experience a busting out - even for only ten days during a Wild Earth Intensive or similar - of the restrictive confines of economic necessity, the jarring speed of Internet, and actual highways, and the malaise born of an ancillary sense of separation from other human and the natural world.

Thus this second edition continues to tap into the teachings of our ancient ancestors and traditions that kept them aligned with the Earth, showing us that together we also can reconnect with the Earth and begin to share in the joy and expansiveness of life. That together we can co-create a culture that honors, protects and restores the vibrancy and health of ourselves and our Earth.

Is there truly the potential to once again hear the Earth’s heartbeat, to feel in our bones the sublime wisdom Nature offers so freely and generously? Well, reading this book will most assuredly open your eyes and ears to dutifully cultivated steps laid out to forward advancement of our lives and of our children’s lives.

And closing on words spoken by Sky Otter himself, “Wild Earth, Wild Soul is an offering plate to the ancestors, human and non-human. We do stand on their shoulders and from truly knowing that powerful vantage point, can see vistas of unparalleled, creative possibility.”

About the Author - Sky Otter, formerly Bill Pfeiffer, is a maverick deep ecologist, spiritual coach, and shamanic guide. He has dedicated his life to building Earth-honoring cultures. He lives in Putney, VT.

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Overview: In this neo-Victorian novel set in the fictional county of Duncain, spiritualism impacts an Anglo-Irish family. Following the death of her father, Alice Crofton returns to her family’s crumbling house, believing she will settle the estate and leave.

But nothing in Duncain ever truly leaves. In her absence, spiritualism has gripped the rural county and charismatic mediums have encroached into the household, setting their sights on Alice’s family - and her inheritance.

Verdict: With everything not as it once was, Alice tries to hold on to her family and her sanity as hysteria and hauntings take over all she once knew.

Written in gothic and ghost story traditions, Begotten’s dark - and sometimes humorous - narrative raises questions about the trustworthiness of one’s senses and the very nature of ghosts.

The thing that instantly drew me into the world that author Kate Cherrell had created here within the pages of her enthralling new prose Begotten: A Gothic Novel, was that gothic typically brings to mind a sense of mystery, intrigue, and the supernatural, often associated with dark and decaying environments.

And believe me when I say that this book provides all that and more to colorize the cerebral landscapes that are being drawn for us to aid our imaginations in believing her characters could actually exist within, but what Cherrell has also managed to do for us is further that feeling by evoking feelings of genuine fear, suspense, and a dreaded sense of unease, as well as the exploration of dark themes like death, malignant madness, and the supernatural, of course.

A gripping debut of a book from start to finish, I personally read it cover to cover in just two sittings and can proudly add that I wish the book had been double the size that it is as I just didn’t want this magnificently sculpted book to ever come to an end.

Steeped in a pool of gothic traditions, yet none of them here are used as well worn tropes, moreover they are delivered with newly-invigorated veins of spirituality, a beautifully woven tapestry that showcases an emboldened literary aesthetic of fear and haunting that has to be read to be truly admired.

In closing, I simply cannot recommend this book highly enough and so if you like this genre of prose, buy this book TODAY!

About the Author - Dr Kate Cherrell is a writer and researcher specializing in popular séance and 19th century spiritualism. She has been published internationally, writing commercially and academically on paranormal history. She has blogged under the name Burials and Beyond since 2017, and as a paranormal historian, she has co-hosted Haunted Homecoming (2022) and Unexplained: Caught on Camera (2023). She lives in Louth, UK.

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Overview: Comprising three interlinked novellas, Bridge of Dreams: A Speculative Triptych centers around a young woman who embarks upon a spiritual quest over the span of three different lifetimes.

Verdict: In Gwendolyn Greene and the Moondog Coronation Ball of 1957, the Soviets are preparing to launch a dog into orbit. The Americans, in an attempt to stay competitive in the space race, select a remarkably intelligent dog owned by a 14-year-old girl from rural Ohio. But only Gwendolyn can explain the mystery behind her beloved canine’s extraordinary gifts.

Hilda Whitby and the Heavenly Light of 1857, takes place in an Ohio frontier town and concerns the trials and tribulations of a brilliant female chemist who has just lost her son to a devastating explosion. Wanted for questioning by authorities, Hilda travels along the Erie Canal, meeting an assortment of curious characters until one fateful night when she faces a strange destiny inside a cave.

In IMPETUS 13 and the Constitutional Crisis of 2057, a timid college student and an assertive professor of creative writing set out on a road trip only to discover what appears to be a flying saucer stranded deep in a remote canyon.

With his short stories and essays having appeared in nearly one hundred literary journals, author Kevin P. Keating now brings forth a quite enticing triptych - a work of art, typically a painting, sculpture, or carving, that is divided into three sections or panels, often hinged together - in which these three interwoven stories include a dog bound for space, some interdimensional portals, a driven chemist, UFO’s and more!

A masterful combination, nay seamless blending of science fiction and historical fiction, with an underlying nod to a Cold War moral attitude veined throughout, Bridge of Dreams: A Speculative Triptych is indeed speculative non-fiction, sure, but with each and every page turned you could be forgiven for believing that you were reading something more fictionalized, invented by his imagination, irrespective of the question of its truth; albeit a landscape sculpted from inquisitive trails across time.

About the Author - After working in the steel mills of Cleveland, Ohio, Kevin P. Keating became an instructor of English at several colleges and universities. His short stories and essays have appeared in nearly one hundred literary journals. His first novel The Natural Order of Things was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. He is the recipient of several literary awards, including the Cleveland Arts Prize, the James Thurber House Award, and a Creative Workforce Fellowship. He lives in Fairview Park, OH.

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Overview: In our hasty everyday life, we often forget how the simple things give the biggest results. In this book, you will discover not only how to make your life easier, remove the wrinkles under your eyes - for 1.20 leva - and fix cracked heels without expensive treatments but also what kind of water is good for you, what cellulite is and how to get rid of it, what varicose veins are and how to remove them, why you’re irritable right before your period, and how to be happy and satisfied by the life you have. And trust me - many people dream of your life!

Verdict: In short, A Shockingly Useful Book: Everything Is in Your Hands will make your life easier so I implore you to buy it today and find out how much more time you have for yourself. Indeed, fall in love with the life you live because, guess what, you deserve it!

Known for her trainings for dropping the metabolic age, extending life, tissue and organ regeneration, losing weight, preparing diets, post-partum recovery, strengthening the posture, healing varicose veins, acne treatment, tightening the facial contour and removing dark circles, wrinkles, double chin and many more related to health, the founder of the Belchevi Health Academy and SEMMA is not only all that - along with being an author and lecturer - but is a most glorious mother of two.

Here now with the republishing of A Shockingly Useful Book, Emiliya can boast having released three books overall, but if I told you there was a surprise awaiting you all at the end of this new repress, well, would that entice you even more to make the purchase of it today (even though you might have this original already within your collections)?

As the book clearly shows, you don’t have to do a thousand weird, time-wasting things to be in shape. It’s all very simple. Stop harming your body and it will regenerate itself. In 2019, she reveals she was 31 years old and yet her metabolic age was 14. This is the age of your tissues and organs. And it has nothing to do with actual time for you cannot steal a twenty-fifth hour in a day for yourself, but you can steal a year, two, three ... ten, if you know how!

In closing, I myself have had bodily breakdowns - including three back surgeries, numbness, tingling and more - for decades now, but having read this book about changing my routine habits so that I can be healthier, well, the things we compulsively do every day, 365 days a year, may well try to define me, but no longer are they the master of me.

Don’t neglect yourself! You are the most important one! Take care of yourself! Magic, as Emiliya lovingly states, is not inexhaustible, and you need to know how to recharge it. Don’t wait for the cup of emotions to overflow, nor for your strength to run out. There is no better day than today!

With her mission being to prolong people’s lives and change the world together, I implore you again to purchase this book and get ready for a different life viewpoint to quickly present itself to you. For feeling good is amazing! And you owe that to yourself today!

About the Author - Emiliya Belcheva is a regular speaker at professional forums, conferences and seminars, covering topics such as: recovery after pregnancy and giving birth, correction of spinal curvatures, insulin resistance, hashimotos, weight loss, varicose veins, severe swelling, constipation, digestive problems, inability to conceive, depression, panic attacks and other health problems.

She is the author of six books in her native Bulgarian language, and the only Bulgarian woman who has patented her own sport (the methodology behind it is to cure spinal curvatures, varicose veins, panic attacks, how to properly lose weight and stay fit, and much more). She lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Overview: What Lies Beyond answers two questions: What’s beyond the functional, mechanistic, and materialistic conceptions of life and consciousness? And why does that matter today?

Verdict: From an overview of paranormal and mystical experiences - in the context of the prevailing mechanistic, materialist view of mind and life - to exploring why the mystery of consciousness remains hard and the reasons for doubting that this mystery will be resolved in mechanistic terms, this book aims to encourage open enquiry.

For the reader who feels a bit lost, alienated, or disturbed by today’s aggressive scientism and technology worship, these pages offer alternative, more open approaches that reject neither science nor technology but rather insist upon a more humanistic outlook that’s sensitive to the vast but often hidden range of human experience.

For me, I have always been overtly curious about any and all things that relate to paranormal and mystical experiences, but here in What Lies Beyond: Consciousness, Science, the Paranormal, and the Post-Material Future by author Matt Colborn, the subject matter is deep dived into from a varying amount of angles and therein brings forth an incredibly thoughtful, dutifully designed book for us all to ourselves to, well, deep dive into.

As we all know, paranormal experiences encompass events or occurrences that seem to defy scientific explanation and are often attributed to supernatural or magical forces. Mystical experiences, on the other hand, are deeply personal and subjective encounters that involve a profound sense of connection to a higher power or a transcendent reality. While both involve experiences beyond everyday perception, they differ in their nature and interpretation.

Thus what Matt expertly does here is ask us to pay dedicated attention to both of these when seeking alternative worldviews to blinkered scientific materialism, for they not only have the potential to help and guide us with what life has planned but grant us an instructively grounded understanding of the world and its workings, as a whole.

About the Author - Matt Colborn is an author, lecturer, broadcaster and artist with an academic background in cognitive science and consciousness studies. He lives in Bourne, UK.

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Overview: Steve Burgess didn’t set out to become one of the world’s most experienced hypnotherapists and past life regression specialists. Little did he know that when he fell into the profession by accident it would be the start of a strange odyssey that would change his life beyond recognition, and he would be facilitating therapy sessions in previous lifetimes in order to heal the emotional root causes of illness.

Verdict: Here in his brand new book entitled The Adventures of a Hypnotherapist - Was I Under?, author Steve Burgess recounts stories of the power of hypnotherapy and regression therapy in his most memorable and jaw-dropping cases from over 15,000 therapy sessions.

Included are stories on doing major surgery without any anesthetic, helping clients to heal cancer and other physical illnesses, exploring alien contact experiences and releasing spirit attachments, along with his own adventures spending time in prison with Britain’s most violent prisoner, performing therapy on the Great Wall of China and the Inca Trail in Peru and spending the night in his own grave.

I guess being one of the world’s leading hypnotherapists and past life regression specialists would indeed enable someone to store up an incredible amount of stories in relation to the practice provided, but here in The Adventures of a Hypnotherapist - Was I Under?, what Steve does is not just mechanically recount them, he brings forth an impassioned expose into what happened and why.

Having been a full-time Hypnotherapist in East Yorkshire, England and Norway since 1992 and in that time having completed over 15,000 one-to-one therapy sessions, that most assuredly gives Steve the right to bring forth this prose of platform, for it is one where he tells the factual story, but also intertwines it with his own challenges; all lovingly woven together with barbs of sincerity, wisdom and even humor.

For as he himself fully admits, being a Hypnotherapist is not an easy job; day after day hearing his clients’ stories which are sometimes harrowing in the extreme and then holding the space and guiding each client to a hopefully successful resolution of their issues.

It takes determination, stamina, and an open heart to work in this way, but having good therapy techniques can make all the difference to success. And so Steve’s many years of experience have enabled him to provide this impassioned, wholly dutiful and resoundingly engrossing new book to the masses now in a way that should quickly become essential reading for any and all people with an interest in the workings of the mind and soul.

So come discover why Steve has devoted his life to helping others heal by using the extraordinary power of their subconscious minds here within the most expertly crafted new pages of The Adventures of a Hypnotherapist - Was I Under?

About the Author - Steve Burgess is one of the world’s leading hypnotherapists and past life regression specialists. He has completed thousands of past life regression sessions, helping his clients with a wide range of issues including phobias and anxieties, depression, addiction, physical illness and performance anxiety.

His work involves using hypnosis to regress people back to the emotional root causes of their problems, often back into previous lifetimes. His YouTube channel Hypno4all features free hypnotherapy recordings. Steve divides his time between Yorkshire, UK and Norway.

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Overview: Past Life Awakening contains seven in-depth case studies of real spiritual regressions that cover hypnotherapy, past-life regression, between-lives regression, and spirit releasement therapy, including earthbound spirits, dark entities, and ETs.

Verdict: These cases here within Past Life Awakening: Seven Regression Case Studies Illustrate Seven Spiritual Laws illustrate how spiritual therapy is done, from the initial context of the issues to the enlightening stories that clients discover in hypnosis about the root causes in past lives, in other dimensions, and with entities.

The seven spiritual laws reveal how to get effective therapeutic resolutions and the ultimate messages from the sessions so that they help both healers improve their practices and people along the path of spiritual awakening.

Simply put, what these studies showcased here within author Mark Beale’s new book (should) do is not only captivate us, bringing curiosity abounding within us, but have us inwardly reviewing our own lives, awakening our own inner wisdom to check in on our soul’s growth and its prospective evolution therein.

You see, in modern therapy lessons we can also discover past lives, spirit guides, our soul group and soul council, and therein uncover spiritual truths. We can also discover entities like earthbound spirits and extraterrestrials, or dark spirits that attempt to divert those on a spiritual path.

We don’t have to overlook them, or fear entities, for we can also regress them to their past karmic actions, and trigger realizations of laws and truths that help heal them, and so us too.

On a side note, I like to think of myself as a pretty open-minded person and so having been given the opportunity to try past life regression therapy (PLRT), I eagerly jumped in with both feet. I won’t bore you with the whole experience, or if it worked for/on me, but I will say that with the belief behind PLRT being that we all have consciousness, and we all have a soul, surely nobody should be discomforted by such an exploration.

Indeed, and as it was further explained, the soul is believed by many, including myself, to be a collection of energy from the spirit world. Once we create this soul, we depart on our own journey or cycle of reincarnation. It is also believed that our stream of consciousness, or our list of past lives, is real but energetic, existing in a nonphysical realm. When in trance or hypnosis, you are able to utilize your intuition with the help of a guide to become aware of past life events and details.

That said, spiritual regression is not wholly about intellectualizing received knowledge or thinking you know and telling others the answers. It’s about asking questions, while people are in a hypnotic state, to meet with their own experimental subconscious inner wisdom. Incisive questions become like koans, that cut past conditioned answers.

Are past lives and awakening fact or fiction? Find out more on the subject here within the most glorious pages of the brand new book Past Life Awakening: Seven Regression Case Studies Illustrate Seven Spiritual Laws.

About the Author - Mark Beale is a hypnotherapist and teacher specializing in past life and between lives regression, and spirit releasement through his Past Life Awakening Institute. He’s currently travelling in Thailand.

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Overview: Quaker meeting for worship is often described with a focus on silence, but the practice of speaking into the silence, known as giving vocal or spoken ministry, is equally important to a full understanding of how this kind of worship works.

It is also often a focus of anxiety for Quaker communities - is there enough ministry or too much, how do we judge the content of ministry, and how can ministry be improved?

Verdict: With this brand new book entitled Speaking in Quaker Meeting for Worship: What, When, How, and Why author Rhiannon Grant dutifully addresses the many questions about speaking in meetings for worship, providing a practical guide for individuals and communities who want to deepen their meetings for worship with a better understanding of spoken ministry.

For those not aware, Quaker meetings for worship are gatherings where people come together in a spirit of silent waiting and listening, seeking connection with God or the Divine. They are characterized by a lack of external structure, with attendees sitting in silence and sharing messages when they feel led to do so. These meetings are open to all, regardless of their religious background.

A meeting for worship usually lasts for an hour. In Quaker worship there are no ministers or creeds. They first gather together in silence to quiet our minds – they don’t have set hymns, prayers or sermons either.

In the stillness they open our hearts and lives to new insights and guidance. Sometimes they are moved to share what we discover with those present. They call this ministry and it is where they listen to what everyone has to say to find its meaning for all of us. Anyone can give ministry, including visitors.

And so what Rhiannon admirably does here is to not only bring forth a dutifully sculpted prose on the Quaker custom itself, but moreover entwines her knowledge with all aspects of our worshipping lives. A task perhaps not handled quite so eloquently, nor with as much impassioned practicality before, the book itself is one that has the over-arcing ability to both relax you and yet openly teach you at the very same time.

For in the quiet we look for a sense of connection. This might be a connection with those around us, with our deepest selves, or perhaps with God. As we feel this sense of encounter grow stronger, we may begin to see the world and our relationships in a new way. Our worship may take us beyond our own thoughts and ideas to help us respond more creatively to the world around us.

In closing, I urge you to purchase this book, as it was designed for anyone who would like to further understand Quaker meeting for worship better, especially how spoken ministry relates to the silence and stillness afforded to it within.

About the Author - Rhiannon Grant lives in Birmingham, UK, and works for Woodbrooke, the Quaker study centre. She teaches on modern Quaker thought, including theology and philosophy. As well as non-fiction work on religion, both academic and accessible, she writes fiction - her first novel, a lesbian romance set in Neolithic Orkney, was published in 2019 - and poetry.

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Overview: Is Mabon a Celtic sun god or a harvest festival? Is he both or neither? This book takes a deep dive into the myths and origins of this enigmatic and multifaceted deity, bringing his neglected aspects to light while offering ways to work with him today.

From the Wild Hunt to the shores of the Otherworld, from Roman Gaul to southern Scotland, discover the many faces of Mabon.

Verdict: Growing up neither of those suggestions were true to me, in truth. For as I was told to believe, Mabon is not actually a Celtic sun god. Instead, Mabon is a Welsh god and, of course, a harvest festival that celebrates the autumn equinox. While the name Mabon is derived from the Welsh god Mabon ap Modron, he is not directly associated with the sun or the harvest in ancient Welsh tradition.

Anyway, that was my understanding of Mabon growing up, but what this new book Pagan Portals - Mabon: Discovering the Celtic God of Hunting, Healing and Harp by author Kelle BanDea effectively does is deep dive into the Celtic mythology behind Mabon, diligently unearthing the knowledge that has long since been afforded us, yet examining it all now through an academic, and yet wholly practical new lens.

Fleshing out the fabled history of the deity a little more for newcomers, Sophie Swan [Sea Witch Botanicals] says: Mabon (MAH-bon), otherwise known as Mabon ap Modron, is more than just a character in Welsh mythology. His name literally translates to ‘the divine son of a divine mother.’ Furthermore, this Mabon is scarcely mentioned beyond a singular tale in the Mabinogi (often called the Mabinogion), a medieval collection of Welsh prose from the 11th and 14th centuries.

The Mabinogi primarily features tales about mothers or goddesses who are separated from their sons, and their sons, who are destined for great leadership as heroes or kings. Considering this parallel to Mabon’s mythology, it seems quite possible that Mabon had something to do with the naming of the Mabinogi. While these tales likely could have been used in instructing sons of noble lineage on how to conduct themselves as men, it’s clear the stories had existed in the surrounding culture for much longer.

Indeed, Mabon ap Modron may be related to a Gaulish Celtic deity called Maponos, as both the names Mabon and Maponos mean ‘divine son,’ ‘divine youth,’ or ‘great son,’ where Modron simply means mother, or the aforementioned ‘divine mother.’

About the Author - Kelle is a neurodivergent writer of Traveller heritage. A long time pagan, she holds postgraduate degrees in Feminist Theology and Creative Writing, is a trained spiritual celebrant and psychotherapist. She writes a regular column at Feminism and Religion and has been published in various pagan and spiritual magazines. She also writes fantasy fiction under a pseudonym.

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Overview: The challenges of everyday life, love life, and setbacks as three women’s lives are forever changed, having sought solace at the door of psychic medium Mrs. Lamper. They say, Every dog has its day. Will these three women have theirs?

Verdict: Early in 1990, three women of different ages and lifestyles cross paths in the most innocent way. Ivy, a lone spinster whose fantasy world gets out of hand; Clara, an employee at Georgie’s hair salon, who finds herself alone and pregnant; and Georgie, whose choice of men brings loan sharks to her doorstep.

Their worlds become interwoven, as conflict arises between them due to white lies and unusual occurrences. Ivy feels that she is wasting her life, following the death of her mother whom she lived with all her life. But soon she discovers that her deceased mother is guilty of an unforgivable betrayal and her world comes crashing down around her, as her beloved mother becomes the subject of her wrath - the cause of Ivy’s life of missed opportunity and fulfillment.

As Ivy becomes a regular at Mrs. Lamper’s weekly seances, she returns to seek solace as she struggles with despair and years of being kept in the dark. Georgie Robinson also seeks help from Mrs. Lamper, as her world spins out of control. And Clara’s pregnancy, fathered by Georgie’s feckless ex-partner, further complicates Georgie’s life, as loan sharks close in and use covert means to access the women’s lives.

None of the women is aware of the others’ contact with Mrs. Lamper. But with a little help from the other side, this connection will send them on a roller-coaster journey where actions have consequences. But where will the journey end?

In what is a most enthralling new novel from author Julie Conrad, being a man, going in I thought the aforementioned female-skewed subject matter would have me dragging my reading heels, so to speak, but far from it. For it caught my imagination’s curiousness almost immediately and through a most engrossing series of linkages and construed twist and turns I found myself knee deep inside a world that I truly felt was real. As if I were simply reading a journal article about these three women and the variety of ongoings that befall them.

It actually turned out that To Everything There Is a Season is as gripping, as effectively intelligent a read as anything I have had the pleasure to pick up in the past year or more. For this isn’t just a story of three women bumbling about, life aimlessly befalling them to enable the plot to meander towards its reader preordained finish line.

Far from it, as what we have here is a tautly captivating psychological thriller, if you will, and one that from the beginning to its very twisty-turny end means that its diligent captivational skills will make this a hard book to put down once each chapter comes to a close.

About the Author - Julie Conrad lives in Cheshire, UK. When she isn’t writing novels, she enjoys painting with acrylics and is a member of the Altrincham Society of Artists. A retired social worker and Regulatory Inspector, Julie was also a Practice Teacher in the training of student Social Workers.

Julie has featured in the Manchester Evening news and Wigan Observer and has been interviewed a number of times on local radio station, Radio Alty. Julie loves nature and supports animal charities, RSPCA, PETA and other grass root charities, and believes in kindness to all.

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Overview: Mature Flaneur in New Zealand: Slow Travels in the Land of the Kiwi by author Tim Ward is a humorous, meandering prose of a journey through the many hidden wonders of the other down under!

Verdict: A humorous, meandering journey through the many wonders of New Zealand in ninety days. Flâneur is French for one who wanders, and in this sequel to Mature Flâneur: Slow Travels through Portugal, France, Italy and Norway, author Tim Ward and Teresa (his intrepid spouse), travel the length and breadth of New Zealand in an electric vehicle, exploring wilderness and wildlife, mountains and beaches, architecture and culture, geological and biological oddities, and the challenging dynamic of the nation’s two peoples.

Having just finished reading this most enthralling of venturing books, I can most definitely attest to the fact that Tim has a keen eye for detail and an adventurous spirit that brings every nook and cranny of his trek through New Zealand to vivid life for the reader to enjoy alongside him.

For if you have not visited the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga, this book should be just the ticket to get you inspired enough to book a trip there soon!

Matter of factly, New Zealand (Aotearoa in Maori) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean and aside from all that you may have seen in documentaries, movies and TV shows, what Ward does here in his individually delightful way is bring forth not just obvious sightseeing forays, but moreover educates us with historical knowledge and cultural insights galore, all wrapped up snuggly within a most enrapturing narrative prose.

Tim is alive and alert to every thought and sensation sparked by his travels here in New Zealand and as much as there are also pockets of spiritualism veined within his storytelling, it’s the way he buffers these moments with a curiously entertaining, at times impressionable childlike sense of wonderment about all he is surveying that makes this book his; and now ours.

About the Author - Tim Ward is the author of eleven books, including Mature Flâneur, Pro Truth, The Master Communicator’s Handbook and the best-selling What the Buddha Never Taught. Tim is the publisher of Changemakers Books. He also co-owns Intermedia Communications Training with Teresa Erickson, his wife and business partner. They are digital nomads, based in Europe.

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Overview: The Chladni Progression: The Power to Heal is a gripping tale of technological marvels, ethical dilemmas, Eastern philosophy, and the enduring power of love and resilience.

Will the forces of good triumph, or will the relentless pursuit of Quantum Medicine’s scientific breakthroughs lead to betrayal and destruction?

Verdict: The answers lie within Blaise Manning’s quest to save his 5-year-old daughter, Tessa, and his best friend, business partner, and brother, Max Gould, when modern medicine and Western science declare them both lost causes.

To save the only two people in the world who matter to him, Blaise recruits six of the world’s leading research scientists and the help of Tenzin Samten, a Tibetan monk with a mysterious gift.

Tenzin’s inner voice communicates a primordial vibration with the power to connect with everything - a force imbued with the power to heal and the capacity to destroy. Together, they will push the boundaries of scientific discovery and the human experience to the very edge.

In what is one of the most captivating reads I have had the pleasure to settle in over a period of consecutive nights over the past few years or more, The Chladni Progression: The Power to Heal, an Occam’s Edge Novel by author T/R Ellison is a book that seamlessly bonds family and friends within a meticulously woven exploratory insight of technology and science via a soul-wrenching odyssey.

The Chladni Progression: The Power to Heal, an Occam’s Edge Novel is a near-future science fiction novel set in the summer of 2000. For many readers, this may be a time before you were born, but think of the wonder of that time, the baby steps to today’s A.I. tools, gaming systems, autonomous vehicles and the challenges we again face with the prospects of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) looming large.

With the dawn of the new millennium, and having survived the Y2K scare, the world turned its attention to the dawn of the new millennium brimming with the technological possibilities. Imagine exploring the wonders and challengers of the consumer technology revolution. Then and now, events like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas showcases pioneering innovations from technology companies proffering first-of-their-kind gadgets, gizmos and gidgets.

But amidst the enthusiasm, most of us barely, and rarely, stopped to consider the ethical implications of unrestrained technology advances. There was/is legitimate cause for alarm, raised by some; ignored by many. How would the relentless pursuit of technology impact society? Would technology consumption with its voracious demands for ever faster, smaller, better versions benefit society, the individual or would it, could it, hasten our own obsolescence?

This is the premise that asks the reader to think differently, ask different, better questions, challenging outdated paradigms and envisioning a future where bias and disparities are just a footnote to History, a relic of the past. For what we get here is a gripping action prose, one that unfolds as an ever-intriguing coming of age mystery, and all done with in-depth characters that, for the most part, you will adhere to and at times, even route for.

The original Occam’s Edge draft was penned in the early 2000s during an immense time of change, echoing the post-9/11 world, and in the author’s personal journey. The Chladni Progression trilogy draws inspiration from both Eastern and Western medicine, weaving science and fiction throughout the narrative.

And it is wise for me to conclude this review with the fact that whilst rooted in real-world advances in sound-based medicine and healing practices, the story brought forth here remains a work of fiction with characters and events born solely from the author’s imagination.

About the Author - As a versatile creative, I strive to integrate my diverse interests into my writing, conveying rich visual textures and exploring novel concepts in medicine and technology. Creativity has always been an integral part of my life in all its manifest forms, from building scenarios to coaching teachers on innovating science for young children.

I am the inventor of record on six image-based technology patents designed to support early disease detection. I am not a one-horse pony (which is an actual line from The Chladni Progression - The Power to Heal). Dominant themes in my work include juxtaposi.

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Overview: Nicholas Hagger’s Collected Poems contained 30 volumes of his poems, and Life Cycle and Other New Poems contained volumes 31–34. Together they reflect his quest along the Mystic Way, and the vision of unity and harmony to which it led.

The Oak Tree and the Branch contains volumes 35–41 and continues his presentation of apparent conflicts and the underlying unity of the universe within his Arcadia.

Verdict: The Oak Tree and the Branch sees the UK’s departure from Europe as a lopped branch from the Tree of Tradition of European civilization. The Tapestry dwells on his rootedness in the past, especially in the Tudor time.

A Plague in Arcadia: Oneness with Nature and the Universe presents a host of nature poems in his local Fairmead’s Arcadian paradise during the spread of coronavirus, the Covid plague. An Oval Cloud presents a sequence of encounters with an oval cloud seen behind his closed eyes, which he tries to understand.

Court Poems: More Royal Classical Odes includes Royal events: a wedding, two funerals and a coronation, and another lopped branch. In Arcady: A Gong and Padded Stick surveys his Providential life. And the harrowing Agony in Arcady: Stroke wrings from him the whole range of emotions as he comes to terms with his daughter’s severe stroke (another lopped branch) and heroic endurance.

As I think we all know by now, author Nicholas Hagger is much more than just that: he is a British poet, man of letters, cultural historian, and philosopher123. He has lectured at universities in Iraq, Libya, and Japan, and written more than 50 books on history, literature, and philosophy23. His literary works include collected poems, epics, mock-heroic poems, verse plays, masques, and collected stories.

In what is a quite masterful new compilational prose from the prolific Hagger, being British myself, what I particularly find the most impressive - although the whole compilation is a masterful stroke of lyrical genius - is how he melds an array of questions that have come fast and furious from Brexit, as a whole, and how Britian foreshadowed a more prevalent role within a more supposed united world.

I mean, as one would fully expect, Hagger knows a lot about this, and all the other subjects to hand, his grasp of all the smaller foibles of the machinations along with the much bigger, bolder strokes of the moves made - and still to be made - make for one of the most fascinating, wholly compelling reads that I have had the pleasure to sit down and read; and cover to cover, I will add (albeit over a couple of three weeks, given its 456 pages of an opus in size).

About the Author - Nicholas Hagger is the author of more than 50 books that include a substantial literary output and innovatory works within history, philosophy, literature and international politics and statecraft. As a man of letters he has written over 2,000 poems, two poetic epics, five verse plays, 1,200 short stories, two travelogues and three masques. In 2016 he was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize for Literature, and in 2019 the BRICS silver medal for Vision for Future. He lives in Essex, UK.

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Overview: In Where the Spirit Led, author Brad Burkholder tells the story of five individuals, including himself, who were assembled and directed by the God-oriented channeled spirit of Ramoth who taught them each of their past lives together at key junctures in history to perform several important spiritual tasks in the present to help prepare the way for a coming age.

Verdict: Besides sharing the learning he had acquired during his readings with Ramoth, author Brad Burkholder makes a compelling connection involving Mary Magdalene, King Arthur, and Christianity as we know it today as well as aliens, the nature of demons, the overlooked mistake that has brought about a schism between science and religion, and the author’s life as a reincarnated poet.

In what is a rather compelling read from start to finish, which is rare in and unto itself these days, what the author does - and knowing he himself has had his own experiences - is not go deep into all-things-him, moreover exposes a little explosive bit of it that bonds perfectly with the prose written within these pages, but others who have also had some of the most incredible paranormal events in their lives.

What we get brought forth is an engaging recanting of some of Burkholder’s paranormal activities that happened when he was younger, and a series of happenings that led him to a remarkably honorable woman who channels Ramoth, an evolved, God-orientated spirit who had many lives on earth but now comes forth from his life as a philosopher in ancient Greece.

His book deals with God, angels, demons, ghost past lives upon past lives and connections among them that give unimagined meaning to history. Along with a few friends, all students of Ramoth, he has even dealt with hostile extraterrestrials!

So, as you can now see, Paranormal Perspectives: Where the Spirit Led: My Improbable Journey into the Coming Age and What I Learned contains a story that intriguingly spreads outward in many directions and also showcases how Ramoth has consistently given him, along with Yvonne, a remarkably honorable woman, one who is the closest thing to an angel on earth that the author has ever known.

Because she is a channel, people call her new age, but she buys into very few New Age concepts. What she does has been around since ancient times. Yvonne began as a spiritual counselor, became his friend, then his sweetheart, then for many years my wife and now is his friend again.

In closing, Paranormal Perspectives: Where the Spirit Led is a compelling paranormal read, one that you can either choose to reluctantly believe from the start, become enthralled by as a believer, or follow along due to the hairs rising on your neck prompting you to continue onward. Either way this book is a paranormal retelling that is both gripping and breathtakingly alluring.

About the Author - Born in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, in 1953, Brad Burkholder is a lifelong poet not given much to publication. He studied at James Madison University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Hollins University and has taught at James Madison University and Virginia Western Community College. Also, I have been a Christmas tree producer and a horse breeder. He lives in Bedford, VA.

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Overview: Are you seeking a spiritual path that blends your love of the Earth, your yearning for magick, and your commitment to justice? Are you curious to know how collective power can change not only ourselves but also our world? Do you want to heal the damage that patriarchy does and then step into your power? Feminist Witchcraft is waiting for you.

Verdict: Across history, witchcraft has been about power and our world needs empowered people more than ever. Pagan Portals: Feminist Witchcraft by author Susan Harper is here to guide your journey towards a more embodied, politically informed, authentic life.

Tapping into our personal and communal power is transformational both in caring for ourselves and each other and in using our collective will to create a more just and equitable world for all.

Down the decades, Witchcraft has been feared, mocked and romanticized, but what the author does here within her glorious new prose on the subject, is bring to the fore a deeper understanding of a once underlying, but now a force majeure about the feminist resistance and enduring cultural power that now resides within its formidable movement.

Having been herself practicing Witchcraft and moving in Witchy and Pagan communities for the past three decades, author Harper focuses on feminist witchcraft as relational and political, which allows for all its readers to see the value in distribution of authority and decision-making power across a group rather than concentrating it in a traditional top-down hierarchy.

For Witchcraft is more than just potions, spells, and incantations. Witchcraft at its heart is about power - the power to influence your reality, to exercise control over systems, and to shape the world. While witchcraft looks different depending on cultural context, in every known society where witchcraft is found, it is about the ability to exercise power outside of the societally ordained power structure.

Thus the old, set in its ways male narrative is taken asunder here by Harper in a way that explores the power, persecution and political dimensions of female empowered witchcraft across the years and cultures.

In closing, if you have picked up this book to either check out in the book store or have purchased and are at home now ready to start reading, it’s likely you have read more than one introduction to Wicca or other forms of Witchcraft, and you’re likely asking yourself what makes Feminist Witchcraft different from all those you’ve read before.

If so, this is the book for you. Without a shadow of a doubt.

About the Author - Susan Harper, PhD is an educator, advocate, activist, writer, and ritual specialist in the Dallas Fort Worth, Texas region. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Southern Methodist University and an MA in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies from Texas Woman’s University. She has been researching and writing about Feminist Witchcraft, Goddess Spirituality, and NeoPaganism for more than 20 years.

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Overview: It is entirely possible to develop organizations that excel at change and innovation, while also being attractive workplaces. What is typical of such an organization?

The Dream Organization is characterized by eight features, each presented in its own chapter. The purpose of the book is to show how and why these features improve the ability to change and innovate.

Verdict: The insights presented in the book are rock-solid, while being free of unnecessary technical terms or complicated language. Numerous concrete examples are provided to illustrate and explain the subject matter. These case-examples make it easy for the reader to remember and use key insights in their everyday work.

In truth, author Oscar Amundsen is the perfect person to create this new prose on the subject, given he is a Professor of Organization Studies at Norwegian University of Science and Technology where his research is focused on change and innovation in organizations. Indeed, this includes related topics such as leadership, culture, trust, motivation, and organizational development etc. Employee-driven innovation (EDI) is also a central field for me.

Wherein his goal is to develop research-based knowledge and at the same time make the research concrete and accessible. The point is to make the knowledge useful for creating better organizations. Whether the enterprise is in the public, voluntary or private sector.

Thus his latest book How to Become a Dream Organization: Eight Things Leaders Need to Know to Promote Change and Innovation is insightfully practical, highly engaging and fundamentally accessible. Which all means that this highly engrossing and dutifully thought-provoking book - complete with a slew of clear-thinking examples - not only brings forth a clear understanding of both sides of change and the processes therein, but moreover provides all of us, let alone leaders with clear cut advice that we/they could really use.

In closing, what I myself found the most alluring about this book is its expertly crafted approach to balancing the need for innovation with the creation of a positive workplace culture. Thus it dutifully showcases that achieving business goals may well be the top of the tree goal, but ensuring the workplace remains openly engaging, safe, heartening and inspiring for all its employees is something that runs narratively smooth also.

About the Author - Oscar Amundsen is Professor of Organization Studies at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He lives in Trondheim, Norway.

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Overview: Based on 30 years of meditation and 30 years of political activism, David Edwards provides a simple, direct guide to transforming the emotional pain of ego of anger, resentment, dissatisfaction, boredom, jealousy, craving, and fear into love and bliss through witnessing, watching, and presence.

Verdict: A Sufi tale has it that God plays a joke on us when we’re born. He whispers in our ear: ‘You are the special one!’ The joke is that He says it to everyone. Referring to the works of Eckhart Tolle, Osho, Michael Singer, Steve Taylor, Erich Fromm, Noam Chomsky, and others, A Short Book About Ego describes the three key strategies we use to be ‘special’ the Successful Ego, the Suffering Ego, and the Righteous Ego arguing that the drive to be ‘above’ others is the ultimate root of all misery and prejudice.

Nothing humanizes us like the pain we’re willing to accept and embrace. Nothing dehumanizes us like the pain we’re willing to reject and project onto others. Drawn from in-depth personal experience, A Short Book About Ego argues that the best way to escape from a man-eating tiger in hot pursuit is to stop, turn, and jump into the tiger’s mouth!

An enthralling read about the change of consciousness we all could, nay should contemplate going through, and sooner rather than later, and highlighting the clearest path to freedom through the ancient art of meditation, A Short Book About Ego...: and the Remedy of Meditation is a prose that does much more than that.

For author David Edwards seems uniquely attune to our present world, bringing forth clear and wise teachings on key issues of our times - such as the environment, social responsibility, and working with our emotional afflictions - whilst also blending a fresh perspective on how to meditate with heartfelt encouragement to take the path of compassion and engage in actions that benefit others.

About the Author - David Edwards is the co-editor of the website Media Lens, which has been campaigning for compassionate reporting on human and animal rights, and environmental politics, for two decades. His work has appeared in Tricycle, The Ecologist, Resurgence and New Internationalist magazines. In 2007, he was awarded the Gandhi Foundation’s International Peace Prize.

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Overview: The path to true radiant bliss can feel elusive in our constantly moving, busy era. This transformative guide serves as your luminous beacon, deftly fusing ancient yogic wisdom with insights for contemporary living. Whether you are a yoga beginner or looking to deepen your practice, Radiant Bliss is your indispensable companion.

Verdict: Here within the 350 plus pages of Radiant Bliss: A Transformative Yoga Journey for the Modern Soul, we get to uncover profound insights into esoteric philosophies that offer striking clarity for navigating modern life.

We can also diligently discover the intriguing science behind yoga, with its promise of holistic benefits such as stress reduction, improved strength, and heightened focus. Master essential practices through step-by-step guidance tailored to your unique journey.

Radiant Bliss also extends beyond the physical, unveiling yoga’s profoundly spiritual heart the sacred dance of dynamic movement and soul pervading stillness. You’ll harmonize your life’s trajectory through teachings on ethical principles, breathwork, and more.

Veritably brimming with personal narratives and distilled wisdom, this is far more than a manual. It’s a torch igniting your quest for radical self-discovery, inner peace, and wholeness. Awaken the radiance within and manifest your highest potential.

Thus, and having read this book twice through now, also my partner once, if you give yourself to these pages before you and let this luminous yogic opus light your way to boundless bliss, you yourself might well find that ever so elusive state you’ve longed for is finally illuminated and made accessible.

To delve into the book a little deeper, and what author Sue Bushell - who is herself an Australian author, mythic storyteller, and long-time student of Dru Yoga - brings forth is a magnificently educational, well researched, sturdy prose on the aforementioned radiant bliss via a rather compelling transformative guide.

As I think we all know by now, spiritual knowledge in any form empowers you because it gives you the ability to make informed decisions. Life is a journey and every decision changes the road ahead. But what is that journey and why does it matter? Well, within books like this one, we look to the ancient Yoga teachings to answer these questions.

And where is true happiness? Not just that temporary, fleeting happiness that comes and goes, but that deep and lasting happiness that stays with you. True happiness is there, we just need to know where to find it so we’ll be going on a deep inward journey to discover where that true happiness actually lies.

Bushell invokes some ancient yogic wisdom here, along with everyday daily challenges that we can perhaps use them within, offering practical tools and philosophical insights for personal growth, well-being, and spiritual understanding.

It emphasizes the importance of the heart as the seat of consciousness and the cultivation of qualities like love, compassion, and integrity. By integrating these teachings, practitioners can cultivate resilience, inner peace, and a deeper sense of purpose.

It is said that when she is not writing, Bushell can be found whispering with the wind, practicing Yoga Nidra, or tending the quiet altar of the soul. Much like what this book aims to showcase, even to the most troubled and distracted person on a daily basis, is that her life is calm, it is untroubled, her mind uncluttered and thus still serenely open to achieving positivity and growth within her life.

In closing, this book is more than just a read; it is an interactive guide that invites you into the heart of yoga philosophy, science and practice. Bushell gets up before sunrise to begin her day and bring an early transcendence into her day. Do you?

About the Author - Acclaimed journalist Sue Bushell is a beacon in the yoga and spirituality world. For over 25 years, her dedicated practice has made her a renowned expert in Dru Yoga, a style rooted in Gandhian philosophy. Her extensive training includes a rigorous Ashtanga teacher program, studies at the Hard Light Meditation Centre, and specialized courses for children and teens. She lives in Canberra, Australia.

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Description: Prolific writer and scholar Wes D. Gehring presents Gehring Lost & Found: Selected Essays and what an incredible 300 plus page read it truly is.

For what we have here is a collection of essays detailing the best minds in comedy, from Charlie Chaplin to Bob Fosse. As academic humorist Tom Mullen wrote, “Readers are going to discover new insights about these artists because Gehring is a master teacher as well as an entertaining ... [wit].”

Furthermore: “Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship” – Choice.

And in a 1979 Frank Capra letter to the author, the director wrote, in part, “I thoroughly enjoyed your ‘McCarey vs Capra’ article [included in the anthology]. I must also tell you that we were intimate friends.”

Verdict: I first learned of the author – a distinguished professor at Ball State University – a few years ago when I took my first online course. It was on Slapstick Comedy and he provided many of the lectures. He impressed me with his knowledge and with a half dozen previous books to his credit, mostly on film comedy, he certainly knows his stuff.

So, whether or not you have had the opportunity to read Dr. Gehring’s other books, this brand new one entitled Gehring Lost & Found: Selected Essays is a quite wonderful collections of essays spanning his more than 40 years working in field of film studies.

After a page entitled Film Comedy Is … along with a page and a half of acknowledgments, and then two and a half pages of an Author’s Preface, the book then opens with a chapter on Comedians - in this case, the brilliant pairing of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

As Gehring rightly points out off the bat (subtitled: Comic Antihero Extremes During the 1920s), one couldn’t find two more either unique or different antiheroic types in American cinema than these two during the ’20s.

He goes on to bestow them in righteous platitudes, before we next get his thoughts on both Johnny Bunny and, once again, Buster Keaton (subtitled: Beyond Just Bookends To Silent Film Comedy).

Me personally, I had never heard of the 260-pound Johnny Bunny before so I was immediately drawn in and so found this chapter alone to be very informative.

I won’t go through each and every chapter like this or we’ll all be here for the better part of the month, but a few of my favorite chapters included The Marx Of Time (all about the growth of, of course, the infamous Marx Brothers), America’s Misunderstood Patriot (that focuses on a young Charlie Chaplin), and Fields & Falstaff (which talks about America’s greatest native-born comedian, W.C. Fields and the many, if not fleeting, comparisons between his work and that of Shakespeare’s Falstaff).

Another honorable mention is The Last Patriotic Days of Carole Lombard (which includes a rather haunting photograph of Lomabard posing - having spent the day selling war bonds in Indianapolis - which was also the day before she passed away!), and the chapter Lived Issues vs. Raised Issues (which examines the links between mainstream genres - such as romantic comedy, horror, sci-fi, etc. - and art house movies - like Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal).

And towards the end, the magical, absolutely wonderful chapter of Red Skelton: The Gift of Laughter is a truly genuine diamond to behold, as it is a recounting of Gehring’s keynote address at Ball State University in 1986; when the University conferred on honorary Doctorate of Humanities upon Red Skelton.

A quite prolific, funny, endearing and totally mesmerizing take on Hollywood and all those that make us laugh and cry through the years, simply put, Gehring Lost & Found: Selected Essays addresses comedians, controversy, and decoding the details found in film, incorporating key historical insight along the way.

Highly, oh so highly recommended.

About The Author: WES D. GEHRING is the Distinguished Professor of Film at Ball State University and associate media editor of USA Today Magazine, for which he also writes the column “Reel World.”

Author of 40 film books, their reception has resulted in speaking engagements from the Paris-Sorbonne University, to New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).

Since 2017 he has also been one of Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) on-screen scholars for their summer online classes.

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Overview: The River Blade: A Novel is a remarkable synthesis of Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick, dreamed up in the mind of Ridley Scott.

Verdict: For Cass, it’s a place to escape the dull grind of her lonely life, a place where she can run its twisted laneways and live out her violent fantasies.

For Detective Poe, it’s a beat to walk, a dark, dangerous environment to hunt down his clues and get closer to whoever, or whatever, is haunting its streets.

For Adlai, sitting drunk in a bar on the border between the River and the real world, it’s a place to watch his creation transform from a theatre of heroism into, hopefully, something more vital.

While these three stories intertwine throughout the novel, one thread pulls them together: the nightmare vision walking the streets, a rogue musical virus that infects its users and feeds off their fears, growing stronger with each kill.

Designed to take down the corporate powers of the Grid, a powerful governing entity on the banks of the River, this weapon has gone rogue, harvesting any user it comes across, threatening to collapse the entire structure of the River itself.

Facing this threat, each character is altered, entangled with others looking for something real to hold onto in a world of technology and fantasy.

From the very off, author T.R. Thompson grabs the reader’s attention and very rarely lets it go (and if it does, it is not without a fight, believe me).

In what is a very compelling, confidently alluring, dutifully constructed new story from the Australian speculative fiction writer, we drop into an exciting opening page and sink willingly inward into the infectiously written prose with every page turn thereafter.

The world building that takes place here is incredible, simply breathtaking at times, all of which expertly help bring the vicarious textures of the VR/Sci-Fi world effortlessly to our inquisitive minds.

About the Author - TR Thompson is an Australian speculative fiction writer. When not writing or reading he spends too much time gaming and taking long meandering walks through the forest that always seem to end up at a tavern. He lives in Belgrave on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia.

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Overview: The King of Montréal by author Daniela I. Norris is a most wondrous tale of resilience and adventure.

Verdict: The year is 1800 when Louis-Charles, only fifteen years old, arrives in Montréal. Known to everyone as Charles, he has escaped France aboard the ill-fated packet ship Freedom. Rescued by Basque fishermen, Charles is taken to the port of Montréal and left there to fend for himself as he bears the heavy secret of his true identity.

A story of adventure, resilience, and historical mystery, The King of Montréal takes place in one of North America’s most beautiful cities.

Opening with an acknowledgment to the Mohawk nation - as being recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters of Montréal, which has long served as a place for many First Nations to live, meet and exchange - whilst also recognizing the strong ties that unite the Anishinabek Nation to this territory, which is known by these people as Mooniyang (in Anishinaabemowin), The King of Montréal is a compellingly intriguing, expertly crafted, and diligently guided new novel that had me hooked from the very first chapter.

This quite expertly written and well-sculpted young adult adventure by Daniela is a pure joy to behold. Along the way so much happens to our formidable central character, including the reveal that he is a fisherman-rescued fifteen-year-old teenager who belongs to an aristocratic family in France whose parents were murdered during the French Revolution!

Oh, and he also managed to escape prison, but if I tell you all of Charles’ exploits here it will spoil it for you, so all I will say for now about this part historical fiction / part coming-of-age story is that he is a well-travelled man, who escapes a few trepidatious situations, can speak French and who also manages to find romance with Roisin, an Irish immigrant girl ... all within a serious of short chapters that play out over a crisp 157 page run.

About the Author - Daniela I. Norris, a former diplomat and political writer turned inspirational author and speaker, is the author of three books of nonfiction, four novels and a collection of short stories. When she doesn’t write, read or sleep, she can usually be found shoveling snow somewhere in deepest, darkest Quebec.

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Overview: Angels are our unseen guides, our companions, our teachers, and they’re all around us. Sometimes they make themselves known in the most miraculous ways. This book, Real-Life Angel Encounters: Real People Share Real Stories of Miraculous Encounters by author Christi Clemons Hoffman reveals a few real-life stories of such visions.

Verdict: Angels are real! An overalls-clad angel appears before dawn at a convenience store at a delicate time and is nowhere to be found to thank her. A near-fatal train accident leads to a Near-Death Experiencer becoming a world-renowned composer, author, and artist.

A devastating tornado leads to children having sightings of beautiful angels. Plus over 20 more miraculous encounters. Enjoy miraculous stories from real people from all over the world.

So, do you believe in Angels? Well, in truth, and speaking from a neutral standpoint, whether or not Angels are real is a matter of faith and belief, with no definitive scientific evidence to prove or disprove their existence. Many religions, like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, include angels as part of their doctrines and teachings.

These religions often depict angels as messengers of God, protectors, or beings that carry out divine will. However, from a purely scientific perspective, there’s no way to verify their existence.

That all said, some have argued that Angels had physical bodies, while some maintained that they were entirely spiritual. Some theologians had proposed that angels were not divine but on the level of immaterial beings subordinate to the Trinity. The resolution of this Trinitarian dispute included the development of doctrine about Angels.

Here within the pages of this masterfully written prose on the subject, author Christi Clemons Hoffman has shown how she has put herself on a mission of world domination. How here within these pages she feels compelled to let each and every person on Earth know that: A) We’re not alone; and B) We are much, much more than we think we are. Indeed, there are so much more to us than just the meat suit that we wear, and thus she feels like she cannot rest until everyone knows these facts.

A book that should bring both comfort and inspiration to your lives from the very first moments upon opening the book, generating curiosity and peace whilst instilling a sense of wonderment within the reader, if you have even been the slightest bit curious about Angels and/or the angelic realms that exist all around us, then Real-Life Angel Encounters will, and most assuredly, have you starting to believe, of that you have my word.

So, and even if you’re skeptical that Angels exist, prepare to believe and if you wish to advance your belief, you can also listen to the Real-Life Angel Encounters podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.

About the Author - Christi Clemons Hoffman is the host of the Real-Life Angel Encounters Podcast and the Radiate Wellness Podcast, in its 6th year, both on the MindBodySpirit.FM network. Christi is a lifelong intuitive, channel, teacher, consultant, and Reiki Master whose passion is connecting people with their spiritual “team” through angel communication, animal communication, mediumship, and spiritual coaching. Christi is also certified at Level 3 in QHHT (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique), as developed by Dolores Cannon. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

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