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July 4, 2019
Prophecy by SJ Parris
This is book two of a series with Giordano Bruno (defrocked-friar,
philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist)
starring as master sleuth.
Queen Elizabeth sits on the throne while rumors of her demise
circulate. It is the time of the Great Conjunction when Jupiter and Saturn align,
signaling the cataclysmic end of the age. Fear and uncertainty grip the nation.
France and Spain are eager to exploit any opportunity. Giordano Bruno is on the
run from the Inquisition and under the King of France’s protection in England.
He is also a mole for Elizabeth’s spymaster, Walsingham.
When several murders happen within the palace walls, Bruno
must rely on his wits and his friends to survive. Luckily, he has John Dee
(personal astrologer to the Queen) and the extensive spy net.
A very good historical thriller. Would have liked more astrology, occult material, etc. This is essentially an Elizabethan period, who-dun-it. So, a bit disappointing for me who wanted more depth on Bruno and his inner mind.
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June 7, 2019
Blog Review of Timeless Tulips, Dark Diamonds-
Check out what author and reader, Bianca Gubalke, has to say about my recent release.
June 6, 2019
The Complete Dream Book
By Gillian Holloway
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in
daytime language.
Gail Godwin
I think all of us have wondered about our dreams and their meanings Some dreams are easily deciphered but others leave us puzzled. Throughout my adult life, I’ve tried to journal my dreams but have never been able to keep up the practice for very long. I’m back at it now and went in search of a book that could help give insight into at least the psychological part of the conundrum. And although not everyone remembers their dreams, all healthy humans (who are not taking some drug that interferes in some way), dream every night.
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Author Gillian Holloway, Ph.D., has been working with dreams for decades. Having collected over 28,000 modern dreams and their analyses, she has produced a guide for the modern introspective person looking to learn and grow by observing their dreams.
As many of us recognize, dreams have their own language and becoming familiar with the language allows a deep, penetrating awareness of what’s going on in the submerged iceberg-sized layer of our subconscious. But so does having a basic understanding about how dreams operate in general.
There are life stage dreams- so that teenagers or elders are prone to certain kinds of dreams. Similarly, certain personality types also are more likely to experience certain sorts or categories of dreams. Men and women have different dream themes and settings for dreams. Your choice of profession will also influence your dreamscape. Dreams are largely symbolic and not to be taken literally. This is especially true of death. Death is usually about endings, not actual physical death. Dreams are often overly graphic and disturbing so that they get our attention. Giving them that attention tends to diffuse them. In the same way, recurring dreams shout out for further exploration. But beware-dreaming of a high-school lost love does not mean you should look him up on Facebook!
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Some of the many areas explored in the book can be seen by quickly perusing the chapter headings.
Ch 1: The Dream You
Can’t Forget
Ch 2: Recurring
Elements in Your Dreams
Ch 3: Sex,
Romance, Relationships
Ch4: Understanding
the Characters in Dreams
Ch5: Dream
Symbols
Ch6: Human Body
Ch7: Home &
Other Dwellings
Ch 8: Cars
Ch9: Travel: (Planes,
Boats, Trains)
Ch10: Water and
Other Dream Settings
Ch 11: Animals
Ch12: Nightmares
Ch13: Psychic
Dreams
The book is well-written and easy to understand. Many sections are fascinating. For me, the book brought back memories of long forgotten dreams, as well as moments when I felt I’d never had a certain kind of “commonly” reported dream. I think everyone could benefit from reading the book. It could also spark some lively conversation if you start to ask others about their dream world.
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Dreams are an experience we all have. We can choose to
become conscious of them and use them as tools or we can ignore them. It’s a
life choice we make. In counseling clients, the author has found that dream
analysis is where she has seen the fastest and most effective results therapeutically.
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May 30, 2019
Focus on Everest
This is the time of year when catchy headlines about Everest start appearing. A few days ago, photos circulated showing the traffic jam of climbers going for the summit.
It’s a good time also to remind readers of my book, INTO THE LAND OF SNOWS. Aaron Yeagle (www.BookReviewUniverse.com) made this short introduction for the book.
This is a book of high altitude adventure and spiritual wisdom. Grab a copy at Amazon by following the link below.
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May 16, 2019
TULIP FEVER
There was a time in seventeenth century Holland when the tulip was a hot commodity. The most sought-after tulips suffered from a virus that broke the colors into streaks. Eventually, a whole speculative trade came into existence in which people who bought the bulbs never saw and never possessed them. Traders sold bulbs from catalog drawings like those presented here. Tulip fever reached its height in the winter of 1636 when a single bulb traded as many as ten times in a day. One bulb might sell for as much as a grand house in Amsterdam. Then abruptly in February, there came a day when traders just stayed home. The bubble had burst. Fortunes had been made and lost. Today tulips are a common garden flower seen in spring everywhere. But once they were treasure!
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May 7, 2019
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TIMELESS TULIPS, DARK DIAMONDS: A GHOST STORY
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When fourteen-year-old Lydia travels to Amsterdam with her parents, the last thing she expects is the weird incidents that plague her stay. Curtains flutter mysteriously, and unexplained shadows move through the kitchen unnerving her. But Lydia is more concerned with the potential move to Upstate New York. She dismisses the odd occurrences blaming them on jet lag and the various symptoms of her migraine disease.
When Lydia’s father lands a new job and the family moves to an area first settled by the Dutch, the bizarre happenings continue. Suffering from migraines has never been easy, but now Lydia has to contend with what she may have inadvertently brought home with her.
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April 17, 2019
Notre Dame Photo Gallery
These photos are from a trip to Paris in September 2018. It was the last bit of traveling we did in Europe before returning to the US.
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February 21, 2019
Interview with Michelle Frost
Author of Elephant Songs
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Michelle Frost has written an amazing book detailing her journey as a reluctant psychic. Elephant Songs is the autobiography of her life story from Africa to Scotland and from childhood brushes with spirits to a more mature spirituality. The book is engaging, honest, and very intriguing. Today she joins me to talk about the book and her experiences.
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Why did you decide to write an
autobiography? How did it come about?
My mother was the first person to suggest that I write a book. She felt
I should share my experiences, but every time I tried to write I’d start
thinking about strangers actually reading my life and… I’d freeze up.
Everything I wrote was stiff, deadly dull and
boring. This book is very much owed to my internet friend, Richard Eldredge.
He’s a rare thing – an open-minded sceptic. He’d constantly ask questions and
I’d email back. By the time I’d finished answering all his questions I had 42
emails about my life and my abilities. They became the foundation of my book.
42 is the answer to “Life, the Universe and everything”, according to
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas
Adams. How could I resist that cosmic joke?
Do
you thinking growing up in Africa influenced your on-going spiritual life?
Definitely. Africa is steeped in mysticism and its people are far more aware of magic and the unknown. Things that would be laughed at in the West are still seen as perfectly normal in Africa. I grew up with first hand experiences of witchdoctor curses and cures as well as the legends of magical places and legendary beasts. Anything feels possible in Africa.
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How important was it to your
spiritual development to keep a dream journal?
I’d say that
it helped my self-trust mostly. When I first started a dream journal my
intention was to prove why my dreams came true. I was expecting to find a
rational explanation, but instead all I proved was that I really was dreaming
of things before they happened. Having that proof helped me come to terms with
the fact I had psychic abilities. I’m a rational person at heart and simply
trusting my intuition does not come easy for me. Having my journal to return to
has enabled me to look back over decades and see patterns as well as reasons
that I was completely clueless about at the time.
How did your hospital stay of 2005
affect your abilities?
It was the first of two events that
changed my abilities. I woke up from surgery to find I could “see”
and “hear” at a level I’d never had as an adult. I’d been able to see
spirits as a very young child, but that faded quickly as I grew up. The surgery
seemed to trigger some change. A friend of mine suggested that the anaesthetic
and morphine acted on my brain in a similar manner to the hallucinogenic plants
South American Shamans use.
By “see” and “hear” I
mean a state of awareness that is more clear and real than imagination, but not
literal seeing or hearing.
You had a spirit-guide who revealed
himself over a long period. This experience was far from what is commonly
reported. Can you tell us a little about that? What advise do you have for
others whose experiences don’t match the textbook case?
My
“spirit-guide” (we both know the label isn’t a perfect fit, but to
say more would be a book spoiler) revealed himself after the second major event
to change my abilities. I was writing my second book, Wisdoms of the Light
(sequel to First Light), in 2013. Writing that book changed me. It was an
intense experience and I wasn’t alone in feeling that. A psychic friend of mine
offered to be an extra proof reader. When he finished reading through the first
draft, he sent me a message his spirit-guide dictated for me:
You have grown exponentially of late and it is because of the
book, because of the creative process employed with the book and the unusual
way in which you created characters from self, from “ALL”, from
else-where’s lifetimes, to both create a fascinating narrative and also a
healing, consciousness raising/expanding experience for you.
It was about a week after I finished that first draft that I HEARD
my spirit-guide speak for the first time. HEARD because he was loud, clear and
very real. A life-changing moment I will never forget.
I can’t comment much on “what is commonly reported” since I haven’t
read any books about other people’s experiences with spirit-guides. My advice
to others would be to trust themselves and their “gut feeling” over
anything they read or are taught/told. We are all unique and nothing works for
everyone. If something feels wrong – trust that it is wrong for you and move
on. Same with what feels right. I’d have saved myself a lot of stress and grief
if I’d relied on my gut and intuition more than my intellect.
Your spirit-guide repeatedly tells
you to “think from the heart, not the head.” What does he mean by this?
I
can start by saying what he doesn’t mean, this isn’t about connecting to your
emotions.
Let’s start with some basics. We tend to use the heart as a symbol
of love and emotion, just as we use the brain to symbolise logic and
intellectual deduction. I’d say that modern humans have become exceptionally
“head bound”. We revere the brain and all things related to it: book
learning, diplomas in knowing stuff, facts and figures. And as a result, we
often see emotions as being unstable and more of a weakness than a strength.
My spirit-guide explained that there has to be balance between the
two for any human to be completely healthy and productive, but this
“thinking from the heart” is something more than that. When he says
this, he points or presses his hand on a spot a few inches below my throat; a
place roughly half way between heart and brain. He says this area is where we
hold the energy he describes as “the higher heart energy”. It’s the
place from where we connect to “All” – our higher self, God and/or
the Cosmos. Here is where we experience those feelings we call intuition or
genius; those moments when we simply KNOW something instantly without any need
to mull it over in our brains or run it through our emotional heart.
He constantly nags me about this higher heart thinking. I’m still struggling with this. I’ll have the moment of instantly knowing (higher heart intuition), but then my brain starts asking questions and my emotions run off in all directions like a flock of hysterical sheep.
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Were you ever concerned that writing
a book as deeply personal as this, might open you to ridicule? Has there been
any negative pushback? What about support from surprising places?
I’ve
worried mostly about accidentally hurting or offending anyone, since this is a
book about my life where I do talk about my experiences and people I know,
friends and family. Ridicule doesn’t worry me as much. I was teased for being
skinny and sickly as a kid, laughed at for being overweight as a suddenly
healthy teen and ridiculed for all sorts of things (politics, religion,
nationality, gender, etc.) as an adult. I’m fairly immune at this stage. My
main concern was to keep it truthful without causing harm to others.
So far, I’ve not had any negative pushback. As for support in surprising places… I’ve had a few people contact me to say thank you for writing the book. They’ve all been people who can relate as they’ve had similar experiences. That’s been awesome.
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In a time when it appears more and more of
us are “waking up,” how important is it that stories like yours find their way
into the world?
This is why I agreed to publish in the first place, because people
like my mom and friends said, “this is needed.” I know dozens of
people who have psychic abilities or have had esoteric/spiritual experiences
and been too afraid to admit that fact for most of their lives. That, to me, is
a tragic waste of human potential.
Thanks for being
here today and sharing your journey! For more about Michelle Frost and her work,
check out the links below.
Blog: http://crows-feet.blogspot.com/
GoodReads: http://goo.gl/swYHsB
Amazon: http://goo.gl/KKGKkD
Barnes & Noble: http://goo.gl/QH9tQe
January 17, 2019
ARCs are here!!
I think this is the culmination of the second eclipse this month! Time to start the birth process…
It’s getting exciting. I received a shipment of ARCs (Advance Reading Copies) from the publisher this week. After years of work on this book, I can finally hold it in my hands. Very satisfying!!
January 13, 2019
Buddhism & Quantum Physics:
A lecture on the parallels of early Buddhist teachings and quantum physics.
