Rachel
asked
Rose Rosetree:
Hi Rose, I am currently reading the second edition of Bigger Than All the Night Sky, and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I saw that this latest edition is Book 1 in a new series, called “Use Your Everyday Potential”. The title of this new series is so intriguing! Can you tell us more about how this book relates to us readers using our everyday potential? Thank you, Rachel
Rose Rosetree
Rachel, thank you so much for asking this question. And for asking it WHEN you asked it. (Hey, I’ll explain.)
Long as I’m giving you a preview of the very full answer to follow, my response to your question will include something unusual. Something downright comical, in a human kind of way.
Here comes the rest of your preview.
* Answer Part 1: The series title is actually NOT “Use Your Everyday Potential”. Though, as you’ll see, it’s not your fault you asked your question this way.
* Answer Part 2: Gain more insight into the kind of thing that happens when you publish as a thought leader.
* Answer Part 3: Let’s establish perspective on my different series of books before this new one.
* Answer Part 4: Why do I think so passionately, and feel so passionately, about the importance of using your Everyday-AMAZING Potential?
* Answer Part 5: How did a memoir wind up becoming the first book in this new series.
So let’s have a fine knowledge romp, Rachel and other Goodreaders.
Answer Part 1: Naming a New Book Series Can Be Tricky
Strange but true: This series title is actually NOT “Use Your Everyday Potential.” Though, as you’ll see, it’s not your fault how you asked your question . . . as if that were the series title.
In case any of you Goodreaders thought that publishing a book was easy? As if!
Even when publishing the second edition of a book previously published? Not easy.
One consideration was to work with my favorite book designer to develop a better cover, compared with the cover for the first edition.
I love the new cover. The back cover copy was significantly improved. Both front and back covers and the spine – all so much better. Sadly, though, I was so intoxicated by these improvements, guess what?
Never did I proofread the new series TITLE, right at the top of the front cover.
Originally, that title read: Use Your Everyday-Amazing Potential. However, my talented graphic designer is not as good with words as she is with cover art. So she slipped up and omitted a certain word, a very important word. (We’ll get to that.)
Not only did the graphic designer goof, I goofed as well. It never occurred to me to proofread the full name of the new series title. When Bigger than All the Night Sky was published on August 1, 2024, the series title was . . . wrong.
The kind of goof you would never do on purpose! Except, what kind of a publisher – or person – would ever choose a goof on purpose? 😉
Answer Part 2: Why Is It Extra-Tricky to Publish a New Series as a Though Leader?
Gain more insight into the kind of thing that happens when you publish as a thought leader. Even though this won’t be a lofty kind of insight.
Rachel and other Goodreaders, there are many ways to use creativity. Many books that sell beautifully are similar to another book that become popular first; in facty, the “creative” new book mainly presents existing material, only tweaking the original just a bit. (Absolutely, ask me for an example of this. Although you may find that several examples of this come to mind easily.)
Far less common is this use of creativity: To bring something authentically new into the world. What’s that like? It’s like birthing a baby!
Only, in my experience, what’s different about birthing a new contribution to collective consciousness? Bringing an original discovery into the world means serving as a thought leader. This turns out to be a whole lot more complicated than bringing another human child into the world. (Noted with all due respect to my fellow mothers.)
Over the past half century, I wound up doing thought leadership more often than I ever anticipated. Especially since I never anticipated doing this sort of thing even once.
For example, over decades, I’ve developed a new field for personal development, Energy Spirituality®. Within this field, I have earned 10 additional trademarks. And if you think that little trademark symbol, ®, is just some routine kind of corporate thing, maybe think again. Although many trademarks tweak existing discoveries just enough to get an okay from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, getting a trademark for something original can be a big deal.
-“Intellectual property” this is called.
-“Expanding the History of Ideas” is another name for it.
Yet, for a Publisher, Creating these New Discoveries Can Be Surprisingly Awkward.
Not to go into elaborate sob stories about this. Take it from me, so many things that shouldn’t go wrong DO go wrong.
My experience is that I have routinely encountered this kind of resistance, even though I never anticipated it. Maybe akin to a birth mother who plans a pregnancy, somehow having forgotten what labor will be like. Though she’s definitely, unmistakably, previously, gone through birthing a baby. Ouch.
But No Repining. As a Publisher, You Deal.
Meaning, a publisher fixes mistakes and overcomes obstacles. You persevere. Exactly what I did after discovering my mistake. I contacted my graphic designer who looked at her records and discovered that she had omitted a word from the series title. Graciously and promptly she supplied new cover files.
Not so prompt was changing the covers on Amazon KDP and Kindle. This took repeated attempts and re-do's. Unfortunately, here on Goodreads, the cover couldn’t be changed until Amazon changed it. That’s just how such things work.
In hindsight, Rachel, the joke is on me that you would have asked me the question you did:
“Use Your Everyday Potential”. The title of this new series is so intriguing!
From now on, I’ll be answering a slightly better question:
“Use Your Everyday-Amazing Potential”. The title of this new series is so intriguing! Indeed!
Answer Part 3: Every Series I’ve Published Is an Energy Spirituality® Book
For sure, Rachel and other Goodreaders, I’d like to introduce you properly to the new Series Let’s establish perspective on my different series of books before this new one, beginning with what all of them having in common: Being Energy Spirituality® Books.
Before I referred to this field as “personal development.” We can do better now.
Energy Spirituality helps people like you with personal growth and spiritual awakening, using skills that work now. Now being: In the Age of Awakening.
Many of you already know that our Age of Awakening began on December 21, 2024. You may appreciate that what began amounts to a second consciousness era on Earth. The earlier era being the Age of Faith.
In advance of the Shift into this second consciousness era, I’d spent decades teaching Transcendental Meditation for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This turned out to be an ideal preparation to explore consciousness possibilities in this second consciousness era.
That said, now I can summarize the four different types of publications that have preceded this fifth series. Note: The best listings, by series, will not be found on my Author Page here on Goodreads (superb though it is), nor other locations where my books are listed. Instead, here’s what I recommend:
1Open up the rose-rosetree website.
2You’ll see a horizontal menu. There, click on your second option, BOOKS.
3Scroll-and-read. You’ll find one book series at a time.
SERIES 1: Energy READING Skills for the Age of Awakening
Here you’ll find books that teach the system of Aura Reading Through All Your Senses®. That’s first – and so far only – system that teaches skills of energetic literacy where you can read “chakra databanks.” Also, you can do accurate aura readings with regular photos.
Also mind-boggling is the system of Face Reading Secrets®.
SERIES 2: The Energy HEALING Skills of Energy Spirituality
Countless people who aim to help humanity have learned Reiki or other forms of New Age ENERGY HEALING.
With this series, you can develop skills that work now, in the Age of Awakening. Working far better, and with no astral strings attached.
SERIES 3: Empath Empowerment® Books with Rose Rosetree
Why include my name in this series title? Because of the many copycat authors who try to sell their versions of real-deal “Empath Empowerment.”
Anyway, the four books in this series can take an unskilled empath all the way through becoming a Skilled Empath, and even to becoming a Master Empath. Such discoveries await the 1 in 20 humans who are born as empaths.
SERIES 4: Enlightenment Teaching for the Age of Awakening
All the books in this series help spiritual seekers to move toward using their full potential.
How can you possibly evaluate who is a legitimate teacher of Spiritual Enlightenment?
*I’d recommend that you google “Enlightenment Validation” – and, please include these quotation marks in your search.
*You’ll find even more if you search under Enlightenment Validation (without quotation marks) at the Rose Rosetree blog.
* Either way, you’ll find many articles where I interview some of the folks I’ve helped move into Enlightenment. Quite some education awaits you, Goodreaders!
And now we get to SERIES 5. The new one.
Answer Part 4: What an Idea, Your Everyday-Amazing Potential!
Why do I care so passionately about the importance of using your Everyday-AMAZING Potential?
SERIES 5: Use Your Everyday-Amazing Potential
Books like these could only be written in the Age of Awakening. And why? Because ever since the Shift on Dec. 21, 2012, a second kind of Spiritual Enlightenment has become available.
Well read though you Goodreaders are, chances are you don’t know about this yet. Have you even heard of this second, legitimate, kind of Spiritual Enlightenment?
-It’s called Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
-While, for clarity, I’ve taken to calling the other version Traditional Enlightenment.
A human being moves into one version only. (Your soul will choose for you, so don’t worry about whether you’ll consciously choose correctly.)
Answer Part 5: “Bigger than All the Night Sky” Is a Memoir
How did a memoir wind up becoming the first book in this new series? Why does that memoir open up the prospect of life being Everyday-Amazing?
Because the second edition of this memoir has been edited well into the Age of Awakening, a dozen years into this new consciousness era. Editing, I removed what didn’t belong. As a result, the consciousness truths in this book shine out more clearly than before. Readers of both editions are reporting greater spiritual power, gently packed into the pages.
It also helps that for 12 of those 12 years, I have been living in Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
Regarding Age of Awakening Enlightenment, There’s So Much to Celebrate
Here I’m speaking humanly, going through life one day at a time, one hour at a time, etc. My role as a spiritual teacher, an Enlightenment Coach, is quite different. (Series 4 is about that, right?)
Humanly! I see enormous potential for waking up humanity to the joyful-and-creative quality of life made possible in Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
For a contrasting example, let’s compare this to the stories celebrated in Country Music . Whether hilarious songs like “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off” or songs about serious coping, like “It's Five O'Clock Somewhere.”
One reason I enjoy these songs so much is the sheer humanity. Country Music tells some stories about how joyfully people live. Mostly, though, these story-songs recount how we pick ourselves up when we have to. Since that’s something all of us humans must learn how to do.
But . . . .
What don’t these down-to-earth story-songs tell us about? What it means to live in the Age of Awakening.
Really! Here’s a startling thought: Country Music, like so much in pop culture, consoles people who struggle through life during the Age of Faith.
Yet that first consciousness era on Earth is over. After thousands of years, it is OVER.
If You’re Living Now, Hello! You’re Living in the Age of Awakening
Know it or not, like it or not! Living in Age of Awakening Enlightenment allows all of us to grow faster, both emotionally and spiritually. We’re capable of growing as fast as we choose, provided that we’re willing to pay the price.
By contrast, back in the Age of Faith, nearly all human beings grew at a snail’s pace. At least compared to how we can live now.
Today’s independence of thought . . . And our ability to use free will to personally set our pace for growing . . . . All this is so characteristic of living now, in the Age of Awakening.
Books in this Series 5 document the process of growing faster. Including moments of experiencing God.
-That’s right, not just having a beautiful faith in God.
-But personally having a direct experience of God.
That’s the everyday difference. Granted, such experiences are an ongoing reality after a person crosses the threshold into Age of Awakening Enlightenment. But long before, these experiences are happening more frequently too.
It’s a Tall Order, Bringing this Kind of Truth into Earth.
I’m game, though. I’m game, despite being pretty short physically. (Five feet tall.)
I’m game, at age 76. That is why, every day, Rachel and other Goodreaders, I do what I can to bring more Age of Awakening Truth into Earth. Along with people like you, we can have an impact on society. We can change collective consciousness.
It’s such a privilege, being among the first humans to live in this second consciousness era on the planet.
Yes, a privilege. Well, let’s pay it forward. Back in the Age of Faith, it would have taken hundreds of years to spread the word about the Renaissance, or other cultural growth spurts. What if, living now, we could help suffering humanity to not suffer so much?
Books like this Series 5 of Rose Rosetree’s indie-published books can document this. Just imagine, what could it be like to have everyday life become so amazing, so often. . . that it’s no exaggeration to be able to say this? I live each new day as EVERY-DAY amazing.
Together let’s explore how do that. Because, for some of us, this is the truth of our experience now, true for us each single day.
Let’s bring this knowledge into the world. Let’s do it now.
Join me.
Long as I’m giving you a preview of the very full answer to follow, my response to your question will include something unusual. Something downright comical, in a human kind of way.
Here comes the rest of your preview.
* Answer Part 1: The series title is actually NOT “Use Your Everyday Potential”. Though, as you’ll see, it’s not your fault you asked your question this way.
* Answer Part 2: Gain more insight into the kind of thing that happens when you publish as a thought leader.
* Answer Part 3: Let’s establish perspective on my different series of books before this new one.
* Answer Part 4: Why do I think so passionately, and feel so passionately, about the importance of using your Everyday-AMAZING Potential?
* Answer Part 5: How did a memoir wind up becoming the first book in this new series.
So let’s have a fine knowledge romp, Rachel and other Goodreaders.
Answer Part 1: Naming a New Book Series Can Be Tricky
Strange but true: This series title is actually NOT “Use Your Everyday Potential.” Though, as you’ll see, it’s not your fault how you asked your question . . . as if that were the series title.
In case any of you Goodreaders thought that publishing a book was easy? As if!
Even when publishing the second edition of a book previously published? Not easy.
One consideration was to work with my favorite book designer to develop a better cover, compared with the cover for the first edition.
I love the new cover. The back cover copy was significantly improved. Both front and back covers and the spine – all so much better. Sadly, though, I was so intoxicated by these improvements, guess what?
Never did I proofread the new series TITLE, right at the top of the front cover.
Originally, that title read: Use Your Everyday-Amazing Potential. However, my talented graphic designer is not as good with words as she is with cover art. So she slipped up and omitted a certain word, a very important word. (We’ll get to that.)
Not only did the graphic designer goof, I goofed as well. It never occurred to me to proofread the full name of the new series title. When Bigger than All the Night Sky was published on August 1, 2024, the series title was . . . wrong.
The kind of goof you would never do on purpose! Except, what kind of a publisher – or person – would ever choose a goof on purpose? 😉
Answer Part 2: Why Is It Extra-Tricky to Publish a New Series as a Though Leader?
Gain more insight into the kind of thing that happens when you publish as a thought leader. Even though this won’t be a lofty kind of insight.
Rachel and other Goodreaders, there are many ways to use creativity. Many books that sell beautifully are similar to another book that become popular first; in facty, the “creative” new book mainly presents existing material, only tweaking the original just a bit. (Absolutely, ask me for an example of this. Although you may find that several examples of this come to mind easily.)
Far less common is this use of creativity: To bring something authentically new into the world. What’s that like? It’s like birthing a baby!
Only, in my experience, what’s different about birthing a new contribution to collective consciousness? Bringing an original discovery into the world means serving as a thought leader. This turns out to be a whole lot more complicated than bringing another human child into the world. (Noted with all due respect to my fellow mothers.)
Over the past half century, I wound up doing thought leadership more often than I ever anticipated. Especially since I never anticipated doing this sort of thing even once.
For example, over decades, I’ve developed a new field for personal development, Energy Spirituality®. Within this field, I have earned 10 additional trademarks. And if you think that little trademark symbol, ®, is just some routine kind of corporate thing, maybe think again. Although many trademarks tweak existing discoveries just enough to get an okay from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, getting a trademark for something original can be a big deal.
-“Intellectual property” this is called.
-“Expanding the History of Ideas” is another name for it.
Yet, for a Publisher, Creating these New Discoveries Can Be Surprisingly Awkward.
Not to go into elaborate sob stories about this. Take it from me, so many things that shouldn’t go wrong DO go wrong.
My experience is that I have routinely encountered this kind of resistance, even though I never anticipated it. Maybe akin to a birth mother who plans a pregnancy, somehow having forgotten what labor will be like. Though she’s definitely, unmistakably, previously, gone through birthing a baby. Ouch.
But No Repining. As a Publisher, You Deal.
Meaning, a publisher fixes mistakes and overcomes obstacles. You persevere. Exactly what I did after discovering my mistake. I contacted my graphic designer who looked at her records and discovered that she had omitted a word from the series title. Graciously and promptly she supplied new cover files.
Not so prompt was changing the covers on Amazon KDP and Kindle. This took repeated attempts and re-do's. Unfortunately, here on Goodreads, the cover couldn’t be changed until Amazon changed it. That’s just how such things work.
In hindsight, Rachel, the joke is on me that you would have asked me the question you did:
“Use Your Everyday Potential”. The title of this new series is so intriguing!
From now on, I’ll be answering a slightly better question:
“Use Your Everyday-Amazing Potential”. The title of this new series is so intriguing! Indeed!
Answer Part 3: Every Series I’ve Published Is an Energy Spirituality® Book
For sure, Rachel and other Goodreaders, I’d like to introduce you properly to the new Series Let’s establish perspective on my different series of books before this new one, beginning with what all of them having in common: Being Energy Spirituality® Books.
Before I referred to this field as “personal development.” We can do better now.
Energy Spirituality helps people like you with personal growth and spiritual awakening, using skills that work now. Now being: In the Age of Awakening.
Many of you already know that our Age of Awakening began on December 21, 2024. You may appreciate that what began amounts to a second consciousness era on Earth. The earlier era being the Age of Faith.
In advance of the Shift into this second consciousness era, I’d spent decades teaching Transcendental Meditation for Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This turned out to be an ideal preparation to explore consciousness possibilities in this second consciousness era.
That said, now I can summarize the four different types of publications that have preceded this fifth series. Note: The best listings, by series, will not be found on my Author Page here on Goodreads (superb though it is), nor other locations where my books are listed. Instead, here’s what I recommend:
1Open up the rose-rosetree website.
2You’ll see a horizontal menu. There, click on your second option, BOOKS.
3Scroll-and-read. You’ll find one book series at a time.
SERIES 1: Energy READING Skills for the Age of Awakening
Here you’ll find books that teach the system of Aura Reading Through All Your Senses®. That’s first – and so far only – system that teaches skills of energetic literacy where you can read “chakra databanks.” Also, you can do accurate aura readings with regular photos.
Also mind-boggling is the system of Face Reading Secrets®.
SERIES 2: The Energy HEALING Skills of Energy Spirituality
Countless people who aim to help humanity have learned Reiki or other forms of New Age ENERGY HEALING.
With this series, you can develop skills that work now, in the Age of Awakening. Working far better, and with no astral strings attached.
SERIES 3: Empath Empowerment® Books with Rose Rosetree
Why include my name in this series title? Because of the many copycat authors who try to sell their versions of real-deal “Empath Empowerment.”
Anyway, the four books in this series can take an unskilled empath all the way through becoming a Skilled Empath, and even to becoming a Master Empath. Such discoveries await the 1 in 20 humans who are born as empaths.
SERIES 4: Enlightenment Teaching for the Age of Awakening
All the books in this series help spiritual seekers to move toward using their full potential.
How can you possibly evaluate who is a legitimate teacher of Spiritual Enlightenment?
*I’d recommend that you google “Enlightenment Validation” – and, please include these quotation marks in your search.
*You’ll find even more if you search under Enlightenment Validation (without quotation marks) at the Rose Rosetree blog.
* Either way, you’ll find many articles where I interview some of the folks I’ve helped move into Enlightenment. Quite some education awaits you, Goodreaders!
And now we get to SERIES 5. The new one.
Answer Part 4: What an Idea, Your Everyday-Amazing Potential!
Why do I care so passionately about the importance of using your Everyday-AMAZING Potential?
SERIES 5: Use Your Everyday-Amazing Potential
Books like these could only be written in the Age of Awakening. And why? Because ever since the Shift on Dec. 21, 2012, a second kind of Spiritual Enlightenment has become available.
Well read though you Goodreaders are, chances are you don’t know about this yet. Have you even heard of this second, legitimate, kind of Spiritual Enlightenment?
-It’s called Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
-While, for clarity, I’ve taken to calling the other version Traditional Enlightenment.
A human being moves into one version only. (Your soul will choose for you, so don’t worry about whether you’ll consciously choose correctly.)
Answer Part 5: “Bigger than All the Night Sky” Is a Memoir
How did a memoir wind up becoming the first book in this new series? Why does that memoir open up the prospect of life being Everyday-Amazing?
Because the second edition of this memoir has been edited well into the Age of Awakening, a dozen years into this new consciousness era. Editing, I removed what didn’t belong. As a result, the consciousness truths in this book shine out more clearly than before. Readers of both editions are reporting greater spiritual power, gently packed into the pages.
It also helps that for 12 of those 12 years, I have been living in Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
Regarding Age of Awakening Enlightenment, There’s So Much to Celebrate
Here I’m speaking humanly, going through life one day at a time, one hour at a time, etc. My role as a spiritual teacher, an Enlightenment Coach, is quite different. (Series 4 is about that, right?)
Humanly! I see enormous potential for waking up humanity to the joyful-and-creative quality of life made possible in Age of Awakening Enlightenment.
For a contrasting example, let’s compare this to the stories celebrated in Country Music . Whether hilarious songs like “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off” or songs about serious coping, like “It's Five O'Clock Somewhere.”
One reason I enjoy these songs so much is the sheer humanity. Country Music tells some stories about how joyfully people live. Mostly, though, these story-songs recount how we pick ourselves up when we have to. Since that’s something all of us humans must learn how to do.
But . . . .
What don’t these down-to-earth story-songs tell us about? What it means to live in the Age of Awakening.
Really! Here’s a startling thought: Country Music, like so much in pop culture, consoles people who struggle through life during the Age of Faith.
Yet that first consciousness era on Earth is over. After thousands of years, it is OVER.
If You’re Living Now, Hello! You’re Living in the Age of Awakening
Know it or not, like it or not! Living in Age of Awakening Enlightenment allows all of us to grow faster, both emotionally and spiritually. We’re capable of growing as fast as we choose, provided that we’re willing to pay the price.
By contrast, back in the Age of Faith, nearly all human beings grew at a snail’s pace. At least compared to how we can live now.
Today’s independence of thought . . . And our ability to use free will to personally set our pace for growing . . . . All this is so characteristic of living now, in the Age of Awakening.
Books in this Series 5 document the process of growing faster. Including moments of experiencing God.
-That’s right, not just having a beautiful faith in God.
-But personally having a direct experience of God.
That’s the everyday difference. Granted, such experiences are an ongoing reality after a person crosses the threshold into Age of Awakening Enlightenment. But long before, these experiences are happening more frequently too.
It’s a Tall Order, Bringing this Kind of Truth into Earth.
I’m game, though. I’m game, despite being pretty short physically. (Five feet tall.)
I’m game, at age 76. That is why, every day, Rachel and other Goodreaders, I do what I can to bring more Age of Awakening Truth into Earth. Along with people like you, we can have an impact on society. We can change collective consciousness.
It’s such a privilege, being among the first humans to live in this second consciousness era on the planet.
Yes, a privilege. Well, let’s pay it forward. Back in the Age of Faith, it would have taken hundreds of years to spread the word about the Renaissance, or other cultural growth spurts. What if, living now, we could help suffering humanity to not suffer so much?
Books like this Series 5 of Rose Rosetree’s indie-published books can document this. Just imagine, what could it be like to have everyday life become so amazing, so often. . . that it’s no exaggeration to be able to say this? I live each new day as EVERY-DAY amazing.
Together let’s explore how do that. Because, for some of us, this is the truth of our experience now, true for us each single day.
Let’s bring this knowledge into the world. Let’s do it now.
Join me.
More Answered Questions
Edward
asked
Rose Rosetree:
Here at “Ask the Author” you’ve written, “Better Service to Others Can Help You to Fulfill the Purpose of Your Life". As an empath myself, can learning how to do a Skilled Empath Merge help you to fulfill the purpose of your life, and do it more beautifully than you can now imagine? Please tell us more about that.
Edward
asked
Rose Rosetree:
Hi Rose. One of my friends, Jimmy has recently started reading “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening”. He recently told me it is too hard to read. I cannot relate! To me, your book is remarkably easy to read. I asked Jimmy what he was finding difficult. He said, “I have to work too hard. I read the whole first chapter; there were just too many ideas.” Do you have any suggestions I could pass along to Jimmy?
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