MY BOOK IS HERE!

I am proud to finally have the chance to announce that my book, Persephone's Journey, is officially finished! I published through CreateSpace and it will be available on Amazon within a couple weeks. I will post the link when it is ready. The book is also available here: www.createspace.com/3443642.

I created this book first as a personal project for myself, and second as a way to leave my life stories for my children in a neat way. Over time the project developed into the idea of creating a book that others would hopefully find as interesting as I do. I wanted it mainly to be memoir, but specifically to include as many of my life stories surrounding paranormal, psychic, and spiritual events as I could fit into one book. Many more of my experiences didn't make it in.

The book is designed to outline most stories chronologically so as to build a foundation not only for demonstrating a picture of my life, but also to show the development of my beliefs, knowledge, and use of my "sixth senses". Over the years my research in reading as much as I could on these subjects, interviewing authors, and meeting people with similar experiences, one author's work made the most impact on that development. Bruce Moen, author of the Exploring The Afterlife series, teaches us about the use of these nonphysical senses of perception that we all possess, and it was because of his work that my own personal development of my "abilities" became what it is today. I never believed I had special abilities or skills, and in fact I still don't. But I know I am able to use certain senses in such a way that is considered in our society today as much as it has ever been, paranormal. In most common belief systems the word paranormal equates to "abnormal", which in turn equates to "not possible". And it is that kind of thinking which is the biggest obsticle when it comes to learning not only how to use these abilities, but also more importantly that we even have them. They are innate to all of us. They are intrinsic to our fundamental nature as spiritual beings living in this physical reality. And yet we tend to arbitrarily opt for not allowing ourselves to even believe in what is possible. It takes a huge amount of trust and energy to turn that blocking effect around so as to open ourselves up again to the possibilities of what we are able to create and perceive with our very own conscious awareness. No real special abilities, other than the power of consciousness. Sounds mystical, impossible, and difficult? It's no harder than deciding to get out of debt, lose weight, or make any other drastic change in one's beliefs and lifestyle. First you have to want it, then you have to learn how.

I still have a lot to learn. There's still so much I haven't accomplished yet, but I'm on my way. I would have loved to have been able to include more stories of my own personal experience with what Bruce mainly teaches, Afterlife Retrieval. But so far I haven't had many to tell and none quite as impressive as what many of Bruce's workshop participants continue to experience. I'm still learning to explore, still learning to trust and to open myself up that way. They will come, I know that. I've seen enough of my own personal advancement with these so-called abilities to know that whatever I put my mind to, I will be able to accomplish. I used many of Bruce's teachings in my book to demonstrate how my own psychic ability works, without which I would not have the knowledge and use of in any recognizable fashion. For Bruce, I am eternally grateful. I am so proud of him for what he's accomplished and that he is still teaching. I hope he continues to do so for many years to come and that many more people will continue to be inspired by his work as I have. I hope, too, that my experiences will do the same.