It’s hard to imagine shopping at the local grocery store and encountering a group of spirits in the cracker aisle, yet that was just one step on Beau Maxwell’s fascinating journey to recognizing and embracing her abilities as a Medium. Beau’s story is heartfelt, she has a healthy sense of humor that makes the book enjoyable. I found myself becoming ever more curious about unseen entities as her adventures unfolded. Beau revealed the pitfalls of doing readings at the county fair, the pain of dealing with jealousy from other professional readers, and her bumpy transition into a new line of work that included ghost-busting stuck souls from haunted houses.

What made this autobiography most compelling for me was Beau’s quest to fulfill her purpose. She realizes that this mediumship is her purpose and it’s not going to be an easy path. There are underlying themes of how she is coming to terms with problematic family relationships…we all have those in some form or another. She also is learning that she doesn’t have to share everything that picks up on from the spirits, and she has a few experiences instilled in her a code of ethics about the sharing of information. And who knew there was even a market for ghostbusting haunted houses! Her book made it sound like that was something she does "on the regular!" Beau doesn’t suit up and strap on a proton-pack for her form of ghostbusting, but rather, she evokes a form of spiritual protection she calls “GPC,” ground, clear, and protect. Mostly, she busts the vaporlike beings with love or in a tough-love kinda’ way.   

The Queen’s Code is a bit of an anomaly in that it thinly guises teaching within a fictional story. In fact, the plot is driven by two women, Kimberlee and Karen, learning “man lessons” from Kimberlee’s grandmother.

Remember a book called “The Celestine Prophecy?” The Queen’s Code requires a similar willingness on the part of the reader to trudge through some slow scenes and awkward dialogue constructed specifically to deliver its promised nuggets of wisdom.

My expectation for this book was not riveting fiction. I was reading to gain information about the masculine perspective, and Armstrong’s The Queen’s Code did deliver that. I would even say that the insights shared were enhanced by the story context. The supporting cast of characters helped illustrate challenges a reader might face in living out the Queen’s Code despite the story feeling a bit contrived.

What did I learn?

To my surprise, I had been a “frog farmer,” a woman who turns princes into frogs.

I could suddenly see how women (including myself) unwittingly emasculate men.

I learned specific words and ways of communicating that I could immediately test for myself in my own relationships. And they worked.

I came away with an expanded understanding of men’s needs, and a willingness to allow myself to be freer in exercising my feminine energy. This book gave me a better understanding of what a partnership looks like and how to speak in a way that strengthens that dynamic. Ahh…all those painful therapy sessions…and then one book suddenly “clicks!”

I also loved how Armstrong illustrated that misusing the code could backfire. I respect that her intent is not to spawn man-manipulation seminars, but rather to teach—those who are ready and willing to learn— how to celebrate the aspects of both masculine and feminine energies and how they complement each other.

The Queen’s Code may or may not be the book that resonates with you at this time. But for me, I’m grateful to demystify the masculine and let go of judging it against the feminine. That’s a big relief because it frees me. For that reason, this book gets five stars.

I only recently discovered Neville Goddard, during the pandemic. He has quite a body of work, so I wondered how I could have missed him up until now. In his day, he was considered among the teachers of “New Thought” even though he didn’t claim any particular label. His teaching often includes stories from the Bible reinterpreted from the perspective of its content as a metaphor for psychological truths. In this book, chapter one is titled, not what is your imagination, but who is your imagination? Neville’s perspective is that imagination is synonymous with Christ Consciousness as well as man himself.

He states, “A man can be seen when in imagination he is, for a man must be where his imagination is, for his imagination is himself.” 

He says,” The mystery hid from the ages…Christ in you, the hope of glory, is your imagination. This is the mystery which I am ever striving to realize more keenly myself and to urge upon others.”

Neville’s awakened imagination is about matching mental activity to the desired state, and in so doing, activating it, resurrecting it, and giving it life. It’s a very interesting view, relying on the notion that creation is already complete. Everything already exists. This thinking has been echoed by many works that came later, like Abraham Hicks's law of attraction that speaks about a “Vortex” that holds the future reality of all the things we’d like to manifest. 

Neville describes the mansions in the House of God as rooms containing a hall of sculptures that contain infinite plots and dramas that lay dormant. They are activated as Human Imagination enters and fuses with them. (Capital H and I because he is referring to the awakened imagination.) I wonder, is this creating, or is this “remembering?” Or is it choosing from one of many infinite possibilities?  

This book has been sitting patiently in my Kindle library since 2012, waiting for me to find the motivation to break the habit of being me. “But why would I not want to be me,” my ego wailed in protest. 

The answer to how to overcome my ego’s fearmongering lies within the 297 pages of this eBook, a well-thought-out treatise that spends the bulk of its volume grounding its promise of transformation in science and metaphysics. If you are new to “Dr. Joe,” you should know that he has a Doctor of Chiropractic degree and has post-graduate training in neuroscience and neuroplasticity. He gained notoriety after writing his book, Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind, and appearing in the 2006 docudrama exploring human consciousness called, What the Bleep: Down the Rabbit Hole. More recently he’s published Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon and is the host of meditation retreats and workshops that continually attract raving fans and followers, many of them who give extraordinary accounts of healing and transformation. (more...)

Your mind doesn't know the difference between the real thing and your imagined fantasy. Why not have this fact work for you? No matter what the weather, you can get away and get your ride. With this forest adventure, you'll take yourself on a mountain bike ride, and direct your cells to become a furnace for burning fat. 

This is a journey that takes you to a sacred place, opening you to receive activation and knowledge specific to your cosmic mission. Are you ready? 

Subtitled The Art of Mastering your Intuition and Fearlessly Being Yourself.

This is not a book about the typical empath issues of distinguishing your own feels, protecting the self energetically and regaining sovereignty. Rather it is about embracing empathy as bridge to a divine interconnected way of life, the mystic.

Sohl suggests that when an empath commits to pursue spiritual growth, the natural path is sustainability and harmony, and this can be expressed through individual healing or as a business consciousness. He says the truly empowered empath is a voice for divine harmony in the body and the earth.

This book is as much a workbook as it is a text, it is filled with journaling prompts. Sohl strongly encourages you to not only work through the questions but to take actions that build discipline along this path of spiritual growth.

He uses four pillars as the structure to develop intuition: vision, connectivity, receptivity, and creativity. He has an author’s website that supplements the book and includes an intuition quiz or self-diagnosis that is also an appendix in the book. The quiz is supposed to help you identify if you are imbalanced so you can strengthen your pillars accordingly.

I learned some things about myself in this book. It gave me the personal aha-moment or two that was satisfying for me. For example, as a child, when your gifts not recognized, nourished, and welcomed…it creates the experience of malnourishment inside. I’d never really associated that term “malnourishment” with my feelings, but it does seem so on point…I could see a big theme in my life was always feeling unsatisfied and trying to prove my talent and seek external validation.

Empath to Mystic says... 

A manual for living comfortably in the cosmos

This is a channeled book that offers spiritual perspective across a range of topics and questions that lie in the minds of many seekers. These issues range from serious earthly concerns like abortion, suicide, murder, marriage, sexuality to broader themes including God, enlightenment, Christ, love, eternity, and life after death. 

The answers that Emmanuel gives are written in verse rather than paragraph form, and there is lots of white space in the margins and some tiny sketches thrown in for good measure. This is the first of the Emmanuel’s series of book, published in 1987; there have been several others published since. 

The themes in this book are very empowering. The subtitle, for living comfortably in the cosmos, could be restated, perhaps, living with more conscious awareness and the accompanying responsibility it brings, OR living with more joy, more freedom, and a greater ability to choose to see light and love.

For example,

Whenever the feeling comes over you

That you have no choices ...

What drew me to this book, aside from the neon-colored book jacket was my personal quest for “aha-moments” that would evoke clarity about my own calling. I came to this book with that desire, and no knowledge of the author, who is a celebrity medium of sorts. 

The book is about how to tune into your own ‘Essence,’ recognize subtle energies, signs, symbols, messages from the Divine that might otherwise be missed. After spending some time exploring what Essence is, and how to listen to it to improve daily life, the book moves towards its more serious theme of inspiring you to think about what good you are doing in your life today. It suggests that you take action towards the good that you can do by embracing change, sharing love, and being in a state of gratitude. 

This is a quiet book, more like a tapestry than a treasure map. The topics are illustrated with many stories from Char’s client readings, interwoven with tales and folklore, and embroidered with quotes from a variety of classic poets, writers, authors, and gurus, past and present. All of these are well-chosen and effective in supporting each premise...

A Beginner’s Guide to Card Meanings, Spreads and Intuitive Exercises.

Stefanie Caponi has delivered an excellent guide to the Tarot in this book. It is extremely well organized and friendly for the beginner, and that’s me! The size and layout of the book was very effective for presenting images of the cards in color. Each section begins with a view of all the cards in that category, that is very helpful! The highlights of the individual cards meaning is in a colored column beneath the card’s image, and the explanations are broken into General Reading, Love/Romance, Career/Money, Personal/Spiritual and Reversed. In addition, there is a quick reference guide in the back for each and every card with its page index, name, thumbnail and upright and reversed meanings. What more could you want in terms of making this guide easy to use?

One of the exercises Caponi offered was to “interview” your deck. So, I took her up on that and pulled a card to answer the first suggested inquiry, “What is the work we are to do together?”  I further focused that in on my desire for Susie Thewes Reviews. I am using the Light Seers Tarot, a wonderfully illustrated deck by Chris Anne. I pulled the Queen of Wands, and immediately felt the power of her. Flipping to the chart in the back of the book, I saw this card related to creativity, ambition, and in its inverse, the feeling of being unworthy with blocked ambition. This card summed up my “Drawer of Unrealized Dreams” story that I had been telling myself for decades. Caponi’s description of the card:

Feminine energy of intuitive creativity an emotional intelligence combined with passion and heart-centered action are held within the Queen of Wands. 

There is even more to like about this guide...