The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network

Ashwood explores one slice of America's reconstruction following a severe global economic depression. Straining under the responsibility of simply feeding its people, the U.S. government struggles to restore cultural institutions and create jobs. In a model borrowed from giant international corporations, the Bureau of Human Capital Management is created to assess skills of every citizen and assign job matches. - www.cynthiskraack.com

Are You Addicted To Your Smartphone? - Steve Fogel is a principal and cofounder of Westwood Financial Corp., one of the largest owner-operators of retail properties in the United States. He is a licensed real estate broker and past chairman of the California Arts Council. Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, publishing March 11, 2014, is his third book. He is also the author of My Mind Is Not Always My Friend: A Guide for How to Not Get in Your Own Way (Fresh River Press, 2010) and The Yes-I-Can Guide to Mastering Real Estate (Times Books-Random House). www.stevenjayfogel.com.

Technological Relationships Are All The Rage - Peter Andrew Sacco is a former adjunct psychology professor at Niagara University, Lewiston, N.Y., in the teacher education program. Creator and instructor of the Criminal Psychology Program at Niagra College, Canada, he is also an instructor at McMaster University, Canada in the Addiction Studies Program and Police Foundations Study. In addition to 700 articles published in newspapers, magazines and journals of repute, Professor Sacco has to his credit many books, including "What's Your Anger Type," "Penis Envy," and "Why Women Want What They Can't Have." Sacco appears regularly on television and radio shows both in the United States and Canada, and is host of the weekly Toronto radio show Mental Health Matters. - www.petersacco.com.

Could or Should a City Secede from America? - Revolt: The Secession of Mill Valley, a thought-provoking political satire, is the story of Sean Cogan, a frustrated political malcontent living in Mill Valley, California, who is convinced that America has become irreversibly mired in slime. Citing a dysfunctional Congress, the influence of Wall Street, the power of lobbyists, and massive invasions of the privacy of ordinary citizens, he believes we are no longer a country "of, by and for the people," - a principle that he calls "as dead as the Founding Fathers" - and that we have instead evolved into a Nation held in a vice grip by billionaires and powerful special interests. He thinks most people are too ambivalent, frightened, and distracted do anything about it. He believes reform movements are a joke, that there is no hope in working within the system, and that if something dramatic doesn't happen the very concept of self-government will become obsolete. Unwilling to simply accept this, he decides to shake things up.

He meets with a group of close friends, writes up a ballot initiative, and launches a campaign for Mill Valley to secede from the rest of the country and establish its own independent government. He leaflets cars, announces a town meeting and meets with a local reporter. When word of this spreads to power brokers in Washington. things quickly spin out of control. - www.raybourhis.com

Aleister Crowley - Richard Kaczynski is an author and a lecturer in the fields of social psychology and magic, and a magical practitioner specializing in Thelema and related magical paths. He is also a talented keyboard player, a founding member of the band House of Usher, and has appeared on four CDs on the Mellow Records label. Kaczynski is an Adjunct Instructor of Orthodontics at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry. He holds Bachelor of Science, Masters degrees, and a PhD in Social Psychology from Wayne State University. He is currently a research project director and statistician at Yale University's Department of Psychiatry. Kaczynski has been a student of Thelema since 1977 e.v., a member of Ordo Templi Orientis since 1987, and a lecturer on magick since 1990. Within the O.T.O., he is past Master of Blue Equinox Oasis in Detroit, a Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, and a Certified Initiator Trainer[. As a member of U.S. Grand Lodge's Education Committee, he is chair of its Qabalah subcommittee. and he was interviewed for the PBS documentary, Secrets of the Occult. Kaczynski's medical and psychological writing has appeared in several publications in those fields, especially in the American Journal of Orthodontics. He is the author of a biography of Aleister Crowley entitled Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley. His occult writing has appeared in various magazines including High Times, The Magical Link, Neshamah, Cheth, Mezlim, Eidolon, and Different Worlds, and in such books as The Golden Dawn Sourcebook, Rebels and Devils, and People of the Earth. - www.richard-kaczynski.com

The Celestial Proposal - Catherine Rozek spent ten years in the alpine meadows of the Canadian wilderness where she shaped a unique spiritual belief system that enabled her to thrive in that harsh isolated environment. Challenged by necessity, she learned how to activate faith as a creative force that can actually change reality. She dedicated herself to an eighteen-year career as a Life Coach for high-risk teenagers. Rozek also co-managed an Alcohol & Drug recovery home, foster parented troubled teens, facilitated for Parents in Crisis groups and church youth groups. She has used the concepts exposed in her book to help others create positive changes in their lives. After decades of effort to conform to mainstream Christianity, Rozek now writes as an independent Christian trailblazer, leading us on a twenty-first century trail to the celestial realm of eternity. She currently divides her time between her Canadian home in beautiful Kelowna, BC, and traveling to distant parts of the world with her laptop in hand, for spiritual grand adventures. - www.thecelestialproposal.com

Miss Manners With Fangs - The LA Weekly called Amy Alkon "Miss Manners With Fangs." Alkon recognized that the manners questions of our age aren't where to put the doily or whether the man should walk on the outside, but what you do when some rudester is shouting on their cell phone next to you at the coffee house. Alkon, the author of a hilarious new book called I SEE RUDE PEOPLE, has come up with innovative and surprisingly effective ways to combat The New Rudeness for both the brave and the meek. Alkon is also known as The Advice Goddess, and is a syndicated love advice columnist in papers across the U.S. and Canada, blogging at advicegoddess.com. She's appeared on numerous TV and radio shows in the US and Canada, including Q and the Steven and Chris show. She hopes you'll join her in her mission to make our daily lives stop feeling like one big wrestling.

Magic's Most Amazing Stories - Author of the incredibly popular, Magic's Most Amazing Stories, Ivan Amodei says, "This book is based on 100 plus true stories and is a roller coaster ride through our crazy profession and everything that could possibly happen to us." Born in Comiso, Sicily, Italy, he moved with his parents to New York City at age two. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York and then moved to California in his mid-teens. His interest in this fantastic art started at the young age of five. After receiving his BA Degree in Marketing/Advertising and BA in English, he decided to pursue his passion for performing full-time. His passion and dedication to perfection in this art has always been the fuel for his highly successful career. A multi-award winning magician and entertainer he has received Top Honors at Pacific Coast Association of Magicians, Top Honors at The International Brotherhood of Magicians, Top Honors at the Society of American Magicians, People's Choice Awards, Outstanding Showmanship Awards, and Originality Awards. He is considered one of the best in his field. A frequent performer at The World Famous Magic Castle, as well as, other prominent comedy and magic clubs across the country. Entertainer to the stars with performances for Steven Spielberg, Larry David, Sylvester Stallone, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Zack Braff, Mike Myers, Nick Cage and Jim Carrey just to name a few. He has even entertained Saudi Royalty. A regular performer for large companies such as Apple, Disney, IBM, Yahoo, Google, AT&T, Amgen, Cisco Systems, etc. He is also frequently sought after for advice by top professionals and peers. He's a frequent lecturer and speaker on this subject, often teaching others his approach, philosophy and ideas for presentation of magic. But to this day, he still boasts that his best trick is producing his boy/girl twins out of thin air. Well, with a little help from his wife. When he's not doing magic and performing, he's doing magic and performing and occasionally some gardening. -- http://www.magicsmostamazingstories.com/

The Mind/Body Fertility Connection - Millions of women around the world-including over seven million in the U.S. alone-have been diagnosed with unexplained infertility. This condition has driven the pharmaceutical and medical industries to focus on biologically manipulating the body to create life. The Mind/Body Fertility Connection asks a different question about the reasons for infertility; if there is no physiological explanation for the condition, then could the answers exist in the mental and emotional realms, buried in the subconscious minds of women who struggle to conceive? The Mind/Body Fertility Connection is written by a practitioner who specializes in working with infertility clients, understands the real blocks and issues that prevent conception, knows how to process and heal those issues and whose writing captures the strategies and solutions in a clear, easy to understand language. It is especially written for the woman who is looking for a new perspective on infertility, one that offers solutions and techniques for taking charge of her ability to conceive. With the exception of a handful of pioneering practitioners around the world who have discovered the importance of this work, this is a virtually unexplored area. No other books on the market deal directly with the mind/body connection to fertility. James Schwartz, BCH, is a Board Certified Hypnotherapist and an NLP practitioner. He is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and a member of the Colorado Association of Psychotherapists. James is the founder and director of the Rocky Mountain Hypnotherapy Center in Lakewood, Colorado, and is certified in Complementary Medical Hypnosis, NeuroLinguistic Programming and HypnoBirthing®. Through his extensive hypnotherapy work with infertility clients, James created and developed a highly successful fertility program called Hypnosis to Promote Fertility which focuses on healing the mental and emotional barriers that can often prevent conception. This work became the basis for The Mind/Body Fertility Connection. - www.rmhypnotherapy.com and www.mindbodyfertilityconnection.com

TransEvolution - The Age of Human Deconstruction - Daniel Estulin is an award winning investigative journalist and best selling author of THE TRUE STORY OF THE BILDERBERG GROUP published in 64 countries and translated into 41 languages. He has given two speeches at the European Parliament on the Bilderberg Group and the international monetary crisis. In a front page article, Wall Street Italy called Estulin, "one of the few people who understands the current crisis." In August 2010, he was invited by Fidel Castro for a personal meeting in Habana after Castro had read Bilderberg. In October 2010, Estulin became the first journalist to give a speech to the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Venezuelan armed forces on global financial structures and the Bilderberg group. He is the author of 12 books, five of them international best sellers. He has sold over 6 million copies worldwide. In November-December 2013, his much awaited Bilderberg documentary will be released worldwide. His latest book, TransEvolution: The Age of Human Deconstruction, describes the change of paradigm for humanity that shall define its future and threaten its very existence. - www.danielestulin.com.