"Sally's Magical River" is just being released on Audible.  Author Frank Gaertner talks about the story, as well as the process involved in bringing the book out as an audible book.  Narrator Rebekah Nemethy adds to the conversation and contributes a clip from the finished book to give you a feeling for the magical, "quantum field" feeling that emerges.  

Dr. Marj Britt was senior pastor at Unity Tustin Church for 19 years, and after retiring founded and participates in the Called By Love Institute.  She is a mystic and master teacher emphasizing consciousness and love.  As we centered in and breathed in the energy of love, we set out on a journey that begins with our daily physical being and moves higher toward higher 5th dimensional experiences.  Part of our journey - our earthly purpose - is to know God and emulate his energies -- love, consciousness and generosity so that we bring an aspect of heaven to earth.  

When we experience disasters and personal loss, we long to regain our inner peace and serenity.  When we had our landslide, I began a spiritual journey that resulted in my book "Rainbows Over Ruins" and a small booklet "Your Survival Guide: 12 Tips to Gain Inner Peace."  Lewis Tagliaferre suffered a painful loss that sent him on his own journey to find a basis for living in bad circumstances - what many people call the dark night of the soul.  His search resulted in a new belief system, "Theofatalism."  He writes that you can face the joys, challenges, struggles and death in life with five steps through new Reality Accommodation Therapy:  Accept what is.  Detach from the desire for things to be different.  Transcend the need for control.  Let go and let God.  Assume all decisions are given as learning experiences.   You can find most of his books on Amazon and his website www.schooloftheofatalism.org.  The book we are discussing today is "When Bad Things Happen..Finding Peace and Serenity in Theofatalism."

Author David Peters worked as an engineer on Flight Simulators and was recently named to the Simulator Hall of Fame.  It's been a tough year though.  He lost his wife and brother this year.  Yet he was sustained through it all because he knows the joy of finding the kingdom of God that lies within.  David has always taken a diverse spiritual path, but the one that inspired his book came about when he was struggling with clinical depression.   Finding an opportunity to study with a group who had been involved with the 12 Step Program from its inception, David discovered spirit and joy through the experience of working the 12 steps.   

Sandy Elaine Black worked for Intel Corporation for over 25 years as a public affairs officer.  In that role, she was able to help a multitude of community needs.  Now retired, she has been pursuing writing about historical structures that intrigue her.   The buildings have stories.  She travels, meets historians in old town and digs out their secrets.  It's lots of fun.  As part of promoting her books, she travels to the towns she wrote about in her books and affords those towns to raise money for pet projects by donating a portion of her proceeds to them.  Sandy may have retired from community service, but it's still in her blood and she enjoys fundraising.  

This is a special time of year - when we dream of what we want in the coming months, when we traditionally make resolutions.  It is the perfect time for me to share my passion with you: The Power of Vision along with a proven system that enable us to do what it takes to fulfill our dreams.  That's how the Train Your Brain, Claim Your Power calls came into being.  That's why Rebuilding Your Life resonates with our content.  Today, I'll be talking about three tools that help us describe our visions, choose which we will pursue and take the actions that move us from that which is invisible to probable and even predictable.  You can begin to set aside failures and disasters to Rebuild Your Life to one you would love living.  These 3 tools are the beginning.  Remember, taking even the smallest step toward your dream will make a difference.  The key is to do what you can, with what you have and where you are.  Are you a doubter?  Do you have limiting beliefs that get in the way?  Then think this - what if you can overcome your circumstances, what if you can recover and rebuild your life, not by tossing aside your experiences, but by embracing a new way of thinking?  Wouldn't you be willing to give it a try?  Follow up with your host at [email protected].  

In her childhood, Rene'e Hilton Taylor's parents were alchoholics.  Today she counsels others to cope with their backgrounds.  Rene'e shares how to find God in everyday life through poetry.  

Closed in?  Not willing to talk about your traumas?  Whether for yourself or someon in your family, Saundra Russell has created a workbook that enables a safe avenue to express the pain that traumatizes us internally.  

Cas Bieberstein stood ready to die, but not without a fight.  Forced out of his home and into the Warsaw ghettos at the start of World War II, Cas Bieberstein became a resistance fighter by the age of 10.  What is particularly striking is the mindset he developed in the raw world.  He expected that he would die, but not without a fight.   He worked building weapons and explosives for the enemy, but intentionally made most of them inoperable.  He worked as a sharpshooter, was sent to concentration camps and managed to escape to the U.S.  He lived his life quietly for many years, only opening up to tell of his past in his most senior years.  The story came to light when two distant cousins realized their genealogical connection and began to talk.  The story is documented in their book "Not Without a Fight" and an award winning documentary short.  More documentaries are planned in their series, and we may see more of this story as a feature film. 

Are you concerned about the War in Heaven?  And thoughts of the End Times?  What did Satan do that caused all the trouble and how does it impact us?  Why did Jesus have to die?  Is a fiery end inevitable or can we choose a right relationship with God?  These questions are all part of the conversation in the Great Controversy depicted in "Why Did Jesus Have to Die?: It Isn't What You Think.  To carry the conversation forward, reach out to Chris Conrad at https://authorconrad.com.