Holzer offers her perspective of what it was like living a normal life amidst the paranormal activities with which both of her parents were involved. She includes memories of gatherings and parties at their upper Westside New York apartment and generously shares some of her father’s “famous ghost stories.” Full of family photographs, anecdotes, and comments, Holzer covers her mother’s lineage to Catherine the Great, her father’s childhood fascination with ghosts in Vienna, how her parents met, their early work together investigating ghosts, and more.

Echkart Tolle’s dynamic book about finding one’s true self by quieting the mind and learning to live in the Now. “When introducing his book, Tolle explains its basic premise as he writes,”…people would occasionally come up to me and say, ‘I want what you have. Can you give it to me, or show me how to get it?’ And I would say: ‘You have it already. You just can’t feel it because your mind is making too much noise.’ Tolle goes onto write, “That answer later grew into the book that you are holding in your hands.”

With a foreword by Buddhist Scholar, Robert A.F. Thurman, Ph.D., Living Deeply was researched and written by acclaimed scientists from the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and weaves together science and wisdom from the world’s transformative traditions to explore and better understand what it takes to make the positive and lasting changes required to lead deeper, more rewarding and contented lives. “The goal of Living Deeply is to make what we have learned through research about the transformative process accessible and immediately applicable to the lives of everyone,” said Living Deeply Co-Author and Vice President of Research & Education at IONS, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Ph.D.

Co-dependency was first associated with addictions and alcoholism. Now it is recognized as a cultural issue that is interfering with our ability to address global issues such as climate change, peak oil, economic and political instability and the over-consumption of the earth’s resources. Co-dependency makes people afraid of changing their beliefs about who they are, about how the world operates and encourages them to hang on to their “things” as a way of feeling safe during times of crisis or rapid change.

I would recommend this book to anyone who desires a change — in their own lives, their relationships, their job, or in the larger world around them. Whether your focus is finding the love of your life, stopping destructive patterns, or ending war and violence in our world, this book has something to offer. Braden cites an interesting statistic in his book — that less than one percent of any population (actually the square root of one percent) can change the reality around them, and that for the entire world to change all that is required is for 8,000 to focus on it. I find that an amazingly hopeful figure, and while I’d like to think that many of that 8,000 are already on the job and improving our world, I would be satisfied if I thought the rest were coming as a result of reading The Divine Matrix.

Written in accessible prose that is vivid, honest and flushed with a sense of wonder, EM, NM guides the reader through seven incremental steps that will help them awaken more fully into their own life: Intention, Daily Practice, Paying Attention, Turning Within, Working with a Mentor, Witnessing——and finally, Integration. Each concept alone is life-changing; taken together, they are nothing short of transformational. By the time the reader has assimilated these seven concepts, their life will not look, feel or be the same.

In Journey to Enlightenment, Bishop provides a most insightful perspective on why things in life happen as they do and what you can do about them. He explains why you created your beliefs, how they get in your way and more importantly, he offers effective techniques for healing the hurt that lies beneath them, including a clearly explained, and easily presented, version of the ancient shamanic journey process, to help you move closer to enlightenment. Ross discusses a host of other topics including an interesting perspective on why it is difficult to change, living in the God Space, dealing with entities, The Misunderstanding, past lives and an entire chapter on learning to work with the power of gratitude.

Grace is actually the healing energy of Spirit that helps our body listen to a steady, reassuring inner message, one that helps us settle our fears and struggles and turn them into food for our spiritual journey. When we put our hands over our heart center and realize that we are sending ourselves love and recognize the impact it has inside us–that’s grace. The healing response in our body is grace in action, Divine Love in action, helping us on our journey of spiritual empowerment and healing.

Jorge Luis Delgado has given us Andean Awakening: An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru. From cover to cover, Andean Awakening is a walk with Delgado through “Mystical Peru” and his own spiritual evolution. We follow Jorge as he quite unintentionally becomes recognized in his community as a chacaruna or “bridge person who helps one cross from one state of consciousness to other states of consciousness or other realms.” The story continues up to and through the life of Jorge as “Peru’s premier spiritual tour guide.”