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I’m on Assignment! – An Alternate View of Past Lives, the Impact on Our Current Lives, Soul Mates, World History, and the Akashic Records
In I’m on Assignment!, Diane Marie Taylor blends spiritual memoir, metaphysical inquiry, and personal testimony into an unconventional exploration of reincarnation, soul mates, karma, cell memories, the Akashic Records, and the hidden continuity she believes links individual lives across centuries. The book moves from practical reflections on life purpose and forgiveness into deeply personal material, including her mental health struggles, her frightening COVID-19 hospitalization, her working-class childhood, motherhood, divorce, and her conviction that past lives, including connections to the House of Bourbon and Marie Antoinette’s world, shape the patterns of the present.
Taylor writes with a startling lack of varnish, and that directness gives the work much of its pulse. Her account of COVID-19, especially the moment she arrives at the emergency room and realizes her body may no longer be under her command, has a raw, lived-in terror that stayed with me. I also appreciated how often humor becomes her lantern in dark rooms. She can move from grief, suicidal ideation, or family pain into a line so earthy and mischievous that the whole page suddenly exhales. That tonal risk may not work for every reader, but for me it made the voice feel unmistakably human, less like a polished lecture on spirituality and more like a long, bracing conversation with someone who has survived enough to stop pretending.
I found the central metaphor of life as an “assignment” genuinely useful, especially in the way it reframes hardship as experience rather than punishment. Her discussions of forgiveness and karma are at their strongest when they turn away from abstraction and toward moral responsibility, urging the reader not to confuse justice with revenge or pain with identity. The historical reincarnation material is the most polarizing part of the book. Taylor’s claims about recognizing souls from the French court, Marie-Thérèse, Diane de Poitiers, and others are presented with conviction, and I found myself reading those sections as a deeply personal spiritual map.
I finished I’m on Assignment! with a sense of having encountered an author who isn’t merely explaining a belief system, but offering the architecture of how she has survived her life. Its sincerity gives it a radiance. I’m on Assignment! is best suited for readers open to metaphysics, reincarnation, Akashic Records work, and spiritually framed memoirs, especially those who appreciate humor braided through pain. It’s an intimate, unruly, and often affecting book, and I’d recommend it to readers who are willing to meet it on its own personal terms.
Pages: 166 | ASIN : B0DFLPCLFD
The Path of Fullness – Book 1 of The Way of Unity
The Path of Fullness: The Individual Spirit of Universal Principle is a detailed and careful walk through the author’s spiritual world. It lays out “The Way of Unity” as both a theology and a daily path of practice. The book moves from the core idea of Unity as “The Coming Together of All Things” to practical tools like the Unity Prayer and Sacred Silence, then into big metaphysical frames about the Heart of Creation, the Planes of Creation, the Abode of the Soul, the thirteen Pillars of Unity, and finally the Passage of Death as a return to Oneness. It reads like a map of Spirit and a recovery manual at the same time, rooted in Indigenous teachings, personal experience of addiction and healing, and an explicit desire to honor First Nations wisdom.
I felt the writing carried a strong sense of sincerity and devotion. The tone is reverent, steady, and often gentle, even when it tackles heavy topics like genocide, generational trauma, and medical pain. I appreciated how clearly the author names his sources and speaks as a Sami man who grew up among the teachings of the Anishinaabe, and sees this path as his own revelation, not a replacement for other traditions. The recurring phrases like “True Nature,” “Oneness,” and “The Way” give the book a kind of liturgical rhythm, and that rhythm drew me into a slower, more reflective pace than I usually have. I also found the step-by-step methods for Sacred Silence and the degrees of the Unity Prayer refreshingly concrete. They gave me something to actually try, not only to think about, and they showed that this is a lived practice, not only a set of ideas.
The writing is rich with detail. Many key terms come in with a lot of weight and importance, so they show up often and start to form a kind of inner vocabulary for the path. Sometimes that really helped the ideas settle in. I would have liked more stories to balance out the more abstract parts. The sections where the author talks very simply about his own “rock bottoms” and his return from “that space between life and death” stayed with me the most, and I would have welcomed even more of that kind of personal sharing. I also felt that the book speaks most directly to readers who already feel some openness to spiritual language, to ideas like energetic wounds, ancestral burdens, and a Spirit World filled with elders and deities who walk alongside this way. For me, that was moving and genuinely interesting.
This is not a quick or casual read. It is long, earnest, and sometimes weighty, yet it has a consistent heart: to help people realign with their True Nature, heal their wounds, honor their ancestors, and live in a way that supports the fullness of Life. I would recommend The Path of Fullness to readers who are already on a spiritual or healing journey and who are willing to sit with complex ideas, slow methods, and an Indigenous-informed vision of Unity. It will suit people in recovery, seekers who feel caught between traditions, and anyone who wants a devotional-style manual for prayer, meditation, and inner work. For the right person, this text feels like a long conversation with a committed medicine person who wants you to find your own Way.
Pages: 447 | ASIN : B0FTSJ5KFV
The Can Sack Ghost
The Can Sack Ghost is a collection of personal paranormal experiences that author John Russell has gathered across a lifetime of psychic work. The book moves through story after story with the ease of someone who has lived these moments so fully that they spill out of him. Russell blends ghost tales, philosophical reflections, humor, and straight talk. He jumps from haunted homes to guardian angels to strange synchronicities and encounters that linger in the mind. He frames it all with a simple aim. He wants readers to feel the mystery he’s lived with since childhood and to see the supernatural as both real and meaningful.
I found myself torn between fascination and a kind of wide-eyed wonder. Russell writes in a voice that feels conversational and familiar. He talks about spirits turning radios on during power outages and unseen guests laughing downstairs in the middle of the night. He writes about odd visitors on motorcycles, and even haunted Halloween candy bowls that carry on like they’re trying to join the conversation. What struck me most was not the strangeness of the events but the sincerity behind them. He tells these stories with such calm conviction that it’s hard not to lean in. At times I felt wrapped up in his world, and at other times I caught myself pausing to think, Did that really happen. His storytelling carries that kind of pull.
I appreciated the honesty that shows up when he talks about loss or doubt or the way people dismiss the unusual. Some chapters made me laugh because the moments were just so odd and human. Others made me feel a kind of quiet sadness. He can shift from soft nostalgia to sharp frustration, especially when he writes about so-called skeptics who refuse to believe their own eyes. He doesn’t pretend to be perfect. He doesn’t claim to always be right. Instead, he writes like a man who has lived a wild and unpredictable spiritual life and wants to share what he has learned. That earnestness makes the ideas really resonate with the reader.
I’d recommend The Can Sack Ghost to readers who enjoy true paranormal tales, personal memoirs with heart, or reflective stories told by someone who has walked a very unusual path. If you like books that make you sit back and say, huh, I didn’t see that coming, this one will hook you.
Pages: 156 | ASIN : B0FFLX1YCV
Payback
Payback by Molly D. Shepard and Peter J. Dean is a workplace thriller that follows Samantha, a high-performing banker who spends years navigating a toxic, sexist culture and the predatory attention of an executive named Archer Dunne. The story moves between Samantha’s point of view, Archer’s warped inner monologue, and the perspectives of allies and bystanders as the bank’s abuses pile up, push her out, and eventually circle back when Archer, now ill and diabetic, is admitted to the upscale nursing home Samantha runs. There, she seriously considers killing him by quietly increasing his insulin, only for fate to intervene when he dies after a fall, leaving her to grapple with what justice really looks like and how to live with a rage that never fully disappears.
The opening prologue drops you right into Samantha’s mind as she calmly admits she is planning “the perfect murder,” and it is both chilling and deeply believable once you see what she has survived. The early scenes at the bank feel painfully real: the drunken company party, the alleyway assault where she escapes only to realize the attacker is her own Executive Vice President, Archer. The authors lean into clarity more than subtlety, and sometimes the villains are almost grotesquely obvious, but in a workplace thriller like this, that bluntness works. It feels less like a puzzle and more like a long, angry debrief of “this is exactly how they get away with it,” which I found strangely cathartic.
What stayed with me most was how much of the book is about the slow grind rather than just the headline traumas. Samantha’s first boss Margie, who bullies her daily for minor mistakes until she quits, the constant body shaming from her parents, the impostor syndrome that keeps replaying in her head even as she racks up wins at the bank. Her friendships with Inga and Josephine become the emotional center of the story. Inga is a top pharma rep whose numbers are excellent but who keeps getting passed over because she is out of sight, out of mind in the Midwest, and Josephine is a Black consultant who writes speeches for her CEO yet cannot break past a certain rank because of bias in her firm. Their late night strategy sessions at the Barrister Bar feel like war councils and group therapy at the same time, and the book keeps circling back to how women have to quietly train each other to survive systems that were not built for them. That coaching tone does poke through sometimes, and a few passages read like a leadership manual folded into a novel, but I did not mind it. It gave the story a grounded, “here is what actually happens in these rooms” quality.
I also appreciated the choices the authors made around Archer and the men who are not monsters. Seeing scenes from his perspective is uncomfortable in the best way. You watch him stalk Samantha in that alley, brag to his young male “minions” about using women for sex while blocking their promotions, and later seek out the nursing home she runs because he wants one last chance to torment her and even ogle her teenage daughter. When he exposes himself to a vulnerable resident at The Fairfield and Samantha finally has the power to kick him out, her fury practically hums off the page. At the same time, the book gives us Lance, the new CEO who discovers Samantha’s detailed notes about the bank’s abuses and decides to tear out the culture by the roots, and Todd, the thoughtful carpenter who becomes her husband and steady base. That balance keeps the story from sliding into pure despair.
I see Payback as a feminist workplace thriller that also works as social commentary about harassment, bullying, and the cost of keeping quiet. It is not subtle, and it does not try to be. The language is clear, the emotions are right on the surface, and the plot keeps you turning pages to see whether Samantha will cross that final line. If you have lived through a toxic office, care about gender equity at work, or just want a tense, emotionally honest story about a woman who refuses to stay a victim, I think this novel will hit hard in a good way.
Pages: 240 | ASIN : B0FX3FV52H
Live a More Informed & Enriched Life
Down to Earth: Demystify Intuition to Upgrade Your Life is a thoughtful blend of personal stories, practical exercises, and scientific studies showing readers that intuition is not a mystical talent, but an everyday skill that can be honed. Why was this an important book for you to write?
I am convinced that tapping into intuition can help us live more informed and enriched lives. I developed simple ways to tap into intuition and wanted to share these with as many people as possible. Intuition always held a special place in my life, and became more important after a life-altering event that brought moments of deep mental and emotional peace. I talk about this in the Introduction of my book. I often came up with creative ideas and solutions to long-standing problems while I was in this mentally and emotionally calm state which activated my intuition. Curious about this process, I began researching intuition. I studied with various teachers, completed an apprenticeship, and read every book and scientific study on intuition I could find. I started offering intuitive guidance sessions and eventually developed my own approach to help clients access their intuition more effectively. As more people joined as students, I created a curriculum that later became the foundation of my book, Down to Earth: Demystify Intuition to Upgrade Your Life, published on September 15, 2025.
What is a common misconception you feel people have about intuition and a person’s ability to develop it as a life skill?
Some people think that intuition is a special skill that only highly intuitive people have. In reality, it is a readily available skill that we all have and even use without realizing it. Intuition is a form of knowing or a sensation we get about something or someone without any prior conscious thought process. It draws on the knowledge and experiences we accumulate throughout our lives. There are many activities that we engage in without consciously thinking about every move and every step such as playing a sport or cooking. There may be some parts of these activities that require conscious analysis but for the most part, we just go with what we sense and muscle memory. We also use our intuition a lot socially. We sense if someone is tense or relaxed just by noticing their posture or the pace of their breath. All of this is intuition in action. It gives us useful information that can help guide our decisions and actions when we learn how to interpret and combine it with logic and other inputs such as research for due diligence.
I loved that you used neuroscience and psychology research as well as provided readers with examples and exercises to gain a better understanding of intuition. Did you find anything in your research of this book that surprised you?
In many cases, my exercises and guided meditations were inspired by students and clients based on what they needed to figure out. I tried these exercises with others, and if they worked, I included them in my book. I also used slow intuition. This type of intuition is activated when you take a break from trying to solve a problem and do something that calms your mind and emotions. Researchers such as Kenneth Gilhooly have described how nonconscious processing occurs during these break periods as intuition gets activated. It was surprising for me to learn that stepping away for such a break right after being introduced to a problem results in more creative solutions compared to working on the problem for a while then taking such a break when you get stuck. For example, you look at what the problem is, then go for a quiet walk in nature even before making your first attempt at solving it. I talk about this in the last chapter of my book.
What is one thing that you hope readers take away from Down to Earth?
I hope that readers discover ways to tap into intuition that work well for them and combine their intuition with logic and other inputs to make more grounded decisions, improve relationships, and take better care of themselves. As people connect more with their intuition, they can understand themselves and each other more deeply. This can cultivate greater compassion for themselves and others making the world a better place for all of us.
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If you’ve ever wondered how to harness your intuition to make better, more informed decisions, this is the practical guide you need. In Down to Earth, intuition teacher Nil Demircubuk guides you in understanding how to distinguish your conscious thoughts from your intuition, then intentionally combine it with your intellect for everyday decision-making and personal growth.
The book introduces “priming,” a method for tapping into intuition by achieving mental and emotional calmness, offering several techniques tailored to different learning styles. As you practice reaching this state and tuning in, you’ll also learn what makes your intuition come alive through a non-conscious process.
Through easy-to-follow exercises, real-life applications, and client stories, Down to Earth helps you use your intuition to make better decisions, improve relationships, navigate challenges, and enhance self-care.
Intuitive and Non-Logical
Love’s Cauldron traces your path from childhood wounds and self-doubt toward awakening her “witch self,” a reclamation of intuition, creativity, and the divine feminine. Why was this an important book for you to write?
Writing Love’s Cauldron made me much more aware of how the feminine aspects of myself have been shaped and impacted by my family, our culture, and the world. It was only in writing the book and talking about what I had written that I fully realized that part of my identity (and sensitivity) was that of a Healing Witch. I had not fully understood the value of my feminine sides previously.
What were some ideas that were important for you to share in this book?
In a world dominated by logic, it was vital for me to look at how specific feminine qualities have been demonized. The intuitive, those who channel, and the non-logical have been made suspect and sometimes punished by mainstream culture. I also wanted to share what an emotional healing journey looks and feels like.
What was the most challenging part of writing your memoir and what was the most rewarding?
I had wanted to write this book for years. But I had not been able to sense how to weave together the ideas that were percolating. It was challenging to write a non-linear book without losing the reader. It was satisfying to have the book come together and to see that, despite its unorthodox form, it worked. It was also rewarding to have readers let me know that it had a positive impact on them.
What do you hope is one thing readers take away from your story?
I hope that the readers will affirm aspects of themselves that they have not fully claimed. I wish for them to understand more about themselves and about the necessity of these undervalued aspects of each of us.
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Jennifer J. Lehr, LMFT, shares her journey from emotional pain and disconnection to deep self-awareness and spiritual awakening. Weaving together memories, mystical understanding, and guidance from the unseen realms, she offers a path to reconnect with our intuition, compassion, and inner voice—qualities often lost in a world that favors logic over feeling.
Through powerful narratives and sacred incantations, Love’s Cauldron redefines the meaning of “witch” as someone who embraces all aspects of themselves and holds the power to transform not only their own life, but the world around them. This is a book for anyone who has ever felt marginalized, silenced, or spiritually disconnected—and who longs to come home to their wild, wise self.
Whether you’re healing from trauma, seeking spiritual connection, or curious about reclaiming your feminine power, this book will stir something ancient and true within you. The feminine is rising—and Love’s Cauldron is a call to remember, rejoice, and rise with it.
Love’s Cauldron: Reclaim Your Wild Feminine
Love’s Cauldron is part memoir, part spiritual guide, and part poetic incantation. Author Jennifer J. Lehr traces her path from childhood wounds and self-doubt toward awakening her “witch self,” a reclamation of intuition, creativity, and the divine feminine. The book moves between personal stories, reflections, and poetry, exploring themes of trauma, healing, and empowerment. It invites readers to honor the unseen, the magical, and the deeply emotional parts of themselves. Lehr’s voice blends vulnerability with wisdom, and she treats her life as a sacred collage, each experience a fragment of becoming whole.
Reading it felt intimate and raw. Lehr’s honesty pulled me in, especially when she described her fear of revealing her spiritual identity and her journey through pain toward acceptance. The mix of memoir and mysticism gave the writing a pulse, alive with both sorrow and hope. Some sections read like prayers, others like confessions. Her reflections on trauma, how it hides in the body, how healing demands courage, resonated with me. At times, the writing stretched into abstraction, and I found myself pausing to catch up emotionally. Still, the beauty of her language and her conviction kept me turning the pages. It’s not a light read, but it’s one that lingers.
What I admired most was Lehr’s blend of psychological insight and spiritual wonder. As a therapist and a self-proclaimed witch, she stands between science and spirit and refuses to choose one over the other. That mix gave the book a grounded magic. Some might resist her talk of guides, past lives, and energy healing, but her sincerity makes it hard to dismiss. The poetry scattered throughout is rich and sensory. It slows the reader down, asking you to feel rather than analyze. I caught myself reading lines twice, just to savor them.
I’d recommend Love’s Cauldron to readers drawn to self-discovery, spirituality, and feminine wisdom. It’s for anyone who has ever felt “too sensitive” or out of step with the world and who wants to see that sensitivity as strength. It’s also a gentle call to those who’ve buried parts of themselves, to dig them up, dust them off, and let them breathe.
Pages: 346 | ASIN : B0FH5MC4ZV
ELIXIR: A Journey into Ancestral Alchemology
Gisella Rose’s ELIXIR: A Journey into Ancestral Alchemology is a lush blend of memoir, mysticism, and method. It’s a spiritual guide that threads together genealogy, astrology, elemental wisdom, and somatic awareness into what she calls “Ancestral Alchemology.” The book opens with her near-death experience at age three and moves through a lifetime of weaving ancestry, astrology, and self-healing into a single sacred practice. Rose explains how the elements, fire, water, air, and earth, shape not just nature but the stories of our bloodlines. Through the “MoonTree Chart,” she shows readers how to trace cosmic patterns through family history, turning family trees into living constellations. The work is both personal and strangely universal, a map for anyone wanting to understand where they come from and how to heal old generational wounds.
The writing is rich and sensory, sometimes so poetic it hums. Rose’s language is vivid and flowing, full of emotion and imagery, though at times it wanders into repetition. Still, there’s a raw sincerity that holds it all together. I loved how she brought her grief and her wonder into the same space, never polishing away the human messiness behind the mysticism. She invites the reader to think of ancestry not as data but as story, as breath, as pulse. The mix of spiritual and practical astrological charts, along with reflections on trauma and epigenetics, makes the work feel grounded even when it reaches into the mystical.
At times, the writing drifts into abstraction, and I found myself wishing for a few more grounded examples or simpler turns of phrase. Still, the poetic rhythm has a beauty that draws you in. Those slower passages feel intentional. It’s a book meant to unfold gently, best read slowly. I often paused to reflect, thinking of my own family and the quiet stories resting in my roots. The book left me with a soft ache and a lingering curiosity that felt both tender and alive.
ELIXIR is best suited for readers drawn to the mystical and introspective, people who love astrology, ritual, or personal transformation through ancestral work. It’s a companion for seekers. I’d recommend it to anyone who feels their roots tugging at them, who wants to bridge the spiritual with the tangible, who believes that healing can travel through time.
Pages: 443 | ASIN : B0FD96NKC8
