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JAD: A Poem
JAD: A Poem, by James Richard Hansen, is a slim, intensely devotional book-length poem arranged around seven relational roles: Father, Mother, Brother, Child, Teacher, Lover, and Friend. The collection reads like one long act of gratitude toward a beloved figure, moving through scenes of protection, memory, spiritual rescue, childhood wonder, romantic recognition, and friendship. Its emotional center is love as shelter: the father tucking a child beneath a “canopy of lavender lace,” the mother pulling her from the path of a reckless car, the friend guiding the speaker out of self-made shadows, and the recurring rose imagery that turns vulnerability into something luminous and defended.
Hansen’s best moments have a clear, almost prayerlike stillness, especially when he writes about the daughter as “living poetry” or imagines connection as “liquid light.” Those images could feel sentimental in another context, but here they feel sincere because the speaker returns to them with such emotional consistency. The book isn’t interested in irony or restraint. It’s open-hearted, sometimes almost startlingly so, and I respected that. There’s a rare earnestness in the way it treats love as a sacred obligation rather than a mood.
At times, the spiritual language leans on familiar phrases about God, light, dreams, and the Self. Still, the repetition begins to create its own atmosphere. The poems keep circling the same questions: How do we protect someone without possessing them? How do we survive pain without letting it harden us? How does love become both refuge and instruction? I was especially drawn to the later “Friend” section, where the walk through the forest deepens into a confrontation with fatigue, escape, and renewal. The speaker’s movement toward the farewell-to-spring flower feels quiet and earned.
I felt that JAD is less a conventional poetry collection than a sustained private offering, intimate, reverent, and emotionally unguarded. Its strength lies in its faith in tenderness, in the belief that human bonds can become a kind of spiritual architecture strong enough to shelter a damaged life. I’d recommend it to readers who appreciate devotional poetry, reflective love poems, and work that values sincerity over polish, especially those drawn to writing about family, healing, faith, and the redemptive force of deep companionship.
Pages: 64 | ISBN : 978-1418493332
Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Nonfiction
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The Battle Rages On…
The Battle Rages On… by Dr. Gerald D. Robison takes on spiritual warfare in a way that’s more imaginative than I expected. Instead of laying everything out like a standard theology textbook, Robison builds the book around letters between a present-day Adam and Jesus, using that back-and-forth to talk through creation, Satan, angels, demons, the Nephilim, the divine council, miracles, temptation, the armor of God, and the final victory of Christ. It’s a big, ambitious sweep that helps readers see the Bible as one connected story where the visible world is only part of what’s going on.
What I liked most was that the book doesn’t feel afraid of the strange parts of Scripture. Robison goes right toward the passages many people skip over or explain away, especially when he talks about the Watchers, giants, territorial powers, and the rebellion behind Babel. I didn’t always agree with every conclusion, but I appreciated the curiosity driving the book. There’s an energy to it, almost like sitting in on a long conversation with someone who has spent years turning these ideas over and can’t wait to show you what he’s found. The writing is plainspoken, sometimes even playful, and that makes some very dense material easier to follow.
I also found the book’s practical side more grounded than I expected. For all its talk of cosmic conflict, it doesn’t reduce spiritual warfare to spooky stories or sensational claims. Some of the strongest moments are actually about ordinary human choices: pride, jealousy, temptation, misplaced desire, bitterness, and the quiet ways people drift from God. The chapter on Judas stood out to me because it treats betrayal not as one sudden disaster, but as something that had been forming in the dark for a long time. The book’s ideas are large, but its best insights often land close to home.
By the end, I felt like The Battle Rages On… was less about proving every detail of the unseen realm and more about nudging readers to take the spiritual dimensions of Scripture seriously. It’s great for readers who enjoy bold biblical interpretation and want a faith-based look at spiritual warfare that’s accessible, passionate, and thought-provoking. I’d recommend it to Christians who feel like they’ve only been skimming the surface of these topics and are ready to dig deeper.
Pages: 206 | ISBN : 978-1965401613
I Am My Biggest Stranger
I Am My Biggest Stranger, by Mike Dee, is a personal spiritual journey that uses Dante’s Inferno as a map for self-confrontation, healing, and Christian renewal. Dee begins in his own “dark wood,” shaped by loss, a car accident, broken direction, and the ache of becoming unfamiliar to himself, then moves through the circles of lust, comfort, greed, anger, pride, violence, fraud, and betrayal as mirrors for the modern soul. The book gradually shifts from descent to rebuilding, from naming the giants to mastering the mind, living with integrity, aligning with purpose, and finally inviting the reader to write the unwritten chapter of their own life.
Dee isn’t writing from a polished distance, and that gives the strongest passages their pulse. When he describes hearing Dante’s famous line while watching Patch Adams after the accident, I could feel the strange grace of that moment, the way a single sentence can suddenly give shape to years of confusion. I also found the shelter scene especially affecting. The image of him on his eighteenth birthday with a backpack, a Bible, and fear he doesn’t want to admit has a rawness that lingers. Those moments cut through the more instructional sections and let the book breathe as testimony. I liked Dee best when he trusted story, silence, and image, because his writing has a natural intensity when he lets memory do the talking.
The ideas in the book are earnest, ambitious, and at times genuinely stirring. I appreciated the way Dee reframes inner struggle without softening it: Limbo becomes the slow death of “almost,” lust becomes desire without direction, anger becomes a swamp that traps both the loud and the silent, and treachery becomes a frozen condition of the heart. That structure gives the book a strong spiritual architecture. The language can circle back on itself, especially around purpose, giants, alignment, and victory. Still, that repetition also comes from conviction. Dee clearly believes these truths were hard-won, and there’s something moving about the urgency with which he wants the reader not to waste pain, not to settle, not to drift through life half-awake.
I felt that I Am My Biggest Stranger is less a conventional self-help book than a devotional pilgrimage through the bruised places of the self. Its best qualities are its faith, vulnerability, and insistence that transformation is not cosmetic but costly. The conclusion, with its unwritten final chapter, works because the whole book has been pushing toward that handoff: now the reader has to move. I’d recommend this book to Christian readers who like reflective, spiritually charged personal growth books, especially those wrestling with grief, stagnation, identity, or the uneasy sense that they’ve been living as a stranger to themselves.
Pages: 512 | ASIN : B0GYQYBBF2
King of the Sky: Choosing to Listen to God as a Path to Sobriety, Happiness, and Purpose
King of the Sky is Gregory R. Gilmore’s candid account of addiction, identity, collapse, and spiritual recovery, tracing his path from a small-town Indiana childhood shaped by silence and conformity to a glittering but increasingly lonely life in Miami, then into the chaos of substance abuse and, finally, toward sobriety through faith, self-inquiry, and connection. The book moves through painful terrain with unusual openness: a hidden sexuality, a marriage that couldn’t survive the truth he was avoiding, professional success that never quite became peace, and the haunting image of a man living high above Miami while becoming more and more unreachable to himself. What begins in fog over Mobile Bay becomes a story about learning to listen, not only to God, but to the quieter, steadier voice beneath fear.
What stayed with me most was the book’s willingness to sit inside contradiction. Gilmore doesn’t present himself as neatly heroic, and that gives the memoir its pulse. He can be tender and self-protective, generous and enabling, spiritually hungry and still caught in the same destructive loops. I appreciated the way he lets certain images carry the emotional weight: the Rolex that has become less a symbol of achievement than a relic, the art room in high school that offers brief sanctuary, Sophie the dog as a small daily grace, the Miami condo that looks like success from the outside while becoming a kind of beautiful prison. The nickname “King of the Sky” is especially piercing because it sounds grand until you understand the loneliness beneath it. That tension gives the book its strongest emotional truth. It’s not only about addiction but about the ache of performing a life so convincingly that even you begin to confuse the costume for the self.
The writing is at its best when Gilmore trusts memory, scene, and vulnerability. His reflections on shame, belonging, and the hunger to be accepted feel deeply lived, and his voice has a plainspoken intimacy that makes the spiritual material feel personal rather than abstract. The book leans into explanation, especially when it turns toward teachings from A Course in Miracles, Abraham Hicks, Marisa Peer, and other sources of transformation. I found the ideas sincere and often moving. The central argument, that alignment with love and truth can become stronger than escape, could sound simple in another writer’s hands, but here it has been earned through humiliation, relapse, fear, and gradual repair. The book’s spirituality doesn’t erase the mess. It rises from it.
I came away from King of the Sky feeling that I had read the testimony of someone who had to lose nearly every false shelter before finding a real one. It’s reflective, emotionally naked, and sometimes raw in ways that made me pause before turning the page. The most convincing part of the book is not that Gilmore found answers, but that he kept learning how to ask better questions of his pain. This is a thoughtful and compassionate memoir for readers drawn to recovery stories, spiritual growth, LGBTQ+ self-acceptance, and books about rebuilding a life from the inside out.
Pages: 207 | ASIN : B0DM3FSZBY
Finding God in Vegas: A Gen X Spiritual Awakening
This is not another book about religion. It is a book about love.
Finding God in Vegas tells the story of Don Young—a successful pharmaceutical executive who seemed to have it all: wealth, status, success. But behind the image was a man deeply unfulfilled, quietly crumbling under the weight of materialism, disillusionment, and spiritual emptiness.
Despite earning a master’s degree in theology, Don spent years rejecting anything that resembled spirituality. He swallowed the lies that told him happiness came from status, achievement, and control.
But in the most unlikely of places—Las Vegas—he experienced a spiritual awakening that shattered those illusions and led him to something far more powerful: Love.
Not the fleeting kind. Not conditional or performative. But the kind of love that heals. Love for self, love for others, and the unconditional love God has for all people.
Whether you’re religious, spiritual-but-not-religious, skeptical, burned out, or simply searching for something deeper, this book is for you. It’s an invitation to rethink what matters, reconnect with your heart, and rediscover the truth that was always there: you are worthy of love.
With honesty, humor, and hard-earned wisdom, Finding God in Vegas reveals that it’s never too late to open your heart, shift your perspective, and live a life rooted in something deeper than worldly success: Love.
The love in this book is for the hurting. For the hopeful. For the seekers and the skeptics.
The love in this book is for you.
Human Consciousness And Beyond
Becoming a Divine Messiah follows twins on their 25th birthday as they enter their “Becoming” and learn the hidden history of New Earth. Tobias the white lion is one of the book’s most memorable figures. What does Tobias symbolize for you personally?
Tobias symbolizes the highest state of human consciousness and beyond. He embodies all the juicy 4D and 5D traits, behaviors, actions, and beliefs in those categories. He is strong and gentle. Wise and playful. Compassionate beyond belief. He can see right through you without judgment, shame, or disgust. He loves you unconditionally, even when you feel broken or lost within this world. He is a gift. A reminder that humanity can achieve the same greatness and oneness because we are One. Connected with everything and everyone. We are holy beings, and everyone can become a Divine Messiah.
He helps us understand, at a deeper level, that humanity was molded by society, our environment, peers, role models, and our belief systems into “perceiving and believing” that we are broken and unworthy of love. This leaves people feeling empty, fearful, and lost. He is the beacon of HOPE for humanity as the structures and systems we were indoctrinated into collapse around us during the 3D-to-4D timeline split.
The prose often reads like devotional writing or guided meditation. Did you consciously shape the language to create that meditative rhythm?
As a hypnotherapist, language is everything. Words mean everything. Our words are so powerful. They can lift a person up to greatness or destroy them for a lifetime. So, the words came from various sources, including the Divine Feminine, Tobias, Archangel Metatron, my higher self, and our Creators. I could feel and hear the difference in each chapter. I believe the reader can also.
Can you give us a glimpse inside Book 2 of the New Earth Golden Age Trilogy? Where will it take readers?
Book Two dives into what happens after the becoming process. Each person is given monthly credits to use as they wish. The credits are tracked and recorded because they are designed to be like currency. If the currency is being abused, a kind person will check in with that person to offer support. Assisting them in releasing any lingering generational trauma that might have skipped a generation. When you support your community or another community, additional credits are applied.
For example, if you want to go on a vacation, you can work overtime doing a job you love. If your home needs a new roof, the community pitches in to get it repaired or replaced. You need resources from another country; they are provided. We have enough. We are not greedy or selfish. We support one another. There is an allotment system. It is sort of like Habitat for Humanity.
And everyone does have a retirement plan. But when you love what you do, some people still enjoy being of service to others. There is no poverty, and everyone gets a free education, healthcare, and their basic needs met. So, your credits are not going towards taxes, funding a war, or building UFC fight structures in front of the White House. A little humor there.
AI is our friend. We use it for many things, which allow humans to no longer struggle in survival mode. People no longer steal, fight over food, lose wages, employment, water, housing, resources, various forms of insurance, retirement funds, etc. AI does the work that most people dislike.
AI is used in the education department and in medical exams to assist doctors. Since it is smarter than we are, we use it to help us become the best versions of ourselves, create clean water, grow organic crops, etc. It is not used in ways that take away our “Creative Spark”. Like music, art, writing books, or creating fake videos for entertainment purposes.
As for Danica and Ryan, they move out of the house and start their lives. They attend a council meeting. There will be romance, struggles, deep insights and realizations, and growth. Danica will grow closer to Marcos to see if that is where her heart leads her first. Tobias, being extremely patient, compassionate, and loving, will support her regardless of her life choices, impressing everyone! They have already spoken to me and shown me the conversation they will have, which will reveal what it truly means to be unconditionally loved by another within the 5th and 6th dimensions. I personally was in awe.
Danica will read Asilinn’s book, and it will not be easy. She will reveal her life journey, her moments of spiritual awakening, the tests from the universe and our Creators, and the path that led her to become a Divine Messiah, or the Monad. It might leave a few people in awe, wonder, disbelief, and question the power of the Divine once you embrace it and become it.
In book two, you will also learn more about Danica’s father, Willis. How he met Galene and how motherhood changed her reality and world. Danica’s dad is a pretty cool, chill, and mellow dude. Unlike Galene. The book will display how these two polar opposites complement each other and why they work.
You will also learn the differences between superficial love and what it is like to be loved unconditionally by another person.
And a teaser for book three, Aislinn does pick Tobias in the end after she learns a few painful lessons within the 4D framework. She will still have a home on Earth. She will be transformed into a white lion in a lovely devotion ceremony. It will end with her having a family as both Asilinn’s and Tobias’ dreams become a reality.
Danica makes this choice because she aligns more with higher states of consciousness, while Marcos is not ready to love her as she deserves. He is slow to change and can be complacent. Of course, Danica will still love Marcos for the lessons and gifts he has given her in their romantic relationship, but her self-worth and personal growth have surpassed Marcos. She craves Oneness, unconditional love, and unity with the friendships she makes on Vega.
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The roles no longer fit.
The stories no longer make sense.
The pain you carried begins to feel like a doorway instead of a punishment.
Some call this a breakdown.
Others call it an awakening.
Some call it healing.
Others call it the moment everything begins to fall apart, so something deeper can be rebuilt.
In Becoming a Divine Messiah, the journey of transformation is explored through the lens of human consciousness, trauma, love, identity, and the hidden architecture of the soul. Blending personal experience, psychological insight, and spiritual perspective, this book walks the reader through the inner stages of awakening. From pain and confusion to clarity, integration, and self-realization.
This is not a book about religion.
It is not a book about perfection.
It is a book about remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.
For those who feel different.
For those who have lived through deep emotional wounds.
For those who sense there is more to life than survival.
For those who are ready to step into the higher rooms of human consciousness.
And for those who sense that human consciousness is not broken… only unfinished.
This book is an invitation to step beyond survival and enter the higher rooms of your own becoming.
This book is an invitation to return to yourself.
Voicings
Voicings, by Carroll Blair, is a collection of brief poems, meditations, aphoristic fragments, and more formally elusive lyric pieces that circle the inner life with unusual persistence. The book moves through solitude, spiritual hunger, artistic struggle, nature, language, ego, suffering, and the quiet courage required to keep becoming oneself. Its two parts feel less like separate sections than two movements of the same long listening: one rooted in the search for vision, the other widening into sharper social observation and a deeper tenderness toward the fragile, unfinished human soul.
I found the strongest pieces in Voicings to be those that marry plain-spoken insight with a sudden image that makes the thought bloom. “Never Completely Alone,” with its crickets singing through the cool of night, turns loneliness into something porous and living, while “Going On” compares the artist to a battered prizefighter still moving without quite knowing where the strength is coming from. That image stayed with me because it captures so much of the book’s emotional center: endurance without self-pity, faith without prettiness, and creativity as a form of survival. Blair’s ideas can be bracing, especially when he writes about ego, attention, and the cost of truth, but there’s warmth beneath the severity. He seems to believe that life wounds us into awareness, and I responded to that belief because it’s neither sentimental nor cruel. It has the ring of something earned.
The writing is at its best when Blair allows thought and image to lean into one another. I loved the musical simplicity of “Alphabets,” where letters become notes and words become “music for the eye as well as the ear,” and I admired the quiet grace of “A Child’s Exploration,” where the flower and the child seem to recognize each other. The book’s texture has force. Its language can be rough, gleaming, prophetic, tender, and strange, sometimes all within a few lines. I often felt challenged in a way I respected. Blair’s voice asks the reader to slow down, to accept difficulty, and to meet language as an event rather than a vehicle.
Voicings left me with the sense of having walked through a mind that refuses the small comforts of distraction. The closing poems, especially “Every Moment of One’s Life,” “Keeping On,” and “Who Lift Their Eyes,” gather the book’s many concerns into a final affirmation of attention, growth, and spiritual reach. It’s best for those who enjoy philosophical poetry, meditative fragments, and writing that treats the soul as both a wilderness and a workshop. I recommend Voicings to reflective readers who are willing to sit with mystery, wrestle with abstraction, and be rewarded by moments of sudden, piercing clarity.
Pages: 154 | ISBN : 978-1936430215
