With five novels to their credit, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, best friends for 25 years, have turned a friendship into the most successful and enduring writing collaboration in African American fiction. Donna and Virginia first met as plus size models vying for the same assignments. They were both featured in catalogs, ads, magazines and made national television appearances. Their modeling careers led to the opportunity to launch Maxima, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for plus-size women, where Virginia was editor-in-chief and Donna the managing editor. When publication of Maxima ceased, Virginia and Donna decided to try writing a book together. The result, Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made, was a critical success, an Essence Bestseller, as are all three of their books, and won the Merit Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, as well as the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the Blackboard Bestseller List/African American Booksellers Conference-Book Expo America. More than that, it hit an emotional nerve with tens of thousands of readers from all over the world who continue to write to Virginia and Donna nine years after the book's publication. Far From the Tree became a New York Times Bestseller, and Better Than I Know Myself received two Open Book Awards, and been included on the Best African American Fiction of 2004 lists of both Borders and WaldenBooks.

 I'm Patti Lacy, author of the Christian novel, An Irishwoman's Tale. My passion? Exploring the secrets women keep and why they keep them. Now my second baby, What the Bayou Saw, is hitting stores and websites. What the Bayou Saw grapples with racism's ruinous stain, rape's emotional and physical aftermath, and the high cost of lies and repressed memories. Pick up a copy today!

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Ann Marie will give Free Psychic Angel Channelings. Discussion will be on "Bashar", his brilliance, the multi personalities of Schizophrenia and its link to creative Channeling.  Could it be  the "sane" are underdeveloped?  Its all good.  {And it's all in what you believe.} Watch his YouTubes and decide for your self.

WATCH BASHAR ON “ABUNDENCE” TO TRUST WHAT IS:

ABOUT BASHAR

Darrel Anka lives in L.A.  On first meeting his brilliance on YouTube, he seems to be an exceptionally articulate schizophrenic.   Something really weird happens when Darrel Anka channels within himself.   His head twitches and like a robot, he becomes jerky, steeples his hands, makes little grunting noises that resemble a nervous tic or petite mall. After several deep breaths, his head suddenly snaps to attention and a very intense radio like voice flows out of his mouth.   MEET BASHAR.  He answers spiritual questions with the brilliance of Einstein. Each explanation is followed with a choppy head cock,  “Do you understand?”  “Have I Helped you?” “Will that be all?” “Thank You!”   Because Darrel/ Bashar is so extremely eccentric, his YouTube feedback is filled with slams, as well as praise.  This is how all eccentric brilliance is perceived.  And as Darrel / Bashaw would tell you, {it really does not matter.} 

 WATCH BASHAR ON THE FUNCTION OF IMAGINATION 

 BASHAR’S CONCEPTS 

Your Past Lives Live Inside you NOW. {the past, present and future are one}

@  Bashar does not believe we need deep dark sessions of “Past Life Regression”…as all lives, past, present and future, are happening simultaneously in different frequencies ....co existing within our illusionary conception of life at one time.

• @  Even though we are tuning in to a certain television channel…it does not mean that all the other channels on the television are not happening at the same time.
• @  It only means that we choose to channel on that “channel reality” at that given moment in time.  

•  CHANNELING IN  IT SELF …. is only an ILLUSIONARY EXPERIENCE
• @   Channeling breaks the limitations to your  past, present & future.
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• @   Bashar believes that these different frequencies of simultaneous lives co exist within, and can be switched at will,  much  like the channels on your television.

@ Bashar believes that mastering the ability to channel these different frequencies, like switching channels on a television, could even allow one to have conversation with their “Linier” lives, which are all going on all at once.
 

• @  Bashar laughingly admits that to do this, however, would be seen as ultimate schizophrenia. 

@  So is Schizophrenia out of control channeling?  

BASHAR VIDEO:    PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE  * {2015-2025}

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4263655603337689576

Kidnap the Promo!

Starting June 9^th and ending July 30^th readers and listeners can join in the Kidnap the Promo Contest. Here is how it works. Go to www.themarkofadruid.com On the front page of the site is the new book trailer. Snag the code and put it on your facebook, myspace, blog, Twitter, Plurk or anywhere else even email your fiends and include info@themarkofadruid on an email that includes the trailer.

Then go to the contest section of my website and click participate on the Contest #9. If you are not singed up it will ask you to sign up for the site then you will have to return to the contest section, Contest #9 and participate in the contest. It will direct you to leave me a message and give me the link to where you posted the trailer.

You name will go into a drawing for a bag of Celtic prizes and Promotional materials including a autographed copy of the book and so much more. The more people who join the more prizes I will award. There is no purchase required to enter any of the contests on TheMarkofaDruid.com but you do have to sign up so I have your shipping and contact information.

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Also head over to YouTube while you are at it and rate the video or leave a comment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQSGtDrN0g

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http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Druid-Rhonda-Carpenter/dp/0595523366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244239985&sr=8-1

SHOW: Lynn Serafinn’s Garden of the Soul

EP16-Voice as a Key to Wholeness

GUEST: Gemini Adams

DATE AIRED: Wednesday 6 May 2009

I met coach, author and spiritual healer Gemini Adams earlier this year when we were both guests on John Levine’s Happy and Healthy Hour in Cambridge, England. Gemini is a Brit by birth who currently makes her home in Los Angeles, so I was fortunate to have crossed her path on one of her occasional trips back to her homeland. What I noticed about her as soon as I met her was how open and generous she was. She did not even know me and she immediately took one of her books out of her satchel, signed it and made a gift of it to me. Of course, I knew I had to have this woman on my radio show.

Gemini is the author of a unique book called Your Legacy of Love: realise the gift in goodbye. The book was prompted by Gemini’s mother’s untimely death from cancer, when Gemini was only 21 years old. While much of the book gives us deep insight into the largely unspoken impact of bereavement upon the human spirit, and how it can last far longer than most of us care to admit, this is not just another book about loss and how to deal with it at an emotional level. Gemini offers the reader practical answers to how to deal with the “D” word, so that your loved ones are not left with a big gaping hole in their lives.

That practical solution is to leave a legacy of love for those you will leave behind. Gemini offers a range of practical, creative and pleasurable ideas for what that could be, ranging from letters to your loved ones, personal biographies, musical diaries, detailed instructions for how you wish to be remembered, and many other ideas. Gemini gives many compelling reasons why we should do this when we are well and fit, rather than waiting for the time when, heaven forbid, we find ourselves diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. She describes in detail, giving many case studies, how the gift of a legacy of love can help those we leave behind deal with grief and bereavement after we pass on.

And like all books, especially of this type, there is always a story behind it. Gemini explained to me how the process of writing this book also helped unlock her own voice to find ultimate wholeness of self and peace with the universe after years of previously unresolved bereavement. In a private interview, she told me how she believes that “our authentic voice is always there, but we are scared to use it.” Having done past life regression, Gemini came to the conclusion that this might be the culmination of issues that have transpired of many lifetimes, and that it can go on for generations. She says that she finds this to be especially true of women, and that she felt that this was a kind of historical, collective pain that all of us must confront and overcome. To overcome this, it is essential that we break through the fear of judgement. She said that writing offered her great healing in this regard, but the inner barriers are often more formidable than what can be resolved through writing.

It was this need to break free from these fears that ultimately drove Gemini to take action. Going strongly against her middle class instincts, she decided to give up her previous lifestyle and move out of London, out of the UK altogether, far away from everyone and everything she knew. Giving up all her personal possessions, she went to live in someone’s garden shed in Los Angeles, surviving on the dole. It was here that Gemini at last found the voice to write this book, and in doing so she found, and began to live, her life purpose.

Gemini told me that the entire experience of moving through her own bereavement, and ultimately finding her own voice, gave her a deep personal intention and underlying need to make a contribution to the world, and that her motivation is never money or fame. She says that she knows she is helping others to live freely through her work, and that the ultimate intention of the book is to heal and to help others to heal.

When I asked Gemini what her “bigger message” for the world was, she said, “You can be who you really are; you don’t need all the pretence. Education is designed to undo ourselves. Forget what others want for you. Become a unique, pioneering person. YOU are the one who must be satisfied.

If you want to find out Gemini, listen to the podcast below. And after you do, be sure to visit Gemini’s website:

Author & Founder of Live Consciously Publishing
http://www.liveconsciouslynow.com

Order copies of "Your Legacy of Love" and get Amazon's special pre-publication discount, visit:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Legacy-Love-Realise-Goodbye/dp/0955465605

Listen to playback/download the MP3 from:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn/2009/05/06/Voice-as-a-Key-to-Wholeness

NEXT ON
Lynn Serafinn’s Garden of the Soul
(this show was already aired; blog to follow shortly)

Thursday 14 May
SHOW: Lynn Serafinn's Garden of the Soul
Ep17-Forgiveness as a Pathway to Freedom
6.30 PM UK time, 1.30 PM Eastern, 10.30 AM Pacific, 7.30 PM CET
Author and Personal Transformation Coach Lynn Serafinn hosts award-winning actress and Forgiveness Coach, Brenda Adelman. Brenda will be sharing her story of how she learned to "forgive the unforgivable" after her father murdered her mother and married her mother's sister. A trained chaplain at the Unity Church and recipient of "A Hero of Forgiveness Award" from the Hawaii International Forgiveness Project, Brenda now leads forgiveness workshops entitled, "Forgiving the Unforgivable as a Path to Freedom" and regularly tours with her own one-woman show, "My Brooklyn Hamlet." Brenda will tell us about her journey through deep loss and pain, and resultant depression, to the ultimate freedom and joy she experienced when she learned how to open her heart to forgiveness. Brenda will also reveal her "three steps to forgive and be free" and her "top five reasons to never forgive, and why you must," and will read us an excerpt from her upcoming book, Forgive and Be Free: A Pathway to Personal Happiness.

This show was already aired. Catch the replay at "on demand" at:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn/2009/05/14/Ep17-Forgiveness-as-a-Pathway-to-Freedom

Can’t make it to the live show? No problem!

Catch all our episodes “on demand” at
www.blogtalkradio.com/Lynn-Serafinn

About the show, “Lynn Serafinn’s Garden of the Soul”

Weekly broadcast exploring personal empowerment, life purpose, balance of mind, body and spirit, and how to tap into the inner hero that lies within every human being. Hosted by Lynn Serafinn, Personal Transformation Coach and author living in Bedford England dedicated to awakening the authentic voice in all people. She is the author of the Amazon bestselling book The Garden of the Soul: lessons from four flowers that unearth the Self, and the Founder/Leader of The Global Wellness Circle, a holistic community project that is rapidly spreading throughout the UK.

Lynn’s links

• Garden of the Soul Book Blog: www.give-receive-become-be.com
• Garden of the Soul Social Network: http://gardenofthesoul.ning.com
• Create-a-Life Coaching/Training: www.create-a-life.co.uk
• Global Wellness Circle: www.global-wellness-circle.com

Lynn’s next live appearance:

Saturday 23 May
EVENT: Edenbridge UK Independent Authors Book Fair
9 AM - 4 PM
VENUE: Rickards Hall, 72 High Street, Edenbridge, Kent TN8 5AR
The first Independent Authors Book Fair takes place as part of the Eden Valley festival. The festival celebrates the West Kent community of Edenbridge town and the surrounding villages. The Book Fair presents twelve independent authors covering a range of genres. There will be a programme of talks, presentations and readings running throughout the day from 9.00 - 4.00. Light refreshments will be available. Join Lynn and 11 other UK independent authors for this inaugural event. Get to meet authors 1-to-1, ask questions, hear talks of writing and publishing, and purchase signed copies of their books. Be the first to be in the know about who is setting the trends in the independent writing field.

Amongst the speakers, author Lynn Serafinn will be delivering a talk on her new book The Garden of the Soul: lessons from four flowers that unearth the Self, which reached Amazon bestseller status in both the US and the UK the first week of its release in such categories as spirituality, mind-body-spirit and self-help. Visit Lynn's book blogsite at http://www.give-receive-become-be.com for more information and full media kit for The Garden of the Soul.

More information at: http://www.ukindependentauthors.co.uk/Edenbridge_Book_Fair.html

Patricia Gardner and Dayna Winters will be rejoined by Rose Rosetree this weekend to talk about more Face Reading Secrets!  Rose Rosetree is a healer, a teacher, and an author.  She is a graduate of the United Nations International School and holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, where the motto is "Truth even unto its innermost parts.”  Rose Rosetree is the author of Read People Deeper, Cut the Cords of Attachment, Empowered by Empathy: 25 Ways to Fly in Spirit, Let Today Be a Holiday: 365 Ways to Co-Create with God, The Power of Face Reading, Aura Reading Through All Your Senses: Celestial Perception Made Practical, Wrinkle’s Are God’s Makeup: How You Can Find Meaning in Your Evolving Face, and The Roar of the Huntids.  With more than 100,000 copies of her books in print, Rose Rosetree is well-known for the innovative mind-body-spirit systems she has developed.

Rose has created trademarked systems and techniques for cutting the cords of attachment and aura readings; she pioneered the first system for training empaths to hone their skills.  Rose is a member of the International Association for Regression Research & Therapies, Inc. (IARRT) as well as the National Guild of Hypnotists, Inc. (NGH); she is a certified Consulting Hypnotist and Regression Therapist, and since 1986, Rose Rosetree has conducted Regression Therapy sessions.  Rose has had more than 800 interviews, her work has been highlighted and praised in a variety of publications including The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Catholic Standard, and she has been on The Diane Rehm Show, The View, seven different segments of ABC News in Cincinnati, and The Colbert Report.

Find out more about Rose and her outstanding work at:

http://www.rose-rosetree.com/

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