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Our local Barnes & Noble was closed during the lockdown and didn\u2019t open until about a month ago. When I walked into the building for the first time in about two months, I was shocked and delighted by the way the place had been rearranged. Everything was more open – that 6 feet of distance – and more accessible.<\/p>\n
Today, June 30, was my third visit since it reopened, and I went with the intention of finding some mind-blowing new book. I usually have a circuit in this newly arranged bookstore. Magazines: anything on astrology. New fiction arrivals: a book whose cover or title leap out at me and I\u2019m prompted to pick it up. Sci-fi: same. Today I notice that some of my science fiction favorites are new editions with more compelling covers – like Octavia Butler\u2019s books. Then I cross the bookstore to my favorite section. It used to be called New Age, then Live Your Best Life, Self-Help, Transformation. Here you find books on astrology, tarot, happiness, self-transformation.<\/p>\n
Since author Pam Grout will be a guest on our podcast in July, I bought a new copy of E2, which we bought and read several years ago, but we couldn\u2019t find our copy. We may have given it to our daughter. Then I scanned the rest of the books in that section and one caught my attention: Scripting the Life You Want by Royce Christyn.<\/em> I noticed that Mitch Horowitz had written the intro. I loved Mitch\u2019s The Miracle Club,<\/em> so I picked up this book.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve read a lot of books like this. Most are based on an idea that probably has been around forever, but which came into Western awareness through the Seth books, channeled and written by Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, in the early 1970s. The idea: We create our own realities.<\/em> All of it, beginning with our choice of parents, family, siblings, situation, time, place, and date of birth. The Seth books were philosophic. Much of what has come afterward has evolved into pragmatic, self-help books and techniques.<\/p>\n Abraham-Hicks, now a cottage industry, is about the law of attraction, how it works, and how you can employ these techniques to create the life you dream of living. Pam Grout\u2019s E2, E3,<\/em> and The Course in Miracle Experiment,<\/em> provide her particular – and usually humorous – take on these ideas.<\/p>\n Mitch Horowitz\u2019s The Miracle Club<\/em> is especially engaging because his take on these ideas is so focused and directed. He\u2019s a no bullshit kind of writer. If memory serves, he\u2019s the only one of the bunch who talked about synchronicity.<\/p>\n After I picked up Scripting,<\/em> I stood there reading Mitch\u2019s intro and decided to buy the book. I realized this was the book I\u2019d come to Barnes and Noble to find. This happened to me in 2003 or 2004, when I was at B&N, on the same sort of hunt, and Lynn Grabhorn\u2019s Excuse Me, My Life Is Waiting,<\/em> leaped out at me.<\/p>\n In 1999, I was in a Borders Bookstore, browsing, and a book dropped at my feet. It was Carol Bowman\u2019s Children\u2019s Past Lives<\/em>. These books were life-changing. So when I walked to the register today with Scripting<\/em>, I was pretty sure it would be that kind of book. And some synchro expers, BTW, call this phenomena, The Bookstore Angel. I’m not convinced about the angel part of this, but when I’m in a bookstore, on a hunt for whatever I need to read right then, I’m nudged toward certain books.<\/p>\n Are you? If so, how?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our local Barnes & Noble was closed during the lockdown and didn\u2019t open until about a month ago. When I walked into the building for the first time in about two months, I was shocked and delighted by the … Continue reading
\nSo far, it is. I love Royce Christyn\u2019s voice, his authenticity, his personal stories. I\u2019ve created my first intentions list. He\u2019s two years older than our daughter, Megan, and knows how to use the Internet and social media to promote his book. He\u2019s already giving online manifestation courses. I\u2019m eager to see how his techniques differ and, bottom line, how and if they work.<\/p>\n