Every issue of the magazine, Venture Inward, contains my book column. I have placed them here,  because these essays on books contain as much about me--my personal experiences and viewpoints--as they do about the books. I have used several of them in my teaching. You can browse through them, print them out, share them, as you wish.

In the Zone: Trancendent Experience in Sports
Authors: Miachel Murphy & Rhea White
Publisher: Penquin Arkana

When the Soul Coaches the Body, the Spirit Soars
Sports and Soul are interconnected in ways you may have never imagined before. Can the soul be responsible for transforming the body beyond what it was ever capable of?

Enter the Fourth Dimension to Liberate Your Soul
Navigating the fourth dimension is something that traditional ideas can not handle. It is not a material plane with up and down- light and heavy, it is a spiritual plane. With a better understanding of how to "raise" our consciousness in it we can understand what our soul's destiny, or rather, intention is.

Be Ye Transformed by the Renewing of Your Minds
New thought as it relates to History and the Cayce readings. It has existed for centuries but in light of more historical knowledge it gives another aspect to the areas covered by Cayce.

Second Sight Brings Spiritual Awareness
Psychic abilities are a healthy extension of self awareness. Here is a psychologist who is also a psychic. She demonstrates through personal experience why such awareness is healthy and should be recognized.

On Becoming a Zen Cook
The art of Zen is adapted by this author and used to create a full life, both economically and socially. With the focus on the programs instated by him being to transform the people, not to make them rich it remains in the Zen tradition.

Finding the Sacred in the Profane
Secular and Spiritual beliefs of everyday life are explored by a group of twenty university students. How are these antonyms one? Spirituality is spirituality no matter whether pious or profane.

Tracking the Dream Story
A great method for interpreting dreams is looking at them as a story. Not the literal meaning but the emotional meaning that they convey which is subtle and elusive at times. This method allows others to empathize and even connect to the person in a helpful manner.

Releasing Negativity is No Sweat!
Eliminating negative ideas can be done by releasing previously held beliefs that something was wrong. This is an alternate method to the popular one used now where affirmation that nothing is wrong is used. This alternate method doesn't require the subconscious to make complete denial of certain obvious facts and is easier than the original.

What You Shouldn't Know
Moral issues in a world speeding down the information highway. How can we cope with them? Is there some information that should be ignored? This is a must-read for anyone concerned with the values of human society.

You Are A Gift to the World
The destiny we try to achieve through going to college is not the degree but our contribution to humanity. Over a lifetime we come up personal truths. We should use those truths to inspire others of our kind by sharing them and become teachers of humanity.

It's Hard to Be the Only One Who Knows
The ancient Mayans believed that for their world to exist they should be companions to the creator. The creator created the world through self-sacrifice and we should follow suit in order to bring God into conscious existence. This companionship would in turn confirm the universe to ourselves and make it more real.

New Series Provides Encyclopedic Coverage of Spirituality
Exploring what it means to be spiritual from many different aspects. Can you simply tell someone what it means to be spiritual? Is there any universal status quo? University writers with personal spiritual experiences explain what it is.

The Spirit of Shamanism is not an Artifact
The overall ends of shamanism seem closely related to that of Edgar Cayce style work. Both try to "purify and attune" one's consciousness for a holistic healing. Critics of shamanism should read this, there is more credit to the ancients than what is given.