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.

Healing Communication: A Psychospiritual Approach
Author: Rick Phillips
Publisher: Deva Foundation

The Healing Power of Communication
We are beings that love to communicate. With that ability, we accomplish almost anything. It is something to be valued as a tool and as a connection to a higher level of ourselves.

Love Pushes Us Beyond Our Understanding
Love can be understood and even taught if it is observed in small increments. Sixteen different areas are defined in this new book as it discusses how to understand and improve on love.

Get the Real Facts on ESP
The scientific statistics for existence of ESP are stronger than some over the counter drug claims. ESP does exist as technical detail after detail show.

Who Are We to Become?
Predictions to the outcome of a loss of identity in the future are explored. Love may be the best compromise between individualism and uniformity.

Psychic Healing Is more Interaction than Operation
Healing can be accomplished through a physic connection between healer and patient. Ethics need to be established for this developing treatment. Psychic healing allows one person to have a large amount of control over another person, but spiritual healing is passive, so it can be used safely.

In Patience You Possess Your Soul
Today we find that our time schedule is hectic and getting more and more crowded. Time is something that moves at its own pace. Time would not push us if we would do what is most important to us. The idea is not to do everything but to do something well.

Discover Your Heart's Awareness
The heart has more ability to realize the psychic connection of people than does the brain. Evidence shows that a heart connection is more effective than a psychic connection and may be more beneficial.

Edgar Cayce Receives His Scholarly Context
An astute interpretation is included of what Cayce was and what he accomplished. This is a must read for all who are interested in Cayce.

The Spirit of Shamanism is not an Artifact
Cayce's experience resembles that of a shaman in many aspects. Both believed in contacting a patients soul to begin healing. Both were interactive with the world around them.

Spiritual Healing Has Its Psychological Counterpart
Healing begins when the injured person recognizes there is a problem and begins a search for the cause or the meaning of the disturbance. Healing through spiritual means can benefit from psychological understanding. There is usually a correspondence between these two dimensions of healing.

Intuition Helps Us Keep Healthy
Trusting your intuition is a very hard thing to do. There is no one to assure you of its effects. This book looks at personal intuition as a valuable source for medical health-care.

Divine Tempest: The Hurricane as a Psychic Phenomenon
Author: David Schoen
Publisher: Inner City Books

Is Nature’s Tantrum a Psychic Outburst?
The weather may be analogous to our mental. They may also be actually connected in some mysterious way. Could storms or natural disasters be a reflection on humanity's state of mind?

Finding the Wings of Our Spirit
The swings, gyrations, thrill, and experience of a trapeze artist are meditated upon. The freedom of flying relates to the freedom of the soul. The fear of falling is a barrier that hinders the grace of flying.

A Call for Moral Intuition
Have we left a place in our inherent human curiosity for moral evaluation? Recent advances in such fields as biotechnology have spurred our curiosity to reach for goals that might be considered "playing God." If we don't consider the moral implications, who will?

The Parrot's Lament and other true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity
Author: Eugene Linden
Publisher: Dutton

My Goats Bedevil Me
Animals do have the ability to think and feel, in some ways outmaneuvering their human observers. There is clear evidence that animals are capable of intentionally deceiving humans.

 

It’s Hard to be Alone with Your Intuition
The story of Edgar Cayce reveals how alone he was, because everyone else wanted him to do all the psychic work, while they sat back waiting to be inspired. How history might have been different if they too tried to do psychic readings.

Look Who’s Coming to Dinner
What are we looking for in relationships? Some of what it is we are searching for is the mythical paradise, a reconnection with our spiritual wholeness. Is it a search in vain, or shall we continue to hope?

Enjoy The Blessings of Praying Together
Read about the history of prayer groups and learn how to form one of your own. It really does make s difference when people pray together.

Idiots and Dummies Become Educational Pioneers
A humorous account of the various Idiot's Guides and For Dummies book in the spiritual and metaphysical field. Discussing the book on Near Death Experiences shows just how valuable these books are becoming.

Knowledge Lost, Knowledge Found
What is a myth? Perhaps it’s a story that isn’t true on the outside, but is true on the inside. A close examination of the records suggests a new site to find the legendary Hall of Records. The story turns on the loose use of the term, Yucatan. 

 

Learn to Appreciate the Healing in Dreams
Healing dreams come in many guises and disguises. When they are most effective, they totally change our outlook on the world.