Category: Books
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Furlough Preparation: Paying off Car Loans with Ebook Sales
This post on paying off car loans with ebook sales is post #5 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. In my last post, I talked about using near-zero-interest-rate savings to pay off a big chunk of my car loan. With a safe cushion in the bank and all but the last 9 months…
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Can Empaths Be Cruel? The Science of Evil and Its Effect on What I’m Writing
I’m glad I didn’t read Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty before I began writing The Secret Lives of Librarians. Not that it’s a bad book. If I’d done more academic research into empathy, narcissism, and evil before beginning my novel, I might have tried to fit Lilah…
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Channeling Insights: Signs of the Real Deal
Most people hear the term channeling and immediately think eitherfraudor nutcase. Or maybe both. Sometimes they think possession, which is probably the scariest impression. Channeling, from what I’ve observed, is a way of tapping into deeper insights, whether the person doing the channeling interprets them as being from the Higher Self, a dark but highly…