On a crisp October day in 2002, Lindsey O'Connor woke from a 47-day medically induced coma. She heard her ecstatic husband's voice and saw his face as she emerged from the depths of unconsciousness. She was bewildered by the people around her who looked so overjoyed and were so thoroughly attentive and attuned to her every move. Then came the question: "Do you remember that you had a baby?" Lindsey drifted in and out of consciousness again for weeks. When she finally and gradually surfaced permanently from her long submersion, she struggled to understand that the day her baby came into the world was the day she left it. Her awakening was the happy ending for her family and friends--the miracle they had been praying for--but it was just the beginning of Lindsey's long and frightening journey toward a new reality. With visceral images and richly layered storytelling, Lindsey O'Connor vividly tells the poignant true story of the struggle to reenter her world and rebuild her identity. Underlying this life and death battle is a story of lost and found love, the effort to make sense of life-altering events, and the continuing search for self. This moving memoir paints a powerful picture of pain, beauty, and the unsurpassable gift of finally knowing who you are.

When puzzling, devastating life eventsdrive an Ivy-League-trained engineer into despair, she searches within for her own wisdom and discovers that when you connect to your intuition, your soul, and follow it regardless ofouter expectations, you access a level of purpose, synchronicity, and universal cooperation that is not possible coming from your own personal agenda. Thisactivates the magic of interconnectedness--the true Holy Grail. She then reveals its secrets--and humanity's destiny.

At age forty-seven, Janet woke up from existing to living passionately. As a speaker, new author, life coach, and energy medicine consultant, Janet provides inspiration with wisdom, using ideas, suggestions, and tools to empower others to question their own lives and to make positive shifts in how they view themselves and the world around them. Janet tells a variety of short stories that may be tearful, funny, provocative, realistic, and spiritual. Her memoirs share personal episodes in the first forty-seven years of life; then she demonstrates how her shift in consciousness now impacts her world from the inside out. There are points in everyones life when they question who they are and what their purpose is. It is common to wonder and ask questions. In fact, it is the way one learns to remember who they are on the inside. When you question, you seek to expand your mind, body, and spirit experiences. So many of us live on autopilot. Is it that we are so scared to question things we have come to make our everyday truths? Or is it the fact that we are so afraid to crawl out from underneath the blanket of security, safety, and protection, to see how really powerful we are Do you realize you can make an amazing impact within yourself and the world around you? I challenge you to explore these questions and to come up with what holds truth in your life.

Everything seen and unseen that exists in our universe consists of pure energy, light which resonates as vibratory frequency. We are light beings; our energy is something we put out into the world. When we notice and become one with this sacred interconnectedness of all things, we begin to take more responsibility for the energy we radiate. The sheer bliss of discovering your oneness with Source is inherent and magical, and the rise of kundalini which enables it is a most precious blessing. As you begin to remember who you are on a soul level, there also exists a radical and sometimes debilitating process of letting go and embracing and embodying a profound paradigm shift. In this book, the author explores a series of events which introduced him to this unseen energetic world and led him down a path of no return, to the true nature of existence. Story by story, he begins to see himself not only as a being of light, one whose existence is full of supernatural splendor and miraculous healing ability, but as an example and a reminder of the joys and responsibilities that accompany spiritual awakening. This story leaves out none of the high highs and the low lows.

Nancy Torgove Clasby, an ordinary mother of three small children, gradually pieces together the greatest mysteries of life after a spontaneous awakening completely redirects her focus and energy and leads her to become a healer.

DIARY OF A YOGI – A BOOK OF AWAKENING Based on the life of Altair Shyam A mystical tale of revelations and transformation. A book of beauty and presence that transforms the way you love and opens your heart to the miracles of this precious lifetime through the power of pure intention. “This is it. Diary of a Yogi – a True Story is more than a book. It is a journey you take that will profoundly impact your life. This is your chance to go into the forest and emerge transformed.” Jane Tara

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite the challenges she has faced raising a family while pursuing her work. Best known in this country as the lawyer working tirelessly on behalf of Canadian photojournalist, Zara Kazemi—raped, tortured and murdered in Iran—Dr. Ebadi offers us a vivid picture of the struggles of one woman against the system. The book movingly chronicles her childhood in a loving, untraditional family, her upbringing before the Revolution in 1979 that toppled the Shah, her marriage and her religious faith, as well as her life as a mother and lawyer battling an oppressive regime in the courts while bringing up her girls at home. Outspoken, controversial, Shirin Ebadi is one of the most fascinating women today. She rose quickly to become the first female judge in the country; but when the religious authorities declared women unfit to serve as judges she was demoted to clerk in the courtroom she had once presided over. She eventually fought her way back as a human rights lawyer, defending women and children in politically charged cases that most lawyers were afraid to represent. She has been arrested and been the target of assassination, but through it all has spoken out with quiet bravery on behalf of the victims of injustice and discrimination and become a powerful voice for change, almost universally embraced as a hero. Her memoir is a gripping story—a must-read for anyone interested in Zara Kazemi’s case, in the life of a remarkable woman, or in understanding the political and religious upheaval in our world. Praise for Shirin Ebadi and Iran Awakening “This is the riveting story of an amazing and very brave woman living through some quite turbulent times. And she emerges with head unbowed.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu “The safety and freedom of citizens in democracies is irretrievably bound with the safety and freedom of people like Shirin Ebadi who are fighting to reassert the best achievements of mankind: universal human rights. One of the staunchest advocates for human rights in her country and beyond, Ms. Ebadi, herself a devout Muslim, represents hope for many in Muslim societies that Islam and democracy are indeed compatible.”—Azar Nafisi “A moving portrait of a life lived in truth.”—The New York Times Book Review “A riveting account of a brave, lonely struggle . . . [Iran Awakening] reads like a police thriller, its drama heightened by Ebadi’s determination to keep up the quotidian aspects of her family life.”—The Washington Post Book World “A must read . . . may be the most important book you could read this year.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer