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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Tom Von Deck, author of Learn How to Meditate Properly: A Meditation Guide for Beginners

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Tom Von Deck, author of Learn How to Meditate Properly: A Meditation Guide for Beginners
(Monkey Wisdom)

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“Learn How to Meditate Properly” is designed to help the reader quickly find his/her most compatible meditation technique. You learn the anatomy of a meditation technique plus a large variety of meditation objects (things to focus on) to choose from. Then you learn how to experiment and narrow it down to the technique that works best for you.

After all this, you learn all the tricks for making meditation much easier and more busy-proof so that you create a powerful momentum of peace on even the busiest of time schedules.

The way that the book title ties in is this. The most proper way to meditate is to find which meditation technique you are most compatible with and find your most compatible ways of integrating meditation into daily life and of preparing the mind and body for a meditate experience. Meditation is the art of falling in love, and you want a meditation object that you can truly fall in love with.

You also learn the proper way of working with your thoughts and emotions as they arise into consciousness. There’s a common misconception that meditation is about clearing your mind. It’s not. You’ll go nuts trying to do that. It’s about being present with moment to moment experience, including thoughts, sensations and emotions.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Learn How to Meditate Properly: A Meditation Guide for Beginners”?

Tom Von Deck: I wrote another book called “Oceanic Mind – The Deeper Meditation Training Course”. This one covers more than 60 meditation techniques, warm ups and calming activities you can interweave into your schedule. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Tom Von Deck, author of Learn How to Meditate Properly: A Meditation Guide for Beginners →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Charles Molesworth, author of And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countee Cullen

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Charles Molesworth, author of And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countee Cullen
(University of Chicago Press)

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It is the first full-length biography of the Harlem Renaissance poet, Countee Cullen. It relies on documentary evidence from the Cullen archive (located at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans) and deals with all of his writings, published and unpublished, as well as his friendships with people like Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countee Cullen”?

Charles Molesworth: The inspiration came in large part from writing my earlier book, a biography of Alain Locke, who was Cullen’s friend and Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Charles Molesworth, author of And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countee Cullen →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Vogue, author of The Ace of Diamonds

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Vogue, author of The Ace of Diamonds
(Crown Jewelz Publishing)

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Since his release from prison, Brookstone’s most notorious drug lord, Jay Santiago, has been hard at work rebuilding his life and empire. With two businesses under his belt and one in the making, Jay is readily known as one of New York’s elite men.

While the root of his financial status lies in the newly rebuilt Santiago Cartel, Jay is determined to expand his wealth. After reconnecting with an old comrade, he believes that he has found the one thing that could increase his fortune and allow him to leave behind the dangers of his criminal enterprise for good.

However, as Jay’s new business venture begins to come to fruition, he quickly learns that the one material object that he loves the most could lead to his biggest downfall yet.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “The Ace of Diamonds“?

Vogue: “The Ace of Diamonds” is part three of a series. Most of the storyline is a continuation of subplots that have occurred in the previous Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Vogue, author of The Ace of Diamonds →