{"id":388,"date":"2015-08-04T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/?page_id=388"},"modified":"2025-01-17T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:44:10","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/index.php\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: left top;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1280px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-flex-start fusion-column-no-min-height\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0% 0px 0% 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\">@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-title.fusion-title-1{margin-top:0px!important; margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:30px!important;margin-left:0px!important;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-title.fusion-title-1{margin-top:0px!important; margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:20px!important; margin-left:0px!important;}}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-center fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:0px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><h2 class=\"title-heading-center fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:35;line-height:1;\">Sacred Bonds\u00ae Series<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">REVELATION RELEASE REMERGENCE\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>Welcome! Get ready for fresh ideas and Aha! moments. Are you looking for a guide to enhance your spiritual journey where you explore integration of mind, body, and higher consciousness? You are in the right place. Over the last nine years, I have been nudged by a greater energy to write and speak words that heal and awaken people about loss, dying, death, and, ultimately, life. With immeasurable gratitude and love, I share these words.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacred Bonds\u00ae series, comprised of <em>Seeking Light, Gathering Light, <\/em>and<em> Becoming Lght<\/em> sets you on an individual spiritual journey symbolized by the ancient spiral, the light of understanding from the sun, and the initial foray as a lotus bud, new to this journey, yet of promising existence. All Sacred Bonds books encourage change from the inside, out. Please take time to explore your interconnectivity: mind, body, and higher consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>True stories, observations, and creative prose poems speak to revelation, release, and remergence to explore a greater awareness of loss, dying, death, and ultimately, life. Begin with <em>Seeking Light<\/em> to encounter a slice of life and the meaning it shares with you. \u00a0Learning from daily resistance and acceptance helps you understand life and your connection with an energy greater than you are. You will sense when your higher Self is ready to move to the next level of being.<\/p>\n<p>Then move on to <em>Gathering Light,<\/em> prose poems that resonate with heartbeats of relationships and dialogues, repartees between ego and higher Self. In developing greater depth of awareness, you become more light-filled. Nourished by the wind of solitude, the rain of experiences and memories, and the sun of understanding and wisdom, your heart opens.<\/p>\n<p>Ponder <em>Becoming Light<\/em>\u00a0 when you are ready to let go of what you think you know to fill your heart and mind with complete light and love. This part of the series offers letters featuring personified words that concern end-of-life living, and meditations that comfort both the dying and their loved ones. You deepen, becoming a mature, light-filled flowerhead. You sense the essence that you are.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0% !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0% !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 0px;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0px;margin-left : 0px;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0px;margin-left : 0px;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 5%;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 15%;padding-bottom : 5%;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 15%;}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: left top;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" title=\"SacredBonds_BookCover_r3a_nb-01\" src=\"https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SacredBonds_BookCover_r3a_nb-01-227x300.png\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-1922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SacredBonds_BookCover_r3a_nb-01-200x264.png 200w, https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SacredBonds_BookCover_r3a_nb-01-400x528.png 400w, https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SacredBonds_BookCover_r3a_nb-01.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-title.fusion-title-2{margin-top:0px!important; margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:30px!important;margin-left:0px!important;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-title.fusion-title-2{margin-top:0px!important; margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:20px!important; margin-left:0px!important;}}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-title-center fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:0px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><h2 class=\"title-heading-center fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;color:#9e1f63;--fontSize:35;line-height:1;\"><p>Sacred Bonds:<br \/>\nSeeking Light<\/p><\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><em>Seeking Light<\/em>, the first book of the series, documents true stories, observations, and creative prose poems in imaginative settings. See yourself in slices of life narratives and find meaning that speaks to you. As a lotus bud, understand revelation, release, and remergence as you learn from the influences of resistance and acceptance. Witness evidence that truly, there is no separation between you and source energy.<\/p>\n<p>Easily recognizing yourself in these narrative forms, your thoughts immediately challenge the status quo. You recognize that a dormant part of you has always existed. Caught between a riveting reality and a path of exposure, you wonder what lies waiting behind the next title. Emotional authenticity releases the mysteries of your higher Self. Emotional uplifting and clarity signal a move to the next level of becoming.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><style>.fusion-button.button-1{border-radius:2px 2px 2px 2px;}<\/style><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default button-1 fusion-button-span-no fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/community\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text\">Purchase<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:33.333333333333% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 5.76%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 5.76%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:50% !important;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 3.84%;margin-left : 3.84%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" title=\"SacredBonds_BookCover_r3b_nb-02\" src=\"https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SacredBonds_BookCover_r3b_nb-02-227x300.png\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-1923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SacredBonds_BookCover_r3b_nb-02-200x264.png 200w, https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SacredBonds_BookCover_r3b_nb-02-400x528.png 400w, https:\/\/inthethickofthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SacredBonds_BookCover_r3b_nb-02.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-title.fusion-title-3{margin-top:0px!important; margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:30px!important;margin-left:0px!important;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-title.fusion-title-3{margin-top:0px!important; margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:20px!important; margin-left:0px!important;}}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 fusion-title-center fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:30px;margin-left:0px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><h2 class=\"title-heading-center fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;color:#9e1f63;--fontSize:35;line-height:1;\">Sacred Bonds: Gathering Light<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p><em>Gathering Light<\/em>\u00a0challenges you to go deep within your thoughts and feelings\u00a0 as source energy becomes apparent. Two categories of prose poems, Heartbeats and Dialogues, inspire you to view your experiences and emotions in a more authentic way. Heartbeats mirror various relationships while Dialogues represent repartees between your ego and your higher Self.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding your awareness as an opening lotus flower, you are encouraged to explore the meaning of life\u2019s layers. How has your connection with source energy been revealed? What has been its influence and meaning? What have you learned? What do you yearn for? In time, your guarded heart falls away, and you release to your true essence. Deeper introspection is a tool for clarity and enlightenment. 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Letters and meditations surrounding loss, death, and dying go beyond common understanding and science. Your transparency continues to evolve. You deepen, becoming a mature, light-filled flowerhead. You begin to understand the meaning of essence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Becoming Light<\/em>\u00a0offers a way to approach topics that are commonly thought about during the time of dying, yet rarely expressed. For example: inner strength, forgiveness, solitude, and unconditional love. These topics, like good friends, are the foundation for personified words that can be personalized. They help the dying person to connect between the earthly plane and the next experience and become a source of comfort and calm for family members.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unique meditations complete this section. They are unusual because listening to or reading them creates space for open-ended and highly personal interpretations that can be spoken or simply pondered. 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