Just back from INATS West, the International New Age Trade Show in Denver. I'm pleased to report that several of our favorite authors got COVR Visionary Awards. Best of show went to Mariana Caplan for Eyes Wide Open, and Jessica Maxwell pulled another 1st Place for the auto/biography category for Roll Around Heaven. The pretty onyx obelisk can go next to her Nautilus Gold award! Other winners were Cyndi Dale for Subtle Body, Ophelia's Oracle by Donna Denome, How to Read the Akashic Record by Linda Howe, and Waiting for Autumn by Scott Blum. Our warmest congratulations to all the winners!

There were some excellent speakers, including Gary Zukav, Joan Borysenko and Julia Cameron, who came out with a great line: "Wu-wu is where it's at!"

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Our friends at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in West Hollywood, California have asked us to help them reassure you all that they are NOT closed. They are simply in a state of transition to new ownership and relocation. Their long-term goal has always been to have the bookstore passed along to owners who would honor the impressive heritage of the past 40 years. They will continue to operate out of their  Melrose Street location until the fall of 2011.
 
They will continue to get the best new books, unique gift items, and hard-to-find audio/video products, and have their usual full events schedule of book signings, lectures, workshops, healing sessions, and psychic readers.
 
Please continue to support them. Your patronage is essential for the successful transition of the Bodhi Tree for the next generation.

Over the years, I’ve read thousands of articles and books and met many teachers and practitioners in the new consciousness genre. Each piece of information I’ve gleaned is rather like a mosaic – some fit my worldview, some have made me change it, and others I’ve discarded. One teacher may be very persuasive, and then another comes along with a very different perspective. One of the things I’ve come to appreciate is that because people are on very different paths and stages in their journeys, the kind of message they need at one level may be very different from what they need at the next.

It is rather like being on different points around the rim of a giant wheel. It may seem like we are on opposite sides, yet we are all moving along the spokes at our own pace towards the same hub. That center toward which we all are moving is, I believe, the realization of our connection to the source of creation and our connection to each other.

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Well we've taken the plunge into a number of social media pools, and hope you'll join us as we splash about. You'll see the new  NCR blog here,  and welcome you talented bloggers out there to contribute.

There you'll find a link to follow us on Facebook under "Media for Enlightened Living", as we debut our new tag line, and you'll find links to our Twitter page on the blog as well. 

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Named by Fast Company Magazine to its Top 10 List for Media:

"One of the powerhouses of independent publishing, it sold more than 3 million copies of its very first book, Shakti Gawain's Creative Visualization, in 1977. William Whitecloud's 2009 best seller, The Magician's Way, and latter-day Oprah-blessed classics such as Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now came from New World. In July, it announced a new set of iPhone apps based on works by Tolle, Mother Teresa, and others."

Book marketing guru John Kremer has founded two websites for giving books away free as ebooks. AllBooksFree.com is devoted to free novels, children's books, short story collections, and poetry books.

 FreeBooksForAll.com    is devoted to nonfiction books.

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The pace of change for the book publishing industry is speeding up! Amazon has seen a growing demand for e-books, selling six Kindle books for every 10 physical books on the 410,000 e-books it has in stock, and it was the most gifted item in Amazon’s history. Barnes and Noble has recently come out with its own e-reader, the Nook, which was basically a modified version of the Kindle, but now with the advent of the iPad, Apple’s tablet, the e-book market looks poised for a quantum leap. For one thing, the tablet permits the use of color, opening up the market for a whole new range of books that otherwise were not suited to e-book format. More importantly, Apple’s iTunes provides  a proven distribution channel. Amazon had recently announced increased royalties for self-published authors using the Kindle Digital Text Platform. They offered 70% of the book’s price after delivery costs, but stipulated that books must sell for up to $9.99, and be 20% cheaper than the print format. Apple’s new iPad e-book service lets authors fix their own price, and takes a flat 30% commission, and, not surprisingly, five big publishing houses - Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin, and Macmillan - have already signed on with Apple, putting pressure on Amazon.

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 On Christmas eve, 2009 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac disclosed that they had received approval from their federal regulator to pay $42 million in Wall Street-style compensation packages to 12 top executives for 2009, including up to $6 million each to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s chief executives.  Contrast this use of funds with Freddie Mac’s 2001 announcement that its second quarter commitments of $42 million would help create nearly 1,000 new affordable rental units in Tennessee, Texas and New York.

There is something fundamentally rotten going on here, and this widespread cancer of greed is eating away the very fabric of our society. How can such outrageous behavior be accepted when people are losing jobs, homes, healthcare and hope?

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The hysterical media coverage of the new government task force’s guidelines on routine mammograms is a great illustration of three of my pet convictions: corporate media are too often mouthpieces for big business; political correctness is a way of pressuring people not to think for themselves; when it comes to your own body, you have to do the research – that’s why God invented books and the Internet!

Virginia Hopkins has written an excellent article on the subject called. Mammogram Controversy – Follow the Money. I warmly recommend reading it, as it not only shows how the American Cancer Society backtracked on their earlier agreement with the task force’s conclusions, but also recommends a much more effective screening technique called Thermography. It is safe and inexpensive – a cynic might suggest that that’s why it is not widely used, though it’s been around for 30 years.

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Check out Women on the Edge of Evolution, a rapidly growing forum for us to collectively engage the most important and pertinent questions facing us today on our pathway to realizing our collective power to create the future of our world. Previous speakers are archived on the site. You won’t want to miss renowned futurist, social innovator and lifelong pioneer of conscious evolution, Barbara Marx Hubbard, discuss the state of human consciousness, the evolution of the feminine and the rise of what she calls the "suprasexual co-creative impulse," an emerging evolutionary force that is reshaping the innate capacities and creative expression of women everywhere. Listen to other amazing talks in the 14-week series, including Lynne McTaggart, Jean Houston and more. Go to womenontheedgeofevolution.com