Joey Madia, New Mystics Reviews

  “School-Age Heroes”: A Review of Psycho Hose Beast from Outer Space (Gale Harbour Book One) by C.D. Gallant-King (Stories I Found in the Closet, 2020). ISBN: 979-8-6476872-3-4 I am going to be up front at the start: I grew up in the eighties and it is my position that there was no cooler time to be a teenager. Not for movies, music, clothes, and just plain being a kid. We didn’t have the Internet or cell phones, and video games were still confined mostly to arcades—which we had aplenty at the Jersey Shore—and life was just simpler and more pure. I still remember hanging out with friends and listening to new cassette releases like Def Leppard’s Pyromania and being completely blown away by the lyrics and guitars.   Although Psycho Hose Beast from Outer Space takes places in the early nineties, there were plenty of culturally cool things still going on. For instance, each chapter takes as its title that of a popular song from that time. Some of the songs are obvious in th...

“Archetypes in Action”: A Review of Reign: A Guide to Ruling Your Inner Kingdom of Self with Grace, Power, and Authenticity, by Mary Krygiel (Archangel Ink Publishing Services, 2020). ASIN: B08P9QBX4G Let’s face it. There are more books available about developing the self through spiritual disciplines than any one person could ever hope to read in a lifetime, with more being published every day. In these times of crisis, I have read and reviewed several good books on this important subject, and each has a little something to offer to this popular and ancient genre, although, at their core, much is just a repeat. And when you think of the luminaries in the field, including my favorites—Brené Brown, Wayne Dyer, Joseph Campbell, Caroline Myss, Joe Dispenza, Ram Dass, Elizabeth Gilbert, Gay Hendricks—one again has to wonder if it’s all been said already, and better than anyone else could ever hope to say it. In partial answer to these challenges, I suggest you read (and actively work wi...