Margaret at the McNally Jackson Bookstore (Brooklyn)

It's official. I joined George Mason MFA professor Tim Denevi and journalist Jonny Diamond (writer for Rolling Stone, etc.; editor in chief of The Literary Hub) at a McNally Jackson Bookstore event in Brooklyn in November. It's part of Denevi's book tour for Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism, on sale October 30. Partnering with Little Brown, The Paris Review, Soho Press, The Melville House, Harper Perennial, the National Book Criti...
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Diana Henderson – “Volume of Wisdom”

Published for three days now, KTQ! IV, rev. ed., is still in the top 100 Kindle Mysticism books. It was the nr. 1 new issue in Spirituality/Personal Growth/Mysticism its very first day live. I can surely thank Diana Henderson for some of that. I am thrilled to have the review for Keep This Quiet! IV, revised edition, by the marvelous healer and spiritual teacher Diana Henderson below: As though it arrived with a full legion of angelic messengers and masters of Light, from the moment I tou...
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A “grand Synthesizer” – Ron Rattner’s review

In the very latest review of Keep This Quiet! IV: Ancient Secrets Revealed, of which I am quite proud, Ron Rattner writes that Margaret has an "excellent ability to communicate and weave esoteric ideas about science, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality. Richard Unger’s channeled hand analysis description of her as a ‘grand synthesizer’ was apt and accurate.” Rattner, a longtime devotee of Dhyanyogi-ji, is the author of the forthcoming book  From Litigation to Meditation: An ex-lawyer’s spir...
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Evan Harris Walker and “The Physics of Consciousness”

Evan Harris Walker's book The Physics of Consciousness plays an important role in Keep This Quiet! IV, bringing in quantum mechanics. Below is an excerpt from Ancient Secrets Revealed: I don’t pretend to solve the thorny, tricky problems of QM, but it intersects with issues in Keep This Quiet!—in particular that the Knokke light body meditation raised—so I didn’t duck but headed into the mysterious waters. Two positions will fight it out. In one, the physical world (of atoms) is primary, and...
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On How I Came to Write the Revised Edition of KTQ! IV: Ancient Secrets Revealed

To keep my inspiration and sense of connection to Source, I am most drawn to knowledge from something larger than my current state; inspiration from my awareness, which speaks in spurts, whispers unknowns, speculates in large, outrageous ways as it gives me insights, brings potential to my attention. Surfaces. Fortunately, I discovered there was more of myself. After exhaustively covering much of my life, I had not peered closely enough into the 1990s, that grand period when my life was prett...
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Bell Sounding to Thoughts – and Hunter Thompson

The audible, nonphysical bell was a phenomenon that appeared in my apartment in Tienen, Belgium, just after the sudden death of my boyfriend, Willy Vanluyten. It stayed over two years. It sounded somewhat like the watch sound that signals the hour, though there was no such watch in the apartment. It was part of an initiation. More on this and other subtle experiences inside Keep This Quiet! III: Initiations (2014) and the revised, expanded, retitled brand-new edition of volume IV, Ancient Secret...
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Podcast on Meditation Tips, including for busy executives

This is the new podcast interview of me by Ayrial founder, Victoria Weston, called "A Meditative State." Or here. It's about several topics and ends up with a lively discussion on editing. I think it's interesting. It's certainly informative. She also, naturally - as the topic is ostensibly meditation - started off with questions about what meditation is and what a meditative state is, and what's the danger of walking around like a zombie. And how is it possible to steal a few minutes to m...
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RESCHEDULED FOR 2018: Shamanic Workshop & Healing through Sound

Visiting Master Shaman, Taoist, Tai Chi Teacher Jef Crab in Raleigh from South America Because of illness, Jef Crab has postponed his June 2017 trip to the U.S. but will reschedule it for spring 2018 in Raleigh, NC. In the meantime, he intends to set up several online FREE discussion events. Stay tuned for updates. The video below is an Introduction to the E.A.S.T. method and the founder of the institute  • Place: Raleigh, NC area • Investment:  $60 / session - $150 / all three ses...
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Midwest Book Review – Keep This Quiet! IV

Midwest Book Review, that stalwart supporter of independent presses for years, has reviewed all four books of the Keep This Quiet! series - very positively. Just today the newest review came in. The new commentary is in the second paragraph - where the reviewer finds the book "an inherently fascinating, engaging thought-provoking, and consistently compelling read from beginning to end." Check it out. I am most grateful! Bethany's Bookshelf Synopsis: In "Keep This Quiet!: More Initia...
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At Dancing Moon – Saturday, July 16

Hi, In case you're free or intend to come, here's a reminder about my Dancing Moon event tomorrow. Spirituality Book Launch Keep This Quiet! IV: More Initiations By Margaret A. Harrell 2 - 4 p.m.  - at Dancing Moon Books and Gifts  1840 Wake Forest Rd. Raleigh NC 27612 Dancing Moon Newsletter: Join us in the front Fairy Room at Dancing Moon for an experience like no other! Margaret will read from her book, sign books which will be for sale at the store and lead everyone int...
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