“I believe that you create your own reality – that is, events of your life aren’t random occurrences. Things don’t just happen to you; everything comes from you. I believe that there is purpose everywhere, even if you don’t see it or can’t figure it out, and even when things appear to make no sense.”
Warren Goldie, the author of self-published book Waking Maya, expressed his philosophies in life with a passion that is evident in his love for nature, his daughter Meghan and the cosmos.
“Some people believe the universe is a chaotic, meaningless affair, that the soul has no reality, that physical life is all there is,” he explained. “If that is your view then you live each day with the thought that one day you will be annihilated. I believe in the continuation of consciousness after death, that I’m in some kind of ongoing process, and so that view affects my decisions.”
This spiritual inspiration generated the impetus for Warren Goldie to author Waking Maya. He culled to write a book for her when thoughts on how he would spend his last days on Earth came to his mind just before his daughter was born.
Warren said Waking Maya is a kind of extended personal letter for his daughter. He hoped that she might be able to use them someday seeing that the book employs everything that he strongly has faith in.
The different permutations taking place in the physical world gradually becomes evident as readers experience Waking Maya page after page. This new age mystery Goldie is trying to portray weaves through a young woman’s search for truth, meaning, and adventure that profligates into an unveiling of life’s puzzles that one did not know existed not unless the reader gets to travel along with the character. The best way to deal with this folly is to materialize such a personal and intimate journey by sharing it to the public.
Warren Goldie, the writer who is famous for his essays on consciousness and human potential published in famous publications, had been scouring around for companies to get Waking Maya published and his search led him to meet someone who showed him his self-published poetry book by Xlibris. He liked how it turned out and hired Xlibris to publish his book.
“I liked the idea that I would control the rights,“ Warren claimed. “With self-publishing, you have control of the project. No one but you can change the book or the cover art. You determine what is in it, how it looks, and how you can sell it, etc. Another thing is you must be patient with the process because there are a lot of steps. You should make sure your book is completely ready when you start the process. If I wanted to sell to a traditional publisher at some point I could do that.”
Warren was satisfied with how Xlibris produced Waking Maya and admitted to how professional the entire production process went from the publication services to the people who handled his book. Traditional publisher or not, he said that self-publishing companies should be efficient, efficacious with producing quality products, and resourceful on distributing the book for sale especially to bigwig resellers like Amazon.com.
Goldie’s self-published book tapped into the serious artery of the human psyche and Amazon.com is not the only one who took notice of the book’s feasibility. BookReview.com rated Waking Maya as a Must Read and was awarded as Book of the Month.
“Reading it triggers knowledge you hold within yourself, it resonates with the truths buried deep inside, and awakens parts of you by allowing you to remember that you already knew all of this.” – Bookreview.com
The author’s penchant for the far-ranging theories will lull readers to change the way they think about the natural discourse called life. Not only readers will take interest into metaphysical ideas through a fun and engaging story but also define metaphysics as a context through characters that they can relate to even if they have never even heard of the concept.
Self-published author Warren Goldie currently gives talks about the book.
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Self-publishing has made a huge difference for undergound authors to meet the public masses. My noverl, “Lost” is being published and is in production from Xlibris.
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Congrads, Mr. Goldie.