You cannot talk about children’s books without naming The Moffats by Eleanor Estes. First released in 1941, The Moffats is a wonderful collection of stories featuring the Moffat family who are Mama, Joe, Jane, Sylvie, Rufus and Catherine the Cat. The Moffat family all live together in a yellow house in a fictional town in Connecticut in the early 1900s. The delightful pen and ink drawings only add to the shear wonder of this fantastic book.

One of my absolute favorite children’s books is Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson. This book tells the story of Ben Franklin from the point of view of his good friend Amos, a mouse. It is a fun and exciting story that will teach kids a bit of history as they read. This book is perfect for children between the ages of eight and twelve, but I know a few grown ups who would love it as well.

Let us go back in time to the seventeenth century when one of the best horror stories ever written came into print. I am talking about William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, first written around 1606. Shakespeare drew the plot from a loose account of the historical King Macbeth of Scotland. There is believed to be a curse on the play and many actors to this day will not speak the name of the play aloud.

Now let us jump ahead to the twentieth century and the time of Stephen King. In 1977, Stephen King release one of the most chilling horror books of our time, The Shining. His third novel, The Shining was King’s first best-selling hardback and helped to establish his dominant status in the genre of horror. A well-known film adaptation of the book starring Jack Nicholson was released in 1980.

But if this is the “tip of the iceberg” so to speak, then, all of a sudden, old books such as “Life Before Life” and “Life After Life” slowly started to gain strength, and hypnosis became the trendiest thing for anyone who wanted to achieve mental calmness and knowledge. The book “Many Lives Many Masters” became a tide breaker proving – for many - that there was indeed life after death and that there was not precisely heaven and hell as Dante depicted in his “Divine Comedy”.

In “Many Lives Many Masters”, the author states the case that he experienced for the first time when he used hypnosis to treat a female patient that presented with a multitude of psychological problems such as phobias, tics and other mental ailments. Since then, the books from Dr. Brian Weiss have become text books for many self-taught scholars and other mental health professionals who agree with him, and believe that hypnosis might be the key that humanity was waiting to plunge into the collective mind.

If you haven’t read it, it’s a nice proposal, not too devoted to “convincing” you, it just presents the facts in a very light manner, you can finish the book the same afternoon.

For those of us who are willing to learn more of what it really means to meditate and have such power, a good choice is to read Lobsang Rampa’s “Silver Thread” where he narrates in a very vivid and instructional manner the responsibilities and limits of meditation and the power that it entails.

Of course, this is not the only book written by Lobsang Rampa. “Silver Thread” is just one of them, though it is probably the most adequate to start with, especially if the reader is just beginning to understand the power and responsibility that entails the ability to “loose the body” and travel through space and time at the speed of thought

However, “The Da Vinci Code” was based on other works that were issued a long time before this successful novel. One of them is “The Last Merovingian”, that deals with the last descendant of Merove, the supposed son of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. In this novel, the author states that this breed and “their father”, in some sort of resemblance to the Roman and Greek mythology, somehow orchestrates all the events that have changed the life of the human race, where the demi-gods were able to talk and ask their God Parents for favors and help.

Other book that you should read is “Holy Blood, Holy Grail”, where its authors state that there was a curator that all of a sudden became rich, and that he held the key to an unexplained mystery that would rock the very foundations of Christianity.

Whatever you choose to believe, either of these books will constitute a nice coffee reading; do not take them as if they were the ultimate truth.

And if you are amongst the fewer who do not know what is The Da Vinci Code; let me give you a short summary:

The book circles around the proposal that Leonardo Da Vinci was part of a secret society that swore to guard and protect the Holy Grail. It is not the cup that we all believe that was either used by Jesus at the Last Supper, or that contained His Blood at the foot of The Cross, but the transformation of the French term “Sang Real” or royal blood. Meaning that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, they had a child who had in turn children of his own and so on until our time.

Whether or not you believe it, it surely is worth reading. Do not waste your time with the movie - though it is good, it is not as good as the book. And if you want to know more, then you should continue with “The Last Merovingian” and “Holy Blood, Holy Grail”

Is it indeed satanic? Is there no choice for us but to deal with the fact that the dead just disappear from existence? Is that our fate? If so, then what happens with all those psychics that help police forces all around the world? Does that mean that the police officers will loose their souls?

“The Eagle and the Rose” is not a “how-to” book, but it sure clarifies some of the doubts that most of us have come to wonder after reading any piece, article or book on the subject. In it, the author (the Rose) explains how it has been for her to live with such a unique gift, the difficulties that she had to experience while developing and, of course, the assistance that people like her (and all of us) has from ” the other side”.

For example, assistance that comes in the form of the guiding spirits, similar to those who have been protecting Native Americans since long before the white men came to their country.