I Never Meant to End Up Here: How Work, Curiosity, and Reinvention Built a Career I Never Saw Coming is a candid memoir about building a meaningful career without a map, a perfect résumé, or a straight line from one opportunity to the next.Michael Talbot’s working life started with farm chores in southeastern Pennsylvania. From there, he entered restaurant kitchens, trained in culinary arts, and imagined a future as a chef.What followed was a career shaped by curio...

Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms—three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. University of London physicist David Bohm, a protégé of Einstein and one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, an architect of our mo...

"The tension builds page by page to a stunning climax . . . I doubt that I will ever forget it." - Whitley Strieber, author of The Hunger and The Wolfen"[O]ne of the most impressive explorations of a vampire mind ever written . . . a novel of considerable suspense . . . compelling and deeply original." - Darrell Schweitzer, Encyclopedia of the VampireThey are cool to the touch and alluringly beautiful in their ageless youth. Their laughter seduces, their brilliance beguiles...

Built by a madwoman during the Victorian era, Lake House is a 160-room mansion in the Adirondacks with stairways that lead nowhere, bizarre rooms designed to distort the senses, endless series of mazelike halls-and a century-long history of violent deaths.Lauren Montgomery, her son Garrett, and her new rock star husband Stephen Ransom have just arrived at Lake House, anticipating a long and relaxing summer. But what they don't know is that their rental home is actually a labyrinthi...

The mathematics that the brain uses for memory are the same as those used in creating a hologram, says Michael Talbot. This and other scientific evidence suggests that the mind/brain - and perhaps the entire universe – is a kind of hologram. This revolutionary model of reality sheds new light on such phenomena as psychic powers, poltergeists, hypnosis, and faith healing.

Blockchain is an incorruptible, hacker-safe, shared database hosted by millions of computers simultaneously, and one of the most revolutionary advances since the dawn of the information age. The technology behind Bitcoin and other cybercurrencies, Blockchain has gone much further in recent years with an ever-expanding host of new applications. Now Michael Talbot can help nontechnical readers understand and appreciate this groundbreaking technological tool. In this indispensable guide for c...

Hovern Bog. People live in terror of it-especially the residents of Fenchurch St. Jude, the little village located at its edge. They think of it as a living being. They've seen it reach out with sinewy tentacles . . . to take, entangle, and digest.When 2000-year-old bodies are recovered from the bog, perfectly preserved, it is the discovery of a lifetime for archaeologist David Macauley. But close examination of the corpses reveals a curious fact: all were cruelly, mysteriously mur...

What do spiritual gifts have to do with our daily lives?Spiritual gifts are more than just ancient wisdom to be studied. They are practical components of our everyday lives.Famed songwriter and musician John Michael Talbot—an early proponent of the unified Charismatic and Catholic movement --weaves together prayer, biblical teaching, songs, and contemplative thought to examine the gifts of the Holy Spirit.Chapters focus on:Spe...

What Does Ancient Wisdom Have to Do with Our Daily Lives?Famed songwriter and musician John Michael Talbot--an early proponent of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement--weaves together prayer, biblical teaching, songs, and contemplative thought to examine the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Topics includetongues and its interpretation,healing,miracles,prophecy, anddiscernmentTalbot skillful...

People often imagine that the Church Fathers looked like their icons and smelled of incense, heroic figures wrapped in fine liturgical vestments of silk and lace, engulfed in billows of smoke from their golden censers. Yet, truth be told, even in their writings they resemble more the tattered cloak of Jesus or the dusty sweat-soaked habits of the early Desert Fathers and Mothers. Theirs is an utterly incarnational spirituality. It is heaven-sent, but it moves forward with both feet on the ...

The Journey East is a rich and practical resource, drawing upon the deep wells of the spirituality of the Christian East, by one rooted in the monastic life of the Christian West showing how to breathe with both lungs of the Christian tradition. Arranged as a thirty-six-day itinerary with meditations on different aspects of the spiritual journey, each ending with questions inviting further reflection so that what is offered is made part of our own life and practice, we are led deeper into ...

John Michael Talbot's first autobiographical work Late Have I Lived You picks up where his previous two best-selling biographies (Troubadour for the Lord and Signatures) left off. This work includes many new personal recollections from his multi-faceted life without the book becoming cumbersome or indulgent.