Exit the Cave: Ending the Reincarnation Trap, Book 1

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He is now the creative director at Willow Creek Community Church and lives with his wife, Margaret, and their daughter, Ruby just outside of Chicago. And so, you know, I think, though I won’t say for sure that CS Lewis picked up that concept and used the word shadow lands that we live in the shadow lands. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

And it was, I had yet to reconcile the things and stories and moments of my past, that I continued to repeat, that continued to play out moments that I hadn’t yet come to terms or made peace with. Through powerful personal revelations and insightful takeaways, he invites you to take up the practices of radical imagination and real creativity so you can tell a better story with your life. In some ways, we don’t see ourselves, and I have said this many times, we don’t have the capacity, even when we’re on Zoom, and we can see our own face on the other side, we don’t really see our own face without bias, without judgment. Yet some groups, such as the Gnostics and Cathars, believed that we live in a virtual reality simulation, fashioned by an evil creator, with the purpose of consuming our energy and keeping our soul trapped.And it was time to kind of go back, to those stories, to those shadows, because I was reenacting them, in so many heartbreaking ways to myself and to others. However, I did spend the entire book trying to figure out how the subtitle fit and I never did find an answer. Because in engaging the rawness and redemption of someone else’s story, there are nerve-hitting connection points that spark footpaths forward. But I know that, as, as hard as it is to try and hawk a book with their deepest and darkest secrets, I do know, that someone will read this and not feel alone.

And then one day, one of the members of the tribe stands off and the, um, the shackles fall off, and they realize that they’re not chained after all, that they’re free to go at any time. And the intersection of it is an incredibly creative book in that it teaches a lot about creativity without telling a lot about creativity. I didn't realize this was a memoir when I picked it up and I'm glad I didn't because I probably would've passed it up. And today, even, even though we didn’t go to bed, just totally in chaos, just getting up this morning and looking at one another with a kind of, what do we do with this proverbial hangover from what occurred?

I was fortunate to read Blaine’s book prior to publishing and couldn’t have been more excited to see that it’s finally here. As I’ve been reflecting on the release of my first book one year later, I think, like all creative endeavors with so much pent-up force behind them, that when the inevitable day of sharing comes, maybe it SHOULD feel normal. In case you happen to be in Georgia and by an actual television set at 7 PM on Friday the 20th — check out my first broadcast show on The CW Network.