Inside this Issue

Kudos to Local Bookstores

Tree of Life: 

Bookstore in Harlem

Canary Island Project

Angel Corner

Annoucements

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Path to Truth: A Spiritual

Guide to Higher

Consciousness

June Michael

An excellent resource

for those on the path

experiencing spiritual

unfoldment and

enlightenment. For an

autographed copy, send

an eighteen dollar check

 or money order

(cost of book $12.95

and postage) made

out to Path to Truth

P.O. Box 55804,

Washington, D.C. 20040.

You may purchase a

copy online at

• Barnesandnoble.com

• Borders.com

• Amazon.com

• Sisterspace and Books

• Terra Christa

or at other local bookstore.

Kanya Vashon McGhee, is a 

former California public school

teacher. For 17 years he

produced and hosted, 

Inside the 4^th Dimension 

Cable TV Show in New York

City. He is the founder and 

manager of  the Tree of Life 

Bookstore. He conducts 

seminars in community

centers, prisons and colleges 

nationwide. Currently, he 

offers a new series of classes

titled, 21^st Century Insights

 and  Spiritual Astrology 

beginning September 6, 2001. 

www.talkfreeamericainc.com/Kanya

Jean Ann Gilhead, originally 

from Richmond, England has 

been living in Spain for six 

years building up her Holistic 

Interior Design practice

She studied art and interior 

design in London and 

incorporates the ancient, 

oriental art of Feng Shui 

in her work. She has many 

years of work experience in 

this field and teaches her 

methods in Barcelona,

Spain. Jean is also a Reiki 

healer. 

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 Angelic blessings,   

             June

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Volume 6 Issue 4 ~ October 2001

Kudos to Local Bookstores

June Michael

Starting out as a new author is not easy, especially if you don’t have a major publishing house behind you. It is even more difficult if you are writing about a subject  such as Metaphysics. So, you have to decide early on in the game to get smart and promote yourself if you want to get your book out there. Your small local independent bookstores are first place to go. They will support you. In fact, they are wonderful community resources that we have to make sure  don’t get deleted by cyberspace.

Whether you are a writer or reader, I encourage you to visit and support your local bookstores. Here are a few in my hometown, Washington, DC, that sparkle like diamonds.

Sisterspace and Books, located at 1515 U Street, NW,  is not a metaphysical bookstore. But it is where I had my first professional book signing. Owned by two African American women, Faye Williams and Cassandra Burton,  Sisterspace and Books promotes the writings of and about African American women. They have a creative writing class that critiques your work and encourages and inspires you to not give up on your creative project. Besides the writing classes, they have other literary programs and events. You can access their website at: www.sisterspaceandbooks.com.

Blue Nile Bookstore is located at  2828 Georgia Avenue, NW, next door to the Blue Nile Herb store. It was serendipity that I happened to find this wonderful little store. I was driving down Georgia Avenue on my way to the Howard University bookstore when my eyesight caught the beautiful blue color of the store name sign. I immediately parked my car and went in to visit this store. I spent an enjoyable afternoon conversing about metaphysics with one of the owners, Brenda Williams. Two hours later I left with a bag full of crystals, posters, jewelry and books. For events and classes call Nadine Evans at 202-232-2583. See announcements for upcoming classes at Blue Nile Books.

Inner Visions Bookstore located in Silver Spring, Maryland is owned by Iyanla Vanzant, the author of Acts of Faith and several other bestsellers. Iyanla sponsor’s a New Authors Night program. Each author is given 20 minutes to speak about his or her book and then afterwards participate in a  book signing event. The evening I participated,  Iyanla gathered all the presenters in a separate room where she led the group in a powerful prayer. She also gave a brief introduction to the audience telling them about her days of selling books from the back of her car. She encouraged all of us to keep writing and not to stop at one book. You can access the programs and activities of Inner Visions by visiting the website at www.innervisions.com .

Earth, Star Connection is located in the Georgetown area at  34^th street NW. This is another exquisite metaphysical bookstore full of crystals, books, and other New Age paraphernalia. It is a wonderful place to spend a Saturday afternoon. They have very unique programs, and I specially like to recommend that you have a tarot card reading done by Geraldine Amaral, the author of Tarot Celebrations.

The Best-known defense against the challenges of life is Universal Law. Path to Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Higher Consciousness June Michael  For an autographed copy, send an twenty-dollar check or money order (cost of book $12.95 and postage) made out to Path to Truth.  P.O. Box 55804, Washington, D.C. 20040.

Tree of Life Bookstore of Harlem

Kanya Vashon McGhee

Twenty-eight years ago I moved to New York City from Cleveland, Ohio in order to get an underwriting commitment from Bache & Company for the Everyman Mutual Fund. Founded by my father in 1966, it was the world’s first mutual fund begun by an African-American.

To make a long story short, I was indeed successful in securing an underwriting agreement for the Fund only to fall victim to the market crash of 1970 which decimated both the Everyman Fund and McGhee & Co., our securities broker dealership similarly founded by my father in 1952.

Now here’s where the fun began. I decided to take a year or so and experiment with an old dream. A dream I had conceived while teaching elementary school in California back in the early 60’s. It involved gathering 2 or 3 copies of books I loved from my own private collection and making them available to the citizens of New York City in a free reading room on 125^th and Lenox in Harlem to see if anyone else would find them as interesting as I did. The books were also available for sale.

What made these books different was that they mainly consisted of books about self-improvement and inner consciousness, like As a Man Thinketh, Finding of the Third Eye and Back to Eden.

Imagine my surprise when the year or two I had planned to give to this experiment almost miraculously extended itself to 10 years . Soon we had a store of 12,000 square feet with an average monthly patronage of more than 15,000 persons from all over the world, of all races and creeds. We called the bookstore, The Tree of Life.

The building was unfortunately torn down in 1980 to make way for a hotel convention center. It was never built and on that corner today is a parking lot! We moved to Atlanta, Georgia where The Tree of Life Bookstore of Harlem for the past 28 years continues to  successfully teach the principles of  meditation, nutrition and Spiritual Metaphysics programs.

When I look back I realize how The Tree of Life bookstore influenced the lives of many school drop-outs and drug abusers of the Harlem area. They decided to read in our Aquarian Science Reading Room and get high off of books instead of drugs. Because of the success in our education and drug abuse program, we have extended our programs to include prison rehabilitation and employment search. For additional information , please call 404-753-5700 or e-mail me at drkanya9@hotmail.com.

J

I received many responses to the article, My Mission  in July 2001 issue. Here is one from Spain that I would like to share with you. 

Canary Island Project

 Jean Ann Gilhead

My mission is to create a new, Holistic-Creative Center on one of the smaller powerful energy islands of the Canary Islands within the next year. The Center will attract specialist /teachers from the world of the healing arts, meditation, music, sculpture, writing, sound, color, sacred geometry, geobiology, Feng Shui, etc., to share their skills and to explore deeper into their own unique abilities.  It will be a place where people can study all aspects of fine and subtle energy through holistic and creative means. There will also be a deep interest in the study of concepts of death and dying.

I am looking for like minded people and benefactors to put money and energy into helping me make this project a reality. If you feel that you could help me move this project forward, in anyway, please contact me at +34 93-408 56 25 or e-mail me at fshjean@teleline.es

For Those Who Love Writing and Spirituality

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