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Ruminating by Maagic Collins — An Unfiltered Scrapbook Memoir on Mental Health and Activism

What happens when you strip away the polished veneer of a traditional autobiography and lay bare the raw, unfiltered pages of a soul under reconstruction? Maagic Collins’s Ruminating: The Divine, The Advocate and The Fool offers a profound answer. Born from the crucible of a severe 2019 mental health crisis and the collective global pause of 2020, this scrapbook memoir is a literary and visual collage of poems, photography, raw free-writes, and personal drawings. Collins invites us into his world not as an untouchable guru, but as an advocate, comedian, and "fool" bravely stepping into the radical unknown. What the Book Does Well The strength of Ruminating lies in its relentless, unapologetic honesty. Collins brilliantly deconstructs his decade-long Bipolar II diagnosis, ultimately finding alignment through a neurodivergent, autistic lens. He mounts a sharp, necessary critique of how Western psychiatry has historically weaponized clinical labeling against marginalized commu...
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Beseeching Light by D. Jean Collins Book Review - Why Disconnecting from Tech is the Ultimate Act of Resistance

A radical roadmap to spiritual survival and ancestral reclamation in a digital world.  #IntentionalLiving #AncestralHealing #BeseechingLight What if the key to surviving the chaos of the 21st century isn't more technology, but a deliberate retreat into the ancient? In Beseeching Light: Journal of An Eccentric Anachronism , D. Jean Collins doesn't just share her life story; she offers a radical blueprint for reclaiming your soul from a world that wants to digitize, track, and deplete it. At its core, Beseeching Light is a "Traveler’s Guide" for the modern seeker. Collins weaves her personal history—from being a child on the front lines of school integration in Iowa to becoming a seasoned activist in the Midwest and Los Angeles—with the high-level metaphysical teachings of the Black Gnostic Studies. It is a memoir that doubles as a manual for the Aquarian Age, documenting how to build a "Beloved Community" even when surrounded by what she calls "The Beas...
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Can't Deny It by Doug Terreson - How a Swamp Kid Beat Wall Street (And Why Being Wrong Feels Right)

Most Wall Street guys are born into suits. Doug Terreson was born into steel-toe boots on a Louisiana dredge barge. That's why his story hits different. He didn't guess his way to the top. He worked, watched, and trusted what the math told him. Doug started on offshore oil rigs. Then he became one of the most famous energy analysts on Wall Street. He made huge calls that made people rich—like the "Golden Age of Refining" (1,700% stock gains). But the real test came in 2008. Everyone said oil was going to $300 a barrel. Doug said no. His own firm turned against him. He held his ground anyway. And he was right. Because Doug worked on rigs first, he thinks like an engineer.  He doesn't chase hype.  He follows structure and real-world data.  That's why this book is useful. It teaches you how to trust your own work, even when the whole room is yelling that you're wrong. Strengths   Tells a true underdog story without feeling fake or forced   Explains big m...
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An UnRealistic Life by Elena Hiatt Houlihan - The Dream Life vs. The Reality (And the Con Man)

  We’ve all seen the posts: the perfect, filtered life of the person who quit their job to "follow their bliss". They’re sipping lattes in Paris or doing yoga on a beach in Bali. It looks so easy. But I'm always left wondering... what about the parts they don't show? An UnRealistic Life by Elena Hiatt Houlihan is the book that finally shows the messy, unfiltered reality. Houlihan’s story isn't just about the highs of being an artist; it’s about the crushing lows. I was absolutely gripped by her story in the chapter "Losing The Way". She falls for a charismatic, sophisticated man named László, who promises her millions. He’s always talking about grand schemes, like finding buried Japanese gold in Indonesia. She gets so caught up in the dream that she "was in love with possibility.” Read the book to find out what happened next.  It’s a harrowing, honest look at betrayal and self-deception. She admits she was "sucked... in" and "hypnot...
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