Julie Kaye Christenson’s Memoir “The Mystic & The Moneymaker” Will Be Displayed at the 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books

ReadersMagnet, a book marketing company based in San Diego, CA, will display Julie Kaye Christenson’s memoir “The Mystic & The Moneymaker, Living the Soul Life in a Moneymaking World: A Memoir,” at the 2024 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, on April 20-21, 2024, held on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, USA.

Christenson’s memoir is not a story about making millions, as the title might suggest, but rather about waking up to the Inner Presence that uniquely connects us all, and living from it in a world that is hell-bent on the bottom line.

Her soul journey began during a family crisis in 1999. Staging an ultimate life-crash was the only way she knew to extricate herself from the conservative religion of her Bible-professor father. It worked but left her floundering to find her feet in a broader, complex world religious life had not prepared her for.

In the aftermath of her dramatic exit from the life she’d grown up in, overcome with depression and crippling anxiety, she experienced an unsought-after mystical encounter with meditation on her kitchen floor. It left her swimming in a pool of profound peace she had not known was possible. There was no going back. The experience turned her life on its ear and set her on a whole new trajectory, one in which she was faced with the task of learning how to live from commitment to this inner peace in a world that is conditioned to frenzy.

Her transformation quickly set her crosswise with the patriarchal systems today’s society is built on: not only the religion of her childhood, but politics, education, and sick care.

Christenson invites the reader along on ensuing adventures that range from harrowing and humorous to heart-melting. She takes us from corporate America, where she finds managers “falling asleep in their lattes,” to Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Ireland and France where she leaves shyness behind to “come out of the closet” as a devoted practitioner of meditator.

The years following her plunge out of traditional religion require her to step into a courage and boldness she’d once never dreamed possible. Ultimately, she discovers the power inherent in choosing peace through moment-to-moment commitment, consistency and repetition to simple breath awareness.

The call to write her stories down came in 2010, during a mountaintop meditation in Northern California. It’s a call she has since pursued with passion, mission and purpose. Her hope is that through her stories, readers will find ever-increasing inspiration to live their own soul journeys with boldness and joy, from the well of inner peace that lies within.

Through it all, with the skill of a consummate story-teller, Julie expertly weaves together a splendid plethora of themes that emerged as she took on living the soul life, in the midst of a world that does its best to quiet the gentle inner whisper.

Whether one is on a spiritual path, wishes to live with more profound peace and meaning in a world filled with turmoil, or simply wants to enjoy a story of personal transformation, they will find it in the pages of Julie Kaye’s Christenson’s book.

Get a copy of “The Mystic & The Moneymaker, Living the Soul Life in a Moneymaking World: A Memoir” by Julie Kaye Christenson on Amazon. Visit the ReadersMagnet exhibit at the 2024 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at booth #225 to check out the book’s display.

Author
Julie Kaye Christenson lives in North Carolina, daily honoring her four imperatives with joy: God, grandchildren, writing, and nature.

“The Mystic & The Moneymaker, Living the Soul Life in a Moneymaking World: A Memoir”
Author: Julie Kaye Christenson
Book Genre: Memoir
Publisher: Penguin Book Writers
Published Date: January 25, 2024

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