Author & speaker,
CLAIRE KRULIKOWSKI

Living A Radical Peace: Creating Life Anew
Living A Radical Peace inspires, challenges, and entertains readers as it explains that peace is a potent energy assembled in a certain format. In Living A Radical Peace(ISBN: 1-4241-2279-1; $19.95), Krulikowski weaves the potential of peace. Using personal parables, illustrations from other texts, and also using Jesus as exemplary of one who defied the status quote and was not passive, Living A Radical Peace proposes that we are encoded as spirit before matter and capable of shaping physical substance and experience to create life anew.

In this book, Krulikowski provides readers with five reasons people have come to fear peace, then questions the foundations of our beliefs and the illusions we create when we accept the standards of common authorities. It is, she states, when we each commit Allegiance to a "Higher Authority," rather than the common leaderships and beliefs ingrained within society, that we as individuals engage the full power of our soul's call.

A Much Endorsed Book
Living A Radical Peace has received advance endorsements from several well-known authors and media personalities, including:

John Randolph Price (author of The Superbeings, and The Abundance Book, finds Living A Radical Peace to be "...truly a book for our time. As a guide to a higher consciousness of peace, it is filled with special exercises to open the heart-mind to change behavioral patterns and to understand the coded imprints of our divine creation. In the process we discover peace within and without as a life-changing experience."

Soul Gardening author Terry Hershey says emphatically that "...Claire Krulikowski asks us to begin the more difficult journey for radical peace, a peace that must begin inside of each of us, and colors our relationships and the world around us. Living A Radical Peace is reflective, thought provoking, and challenging. Read it."

DavidPaul Doyle (The Journey That Never Was) says Krulikowski's book "...brings vision, passion, and understanding not only to the concept of peace but, most importantly, to living the peace of who you are in the world."

Cameron and Lucia Monette-Steele, Contact Radio hosts, say "Living A Radical Peace is a guide to help individuals understand what peace truly means and how to live life compassionately, which is the ultimate path to peace."

ARTICLE EXCERPT -
September 11th: A Holy Day
"Within the thick cloud of horror choking us into stillness on September 11 were woven recollections of why we’d all incarnated upon Earth at this time. The smoke and soot that blinded people’s sight, the mass confusion of running throngs seeking escape, the mute incomprehensibility of so many purposely perpetrated deaths, our wonder at how and why this could be, still remain the backdrop of our lives.



"Symbolically and physically, we remain blinded by clouds of misinformation, continue running from our responsibility to make personal and national amends, remain mute about the horrors of continual killing, and are left wondering how it will shake out. Yet, symbolically and physically, we are being awakened, challenged to deal with old energies of fear, anger, intolerance, injustice, brutality, war, religious difference (and indifference), and, ultimately, our inhumanity to each other so that we may all shape our lives and world anew.

"It’s a time of great opportunity and change, and of great sacrifice and awe, as we witness the exodus of over 5,000 family members who’d volunteered on some level to take their leave so that we might recall the need for goodness and justice, so we might seek our nobility from beyond ashes of sadness and horror. September 11 was, in its way, a very holy day...The earth, and we as people, have stepped through new portals toward understanding how our choices and actions contribute to the whole." - excerpted from "September 11th: A Holy Day," in Seattle's New Times newspaper; Copyright©2001 Claire Krulikowski.

ARTICLE EXCERPT -
Resting in the Hands of God
"A chickadee lay on its side, one shattered legged hanging useless. My presence panicked the bird to propel himself...while, pitifully, his head rolled around and around like a spinning ball lolling on its neck.

"Frantic...I dove over the bird and enclosed my arms around it. "Stop, little one," I entreated gently...What was wrong with this little one?

"We're gonna make you better, honey," I cooed to the chickadee. "God," I entreated to the robin's-egg-blue sky, "please heal this sweet thing thing."...Its agitation quieted.

"Then, it was just the bird and me, and no other thought, only something odd, like waves beneath my skin. Feeling like a part of him, I...entreated God to "care for one of the least of your creatures."...In that moment, my heart so full, faith in something greater seemed to be born or invoked, until I whispered, "In the name of the Father and of Jesus Christ and of the Holy Spirit of God, you are healed."

"I peeked...I noted that the head no longer rolled. "What about the leg?" my mind screamed, and I bent over to examine it.

It hung limp — only, in the next moment, watching it in a slow motion frame-by-frame film, I saw the leg, bit by bit, reconstruct, and the bird rose to stand...

"I nudged the bird to urge some movement. That fluff ball stepped onto my hand...He stayed there for a very, very long time, while I cried heaves of released emotion/disbelief/gratitude/wonder/astonishment to the God who'd so miraculously answered my prayer...

"Could this bird fly?...I stepped twenty yards behind him, offering him free flight. A minute later, how astonishing to see this wild little bird lift off, then fly back around to me, as though I were its mother. Shaking, I scooped him up from where he'd landed in front of me, and we sat together.

"Have you ever held a wild bird in your hand?...I mean, have you ever sat on the grass with a bird, not even as long as your index finger, sitting smack dab in the middle of your palm? Just sitting. Present. Trusting. Completely vulnerable. Sitting.

"Such a time: many suspended moments of delight, awe, wonder, rapture, total focus; nothing around me seemed like anything I'd ever known. Then, all at once, a force, as loving as a thunderous wall of wave is mighty, crashed into every cell of me! In that moment, I experienced the overpowering double sensory understanding of what it would be like if I'd offer myself just so purely, lovingly, and trustingly into the hands of God. I also knew the total delight and love God experiences when someone trusts completely to rest in God's hands." -- from "Resting in the Hands of God"; printed in Seattle's New Times newspaper; April 1998; Copyright©1998 by Claire Krulikowski