About the Author JOHN SELBY has published three dozen books on a wide variety of topics, both non-fiction (psychology, philosophy, self-help) and fiction. His non-fiction books include Seven Masters One Path, Quiet Your Mind, and Let Love Find You. He has also produced many meditation videos plus the MoodLift App.After receiving a B.A. degree in Psychology from Princeton, John worked as a musician, a screenwriter, a teacher, and a therapist. He has also worked in advertising, product development, and mindfulness training.After extended years of travel and writing in South Africa, Mexico, Guatemala and Germany, he married Birgitta Steiner and they moved to Kauai to raise their family. Today, they live in Santa Cruz, California.PAUL JEFFREY DAVIDS (B. A. in Psychology, Princeton University) is a noted producer, writer and director in Los Angeles, mainly of television films that have been released by Showtime (Roswell: The UFO Cover-up) and NBCUniversal. He has also written books, including An Atheist in Heaven: The Ultimate Evidence for Life After Death? (2016) and six Star Wars sequel books for Lucasfilm.Four of Paul Davids films are distributed worldwide to TV by NBCUniversal's International TV Division, including Starry Night, The Sci-Fi Boys, Jesus in India and Before We Say Goodbye. Others of his films include She Dances Alone (screenwriter), Timothy Leary s Dead, The Artist and the Shaman, The Life After Death Project (Syfy 2013) and his most recent film, Marilyn Monroe Declassified (2016).Paul is from Bethesda, Maryland, the son of a famous Georgetown University professor of American History, Dr. Jules Davids, who worked extensively with John F. Kennedy on the writing of Profiles in Courage (for which his father is credited in the Preface) and who was a professor to Jacqueline Kennedy and later to Georgetown undergraduate Bill Clinton. At Princeton, Paul won numerous awards in writing, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Prize for Short Story Writing.After graduating from Princeton in 1969, Paul moved from Bethesda, Maryland to Los Angeles to attend the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies in Beverly Hills. He was in the first class of fifteen Fellows at AFI where he studied producing and directing.In the mid-1970 s, Paul s first assignment in the entertainment business was as a script analyst for agent Paul Kohner. His career in film and television took off when he got his first break as production coordinator (and a writer) of the original Transformers animated TV show for Marvel Productions. He performed production chores on 79 episodes. At that time, in the late 1970's, he also co-wrote (with Hollace Davids) his first book: The Fires of Pele: Mark Twain s Legendary Lost Journal, and the husband and wife team co-wrote six Star Wars sequel novels (1992-1993) for Lucasfilm and Bantam Books, including the award-winning Mission From Mount Yoda, plus The Glove of Darth Vader, The Lost City of the Jedi, Zorba the Hutt s Revenge, Queen of the Empire and Prophets of the Dark Side. The books sold millions of copies and were published in many languages.Paul is a prolific artist whose paintings are displayed at many galleries. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America and Producers Guild of America, as well as being a magician member of The Magic Castle in Hollywood. Read more
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