Have you jumped before?

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Its fast coming up to 1 year since I left the safety of fulltime employment with nothing to go to except a vague hope of doing something fulfilling. I call these moments ‘Jumping Off Points’ or JOPs for short. I’ll write more about what the last 12 months have brought myself and Andy a bit later.  

If you’ve read my mini biography Turning Inside Out: What If everything we've been taught about life is wrong you’ll know that I’ve done it before.  16 years ago I left my radio copywriting job to start my own business from the back room of a friend’s house. I only had a $500 to my name, so I spent it on a computer which didn’t even have a monitor so I had to quickly borrow one. ($500 didn’t get you much of a computer in those days) My learning curve was steep and I had to climb it. There was no other choice.  

And when I look back there were lots of other JOPs in my life, but at the time they went unheralded, they were just things I had to do to change my life at the time or pull myself out of a rut.

JOPs are when we have to leave our existing comfort zone for something unfamiliar, yet whatever it is it promises to be

Geraldton Book Signing

I went to Geraldton Senior High School back in 1988 and 1989 and it was a pretty crazy to return 26 odd years later for a book signing at the only book store left in town, Read A lot Books.
Old friends came out of the woodwork and it was wonderful to reconnect and see what they'd been up to. One lady (who I didn't know), had read about my visit in the local paper and bravely came up and asked about Dying to Know and Turning Inside Out and said that her husband had died recently and wanted to find out more about the afterlife. She had missed him deeply and only wanted to know if they would be reunited in the world beyond this one. I saw tears well up in her eyes and I put my hand on hers and said, 'I think so'.

 

Ghosts of Oz Interview and feature

Amanda from Ghosts of Oz was lucky enough to have a quick chat with author Josh Langley to learn a little about him and hear about his new book “Turning Inside Out”. Grab yourself a cuppa and have a read about one of Australia’s premiere paranormal authors.

You can read the full interview here: http://www.ghostsofoz.com/goo-magazine/im-dying-to-know-our-authors-inside-out

 

Dymocks Albany Books Signing

I had the privilege of meeting @joshlangleyauthor at @dymocksbooks Albany this morning. A truly lovely and genuine man. #books #booksigning #bookstagram

A photo posted by Ceri (@abookbetween) on Aug 27, 2016 at 3:27am PDT

Turning Inside Out official launch

Book launches are always terrifying things to hold as you never know how many people will turn up, (if anyone turns up at all) meaning you don’t know many bottles of champagne to order or how may chairs to put out. You really have to fly by the seat of your pants and trust the universe.  

However everything went really well last Saturday at Footprints Resort Preston Beach for the launch of Turning Inside Out. 30 odd people came to pick up a signed copy and hear me give an over view of the book and how my simple life has been turned inside out over the last 16 months or so.

However more than ever, I loved meeting so many people especially some Facebook friends and giving everyone a hug!

Big thanks to everyone involved, including Bruce and the team at Footprints Resort, Andy, Kali and Big Sky Publishing.

Photos Courtesy of Photographer Kali Langley.

 

Sensing Freedom

Just for a mere moment I got a slight sense of what it might to be like to truly free. Free from my irrational thoughts, anxieties, worries, fears and social conditioning.

It was fleeting.

But I sensed it and then it drifted away.

Wandered off to look at the flowers.

It was a sense of what it would be like to be free from the identity of my thoughts.

My limiting thoughts.

And within that freedom was the potential to be anything.

It was all about thoughts and feeling the same pattern of thoughts. If our input is the same, then our thoughts can only be based on that input. Change the input and we can explore new thinking, new ideas and new thoughts.

However can we be brave enough to do to that?

To risk losing our identity in our old conditioned pattern of thinking?

Who would I be if stopped talking myself down?

Who would I be if I believed I could live out my dreams?

Can I be brave?

Can you be brave?

Turning Inside Out Book Launch

It’s hottest ticket in town (But you don’t need a ticket as it’s free)

The Turning Inside Out Book Launch – August 13 @ 1.30 at Footprints Resort Preston Beach.

Come along and grab a signed copy of Turning Inside Out: What if everything we’ve been taught about life iswrong? Plus I’ll also have copies of Dying to Know and Being You is Enough available to purchase.

Plus Psychic medium Tammie Movliatti will be beamed in via skype to do a few readings. (Tammie and I ran some experiments for the book)

And you get to enjoy free Champagne (til it runs out, so be early!)

Book a table for lunch in the Bistro before hand or stay and make a night of it and get an awesome deal on a ‘Beach Shack’ apartment for only $150 a night (huge discount!) and that includes a free bottle of champagne. Just mention the book launch to get the offer.

Book at Footprints Resort Preston Beach

Phone: (08) 97391 111

Email: info@footprintsprestonbeach.com.au

http://footprintsprestonbeach.com.au/

 

 

Getting personal

Turning Inside Out -what if everything we’ve been taught about life is wrong?’ is coming out on August 1 and one thing you’ll notice when you read it, is how personal it is. I actually didn’t realise how deep it went until I was going through the editors remarks and I thought Gee, this is really personal! I talk about an event from my teens that nearly made me take my own life and I discuss critical moments where I had to question my sanity. I also don’t hide any aspect of who I am and what my life is about including my addiction to cheese.

Mini Documentary by ABC Open

I was lucky to be the feature of a mini documentary by ABC open about my search for evidence of the afterlife.

 

 

 

Josh Langley - Afterlife Investigator from ABC Open South West WA on Vimeo.

Making peace with yourself

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to have a quiet chat with you. I know we’ve all been busy, trying to get on with our lives and making the most of what we’ve got. That’s all anyone could ever ask.

I need to constantly remind myself that life is not a competition regardless of what anyone says. I often feel the weight of trying to constantly ‘improve myself’, be a better person, increase my facebook stats, get more likes, look at everyone else as a potential threat and constantly push, push and push... (whatever it is I’m pushing).

Turning Inside Out - released August 2016

What if we don’t die?

What if we’re not alone in this world?

What if life wasn’t meant to be a struggle?

 

 

 

 

Dive head first into the quantum quagmire that lies just under our reality with Josh Langley, author, afterlife detective and self-confessed cheese addict, as he goes on a life-changing journey to prove that there’s more to this life than we’re led to believe.

Your hair will stand on end with stories of afterlife contact, including encounters with the ghost of one of Australia’s most famous serial killers, and children who see dead people.

Follow Josh as he meets his dream guide, and conducts mind-bending experiments in the search for his ‘higher self’.

Turning Inside Out is a personal transformation book with a twist that aims to challenge your beliefs about what it means to be alive.

Filled with humour, magic, synchronicity and moments of awe; get ready to be transformed.

Are you ready to turn inside out?

Available worldwide through Book Depository. (with free delivery)  

 In Australia through Booktopia

 

Or email Josh direct for a signed copy josh@outsidecreative.com.au

 

The secret super power of a kitchen table.

It’s 5.30 am and I’m giving myself the luxury of a sleep in.

For the past few months I’ve been getting up at 5am and writing til 6 before having to go off and do the normal stuff you do before going to work. Other times I’d write on the weekend or on my regular Fridays off.

Now that I have finished the draft manuscript for Turning Inside Out – What if everything we’ve been taught about life is wrong, I can sleep in.

Unlike the last book, Dying to Know, where I went off to a Greek island to start writing it, most of this new book was written very unglamorously at the kitchen table or either at my desk in my home office.

I secretly wanted to have a writing studio in a forest next to a babbling brook or a beach shack with sweeping views over a turquoise bay where between chapters I’d dip my toes in the cool water.

But no, I had the kitchen table and in truth I was fine with it. The book needed to be written and I needed to just get on with it and write the bloody thing.  

 

Now, I can take a breath, spend time with my partner, Andy, (who chooses to write propped up in bed) and get back into a normal routine.

Not for long.

After the manuscript comes back from the publisher with the suggested changes, its then back into writing mode and making sure it all makes sense. And then it’s onto the next book and then the next.

I love writing and creating books. I love drawing my Frog and the Well cartoons. I love pushing the mundane aside to enter a world that’s way more interesting than game shows, crossword puzzles and cat memes. And if it means getting up at 5am when it’s still pitch black, cold and wet in the dark of winter, then I’m happy to do it.  

There’s something mildly romantic about it, I know that sounds strange but it’s the idea that I can be a working writer, whilst still doing all the other things that life demands of me. Even if it’s just for an hour in the morning then I’ve achieved something. Andy does the same, sitting up in bed punching out a poem or adding to his short story while I’m in the office (The kitchen table is reserved for Fridays and weekends) tapping out another chapter or idea.

It’s about chip, chip, chipping away and in the end it’ll all add up to something, even if you don’t know what it is when you start.

When you sit and write, you’re a writer; even if all you have is a kitchen table and an hour. 
Your kitchen table could have super powers that you could never have dreamt of.

Unleash them.

 

Next major book project

The insights I received from researching and writing Dying to Know: is there life after death still continue to plague me and tend to keep me up at night, (but that could just all the lucid dreaming and OBE practising that I do!) However I just can't ignore the calling to document the new experiences and insights that are continuing to arise as well the new questions I've been invited to ask. Turning Inside Out is my attempt to make sense of what strange stuff is happening and to see where it leads. I'm out to ask the 4 questions on the back cover and challenge myself and my sanity to see if they're true.