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Jaiya John
Twelve brave 18-year-olds encamp on a mystical island in the presence of a mysterious shape shifter. The children of many tribes-African, Maori, Samoan, Native American, Latino, and Aboriginal-they have come…
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If you have read my prior work, you know that all of this is just a Love letter from the Great Mystery to our earthly yearning souls. As such, with…
Two new volumes of poems, stories, essays, prayers, and devotions speaking to our freedom from oppression. A book and birth water. Declaration and decree. Promise and prophecy. Awakening and activation…
A spoken word celebration of the phenomenal journey of African American and African Diaspora people. A dying father’s inspired and hopeful last conversation with his 17-year-old son opens this uplifting…
Habanero Love is a wildfire sweeping through the heart, clearing the way for the romantic and the Sacred in us to sprout anew. This epic Love poem blazes with passion…
The many fictional voices of displaced children in Beautiful are inspired by youth Jaiya John has worked with over a lifetime. This second edition contains 8 NEW POEMS. Beautiful is…
Once, there lived a boy with no name. Join him on a very special day as he and his dear sister go on an adventure to discover his name, and…
No Man Came is the naked, raw, urgent short story of a woman faced with a terrible choice. A woman who waits. And waits. Until she can wait no longer…
John offers a personal meditation through allegory and parable, poetry and prose, to unveil the magical inner life of children and youth.
This compilation of reflections floods your soul and heart with an intimately personal mercy for your tenderness, painting beauty over the landscape of your inner and outer life.
Imagine if your every breath filled your soul with undeniable, blissful Peace. Jaiya John, who has shared his deeply resonant messages with audiences worldwide, gathers these heart-stirring inspirations, stories, and…
Use these petite reflections and stories as daily affirmations, mantras, reminders, practice projects, or meditation prompts. See how you can move through life with refreshing, peaceful clarity. Let Calm be…
Legendary is Jaiya John’s Loving celebration of educators, teachers, social service professionals, advocates, caregivers, counselors, mentors, and others who honorably serve devalued youth.
Lyric of Silence is a reunion with an old friend: the divine uniqueness we came here to be. Poetry, parable, and inner conversation have all been brought to this union…
Your Caring Heart is Dr. Jaiya John’s warm companion for your compassionate servitude. In gentle clarity, lightness, and humor, Jaiya’s soothing reflections flow straight into the tender truth of your…
Drop in on any page of Sincerity of Sunlight for a bright dose of affirmation and inner peace. Jaiya’s soothing words touch gently on wellness, self-care, self-Love, healing, personal growth…
In this book of sacred contemplation, Dr. Jaiya John addresses oppression, supremacy, and inferiority, and plunges us into the naked soul of social revolution, the divine nature of freedom, and…
Freedom plunges us into the viral nature of social supremacy and inferiority; as well as caste systems, revolution, freedom, and being a revolutionary. Freedom is a Love-soaked trove of affirmation…
Daughter Drink This Water is a sacred Love song. A timeless affirmation for girls, women, and all souls. Reminiscent of Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet. Soak in this warm river of…
Sensitive, hopeful, intimate, petite stories and devotional messages touching your many seasons of tenderness, and the beautiful meaning and grace growing from that fertile ground. Fragrant medicine words for Lovers…
Reminiscent of Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet, Daughter Drink This Water feeds you affirming, devotional passages that penetrate the heart and reveal the divine nature of your phenomenal journey of self…
Dear Artist is Jaiya John's mystic Love letter to artists and to all souls. A full-blooded, sensual, intimate honoring and celebration of the divine spark of creativity in you, that…
The author opens the floodgates on his own childhood with this piercing memoir. Three months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., he was adopted by a white couple…
