Q & A with Summer Festival Day One Sponsor Darity Wesley and San Diego Writers Festival
SDWF: What inspired you to write the Modern Day Oracle Wisdom Teaching Series?
DW: I have been a privacy and information security attorney for 35 years and I found in all my travels in life, and in my industry, that folks were yearning for ways to feel better about themselves and their lives. My entire life I have been a devotee of both self and spiritual development. I have gained a lot of wisdom over the years, doing the internal work necessary to have a relatively free-flowing life. This is because I apply, integrate and adopt healthy attitudes and practices that support the kind of life I want to live, and that allow me to be the change in the world I want to see.
That desire to share what I have learned over the course of my life, to support others in how to transform their lives and become more authentic human beings, is what inspired me to begin the Modern Day Oracle Wisdom Teaching Series. I have become a Wisdom Sharer.
My next book in the series is tentatively titled: No One Gets Out of Here Alive, Including YOU! ~ A Practical Guide to Death and Dying
I also have two other teaching programs that I’ve been working on: Wisdom for the New Reality, to help assist others with navigating through these significantly changing times. And Tame That Monkey Mind TM to help readers to tame and train their monkey mind.
I send out a Wisdom for the New Reality message each month to everyone on my mailing list. Readers can sign up at www.DarityWesley.com. It’s free!
SDWF: Which writers have influenced you most?
DW: In the self-help genre I would say the following books influenced me greatly: Wayne Dwyer’s Your Erroneous Zones, Eric Berne’s Games People Play, Thomas Anthony Harris’ I’m OK, You’re OK and Fritz Perls, Paul Goodman, Ralph Hefferline’s Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality.
In the spiritual, esoteric, consciousness genre I would say the following books influenced me greatly: Eckhart Tolle’s Power of Now!, Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life, Jane Roberts’ The Seth Material (all Seth books actually), Shakti Gwain’s Reflections in the Light, and Solara’s How To Live Large on a Small Planet.
SDWF: What’s the last great book/play/poem you read?
DW: Non-fiction – The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest. Fiction – The Black Box by Michael Connelly
SDWF: What do you wish you’d known before you started out as a writer?
DW: I wish I would have known how expensive it is to create an independently published book in order to make it not look like most independently published books. Luckily, all three of my books, (the first one is a word search puzzle book entitled The Word Search Oracle: Yoga for the Brain), have become best sellers on Amazon.com and have won awards for independent publishers.
SDWF: What was the first piece of writing you shared with someone else?
DW: In the middle of my traumatic teenage years, I began writing poetry, in the late 1950s, and I shared it with friends and family.
SDWF: Where can we find your blog/website or any other online links (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)?
DW: www.DarityWesley.com
www.TameThatMonkeyMind.com
https://www.facebook.com/DarityWesley/
SDWF: Thank you, Darity!
