Welcome to The Golden Dream Key
About the Author
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Betty Jane Rapin's Writing Biography Her first published work at the age of sixteen was her contribution of two poems in Rhyme ‘n’ Rhythm, a poetry collection of new poets and lyric writers, published by The Haven Press. B. J. is a contributing writer to the Conscious Women Series anthologies of Conscious Women Conscious Careers and Conscious Women Conscious Mothers, authored by Darlene Montgomery. BJ has also written a newspaper column about news and events in her community for The Evening Paper. Several first-person stories have also appeared in Focus magazine, a Sunday supplement of the Tribune-Review newspaper.
Betty Jane Rapin, also known as B. J., began her writing career in 1947. She has published over 250 articles, essays, and poetry in anthologies, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters as well as on Web sites.
B. J.’s work has been published in Good Times, Street Voice, Universal Light Messenger, Dancing Soul, Blue Star, Point of Light, Mystic World, ECK Writers Update, Eckankar Journal, RESA Star, and other magazines and newsletters. She has also written for Linda and Allen Anderson’s Web sites, Angel Animal Network and Writing on the Run.
Besides being a published writer, B. J. is also a minister, inspirational motivational speaker, workshop facilitator, and starting in 1998, an instructor for Penn-Trafford Adult Education.
The George Tellafaro Show, The Joe Gearhing Show, Amplify, Community Challenge, Hot Line, Starting Today, and Pittsburgh’s Talking are some of the radio and television programs where she has been interviewed about her personal experiences with dreams, near-death experiences, out-of-body travels, reincarnation, and many other related topics.
When she was four years old, B. J. discovered a parallel world. A year later she was introduced to the idea of dream awareness as a result of sharing her dream experiences with her father, who was able to connect his interest in numbers.
Her father unknowingly cultivated her interest to learn the art of remembering dreams in greater detail. He enjoyed gambling and played the numbers associated with symbols from B. J.’s dreams that were alphabetically listed in a numbers dream book he used.
B. J. enjoyed telling her father about her dreams simply because she felt that by sharing a common curiosity, she was developing a closer and more loving relationship with her father. She was also developing a closer relationship with God, designer of her dreams. She believes her father was the instrument Divine Spirit used to connect to her in this special way, leading her to a lifelong adventure of dream study that has changed her life.
By the age of twelve, B. J. took yet another step forward following a near-death experience. She became aware of spiritual travel and working with spiritual beings. Throughout the years she has been in the presence of angels, saints, spiritual guides, spiritual teachers, and spiritual masters who have worked with her in a variety of ways. She shares many of these experiences in Dreams Designed by God for You!
Today B. J. resides with her husband in Pennsylvania, where she is currently working on another book. They have five children, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
B. J. writes to share and show others that it is never too late to start, change, or end whatever is necessary to better one’s life. Her writings reveal the how to, along with innovative tips, tools, and techniques she has used herself to further enhance her dream awareness—making her life a fun adventure filled with beneficial loving guidance.
Contact Betty for Scheduling a Personal Appearance
B.J. is available for speaking engagements,workshop presentations, classes, television and radio appearances as well as book signing events.
Contact: BJ@Dreams
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Working on My Next Book I have just finished research for my next book concering contact with departed loved ones. I have taught classes on this subject where larger groups of people have attended in order to learn about communicating with the other side hoping to find closure. Many of the attendees suggest that this subject matter would make an interesting read and it should be the focus of my next book. And so it is.
Being with like minded people made them feel more at ease knowing they shared a common interest. The room was filled with individuals coming to talk and listen to these unusual experiences. Little by little, as they listen to others describe their encounters with the other side, they gathered up enough self-confidence to share their heartfelt experiences. Having an open forum to express their feelings and talk about their experiences with a departed loved one was comforting, as well as helpful for them.
The purpose of this book is to show the reader how to awaken their innate ability for these types of experiences. Often the individual had a visit with a departed love one but it was so subtle they were unaware of this spiritual happening.
Once they realize contact can be made in a multitude of ways they are able to deal with the fact that they may never have a visible encounter. Knowing what to expect, they can be on the look out for other ways a departed one is trying to reach them. This enables the one left behind to better understand life in the hereafter to help them in the here-and-now by finding closure and peace of mind.
The book will be geared to help people lose their fear of death, prepare for the crossing over of a loved one, knowing how to work with dreams to have a heavenly visit with a departed love one—learning to let go and move on with their life—without the pangs of excessive emotions in grieving for their loss.
If you have had experienes of communication with departed loved ones, including a pet, I am looking for your stories. Perhaps you may have already had some communication such as this but need to recall it more clearly.
To jog your memory think of this; Have you ever been aware of a loving presence, felt a cold sensation on your body, smelled a familiar scent, caught a glimpse of a fleeting shadow, heard someone's voice or had a dream with the individual that was so vivid, it left you feeling it was an actual heavenly encounter of contact with a departed Soul?
Don't sell yourself short by saying you can't write, just say it with words, the way you would tell it to someone if you were having a conversation. What you have to say could help another reader in some way. Your story just might be the healing potion they need. So onward to the task at hand--write from the heart--and trust in your creative ability.
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An Invitation to Contribute I invite you write a story about your experience with a departed person person or pet and sent it to me for consideration for inclusion in my next book. Email Subject Line: Please put My Story in the subject line of the email. Send it to BJ@Dreams You can resubmit your story to another publication, one year after the launch date of my book.
If I make any changes on your manuscript I will let you know what I intend to do before I make the change.
Submission Details
Story: Explain in detail your experience with a departed pet or person. Share you feelings, your insight, and how this special moment in time has helped you.
Length: No less than 300 words and no more than 900 words to be sent to me in the body of an email. No attachments please!
Deadline: December 31, 2009. Send your story by email.
Personal Information: For contact purpose please include your full name and phone number at the end of your story. And the email address you want me to respond to.
Payment: I will be using a self-publishing company, which means I will be paying for the book publishing services. Therefore, the only payment I can offer you is an autographed copy of the book when it is published.
Benefits for You: If you are a new writer or a seasoned veteran with years of writing experiences the sharing of your story could help someone with their grief.
Having your story published in my book will give you another publishing credit to add to your credentials for your biography.
Also, you can have the pleasure of seeing you work in print and share it with family and friends.
A book with your story would make a nice gift for family, friends, and especially the people connected to the individual with whom you had the heavenly communication experience.
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