SPIRITUALITY/INSPIRATIONAL

You Are Still Alive, Now Act Like It: Empower, Elevate, and Enlighten Your Consciousness Ray Catania | Limitless Publications, LLC 322p, trade paper, $14.99, ISBN 978-1-737-00955-9

Catania’s followup to The Atheist and The Afterlife continues the author’s autobiographical journey into the practices of spirituality and metaphysics with a provocative challenge to readers: “One’s perception is one’s truth,” he writes. “Change your perception and you can change your truth. Change your truth and you have changed your reality.” Catania explores that promise through personal anecdotes and journal entries that cover his experiences as a medium and his walk toward a path of spiritual awakening, guiding readers through his growth and discoveries, such as “The Laws of Attainment” which he argues “can lead to the fulfillment of desires by peaceful means,” with the tone of a coach or old friend.

This memoir/spiritual self-help guide anchors its teachings of spirituality and metaphysics in Catania’s personal life lessons and knowledge. He implores readers to approach seeking with open minds and to shake off preconceptions, arguing “If you believe that your religion can do or say no wrong, please throw away this book.” With journal entries from 2020 and 2021, Catania invites readers into his exploration, with an emphasis on how applying the Laws of Attainment changed his life and opened his mind to the knowledge that “Collectively, as one, we become all-powerful and all-knowing.”

Catania argues that religions “all propound truths and fallacies,” but he holds firm to belief in a source of creation, one that connects us all in a Jungian collective consciousness. That, he argues, gives us each profound power: “you are the co-creator,” he writes. “You are responsible for all things, especially your own life’s things.” Catania highlights how to do that via practices of manifestation and visualization. You Are Still Alive, Now Act Like It is an earnest, inviting motivational guide for readers eager to leave behind established religion for exploration of the metaphysics and consciousness to create a more positive sense of self and quality of life.

Great for fans of Laura Lynne Jackson’s Signs, Dan Desmarques’s Collective Consciousness.