title: Grace, Gaia, and the End of Days: An Alternative Way for the Advanced Soul
author:  Stuart Wilde 
description: <DIV> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: -1.0in -.5in 0in .25in .5in .75in 1.0in 1.25in 1.5in 1.75in 2.0in 2.25in 2.5in 2.75in 3.0in 3.25in 3.5in 3.75in 4.0in 4.25in 4.5in 4.75in 5.0in 5.25in"><B>Stuart Wilde</B> is an author and international lecturer, and one of the real characters of the self-help, human-potential movement. His style is humorous, poignant, and transformational. He is the author of 20 books,&nbsp;including:<i> The Art of Redemption, Grace, Gaia, and the End of Days; </i>and many self-help&nbsp;titles such as <i>Life Was Never Meant to Be a Struggle, The Little Money Bible, The Quickening, Silent Power, Whispering Winds of Change, </i>and <i>Infinite</i> <i>Self.</i>
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  “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  — Oscar Wilde
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  “Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face-to-
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  — Nelson DeMille
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  “What do you want me to do, Sam, huh? Sit around all day writing sad poems
  about how I’m going to die? You know what? I’ve got one. Let’s see, what
  rhymes with ‘Shut up, Sam’?”
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  — Dean Winchester, Supernatural, “Fresh Blood”
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  “Off to the ol’ coffin, Phoebe?” asked Connor Ballard. He’d finished his shift
  at the Old Sass Café a few minutes early and had helped me finish mine. We’d
  wiped down tables together, and flirted all the while. He was Scottish, so
  every one of his words sounded like melted sugar.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  “Ha. Ha.” I’d been a vampire for nearly four years now. A few weeks after my
  son, Danny, was born, I was killed. I woke up 