Vivian Alexandra frames My Journey Through Ascension as both a record of personal spiritual awakening and an invitation to examine the inner beliefs that shape our sense of self. Rather than relying on memoir alone, she brings together autobiographical reflection, channeled material, and poetry, with the idea of the “Kingdom Within” serving as a recurring center for the book. That combination makes this a particularly personal exploration of spirituality—one grounded in Alexandra’s account of her own awakening while asking readers to consider what healing, sovereignty, and connection to Source mean within their own lives.

Spirituality, Memoir, New Age

Date Published: July 1, 2026

My Journey Through Ascension is notable for the way Alexandra layers several forms of spiritual expression into one personal account. Her awakening provides the memoir framework, while channeled wisdom and poetic reflection broaden the book beyond a straightforward chronology of events. The recurring emphasis on the “Kingdom Within,” multidimensional identity, and personal sovereignty also makes clear that Alexandra is less interested in presenting a conventional religious framework than in documenting the spiritual understanding she says emerged from her own experiences. 

For readers comfortable engaging with accounts of direct communion with God and messages from higher realms, the book offers an opportunity to consider those ideas through the lens of one woman’s ongoing process of healing and self-discovery.

My Journey Through Ascension is most likely to resonate with spiritually curious readers who are open to channeled material, accounts of awakening, communion with the Divine, and ideas surrounding consciousness and multidimensional identity. Those who appreciate memoirs in which personal experience is intertwined with reflection and poetry may also find Alexandra’s approach appealing. The book is especially suited to readers interested in examining concepts such as inner sovereignty, Source, healing, self-realization, and the “Kingdom Within” without requiring those ideas to remain inside a single religious tradition.

Her spiritual awakening began in 2019 and deepened in 2021 through transformative experiences and direct communion with Mother-Father God. Though she earned a degree in Political Science and worked in the legal field, she ultimately chose to follow her spiritual calling. 

Through years of study, healing, and inner exploration, Vivian has dedicated herself to helping others remember their sovereignty, reconnect with Source, and awaken to their soul's purpose.

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The most distinctive element of My Journey Through Ascension may be Alexandra’s decision to present spiritual awakening in several voices at once: lived memory, channeled communication, reflection, and poetry. Her account remains closely tied to the spiritual language through which she understands her experiences, including Source, sovereignty, multidimensional essence, and the “Kingdom Within.” Readers who share an interest in those ideas—or who want to understand how one person has interpreted a profound shift in spiritual consciousness—will find a memoir shaped as much by inward questioning as by the events Alexandra describes.

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When Professor Jack Sullivan is asked to decode a cipher from the war's final days, he expects a historical curiosity. Instead, he uncovers a thread Jefferson Davis died protecting, a secret never meant to resurface.

Jack, his fiancée Emma Wilson, and former SEAL Steve Johnson are pulled into a hunt more dangerous than any battlefield. From Washington's archives to the back alleys of New Orleans, from the coast of Mexico to the shadowed ridges of Arkansas, every trail leads deeper into the world of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a brotherhood long believed defunct. 

But the Knights didn't disappear. They became patient.

For 160 years they studied what force could never win. They embedded themselves in the institutions Americans trust, and waited for the moment when they wouldn't need to seize power. They would be invited to take it. 

Now their heirs have risen. A cartel is running weapons north while a cyberattack probes the power grid, and a senator climbs toward power on the fear both create. Jack begins to realize he was never hunting the treasure. He was being led to it. 

Joined by Homeland cyber analyst Priya Patel and hunted by enemies he cannot see, Jack has four days to break a design older than anyone imagined before the trap closes around everyone he loves.

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Praise for Echoes of Fortune: Knights of the Golden Circle

"One part Jack Reacher, one part Indiana Jones... an impressively entertaining action thriller." 

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"Leng lets history press against the present, sometimes like a warning and sometimes like a buried fuse." — Literary Titan

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The most distinctive idea in Echoes of Fortune: Knights of the Golden Circle is not simply that an old conspiracy survived—it is that survival gave it time to change tactics. Jack begins with a Civil War cipher and ends up confronting a design that reaches into technology, politics, and the institutions people depend upon. That makes the historical mystery more than background decoration; everything buried in the past has a purpose in the present. With the book positioned as a standalone entry, this is also an accessible place to encounter Jack, Emma, Steve, and the larger Echoes of Fortune world.

In the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial reckoning of 2020, two unlikely friends are forced to confront what home really means.

A young Black man and a middle-aged White man meet through the Indianapolis tech company where they both work. Though separated by age, race, and life experience, they discover a powerful connection through music, poetry, and the emotional landscapes that have shaped them. What begins as an unusual friendship becomes something deeper as both men find themselves questioning the world around them—and their place within it.

Disillusioned by their state’s response to the pandemic and shaken by the racial strife unfolding across the country, the two men leave Indianapolis on a transformative journey. Against the eerie backdrop of a fractured America, they face isolation, grief, uncertainty, and the complicated truths that define love, loyalty, friendship, and identity.

As the road carries them away from everything familiar, they begin to reevaluate their beliefs, their histories, and the meaning of belonging. Through shared adversity, conversation, art, and memory, they forge a bond that challenges them to see themselves—and each other—with greater honesty and compassion.

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Michael Leppert is an award-winning lecturer, columnist, essayist, and author based in Indianapolis, Indiana. A longtime communicator, public affairs professional, and educator, Leppert brings decades of experience in government, policy, business, and storytelling to his work.

He teaches speech and writing at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and serves as an adjunct professor at IU’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He earned his B.S. in Public Affairs from Indiana University and his M.S. in Communication from Northwestern University, building a career rooted in the two fields that have shaped his life: government and communication.

Before entering academia and writing, Leppert spent thirteen years in public service for the State of Indiana. His career began at the Indiana Boys School, where he worked for five years and later served as program manager in the Intensive Treatment Unit. He then spent eight years at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, ultimately serving as Executive Director of the IURC. In that role, he became known for his ability to explain complex and often controversial issues with clarity, insight, and accessibility.

After leaving state government in 2002, Leppert spent two decades as a private-sector lobbyist, public affairs consultant, and communications advisor, working with corporations, nonprofits, government leaders, community organizations, and business executives to help advance strategic priorities. His experience with public policy, political systems, and institutional decision-making has deeply informed his fiction and nonfiction writing.

Leppert began writing a weekly column in 2014, with his work appearing in newspapers throughout Indiana. His first book, Contrary to Popular Belief: A Chronicle of a Progressive in Indiana, was published in 2016. His novel Flipping the Circle, published by Greenleaf Book Group in 2021, is a political thriller that draws from his deep knowledge of Indiana politics, lobbying, and government culture. His fiction explores power, corruption, identity, morality, and the complicated human stories behind public life.

At the heart of Leppert’s work is a passion for helping people understand complicated ideas through story. Whether in the classroom, in public commentary, or on the page, he is driven by the belief that storytelling can bring clarity, challenge assumptions, and create meaningful connection.

Michael lives in a historic neighborhood in downtown Indianapolis with his wife, Amy Levander, and their rescue dog, Birdie. He has two adult children, Alex and Jack. He and Amy are competitive golfers, beach walkers, and enthusiastic lovers of live music, comedy, and theater.

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At the center of The Edge of Motherland is a question that becomes increasingly difficult for its two friends to answer: what makes a place—or another person—feel like home? Leppert approaches that question through the specific pressures of 2020, but also through the quieter forces that shape identity over a lifetime: memory, art, conversation, geography, and the assumptions people carry into relationships. That emphasis gives the novel room to explore a divided moment without losing sight of the individuals trying to live through it, making this a thoughtful choice for readers interested in friendship, belonging, and the complicated work of understanding someone whose life has followed a very different path.

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Wars, famine, political corruption, economic depression, social injustice, civil unrest, all of which leads to the spiritual, personal unrest of the human soul. 

And it makes us wonder... How do I, as a person, and we as human beings, work together individually yet collectively to make the world a better place for those who live here today and for those who will be born into this world tomorrow? 

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One of the more challenging ideas behind The Needs of the Heart is that improving the world and improving ourselves cannot be treated as entirely separate projects. Anderson begins with social conditions that can make an individual feel powerless, then redirects attention toward the emotional and philosophical territory where a person can still examine choices, principles, and relationships with others.

That makes this a book centered less on escaping difficult realities than on considering how human beings might respond to them. Its questions reach from the private life of the individual to the kind of world inherited by future generations, giving readers an opportunity to consider what the needs of the heart might demand not only from society, but from themselves.