Grant Schnarr's Authoring Approach Grant Schnarr's books focus on your personal relationship with yourself, life, and God as you understand God. His wisdom ranges from the ancient disciplines of the warrior spirit in learning to conquer yourself, as in the Art of Spiritual Warfare, to offering a new and refreshing perspective to traditional faith.

His works touch on the Bible and the New Age, on the mystical and the practical. He is serious to the point of bringing tears, and can have you laughing the next moment. His books are about life.

Interview About: YOU CAN BELIEVE!       What is the book about? Grant: It is about reconnecting people with spirituality and God. It's not just a self help book. It has meat, doctrinal ideas to chew on. For vegetarians, think of a good hearty vegetable soup! All the flavor and substance.

How does this book fit with your other books such as Spiritual Recovery, or The Art of Spiritual Warfare?
Grant: Both of these books are about the practice of spirituality, and leave most of the belief system of the individual up to the individual. I give some advice, for example, how to combat dysfunction and overcome the negative self, but don' talk much about where that negative self comes from, or who the higher power may be that helps us. That's left for the individual to decide -- the old adage "God as you understand God." This book is different. This book is about belief. Hence the title - "You Can Believe!" It compares beliefs, some which seem to work in life and some which don't work so well, and then offers a new idea, a new belief to consider. These new beliefs are based on the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg's religious books and philosophy. They aren't mine, but I do flesh them out with examples and illustrations from modern life.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Interview About: ART OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE       What is spiritual warfare? Grant: Spiritual warfare is about conquering your own demons, gaining control over your destructive tendencies, like fear, anger, impulsive behavior, addiction. It's the old fashion war against human evil, fought by individuals for centuries.

The book is based on Sun Tzu's, Art of War . Can you tell us about him?
Grant: Sun Tzu was a Chinese military strategist who lived about 2500 years ago. The Art of War has long been recognized as one of the most important treatise ever written on the strategy of warfare. It's principles have been studied and adopted by military generals throughout history, from ancient battles in China, to the wars of Napoleon, to modern world wars. Now it has been popularized for business strategy and gaining the upper hand in any sort of competitive field.

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Interview About: ART OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE       Still . what about those who just haven't experienced any kind of higher power in their life? Schnarr said he was taken aback by that question because he spends so much time with people who are actively seeking spirituality, and "connecting with light and higher meaning." Ultimately, the author said he believed spirituality was "intuitive."

"Give yourself a chance to experience the divine by opening your eyes and seeing . be open to the signs that are around us all the time! If we're not being led by some kind of spiritual discipline, we usually don't see the signs of God. We need to turn on our consciousness and get involved in some kind of sacred practice or ritual. MKP has their sacred acts that give one a foundation for a deeper spiritual experience. All kinds of things start happening when you honor nature, for instance."

Schnarr told a story of a time where he was in a sweat lodge in northern Pennsylvania and he was speaking of the place of the coyote when a nearby coyote began howling. "It was magical to hear that coyote singing. I realized then that if you work with nature, nature works with you."