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Guy Spiro: Jimmy, I was surprised to see that it’s been over ten years since we last spoke like this. A lot has happened with you since then.
James Twyman: I’m surprised by that as well. You and I go way back and being from Chicago, I think of The Monthly Aspectarian and how long you guys have been in existence. It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years.
GS: As I looked over your site for this conversation, it was clear that you’ve been busy.
JT: The last fifteen years or so, a certain momentum has overtaken me and it has been an amazing adventure.
GS: How do you bang out that many books?
JT: That’s a good question. Some authors in the field tend to stick with one genre. I write about what I’m passionate about in the moment, so there has been a wide variety of topics. I’ve dealt with peace, Indigo Children, and other things. I can’t just sit down and write, something has to really strike me. At the same time, I think I may have ADD or something because my passion changes, and when it does, I want to write about it. So I’ve been following that approach over the years, and some of the directions have been wonderful and others have not taken root. But some have been very rewarding.
GS: So your short attention span, then, has benefited a lot of people.
[laughter]
JT: Yeah, nice when that happens, isn’t it?
GS: How many teachers did you have in school that said you weren’t going to amount to anything if you kept on like that?
JT: I had a number of people, in fact, my father was probably the primary person that always told me that I had to focus and choose one thing. When I was twelve or so, there were many things I was interested in, and if you asked me what I wanted to do for a living, I would say a musician, an actor, a writer, and I want to do something spiritual. My father told me that I
