Michael Goddart, MFA, writes to empower people to lead a life of increasing awareness, bliss, and love and to realize their true self. The Contentment Dividend is his fifth book. His previous book, A New Now, won six book awards and seven honors, including the Nautilus Book Award. In Search of Lost Lives earned four book awards, including the National Indie Excellence Award. In this unique memoir, the 88 past lives he recovered in vivid detail illustrate his spiritual evolution. He is also the author of BLISS: 33 Simple Ways to Awaken Further and Spiritual Revolution: A Seeker's Guide, which the Hollywood Spiritual Film and Entertainment Festival named Best Spirituality/Self-Help Book. Australia's leading spiritual bookshop named Spiritual Revolution one of the ten greatest metaphysical books ever written. Michael started actively searching for the truth about death and how to attain true immortality with everlasting bliss when he was 10 years old. He began daily meditation at age 19, and at 21 began to meditate for two and a half hours daily.His spiritual quest, along with his work as an international tax consultant, has taken him to over fifty countries. Since 1974, he has journeyed thirteen times to India and also numerous times to England, Greece, Canada, Spain, and within the United States to be with those rare Teachers whom he considers to be fully realized humans. Michael earned his MFA in creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He currently lives in Southern California, where he loves the brilliance of the light, reading fine novels, and playing with his White Swiss Shepherd. Kindly visit www.goddart.com for interviews, excerpts, endorsements, and more.