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Fiji-Born Author Torika Adikubou Releases “Be My Witness: Chosen Faithful”
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Torika Adikubou has published a new book, "Be My Witness: Chosen Faithful," a 266-page work that positions the reader’s life as a musical composition ready to resonate. The book, released through Christian Faith Publishing on February 4, 2026, is available in paperback and digital editions at major retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play and the Apple iTunes Store.
Adikubou grew up in Fiji, raised alongside three brothers whose influence, she has said, shaped the boldness that runs through her writing. According to the announcement, that upbringing — split between the country’s beaches, an interest in baking, and time spent outdoors — informs the book’s central claim: that an individual’s lived experience serves as a witness to those in their community, whether they intend it to or not.
The book argues that people possess an innate identity and power they have yet to fully embrace, and walks through reflective passages meant to help them recognize dormant ambitions and move past fear toward what the author calls their "predetermined destiny." It falls within the inspirational nonfiction category, aimed at readers looking to close the distance between what they believe they’re called to do and how they’re actually living.
"I believe every individual holds within them a symphony prepared to be performed," Adikubou said in the announcement. "I wrote ‘Be My Witness’ to awaken that recognition in others — to help them see their life as both a personal masterpiece and a radiant testimony to those around them."
The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing. Readers can find purchasing details through the publisher’s website or at bookstores carrying the title.
Studio CarryOnHarry Perspective
At Studio CarryOnHarry, we recognize that Adikubou’s central premise — that our lives operate as unwitting testimony regardless of intention — arrives at a crucial moment in inspirational publishing. The genre has long emphasized personal transformation and individual potential, but rarely does it lean as deliberately into the communal dimension: the idea that self-actualization isn’t merely personal gain but a witnessed act with ripple effects. This reframing matters because it repositions the reader’s stakes. You’re not just claiming your power for yourself; you’re acknowledging that your choices cascade into others’ perceptions of what’s possible. In a landscape saturated with books promising self-discovery, Adikubou’s insistence that authenticity functions as public witness offers something fresh — a moral weight to the familiar call toward wholeness, reminding readers that becoming who you’re meant to be isn’t solitary work.
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Ordained Minister Publishes Memoir on Addiction, Faith and His Mother’s Prayers
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John M. Killion, holds ministerial credentials from the Assemblies of God, has published a memoir detailing his descent into drug addiction and what he describes as encounters with demonic influence, according to the publisher’s announcement. The book, "Demons, Drugs, Darkness, and Deliverance: The True Story of One Man’s Journey Through the Darkness and the Power of a Mother’s Prayers," is out now through Christian Faith Publishing.
The memoir details experiences including substance trafficking, violent incidents, and death threats from his addiction period, per the announcement, before tracing his journey toward healing via spiritual intervention and maternal intercession. Killion holds degrees from Purdue University Calumet and has worked as a worship leader, lay pastor, youth pastor and evangelist, according to the publisher.
"My prayer is that readers will understand that regardless of how deep into darkness someone has fallen, there is always hope, healing, and a way out," Killion said in the announcement. "God’s love and power to deliver are greater than any addiction or demonic stronghold, and I want everyone struggling in darkness to know that freedom is possible."
The book is targets those personally battling addiction as well as family members of those affected, the publisher states. It’s available through bookstores and major online retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play and the Apple iTunes Store, as well as directly through Christian Faith Publishing’s website.
Christian Faith Publishing is a faith-based self-publishing imprint that releases author memoirs and inspirational titles on a regular basis; how this particular book performs relative to the imprint’s broader catalog isn’t addressed in the announcement.
Studio CarryOnHarry Perspective
At Studio CarryOnHarry, we recognize this memoir’s value extends beyond the typical publishing announcement—it’s positioned as a tangible lifeline for a vulnerable audience. For those in active addiction or supporting someone through recovery, Killion’s specific account of substance trafficking, violence, and the role of maternal prayer offers a roadmap from personal experience rather than clinical abstraction. The accessibility of his story across multiple platforms matters because someone struggling with addiction may encounter this book at their moment of readiness—whether through a recommendation from a recovery group, a family member’s desperate search for hope, or a solo late-night browse. What makes this resource distinct is its dual focus: it validates the spiritual dimensions some people experience in their darkest moments while simultaneously offering concrete evidence that someone who lived through trafficking and death threats found a way forward. For families watching loved ones spiral, the emphasis on intercessory prayer provides a specific action they can take when traditional interventions feel exhausted.
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Can Machines Study the Mind? New Book Uses AI to Examine Consciousness Fundamentalism
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The Oaklea Press has published a new book examining whether scientific evidence increasingly favors the idea that consciousness is more fundamental than matter — with a twist in how it was made. According to the publisher’s announcement, editor Stephen Hawley Martin assigned the research and writing not to a human scholar but to an artificial intelligence system, instructed to sort established science from speculation on the subject.
The book, titled "The End of the Material Age: Is Science Discovering That Consciousness Is More Fundamental Than Matter?", joins a growing collection of works exploring similar themes — from David Chalmers’ long-running "hard problem" argument that consciousness resists reduction to physical explanation, to recent books that frame the debate as unresolved rather than settled. According to the announcement, the publisher—established in 1995—maintains a catalog of over 230 books
The book addresses subjective experience, the brain-mind relationship, quantum mechanics, near-death experiences, reports of past-life memories in children, terminal lucidity, and psychical research, the announcement states The work explores what the publisher terms an "Interface Model"—a theory suggesting the brain may organize and express consciousness rather than create it from purely non-conscious matter — but the publisher is explicit that this is presented as a hypothesis, not a finding. The announcement also states the AI repeatedly warns against pseudoscience and overreading quantum mechanics, and allows that conventional neuroscience may still explain consciousness within existing physical frameworks.
Martin stated in the release: "This book does not argue that science has failed." "If reliable evidence eventually challenges materialism itself, the scientific response should be to investigate it — not to dismiss it because it conflicts with the prevailing worldview."
The book is available now on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardcover editions. What the announcement doesn’t address is how an AI system’s literature review and argument construction should be weighed against a human researcher’s — a question likely to follow the book more than any of its actual conclusions about consciousness.
Studio CarryOnHarry Perspective
From a publishing standpoint, Oaklea Press’s decision to foreground the AI authorship isn’t incidental—it’s a market differentiator. In the crowded consciousness-studies space, where dozens of books compete for shelf space and reader attention, the novelty of "AI-researched" carries immediate cachet with both media and audiences. The announcement itself becomes the story, generating coverage that a conventionally authored book on the same topic might never achieve. For a 230-title independent press, this approach transforms what could be a niche academic work into a cultural conversation piece, turning the method into the message. Whether readers ultimately trust the AI’s synthesis or not, they’re talking about it—and that visibility is precisely what smaller publishers need to survive in an oversaturated market where traditional author credentials and institutional backing still dominate discoverability.
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