Maagic Collins and his mother D. Jean Collins run a small independent book publishing business called Temple Dreams LLC. Established in 2025 and based in Los Angeles, California. Temple Dreams LLC is a wellness brand at heart: focused on developing & publishing books that move and inspire positive change in one’s life and community. They hope their work helps individuals and the working-class communities ground themselves in our human journey throughout this short and precious lifetime. Maagic Collins:  He was born in South Central Los Angeles, off King & Normandie. Maagic's early childhood was spent around the lectures and conferences of the BGS/Aquarian Spiritual Center located in South Central Los Angeles. His mother would move them both to the Bay Area in the early 90's. from L.A. The Bay Area taught him a lot about trauma, recovery, and well-being. He attended San Leandro High School, where he was a super introvert and mostly played basketball while excelling in the arts. He would later go on to College where he studied various disciplines such as psychology, gender studies, business, and finally settled on theatre as his focus and number one art form. While in college, he worked with incoming students, coached basketball, and helped set up the first-of-its-kind "Men of Honor" to help Black male students find a place where they could connect and be seen on campus.  Maagic would later earn a B. A. from CSU Chico in 2007. After graduating, he would move back to his hometown of Los Angeles to pursue his career as an actor. In 2012, after a car accident, he began a new path, trying stand-up comedy. By 2015, Maagic would begin to consistently work and be cast in some of the most coveted commercials. Gaining ground in the industry showcases, such as the NBC Diversity Showcase.  All that would change after a horrendous period in 2019, heartbreaking personal experiences, and tough business lessons.  What would have been the bounce back year in 2020 coincided with the Pandemic. He responded by helping everyone he could in various ways through in-person outreach programs. Creating content to encourage well-being. Using humor to combat the fears of people not knowing what was going to happen next. The crucial turning point was becoming an activist after Ahmad Aubrey's murder and taking to the streets, speaking truth to power. From that point on, he would be branded and made a walking outcast in his own hometown and entertainment community.  These days, Maagic works with the New Black Gnostic Study Movement. Working as a life coach at the local high school. Promoting his book Ruminating: The Divine, The Advocate and The Fool. You can still check out the Fight the Funk Podcast on YouTube now, simply called The Maagic Collins Podcast. D. Jean Collins:  Author and co-owner of Temple Dreams LLC. She brings her new book, Beseeching Light, to the world. Early High School Activist and National Merit Scholar of 1968. Graduated from the Madison, Wisconsin, School of Journalism in 1972.  Ms. Collins moved to Los Angeles, and good fortune led her to the Aquarian Spiritual Center in 1978, where she officially became a staff member for the Black Gnostic Studies in 1980.  She would go on to work with Dr. and Ms. Ligon at the Aquarian Spiritual Center and Bookshop for more than a decade. D. Jean Collins' main duties would be working as a Secretary and editorial staff member in charge of putting together the Lessons, Newsletters, Uraeus Journal, and the Black History Booklet series.  She would later move to the Bay Area during the 90's and retired from the Oakland Unified School District in 2015. She is overjoyed and fortunate to have survived and has embraced many miracles to be able to finish her book, Beseeching Light: Journal of an Eccentric Anachronism. The Temple Dreams family looks forward to you reading our work for years to come. In love and light. Be well.