Following the publication of The Second Comforter: Conversing with the Lord Through the Veil in 2006, I have been asked on occasion to speak or present papers to various gatherings. What started out as a talk or a discussion here and there, has grown into a body of work consisting of many millions of words that fill thousands of pages of books, papers, transcripts, and audio and video recordings. If you go back and read everything I've spoken about and written from then until now, what you will find is that I've only been giving one talk. Admittedly it's long, but you will see I've been addressing one subject from the beginning until now: Zion. This book series will comprise all of the essays, papers and transcripts of talks I have given publicly, starting with "Christ's Discourse on the Road to Emmaus", a talk I gave in April, 2007. This volume covers the first eight talks and papers I gave from 2007 through 2013.