Transforming the face of psychiatry, Dr. Judith Orloff asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal—and prevent—illness. Yet intuition and spirituality are the very aspects of our wisdom usually disenfranchised from traditional health care.

As a board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Orloff exhibits great courage in drawing upon her own intuitive abilities, evident to her since childhood. Her struggles acknowledging and then finally embracing her gift of heightened intuition are chronicled in Second Sight. Her second book, Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing shows how breakthroughs in healing our body, emotions, and sexuality are accomplished by listening to intuition. Her latest book Positive Energy completes a trilogy of books around awakening intuition and subtle energy. Positive Energy takes a probing look at the epidemic of exhaustion in America and how we can reverse it using specific strategies to build energy and combat draining people. Positive Energy is a national and Los Angeles Times bestseller which as been translated into 23 languages.

Kala speaks with Singer / Songwriter Helen Reddy, Keynote Speaker For Be Your Own Psychic Conference at Edgar Cayce's A.R.E.

At a time when many feel unaware of how they can face the current challenges in their lives, Helen Reddy helps us awaken our intuitive ability and embrace ourselves with courage and hope at A.R.E.s annual Be Your Own Psychic: Its the Edgar Cayce Legacy Conference, February 18 - 22, 2009. With reflections from her own celebrated life, she will share essential principles of wisdom and inspiration for living an authentic life. This year's conference will provide participants with the tools to recognize and use their own crucial inner intuition. In addition, Carol Ann Liaros and Henry Reed will bring principles from the Cayce readings for recognizing, awakening, and using your innate psychic abilities in a deeply experiential, highly interactive series of workshops.

For more than thirty-five years, Grammy-Award winner Helen Reddy brought a message of strength and invincibility to millions of people worldwide. Internationally known for her dynamic anthem I Am Woman, she became a catalyst for feminine empowerment. Retired from her musical career and now a clinical hypnotherapist in Sydney, Australia, she has followed her calling as a spiritual teacher with the same message of strength, now directed toward spiritual growth and higher consciousness. For more information about the A.R.E. Conference, visit  www.EdgarCayce.org/conferences.

More About Helen Reddy:
Born into a well-known Australian show business family, Helen Reddy has had a life and a career richer and more varied than anything she could ever have imagined as a girl in Melbourne. She has dined on her birthday with the Prince of Wales, danced in the White House with the President of the United States, and had a tulip named after her in Holland.

Best known as a recording artist, Helen Reddy had more than a dozen Top 40 hits in the United States. She was the first Australian to win a Grammy Award and to have three #1 hits in the same year. In television, Helen was the first Australian to host her own one-hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network, along with several specials that were seen in over forty countries.  In theater, Helen has starred in London's West End and on Broadway in New York. As a solo concert artist, she has played at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, as well as the Royal Albert Hall and the Palladium in London. Helen was also the first western female performer invited to sing in the People's Republic of China.  In film, her starring role in Disney's Pete's Dragon continues to delight the younger generation, while the lyrics she penned for her feminist anthem "I Am Woman" are now included in Modern American History high school textbooks. Besides the compilation, The Woman I Am: The Definitive Collection, all 12 of Helen's original studio albums for Capitol are now available for digital download worldwide.

Her best-selling memoir The Woman I Am (Tarcher/Penguin), reveals that at the height of her career, Helen's world was shattered by the death of both her parents and, simultaneously, the news that she had a rare and incurable disease, A riveting, frank and ultimately brave memoir, she recounts the emotional highs and lows that have shaped her life as an artist and as a complex woman, with a rich inner life sustained by a strong spiritual faith.

Helen retired from live performance in 2002 and now practices as a clinical hypnotherapist and motivational speaker.  She lives in Australia. More info at: www.HelenReddy.com

Kala Ambrose speaks with Catherine Crawford about her book, The Highly Intuitive Child. Some children can walk into a room and feel “the vibe” instantly in their body. Others may tune into an unspoken family conflict, or tell someone to "be careful" before stumbling into an unknown situation. These may seem to be the normal human qualities of intuition and empathy, but in highly intuitive children (and adults), such traits are supercharged. Growing up in a culture that favors the rational and the five senses can be difficult for gifted children. This book shows parents, teachers, and therapists how to help them — and those around them — embrace and exercise their gift. The Highly Intuitive Child covers a wealth of topics including: how to easily identify the intuitive child; how life is different for them; the 10 skills to learn before leaving home; the connections between neuroscience and empathy; what other cultures can teach us about supporting intuitive children; success stories; and much more.

Kala speaks with Guy Finley about his book, The Essential Laws of Fearless Living. Fearless Living is a step-by-step manual for all who aspire to realize their ultimate potential as a human being. In its seven chapters of forty concise essays, Finley explores deeply personal and meaningful ideas, revealing the secrets of the universe itself; but he does so in a way that makes the journey fascinating, compelling, and comforting at the same time. A great hope fills the heart that the untold mystery of human existence has not only been revealed, but solved.

In 1993, building on years of laboratory experiments, Dr. Roger Nelson began using random event generator technology in the field to register correlations of data with special states of group consciousness. This work led to the world-spanning GCP network, designed to look for indications of a global consciousness responding to major world events like destructive earthquakes, the beginnings of war or terror attacks like 9/11, as well as worldwide holidays and celebrations like New Years Eve. After several years of purely scientific focus, with careful research yielding increasingly persuasive evidence, Dr. Nelson has begun to make public presentations about the GCP. The findings imply that we can be creative participants in determining our future, and that we have the capacity and responsibility for conscious evolution. Dr. Nelson is the upcoming president of the international Parapsychology Association.

Kala speaks with Don Miguel Ruiz about the power of the Divine Feminine. Don Miguel's mother, Sara Macias Vasquez ("Mother Sarita"), gifted healer, recently passed away at the age of 98. "Mother Sarita", was widely recognized as a powerful, gifted faith healer. Raised in rural Mexico, she learned ancient Toltec wisdom from her shaman grandfather, and passed this wisdom on to her son, author don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements). In 2007, Mother Sarita was inducted into The San Diego Women’s Hall of Fame for her contributions to healing and teaching, and for her role as an influential mentor. Her message Si se puede, “Yes, it’s possible” was an inspiration to many. Her courageous and loving spirit will be greatly missed.

Kala speaks with Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell, Founding Minister and CEO of the Unity Center in San Diego. Rev. Wendy with the Unity School of Christianity and the Association of Unity Churches is presenting a six-part webcast series entitled Jesus and the Awakening to God-Consciousness on www.unity.fm that explores this controversial yet expansive view of Jesus and his teachings in conversations with Deepak Chopra. Each segment will be available free of charge. A recent Pew Forum found 68 percent of adult Americans believe there's more than one true way to interpret the teachings of their religion. "If they knew there was a path like Unity's," speculates Craig-Purcell, "vast numbers would be surprised and delighted. The Unity movement, founded in 1889 by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in their Kansas City living rom, has taught and practiced an expansive, inclusive, and universal understanding of Jesus' teachings for nearly 120 years. According to Paula Coppel, vice president of Communications at Unity School of Christianity in Unity Village, MO, “It was the enlightened state that Jesus was both demonstrating and teaching. This Web series contends that Jesus was not trying to start a new religion, nor was he aiming his teachings at some people and not others. He was pointing the way for all of us to experience the awakening that he himself had experienced.” This is an important and liberating perspective. "We’re not trying to change anyone’s mind or beliefs. We’re just offering an alternative view," says Coppel. "We understand that this material is controversial and will probably upset some viewers," says Craig-Purcell. “But Jesus, after all, was controversial himself and radical in his time, so we are in good company." We urge you to let your audience know about this groundbreaking media event.

From best selling author Don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, Explore Your Spirit is pleased to bring you this interview on his book, The Voice of Knowledge, A Practical Guide to Inner Peace. The Voice of Knowledge is the fourth book in the Toltec Wisdom series. Don Miguel's newest book explores the concept of impeccability of the word as a simple, yet potent prescription for countering the judgemental inner voice of knowledge.

More information can be found online at: www.miguelruiz.com or www.amberallen.com

More About Don Miguel Ruiz...
Born into a family of healers, Don Miguel Ruiz was raised in rural Mexico by a curandera (healer) mother and a nagual (shaman) grandfather. The family anticipated that Miguel would embrace their centuries-old legacy of healing and teaching. Instead, distracted by modern life, Miguel chose to attend medical school and become a surgeon.
A near-death experience changed his life. Late one night in the early 1970s, he awoke suddenly, having fallen asleep at the wheel of his car. At that moment the car crashed into a wall of concrete. He remembers that he was not in his physical body as he watched himself pull his two friends to safety. Stunned by this experience, he began an intensive practice of self-inquiry. He devoted himself to the mastery of the ancient ancestral wisdom, studying earnestly with his mother, and completing an apprenticeship with a powerful shaman in the Mexican desert. For more than two decades, Don Miguel Ruiz has worked to impart this wisdom to his students through lectures, workshops, and journeys to sacred sites around the world.

The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz.

In a refreshingly honest investigation of the true nature of love, Don Miguel Ruiz brings to light the commonly held fallacies and misplaced expectations about love that permeate most relationships. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda, he uses inspirational stories to impart the wisdom of three fundamental Toltec masteries (Awareness, Transformation, and Love). The themes explored include the Toltec wisdom of the heart, the track of love, and the war of control.
More information can be found online at: www.miguelruiz.com or www.amberallen.com

More About Don Miguel Ruiz...
Born into a family of healers, Don Miguel Ruiz was raised in rural Mexico by a curandera (healer) mother and a nagual (shaman) grandfather. The family anticipated that Miguel would embrace their centuries-old legacy of healing and teaching. Instead, distracted by modern life, Miguel chose to attend medical school and become a surgeon.
A near-death experience changed his life. Late one night in the early 1970s, he awoke suddenly, having fallen asleep at the wheel of his car. At that moment the car crashed into a wall of concrete. He remembers that he was not in his physical body as he watched himself pull his two friends to safety. Stunned by this experience, he began an intensive practice of self-inquiry. He devoted himself to the mastery of the ancient ancestral wisdom, studying earnestly with his mother, and completing an apprenticeship with a powerful shaman in the Mexican desert. For more than two decades, Don Miguel Ruiz has worked to impart this wisdom to his students through lectures, workshops, and journeys to sacred sites around the world.

According to Don Miguel Ruiz, everything we do is based on agreements we have made — agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have many agreements that come from fear, deplete our energy, and diminish our self-worth.

In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel reveals the source of self-limiting agreements that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. When we are ready to change these agreements, there are four deceptively simple, yet powerful agreements that we can adopt as guiding principles. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. More information can be found online at: www.miguelruiz.com or www.amberallen.com

More About Don Miguel Ruiz...
Born into a family of healers, Don Miguel Ruiz was raised in rural Mexico by a curandera (healer) mother and a nagual (shaman) grandfather. The family anticipated that Miguel would embrace their centuries-old legacy of healing and teaching. Instead, distracted by modern life, Miguel chose to attend medical school and become a surgeon.
A near-death experience changed his life. Late one night in the early 1970s, he awoke suddenly, having fallen asleep at the wheel of his car. At that moment the car crashed into a wall of concrete. He remembers that he was not in his physical body as he watched himself pull his two friends to safety. Stunned by this experience, he began an intensive practice of self-inquiry. He devoted himself to the mastery of the ancient ancestral wisdom, studying earnestly with his mother, and completing an apprenticeship with a powerful shaman in the Mexican desert. For more than two decades, Don Miguel Ruiz has worked to impart this wisdom to his students through lectures, workshops, and journeys to sacred sites around the world.

Kala discuss the "work" with Byron Katie. The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the stressful thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. It's a way to understand what's hurting you, a way to end all your stress and suffering. People who do The Work faithfully report life-changing results including: Eliminate stress: Live without anxiety or fear, Improve relationships: Have a new sense of connection and intimacy with your spouse, your parents, your children, and with yourself, Reduce anger, See perfection in situations that were once debilitating, Act more intelligently and effectively, Energy: Experience a new sense of vigor and well-being and Peace: Learn how to love what is, and find lasting inner peace.

More About Byron Katie:
Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves— radically shift and their lives are changed forever. Based on Byron Katie's direct experience of how suffering is created and ended, The Work is an astonishingly simple process, accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, and requires nothing more than a pen and paper and an open mind.

Through this process, anyone can learn to trace unhappiness to its source and eliminate it there. Katie (as everyone calls her) not only shows us that all the problems in the world originate in our thinking: she gives us the tool to open our minds and set ourselves free. Katie is the author of three bestselling books Loving What Is, I Need Your Love—Is That True? and the recently published A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are. More info: www.thework.com

Kala speaks with astronaut Edgar Mitchell. In his book, The Way of the Explorer, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and the founder of Noetic Sciences, traces two remarkable journeys—one through space and one through the mind. Mitchell is a brilliant and intriguing man who turned his attention to the nature of consciousness. Explore the realms of space and time...

More About Dr. Edgar Mitchell:
On January 31, 1971, Navy Captain Dr. Edgar Mitchell embarked on a journey into outer space that resulted in becoming the sixth man to walk on the moon. The Apollo 14 mission was NASA's third manned lunar landing. This historic journey ended safely nine days later on February 9, 1971. It was an audacious time in the history of mankind. For Mitchell, however, the most extraordinary journey was yet to come. As he hurtled earthward through the abyss between the two worlds, Mitchell became engulfed by a profound sensation "a sense of universal connectedness." He intuitively sensed that his presence, that of his fellow astronauts, and that of the planet in the window were all part of a deliberate, universal process and that the glittering cosmos itself was in some way conscious. The experience was so overwhelming Mitchell knew his life would never be the same. Scientist, test pilot, naval officer, astronaut, entrepreneur, author and lecturer, Dr. Mitchell's extraordinary career personifies humankind's eternal thrust to widen its horizons as well as its inner soul. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University, a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a Doctor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. In addition he has received honorary doctorates in engineering from New Mexico State University, the University of Akron, Carnegie Mellon University and a ScD from Embry-Riddle University.

Dr. Mitchell has received many awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the USN Distinguished Medal and three NASA Group Achievement Awards. He was inducted to the Space Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1998. He was a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. After retiring from the Navy in 1972, Dr. Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to sponsor research into the nature of consciousness as it relates to cosmology and causality. In 1984, he was a co-founder of the Association of Space Explorers, an international organization of those who have experienced space travel. He is the author of "Psychic Exploration," 1974, "The Way of the Explorer," 1996, (Third edition, 2006) as well as dozens of articles in both professional and popular periodicals. He has devoted the last 35 years to studying human consciousness and psychic and paranormal phenomena in the search for a common ground between science and spirit.
More info at: www.edmitchellapollo14.com

Today on Explore Your Spirit, we're speaking with Will Arntz, Producer of WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW? What the Bleep is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. In the movie, the protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic life-altering experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality.

The film employs animation to realize the radical knowledge that modern science has unearthed in recent years. Powerful cinematic sequences explore the inner-workings of the human brain. Quirky animation introduces us to the smallest form of consciousness in the body -- the cell. Dazzling visuals reinforce the film’s message in an exciting, powerful way. Done with humor, precision, and irreverence, these scenes are only part of what makes this film unique in the history of cinema, and a true box-office winner.

More about What the Bleep Do We Know? and Will Arntz...
Producer Will Arntz shares his insights of how he was led to create the movie and discusses the research and making of the What the Bleep movie. What the Bleep has a new release, What the Bleep, Down the Rabbit Hole Quantum Edtion, as well as a Movie Soundtrack CD, books and more online at whatthebleep.com

Kala brings back Dr. Steven Hairfield, who was previously on the show to speak about A Metaphysical Interpretation of the Bible. This time she speaks with him about the 12 Principles of Karma. Dr. Hairfield speaks on Oriental and Buddhist philosophies of the path of the Monk and how Eastern traditions follow the principles of Newton’s third law of cause and effect, all be it older than the mathematical proof of the law.” There are twelve principles of karma of which we, in this part of the world, misunderstand and pay little or no heed. We plow along in life with very little mindfulness of what we set in motion. Kala and Steven discuss the principles and offer ideas on how to balance the effects of our cause, the idea of the principle of Alpha and the Omega.

More About Dr. Steven Hairfield:
Dr. Hairfield's search for peaceful answers and higher understanding guided his steps within the walls of a Zen Buddhist monastery in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam, where he would take refuge and study whenever he could. His natural curiosity, blended with a very acute intuitive sense led him to deeper questions of life and the purpose of self. The monks began to insist that he should learn of Issa. He then learned that Issa was in fact Jesus. He later learned that Issa, Jesus, had spent much time in what is now known today as India, Pakistan, Ladak, Nepal, and Tibet before returning to the Middle East to carry out His mission. This truly inspired his personal search for knowledge and a passion to somehow recreate the Master’s 18 years not mentioned in the Bible. He had set a goal that would intrigue and shock him later, but first, he had to understand what made the human mind work in the fashion that it does. Upon his return to the United States he studied for and received a B.A. in Psychology. Then pushed by his dream for Universal Truth, he traveled to India following an inner urge which led him to his greatest teachers and lessons, Tibetan Masters. They guided him through India, Nepal, and twice into Tibet, they smuggled him into the later as it was Red Chinese with closed borders at the time. While in this part of the world he adapted to the life of a monk, and for many years he continued his research in the Far East and the path of Jesus while proving to himself that indeed He had been there studying.

When he returned home once more after working with his eastern teachers he wanted to understand the belief system and studied the greatest belief system of all and received an M.A. in Religion and Theology, becoming quite interested and fascinated by the field of Metaphysics in the process. He knew by what he had already learned that there was another message contained in the idea of religion and the Bible. Thus some years later he went back to the books and received his Doctorate in Metaphysics. Through his years of studies with Zen and Tibetan Monks, Ishaya Monks, as well as the Cree and Blackfoot Native Traditions, this American Monk offers an approach to understanding how we influence our own paths in life and why we experience what we do. More info: www.hairfield.com

Peter Calhoun has been inspiring, guiding, and teaching people how to re-establish their connection with the Earth and reclaim their Spiritual Powers for the past thirty years. He has helped to facilitate the transformation of people to experience wholeness, unity, joy, and love, through personal experiences and connections with the Infinite Divine. His new book released in 2007, Soul On Fire is described as a magical collection of stories describing the awakening of spiritual powers of an Episcopal Priest turned Shaman – powers which have usually been ascribed to eastern masters or traditional shamans.

Within these pages we learn about the “Path of Return” to our wondrous Earth as a means by which we can reclaim our original soul powers. Soul on Fire is an inspirational guide for long-time seekers and those just beginning their journey alike.

At a time when old modalities no longer seem to be working for many people, the stories in this book reveal a different way of thinking, feeling, and being.

More About Peter Calhoun...
Peter Calhoun is a graduate from Auburn University and the Episcopal Seminary of Alexandria, Virginia. After his ordination, he served as an Episcopal priest for eight years in three parishes and a mission church in the Atlanta, GA area. During his work as a priest, Calhoun underwent a spontaneous awakening of some of the healing and intuitive abilities described in his autobiographical book, SOUL ON FIRE: A TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY FROM PRIEST TO SHAMAN. This awakening included a series of disturbing visions of the possible futures of the Earth. It was these events, along with Calhoun’s deepening concern over the state of our disconnection from the Earth and her environment that caused him to make a reluctant departure from the institutional church and embark on the path of modern shamanism that has been his life for more than three decades.

Calhoun currently teaches workshops and leads sacred wilderness journeys and vision quests in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park as well as in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. He also meets with individuals for healing, intuitive counseling, and private apprenticeship in modern shamanism. More about Peter Calhoun at www.petercalhoun.com

Kala speaks with Kevin Todeschi, Executive Director of Edgar Cayce's Association of Research and Enlightenment about his new book, God in Real Life. In his book, Kevin explores questions including: What if it was truly understood that individuals can have real encounters with the Divine, even in this modern world? What might happen to our collective worldview if we suddenly realized that, in truth, there is a caring God very much concerned about each and every one of us? Presented in this new book are personal accounts from people of all ages, races, and religions who have one thing in common: an experience with the Divine. Also included are historical examples found in the lives of such individuals as Padre Pio, Vivekananda and Irina Tweedie. Their stories suggest that the time has come for our 21st century world to acknowledge that there is much more to us than a simple physical body. Perhaps the time has come to acknowledge that we are never really alone.

More about Kevin Todeschi...
Kevin J. Todeschi is one of A.R.E.’s directors and the editor-in-chief of Venture Inward magazine. With the retirement of Charles Thomas Cayce on January 1, he will become A.R.E.’s Executive Director and CEO.
As both student and teacher of the Edgar Cayce material for thirty years, he has lectured on five continents in front of thousands of individuals. A prolific writer, he is the author of twenty books, including Edgar Cayce on Soul Mates, Edgar Cayce on Soul Growth, and Family Karma: The Hidden Ties that Bind.

A nationally recognized resource on the interpretation of dreams and symbols, Kevin has taught thousands of students the art of dream interpretation. ls, as well as Dream Interpretation (and More!) Made Easy. Nearly twenty years ago, Kevin was the first graduate of Atlantic University’s M.A. program. Since that time, one focus of Kevin’s work has been to assist individuals in seeing how they are very much responsible for bringing about the New Age of enlightenment promised by the Aquarian Age. Known for his ability to explain complex subjects in a straightforward and easy to understand manner, Kevin is popular for his insight and his sense of humor. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Mary. http://www.edgarcayce.org/dreams/kevin_todeschi_dreams.asp

Kala speaks with Drunvalo Melchizedek about the Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012 The Movement of the Earth’s Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light, 1949-2013. In this interview, Drunvalo Melchizedek explains and how every 13,000 years on Earth a sacred and secret event takes place that changes everything. Mother Earth’s Kundalini energy emerges from its resting place in the planet’s core and moves like a snake across the surface of our world. Once at home in ancient Lemuria, it moved to Atlantis, then to the Himalayan mountains of India and Tibet, and with every relocation changed our idea of what spiritual means. And gender. And heart.

Dannion Brinkley is back visiting with Kala again, sharing his unique insight into the other world and this one. Always entertaining and enlightening, Dannion and Kala discuss the upcoming Conscious Life Expo coming up in L.A.and what Dannion will be lecturing about while there.

Sri Bhagavan and Sri Amma, founders of the Oneness University have repeatedly said, the solution to humanity's suffering can only be found through each person being awakened to the state of Oneness - a level of consciousness characterized by inner peace, joy and love for all. However, this level of consciousness is not something we can give ourselves, it must be given to us through Divine Grace. It is the mission of Sri Bhagavan and Sri Amma to bring this sense of Oneness to all of humanity. Their inspired vision is to awaken 64,000 people around the world. In turn, these people will act as Divine vessels to help transform the rest of humanity. Each day the divine energy being transferred to individuals through the practice of the Oneness Blessing is increasing several fold and thousands of people are opening to this grace we call Oneness.

A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use spirituality information from their inner sources, such as their emotions and intuition. They also learn to choose their intentions consciously and how to develop trust in the Universe. Spiritual partnership is a new relationship dynamic in the human experience. It exists for a new multisensory humanity that is being born – a humanity that is not confined to the limitations of what can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, and smelled. You are likely a candidate for creating spiritual partnerships, or you would not be drawn to these words.

Spiritual partnerships are not exclusively for couples in marriage or relationships; they can be created in families, between friends, in the workplace, on sports teams, at school – anywhere two or more individuals decide to create a relationship as equals in order to grow spiritually. For example, among co-workers, even if one is the boss, another is the manager, and others are hourly employees, the commitment of each is to his or her own spiritual growth, although co-workers of different job levels have different responsibilities in the workplace. Their intention to grow spiritually with every interaction rather than blame or judge each other when reactions occur becomes the defining point of their relationship.

Now that you know what Gary Zukav and Linda Francis mean by “spiritual partnership,” you will better understand the Spiritual Partnership Guidelines. Because spiritual partnership is a new relationship dynamic, creating partnerships of this nature will take practice. Gary and Linda suggest that you use the Spiritual Partnership Guidelines daily and see for yourself the changes that you make in your life. Then if you are drawn, please join Gary Zukav and Linda Francis, on one of their seminars or retreats this year, where they will share with you the beauty and empowerment of this type of relationship.

More about Linda Francis...
Linda Francis has been practicing the creation of authentic power since she read The Seat of the Soul in 1989. In 1993 she met Gary Zukav and they created a spiritual partnership which is in its thirteenth year. During that time she has co-authored with Gary two New York Times bestsellers (The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness and The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice) and co-founded the Seat of the Soul Institute, the premiere organization dedicated to assisting individuals in the alignment of the personality with the soul – the creation of authentic power. She has been in the healing profession for three decades, first as a registered nurse and then as a chiropractor, and at the present time is involved fully in co-creating curricula and events with Gary. For more information about Linda Francis please visit: www.seatofthesoul.com

Kala speaks with Annamaria Hemmingway about her book, Practicing Conscious Living and Dying: Stories of the Eternal Continuum of Consciousness.

An uplifting collection of spiritually illuminating texts and powerfully thought-provoking real life stories, showing death as an integral part of life. These touching observations of closeness to someone who is in the dying process, and personal accounts of near-death experiences and after-death communication, illustrate how coming to terms with the inevitability of death is actually a life-affirming experience. These emotionally evocative and inspirational experiences address timeless questions and help expand our limited awareness of the nature of consciousness. They show how each of the individuals concerned has come to understand that death teaches us that the preciousness of life must be lived with a sense of purpose and meaning, as a celebration of our existence.

As a little boy, Matthew was an ordinary kid who loved to hang upside-down, wrestle and climb trees. He had an ordinary family. But at age 13, life as Matthew knew it changed in a split second when a car crash killed his father and sister and left him paralyzed from the chest down. Matthew’s body was completely silent for 12 years. Then he found yoga and began to study how the mind-body connection flowed through his paralyzed body. In the years since, Matthew has dedicated his life to helping others — able-bodied and disabled alike — experience the enlightening powers of the mind-body connection. His non-profit, Mind Body Solutions, and profound new book Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence provide the access creating these connections.

With the growing popularity of satsang in the West, more and more people are waking up to the radiant emptiness of their essential spiritual nature. But few realize that awakening is often just the beginning of a prolonged and challenging journey of spiritual unfolding that may be fraught with pitfalls as well as promise. Kala speaks with Stephan Bodian, spiritual teacher and author of the new book, Wake Up Now: A Guide to the Journey of Spiritual Awakening. Stephan invites you to glimpse your true nature directly, right now, without arduous practice. His work leads you through the stages that generally follow: the “wake” of awakening, when the mind tends to obscure or co-opt your realization; the embodiment process, in which you learn to actualize your awakening in every area and dimension of your life; and the ongoing challenge of freeing the dark or frozen places in the psyche that awakening by itself may not reach.

Stephan began practicing Zen in 1970 after studying Asian language and culture at Columbia and Stanford. Ordained a Zen priest in 1974, he trained with several Zen masters, including Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind) and Taizan Maezumi Roshi, and directed the training program at the Zen Center of Los Angeles. He also practiced Dzogchen-Mahamudra with several Tibetan teachers and spent 10 years studying Advaita Vedanta with Jean Klein. Stephan is the former editor-in-chief of the magazine Yoga Journal and a contributing editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and he has written extensively on spiritual themes. His articles have appeared in numerous national magazines, including Fitness, Alternative Medicine, Cooking Light, Tricycle, and, of course, Yoga Journal. More info at: www.stephanbodian.org

Planetary Intelligence is an easy-to-read book filled with 101 easy ways to connect you to your own natural, intuitive abilites. It is lavishly illustrated with black and white English crop circle drawings of Peter Sorensen and the original line-art of Ira Liss. Planetary Intelligence shows you 101 simple activities designed to help you slow down, smell the roses, and actually feel the energy that keeps our earth spinning through the cosmos. It's the ulitmate tonic for keeping life fresh, alive, and meaningful.The book is designed to help you feel the wonder and immediacy you felt when you were a child including appreciating every moment in your life and the uniqueness of every second.

Had a cup of tea lately? It has been said that tea can soothe and calm, and relax and refresh. Eastern cultures have known for centuries about the wonderful properties of tea and the British honor this as well with "tea time". In this interview, Beth Budd describes how tea of all kinds can provide benefits for body, mind and spirit, so make yourself a cup of tea, get comfy and learn more about what a good cup of tea can do for you.

Kala speaks with John Troy about his journey into consciousness and connecting it all together to live the dream in life and in business. John's friends call him The Wizard. He says he's just doing what comes naturally. John Troy is a North Carolina native, born and raised in this gentle, southern state. Summertime found him at a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains where he began to learn all about the world of natural foods, firsthand. Thirty years later, John met his second food guru, Jamesy, a little man in the mountains of Jamaica with a heart as big as all outdoors. Jamesy became John's spiritual Godfather. Jamesy's diet was totally natural, out of the wild and he taught John the methods of preparing healthy food with what the good earth freely provided. Days were spent gathering and preparing food from scratch from the wild harvest. Jamesy taught John the power of food in healing the body. When John returned from Jamaica, he opened a natural herb & spice store in Chapel Hill, NC and his journey in the food business began. He went on to manage two emerging natural foods stores before starting a foundation of the healing arts, The Lindenself Foundation. There, John was busy feeding folks incredible meals at retreats and gatherings. As a support for the foundation, he started an enterprise to make the world's first energy bar, The Wizard's Power Pac, a delicious high-energy bar made with fruits, nuts, herbs, honey and ginseng. Inspired by the advent of a first traditional soy facility in North Carolina, John concocted his first bottled sauce. The Wizard's Hot Stuff. This miso based hot sauce is still popular today. This was the beginning of the prolific storm of sauces, dressings and condiments that were to follow. He started American Natural Foods and introduced natural sauces and condiments to the national natural food trade.

Kala speaks with Ron Chapman about his book, Seeing True: Ninety Contemplations in Ninety Days. Ronald Chapman has followed many paths of spiritual and religious study over the past twenty years. Based on his personal and professional experiences and research, he created the Seeing True™ transformational philosophy, which has helped thousands of people to clearly identify inner obstructions that impede success. His Seeing True approach to dispelling illusions and achieving clarity helps businesses and organizations as well as individuals. An inspirational and motivational speaker, Chapman shows how seeing differently can produce extraordinary changes to realize human and organizational potential. He is a masterful facilitator who intuitively changes direction based on the needs of the client or audience, as they emerge. In recognition of these exceptional speaking skills, Toastmasters International awarded him the prestigious International Accredited Speaker designation, currently carried by only 58 people worldwide. All profits from the sale of Seeing True: Ninety Contemplations in Ninety Days will benefit Holistic Management International , a worldwide nonprofit that helps people heal damaged lands and achieve economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Chapman was the organization’s Chairman of the Board from 2004 to 2007.

The book is: What People Want: A Manager's Guide to Building Relationships That Work. A recent survey of 500 employees reveals significant differences between those who identify themselves as "religious or spiritual" and their nonreligious peers. Terry Bacon, a workplace expert whose company conducted the national survey, says the disparity between religious and nonreligious employees may provide insights into how managers can create more positive and productive work teams. Bacon draws from his original research to analyze several key differences. Among them: Spiritual workers have higher needs for forgiveness and emotional support, Spiritual workers have higher needs to be valued and acknowledged, Spiritual workers have higher needs to trust their boss and coworkers, Nonspiritual workers have a higher tolerance for diverse value systems, Nonspiritual workers are less concerned if their managers are not personable, and Nonspiritual workers don't look for unconditional support from peers.