Kala speaks with Mary K. Greer about her book, Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, and Florence Farr. These four remarkable women, core members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, left a lasting imprint on the politics, literature, and theater of 19th-century Europe. Less well-known than the famous men in their lives, including Yeats and Shaw, their stories are now told.

Kala brings back one of her favorite guests, Nicki Scully, along Gloria Taylor Brown. Scully and Brown have partnered together to create Becoming an Oracle, is a unique audio adventure, an around-the-world odyssey that takes the listener through a process that heightens the intuitive senses and awakens inherent oracular powers. Each of the nineteen journeys in this seven CD program is a guided visualization in which you, the listener, will encounter a different oracular tradition and begin to familiarize yourself with divination tools such as runes, tarot, palmistry and ayahuasca. The journeys begin in Egypt, move north through Europe and over the pole to North America, then continue through Central and South America and on to Hawaii, Australia, India, Tibet, Africa, and finally back to Egypt.

Kala speaks with Danielle Hoffman about her book - The Temples of Light: An Initiatory Journey into the Heart Teachings of the Egyptian Mystery Schools. Temples of Light guides the reader, as the initiate, on a spiritual journey through thirteen of Egypt’s sacred temples--a journey into the sanctuary of the open heart. Each sacred site is a portal to ancient wisdom that can assist the modern-day pilgrim with everyday life issues and struggles--love, purpose, money, and health--and the deeper questions of enlightenment and our divine origin.

Kala speaks with Andrew Collins about his research and new book - Beneath the Pyramids: Egypt's Greatest Secret Uncovered. Beneath the Pyramids of Giza lies a cave world that defined the location of the pyramid field and acted as a role model for the duat-underworld of the ancient Egyptian texts. Long rumoured to exist, it was rediscovered after nearly 200 years of obscurity by Andrew Collins and his team in March 2008. His incredible journey of discovery is outlined in this fascinating book, which includes colour plates of the caves, and all that was seen and found down in the darkness beneath Giza's famous plateau. In March 2010 the tomb entrance to the caves was sealed, so one of your only sights of what they contain is this book. Essential for the Hall of records and Cayce reader.

Kala speaks with Joan Norton, author of The Mary Magdalene Within. The Exile of the Bride is over, Mary Magadalene is returning inside women everywhere. In many current texts, Mary Magdalene is acclaimed as the root of Christian wisdom—as well as one of its most controversial figures. In The Mary Magdalene Within, details of her teachings are disclosed as she leads the reader into a profound experience of the Sacred Feminine. In Norton’s first person narrative, Mary Magdalene describes the extraordinary story of her life and her love for Jesus.

Margaret Starbird, author of The Woman with the Alabaster Jar, gives this review of The Mary Magdalene Within:"More and more I am reminded that our journey isn't "out there"--it's really interior, and that THAT is the legacy of Mary Magdalene: the way of the heart. So many people are scurrying around trying to visit her shrines in France instead of building her a shrine in their own psyche--in partnership with the Christ already enthroned there. This remarkable book confirms the intimate partnership of the archetypal Christ-couple on every plane- a true union of the Bridgegroom with his Sister-Bride. It is the mandala for the sacred marriage of our own soul with her Beloved-Other in the bridal chamber of our inmost being."

Kala speaks with Margaret Starbird about her book - Magdalene's Lost Legacy: Symbolic Numbers and Sacred Union in Christianity. Margaret decodes the symbolic numbers embedded in the original Greek phrases of the New Testament-revealing the powerful presence of the feminine divine. The New Testament contains wide use of gematria, a literary device that allows the sums of certain phrases to produce sacred numbers. Exploring the hidden meanings behind these numbers, Starbird reveals that the union between Jesus and his bride, Mary Magdalene, formed a sacred partnership that was the cornerstone of the earliest Christian community. Magdalene's Lost Legacy demonstrates how the crucial teaching of the sacred marriage that unites masculine and feminine principles-the heiros gamos-is the partnership model for life on our planet and the ultimate blueprint for civilization. Starbird's research challenges the concept that Christ was celibate and establishes Mary Magdalene as the human incarnation of the sacred bride. The author also explains the true meaning of the "666" prophesied in the Book of Revelation. Through this potent reclaiming of the lost legacy of Mary Magdalene, Margaret Starbird offers the opportunity to restore the divine feminine to her rightful role as bride, beloved, and sacred partner.

Kala speaks with Margaret Starbird about her book, 14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine. The 14 steps workbook and guide invites you to form small groups or "circles" to explore your own spiritual journey using Mary Magdalene's "story" as a template for your own experience and spiritual "journey." Joan Norton is a Jungian therapist, and author of the book Mary Magdalene Within and has been facilitating a "Magdalene Circle" for several years in Los Angeles. Based on this experience of women sharing in a small group, she and Margaret Starbird have collaborated to create this workbook to encourage formation of women's circles.

Kala speaks with Z. Budapest, author of The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries, a seminal text that contains invaluable information on Dianic witchcraft and spells, including everyday magick, sabbat rituals, and divination methods; a section on how vegetarian theories and politics relate to witchcraft and the feminine aspect; and a good deal of information on goddesses and how the patriarchal religions distorted old myths to serve their own needs. There are several unique and beautiful Rites of Passage for women and men that you don't often find, and Budapest's personal life stories are an equally valuable read, from her escape across the mountains from Communist Hungary to her fight for women's religious freedom upon moving to America.

More About Z Budapest:
Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, during a big winter storm on January 30, 1940. Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika's themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, "Z," grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god. The poverty of postwar Europe and political oppression under the Russian occupation made Z fiercely political, so when the Hungarian Revolution broke out in 1956, she took her destiny into her own hands and became one of those sixty-five thousand political refugees who left the country, mostly young workers and students like herself. She finished high school in Innsbruck, graduated from a bilingual gymnasium, and won a scholarship to the University of Vienna where she studied languages.

Z emigrated to the United States in 1959, became a student at the University of Chicago, married, and gave birth to two sons. Her family's spiritual tradition, however, started seeping back into her life, and she practiced solo worship of the Goddess at her home altar in her backyard. When she entered her Saturn cycle at the age of thirty, she became involved with the women's liberation movement in Los Angeles and became an activist herself, staffing the Women's Center there for many years. There she recognized a need for a spiritual dimension so far lacking in the feminist movement and started the Women's Spirituality Movement. She founded the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number l, the first feminist witches' coven, which became the role model for thousands of other spiritual groups being born and spreading across the nation. She wrote The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (Weiser Publishers, 1989) which was originally published in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows. This book served as the first hands-on book to lead women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage. Z was arrested in 1975 for reading Tarot cards to an undercover policewoman. She lost the trial but won the issue, and the law against psychics was struck down nine years later. Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women's newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess. She is the star of her own cable TV show called 13th Heaven and acts as the director of the Women's Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring a monthly lecture series in the Bay Area about the Goddess, spirituality retreats, and annual spiral dances on Halloween. Z founded and sponsors the Dianic University Online, a vagina-friendly online school for Dianic Wicca and Goddess studies for women. More info: www.zbudapest.com

Kala speaks with Lynn Andrews, author of the internationally acclaimed Medicine Woman Series, now in its 46th printing and celebrating its 25th anniversary. Lynn has spent the last 25 years studying with shamanic women on three continents. This best selling author shares her ancient teachings of shamanic training and brings spiritual tools and compelling techniques for healing from the spiritual realm to the modern everyday physical world. Her techniques use the power of thought to take you beyond self limitation to other realities. Join the discussion with Kala and Lynn as they discuss Medicine Woman, mystery schools and what's to come in the new age.

More About Lynn Andrews:
Lynn is America’s best known shamanic healer and veteran metaphysical instructor. Her 19 books are published in 12 languages, including two New York and Los Angeles Times best sellers. She founded the Lynn Andrews School for Sacred Arts and Training in 1994. From that school, 50 groups have formed around the world to study and share knowledge, based on Lynn’s teachings.

Lynn learned shamanic healing and empowerment from shaman women on three continents. She didn’t learn from lecturers at a podium, but, instead, through life learning, physical and spiritual world experience in her years with these several medicine women. Following decades of study, Lynn is now uniquely gifted in the multiple facets of shamanism, including not only healing, but also how to take others into her special world.

Lynn serves as director of her School for Sacred Arts and Training, known to her students as Mystery School. In this role, she explores with her students the ancient teachings relating to the study of global shamanic cosmologies. Mystery School students learn that, while most people concentrate on only one aspect of reality – the rational physical world – there is an equally important spiritual realm, a venue within which she is uniquely experienced. In a four-year course of distance learning, students gain knowledge, while training in the techniques of shamanic healing and personal empowerment that Lynn has developed over her 32-year study. Graduates are certified shamanic healers, expert in the use of ancient rituals to enable deep personal transformation through understanding and balancing the physical and spiritual worlds. More info at: lynnandrews.com

Kala has one of her favorite authors, John Michael Greer back on the show, this time speaking about his book: The Druid Magic Handbook. Described as the first manual of magical practice in Druidry. The book breaks new ground, teaching Druids how to practice ritual magic for practical and spiritual goals within their own tradition. What sets The Druid Magic Handbook apart is that it does not require the reader to use a particular pantheon or set of symbols. Although it presents one drawn from Welsh Druid tradition, it also shows the reader how to adapt rites and other practices to fit the deities and symbols most meaningful to them. This cutting edge system of ritual magic can be used by Druids, Pagans, Christians, and Thelemites alike.

Beginning with the ancient Greek Mystery traditions, Gnosticism, and the practices in early Christianity, Arthur Versluis uncovers the secret line of Western sexual mysticism that, like the Tantra of the East, seeks transcendence or union with God through sexual practices. Throughout antiquity, and right into the present day, sexuality has played an important, if largely hidden, role in religious traditions and practices. This includes not only Christian but also kabbalistic and hermetic alchemical currents of sexual mysticism, many discussed together here for the first time. In the Mystery tradition of hieros gamos (sacred marriage) and the Gnostic tradition of spiritual marriage, we see the possibility of divine union in which sexual union is the principal sign or symbol. Key to these practices is the inner or archetypal union of above and below, the intermingling of the revelatory divine world with the mundane earthly one. Versluis shows that these secret currents of sexual mysticism helped fuel the rise of the troubadours and their erotic doctrine, the esoteric teachings of Jacob Böhme in the late 16th century, the 19th-century utopian communities of John Humphrey Noyes and Thomas Lake Harris, the free love movement of the 20th century, and the modern writings of Denis de Rougemont and Alan Watts.

Feng Shui is the study of energy from Heaven and Earth to see how they can affect the lives of people. To achieve the best results, Feng Shui knowledge should be applied to city planning, architecture, interior decoration and landscaping. In this show, Master Joseph Yu speaks about Traditional Chinese Feng Shui, as well as Chinese Astrology, Yijing Divination, and the classes and seminars that he teaches at the Feng Shui Research Center.

More About Master Joseph Yu:
Joseph Yu was born during the second world war in a small village in South China. He spent his childhood as a country boy and did not receive any formal education until he came to Hong Kong at the age of eleven. A lot of people suggest to him that he should create a story of learning Astrology and Feng Shui in early childhood from a monk as do many a famous Feng Shui Master. He prefers to tell the truth. Yu studied Mathematics and Physics in the University of Hong Kong in the early 1960's. He abhorred all kinds of superstition and vowed to destroy such absurd beliefs of ignorant people. He then frequented libraries, trying to find fault with Astrology and Feng Shui from ancient books. The deeper he went into the subject, the more excited he became about the rich legacy of ancient Chinese culture. Whether or not to become a professional astrologer and geomancer or continue in the fields of mathematics and physics, became a constant dilemma. Astrology and Feng Shui have been viewed as superstition by their skeptics. Astrologers and Feng Shui masters have been linked with fraud for centuries. Someone wrote in his book, "If more knowledgeable men provide true Astrology and Feng Shui services, the ignorant and fake 'professionals' will vanish." Sharing the same view, Yu decided to provide useful services and correspondence courses at an affordable price. In order for more people to understand what Chinese Astrology and Feng Shui really are, Yu is offering carefully planned courses. Some of the courses are for the average layman; others aim at training people, dedicated to practicing Feng Shui and Chinese Astrology consultation. It is hoped that one day this valuable Chinese culture earns proper recognition by the scientific world. Joseph Yu founded the Feng Shui Research Center in 1998 to accomplish his mission. While Joseph Yu was a mathematics teacher after his graduation, he was lucky to have as his neighbor one old Feng Shui master. This old master was very kind to disclose a lot of secrets of the five arts to him even though he was not one of the old master's apprentices. In one Chinese New Year party at the old master's home, the master said to his disciples, "This young man, though not officially under my care, has learned more than most of you because he has a logical mind and dares to argue with me on various issues." The old master passed away a few months later. Joseph Yu did not feel comfortable in the company of the disciples of this good master. He is grateful, but circumstances make it impossible to express his gratitude towards the master who passed on to him a lot of invaluable knowledge. More info at: www.astro-fengshui.com

Kala speaks with Z. Budapest, author of Summoning the Fates. During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Z. Budapest narrowly escaped a massacre. Was it chance that spared her life, or destiny? In Summoning the Fates, Budapest, a pioneer of the women's spirituality movement, introduces us to the three Fates that rule our lives. Not even the gods and goddesses can escape these raw forces of nature presiding over the past, present, and future. Budapest uses fairy tales, historical lore, and personal anecdotes to describe the three sacred sisters who are especially active during our thirty-year life cycles: Urdh (youth), Verdandi (adulthood), and Skuld (the crone years).

Want a taste of the cosmic soup bubbling in Fate's cauldron? Budapest also offers heartfelt advice, exercises, and rituals to help you connect with the Fates and embrace your own unique destiny.

More About Z Budapest:
Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, during a big winter storm on January 30, 1940. Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika's themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, "Z," grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god. The poverty of postwar Europe and political oppression under the Russian occupation made Z fiercely political, so when the Hungarian Revolution broke out in 1956, she took her destiny into her own hands and became one of those sixty-five thousand political refugees who left the country, mostly young workers and students like herself. She finished high school in Innsbruck, graduated from a bilingual gymnasium, and won a scholarship to the University of Vienna where she studied languages.

Z emigrated to the United States in 1959, became a student at the University of Chicago, married, and gave birth to two sons. Her family's spiritual tradition, however, started seeping back into her life, and she practiced solo worship of the Goddess at her home altar in her backyard. When she entered her Saturn cycle at the age of thirty, she became involved with the women's liberation movement in Los Angeles and became an activist herself, staffing the Women's Center there for many years. There she recognized a need for a spiritual dimension so far lacking in the feminist movement and started the Women's Spirituality Movement. She founded the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number l, the first feminist witches' coven, which became the role model for thousands of other spiritual groups being born and spreading across the nation. She wrote The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (Weiser Publishers, 1989) which was originally published in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows. This book served as the first hands-on book to lead women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage. Z was arrested in 1975 for reading Tarot cards to an undercover policewoman. She lost the trial but won the issue, and the law against psychics was struck down nine years later. Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women's newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess. She is the star of her own cable TV show called 13th Heaven and acts as the director of the Women's Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring a monthly lecture series in the Bay Area about the Goddess, spirituality retreats, and annual spiral dances on Halloween. Z founded and sponsors the Dianic University Online, a vagina-friendly online school for Dianic Wicca and Goddess studies for women. More info: www.zbudapest.com

Kala discusses the Mystery School rites of passage in the pyramids and temples with Nicki Scully and Dr. Bruce Lipton, as they discuss their upcoming trip to Egypt. Bruce brings his extensive scientific background in cellular biology, quantum physics, and consciousness to provide a scientific context for the initiatory processes that Nicki directs. Together they lead you through a mystical weaving of science, spirit, and the shamanic magic of ancient Egypt.

Kala brings back one of her favorite guests, Druid John Michael Greer, who speaks about his new book; Atlantis: Ancient Legacy, Hidden Prophecy. Join occult historian John Michael Greer and Kala on a journey through time in search of one of the great mysteries of the past. Starting with the original versions of the Atlantis story in the dialogues of Plato, Greer tracks the Atlantis myth from the hidden lodges of occult secret societies, through the freewheeling debates of the alternative history scene, to the latest scientific discoveries about the prehistoric past."Plato's account contains precise references to the catastrophic global flooding that followed the end of the last ice age and peaked at the exact date he gives for the drowning of Atlantis. The occult traditions of Atlantis tell a radically different story, a story of technology run wild amid a desperate struggle for the soul of a dying civilization . . .

In light of newspaper headlines about global warming and the future of industrial society, Greer poses the ultimate question—is the legend of Atlantis a legacy of the distant past, or a prophecy of our own future?

Atlantis includes practical lessons in scrying (remote viewing) as well as a call to action for "seedbearers" — individuals who will help preserve the cultural, scientific, and practical legacies of the past and present through the coming planetary changes.

Brad Steiger is a prolific and well-respected author, having written and contributed to more than 100 books, including Awful Thing in the Attic, Alien Rapture, and Monsters Among Us. Over the course of his career, Steiger has covered a variety of subject matter ranging from biographies, to UFOs, to crime and just about everything in between. Kala speaks with Brad Steiger about his book, Atlantis Rising. Together they explore the startling similarities in technology and culture among peoples who never could have seen each other, as well as universal myths of a great flood, superhighways in countries that had not yet invented the wheel and the legend of Atlantis, an all-power civilization which existed before the rise of man.

The Star of Bethlehem is still one of the most popular and puzzling mysteries of the Bible. Its inclusion, at the very beginning of the very first Gospel, raises so many awkward questions for orthodox Christianity that one has to wonder how it ever made the canonical cut in the first place.

So why would the authors (and editors) of the Christian Gospels choose Zoroastrian Magi and astrology to herald the coming of Jesus Christ? Did the Magi have some special significance then that we have since lost? After all, the New Testament narrative opens with them. So who were the Magi, and did their astrological beliefs really lead them to Jesus?

In The Star of the Magi, Courtney Roberts examines the Star. The Magi had definite expectations of a coming world savior who would be born of a virgin, all mysteriously encoded and foretold in Magian astrology. These ancient Persian beliefs had tremendous bearing on the development of Jewish messianic expectations—they inspired early Christians and their Jewish and Persian neighbors, and gave them hope in their desperate battles against the Romans.

According to Roberts, astronomy alone cannot unlock the secrets of the Star. There are simply too many phenomena to choose from—even astronomers concede that that we must now look to astrology for better answers.

Kala speaks with Zohara Hieronimus, author The Kabbalistic Teachings of the Female Prophets. Zohara's book discusses The spiritual teachings of Israel’s biblical prophetesses from a kabbalistic perspective. Zohara explores the lives and symbolic significance of seven female prophets: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Chanah, Avigail, Chuldah, and Esther and uses the gematria of Jewish metaphysics to demonstrate that prophecy is a mystical initiatory path by which Divine Will is made known, not only a tool for telling the future. The seven prophetesses of Israel--Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Chanah, Avigail, Chuldah, and Esther--lived between 1800 and 350 BCE. Their combined lives reflect a kabbalistic path of spiritual evolution that is as pertinent to our lives today as it was for the biblical communities in which they lived. From her studies of the Torah and classical gematria, Zohara Hieronimus shows that each prophetess is linked to a Sefirah on the kabbalistic Tree of Life: from creation (Sarah) through learning correct moral action (Devorah) to the promise of redemption and ultimately resurrection (Esther). Using the stories of their lives and teachings, Hieronimus reveals the relationship of each prophetess to the seven days of the week, the seven sacred species of Israel, the human body, and Jewish holidays and rituals.

Why do the Ark of the Covenant, Mary’s reliquary box, and Jesus’ Coffer all have the same imagery? Was the Ark the container of the Covenant, the Ten Commandments, or the Chalice? Does the image of the Shroud of Turin contain a bioelectric field? These questions and others will be explored in The Ark, The Shroud, and Mary. In this unique and thought-provoking work Gardiner proves that the Ark of the Covenant, the Shroud of Turin, and Mary are united in ways never before imagined. Traveling across the world, from Rome to India, Portugal to Egypt, Gardiner uncovers the trail of the Ark and finds that it does not lead to Ethiopia, as many believe, but instead in a direction that nobody could have imagined. The trail of the Ark takes Gardiner on a hunt into the very heart of an ancient secret society with clandestine meetings in far off lands. Uniting the myth, tradition, and language of the Ark with the Shroud of Turin, Gardiner then goes on to re-date it, reveal how it was made, and identify whose image it actually recreates. Through his new-found contacts in the world of secret societies, Gardiner then shows how this incredible secret was protected by a dual brotherhood throughout time and was the secret source of the enlightenment spoken of by numerous orders from the Sufis to the Knights Templar.

In his book, The Golden Thread of Time, Crichton Miller explores the ancient scientific and spiritual wisdom that has shaped our present and still influences our future. He reveals a forgotten system that reaches back beyond the current established religions, further than Ancient Egypt or Sumerian into an age where Mankind lived in harmony with Nature. The work explains how a Star Cult was born of necessity, leading to the concepts of a Sun God in Heaven that still exists in fragmented form today. How did a scientific and spiritual instrument from the stone age become hidden and lost in our full view? Miller traces the existence of the wheel cross from Palaeolithic and Neolithic hunter gatherers to stone age seafarers and megalith builders who used this instrument in combination with zodiacs, henge's, pyramids and water clocks. Drawing on scientific, historical and archaeological information with appendices from leading scientists and researchers, the book follows the thread of the often tragic occult history of the real cross from its roots in ancient Shamanism through the burning of Alexandria and its rediscovery 500 years later by the Knights Templar, resulting in communication with the Amerindians before Columbus and eventual excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church.

Over 2,000 years ago the early Maya formulated a profound galactic cosmology. They saw that the sun, on the winter solstice, was slowly moving toward the heart of the galaxy. Naturally enough, with their uncorrupted intelligence intact, they suspected that the world would go through a transformation when the solar and the galactic planes aligned. They devised their Long Count calendar to target when the cosmic alignment would maximize, and that time is AD 2012. We are lucky that the brilliant skywatchers who devised the 2012 calendar left carved monuments for us to decode, and that they have survived the decay of centuries, so that we can know exactly what they prophesied and believed about 2012.

Incredibly, at the early Maya site of Izapa in southern Mexico, the galactic cosmology and a profound spiritual teaching are preserved. Izapa speaks to us of the Galactic Alignment in 2012 as a transformative nexus in time, a still-point turnabout, inviting us to reconnect with our cosmic heart and eternal source. With the Divine Wisdom. But how can that be achieved? What is the original, undiluted, prophecy for 2012, divined by those ancient mystics and stargazers who invented the 2012 calendar?

Izapa's carved monuments provide the answers—now, for the first time in two millennia, the secrets of Mayan sacred science have been decoded. Now, we can directly read the 2012 revelation right at its source.

Across time and across the world, an ancient serpent cult once dominated mankind. Then a great battle ensued and Christianity stamped it's authority on the face of the planet. Now after years of research, the real religious history of the world can be told. In Secrets of the Serpent, Philip Gardiner for the first time reveals: the worlds most mysterious places were once sacred to the Serpent Cult, the secret of the Holy Grail and Elixer of Life, the history and mythology of the so called reptilian agenda and alien visitation in ancient times now has a solid opponent - giving answers for the many symbols and myths often confused by those who believe in such things. In Secrets of the Serpent, the author reveals the real bloodline spoken by Dan Brown in the Da Vinci Code - it was in fact a serpent bloodline. See a clip from this dvd at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByX9EErtQzI

A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism. In this book John Michael Greer turns his attention to the intellectual underpinnings and superstructures of the Pagan and magical movements. Pagan religions have tended to be more concerned with practice that with theory and in a system that has no dogma - no legislated doctrine - that is as it should be. Yet as movement grows and matures, it is inevitable that people will begin to think in a more abstract way about our models and systems. John Michael Greer has provided a primer on the kinds of ideas and themes that must be included in any discussion of the theology and philosophy of Neo-pagan religions.

The book, Druidry Handbook,Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earth, is described as a living tradition of nature spirituality rooted in Celtic antiquity and revived to meet the challenges of contemporary life. Druidry offers people a path of harmony through reconnection with the green Earth. The Druidry Handbook is a hands-on manual of traditional British Druid practice that offers direction on exploring the Sun Path,the Moon Path and the Earth Path. Featuring a mix of philosophy, rituals, and spiritual practice, the handbook is a guide for those interested in practicing a traditional form of Druidry. In this interview, we learn about the past, present and future of Druids.

Marvin Vining works to decode the Dead Sea Scrolls to reveal hidden Essene origins. Topics include: the Essenes as key figures behind Jesus’s trial, torture, and crucifixion, how Jesus, a former Essene himself, was deemed wicked by the essene's for his liberationist politics and humanist bent and examines the lost Christian doctrine of reincarnation and the secret role of Gabriel in the Virgin Birth. The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947 at Qumran, are generally believed to have been written by a Jewish sect known as the Essenes between 350 BCE and 70 CE--but until now no convincing methodology has linked the Scrolls to the actual life and teachings of Jesus. Marvin Vining builds from the controversial work of Barbara Thiering to demonstrate that the Scrolls do speak directly to the origins of Christianity and even reflect a mirror image of the Gospels from the perspective of Jesus’s enemies. Christianity arose out of a schism between the exclusivist, rigid, and militant views of the Essenes and the inclusivist, tolerant, and nonviolent views of Jesus. Jesus was raised an Essene, but he refused to follow their orthodoxy. Vining shows that the Dead Sea Scrolls are written in a secret coded language called pesher in which Jesus emerges as the antagonist to the Teacher of Righteousness who was the leader of the Essenes and reveals Jesus’s true role as a tireless social reformer and revolutionary teacher. Vining’s study reopens Christian doctrinal questions supposedly long settled, such as reincarnation and the Virgin birth--even demonstrating that these two issues are related. He discloses that the angel Gabriel was incarnate in a living human being and transmitted the seed of a holy bloodline to the Virgin Mary.

Kala speaks with Stephan Schwartz, researcher and author of Secrets Vault of Time: Psychic Archaeology and the Quest for Man's Beginnings about the theories of Atlantis. Schwartz also discusses the After Death Conference being presented by the Rhine Research Center.

More About Stephan Schwartz:
Stephan A. Schwartz is a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research, and previously founder and Research Director of the Mobius Laboratory. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. He has written numerous technical papers, reports and four books on the subject. Other areas of interest include research into creativity and Therapeutic Intent, including a continuation of the analysis of water exposed to therapeutic intent using spectroscopy that was begun by Bernard Grad. Schwartz is the Editor of “The Schwartz Report," an international daily web publication. He is a former Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, Editor of Seapower Magazine, and staffer of National Geographic Society. He is a founder of the Society for Anthropology of Consciousness, the International Remote Viewing Association, and the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, and is a member of the Parapsychology Association, and its public spokesperson. Learn more about Stephan Schwartz at www.stephanaschwartz.com

Kala speaks with Frank Joseph about his book: Unearthing Ancient America, which describes a medallion left in Michigan by Buddhist missionaries from India a thousand years ago, a 5th Century Christian church in Connecticut, the Grand Canyon's underground city, a Roman statuette washed up at New Jersey, secret maps of America Columbus used for his first voyage to the New World, an Inca skeleton in Norway's Viking grave, Florida's own Stonehenge, and thirty other articles by twenty-three investigators describing the impact made by overseas' visitors to our continent centuries before its official discovery. Illustrated with thirty original photographs, Unearthing Ancient America re-writes the textbooks by unveiling the lost prehistory of our country.