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Kala's Secret Spells Doll

Does Life Imitate Art or Does Art Imitate Life? In this case today, I’m starting to wonder..

A dear friend recently gave me the most enchanting and delightfully unexpected gift. It was a Barbie doll and I know what you’re thinking — “why would someone give Kala a Barbie doll?”  To see the doll is to understand, as this particular doll is described as “Secret Spells” and she has long red hair. If this isn’t funny enough, the name of this doll is “Kayla” and the description for the doll explains that…  “Kayla goes from ordinary school girl by day – to – Secret Spells girl at night.”

The doll comes with a purple butterfly ring and wears a green butterfly coat. The butterfly has always been one of the symbols for my wisdom school as the butterfly symbolizes life, death and rebirth and is the signature stamp at the end of each lesson given to students.

Included with the Kayla doll are three colorful bottles, which are similar to those I use when teaching about the ancient techniques used to cleanse and recharge the aura.

Along with a mixing pot to make secret potions, Kayla’s accessories also include a magic book intended to store secret information and magical tools inside.  She’s there with her book against the backdrop of a full moon and star-filled evening sky, which is known by my friends as my favorite time to work and write.

Growing up with the name Kala it has always been rare to see my name on any product much less a doll, even though the makers did add a “y” to the name, as it is more commonly spelled these days. Yet to find a doll that is focused on the metaphysical world and is represented with long red hair and my name, is downright funny! The universe has such a great sense of humor and when we take the time to look around, we find these synchronicities and cosmic giggles in our midst.  This friend really made my day with this gift which makes me smile every time I look at the doll here in my office.

Want to see more of the Kayla Secret Spells Barbie?  She’s available on Amazon, check her out.

Kala's Secret Spells Doll

Kala Ambrose, host of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show

When lightning strikes, we can’t help but stand in awe of its power and light.  When we have a brilliant idea, we say it came out of the blue, like lightning striking us with inspiration. What if your connection with lightning was so intimate, that you were really struck by lightning, not once, not twice, but three times? Imagine how this would feel and as you experienced this intense moment, what life in the light would reveal to you about your life here on earth and in the spiritual realms.  As difficult as it is to imagine, Dannion Brinkley has lived these experiences and come back from these near-death experiences to share what he experienced and learned while on the other side. He’s fascinating, inspiring and delightful and a show you don’t want to miss. Here’s the details… *~Kala~*

On this episode of Explore Your Spirit with Kala, Kala speaks with Dannion Brinkley. Dannion’s expertise in the area of death and dying has educated millions not to fear the presently held concept of transition from this world to the next. As a result of his journeys to the ‘other side’ and back again, he brings to the forefront the wondrous truth that there is indeed no such thing as death.

Dannion has survived insurmountable odds including two lightning strikes, open-heart surgery, brain surgery and a massive grand mal seizure. Many concur that Mr. Brinkley is a truly one of the world’s most incredible near-dear survivors, truly a “walking miracle”!

In related issues surrounding the death process, Brinkley is one of the early crusaders of hospice and palliative care bringing the topic of end of life care to the forefront of discussion and education in America. Dannion created a non-profit organization, The Twilight Brigade (Compassion in action) to recruit hospice volunteers for dying Veterans. He has been a hospice volunteer for over twenty-seven years, having personally accrued more than 18,000 hours at the bedside. These decades of tremendous hands-on experience qualify him as a leading expert in the grief and bereavement process as well as being an authority in the field of necrophobic reduction.

The Secrets of the Light by Dannion Brinkley

More About Dannion Brinkley:
In 1994 Dannion’s first book, Saved by the Light became an instant success. It was closely followed by his next best seller, At Peace in the Light, in 1996. He has recently written the third installment of his Light Trilogy drawing from his personal voyage and near-death encounters entitled, The Secrets of the Light: Spritual Strategies to Empower Your Life…Here and in the Hereafter (Heart Light Productions). This eloquent and highly inspirational book is an intuitively profound manual focused on spiritual strategies to empower life on both sides of the veil. In his lectures and tours, Dannion imparts a paramount message designed to empower his listeners, teaching them step by step how to find purpose, power and greatness in their everyday lives. He has been praised as ‘the best orator in the field’ by many of his compeers on the lecture circuit. Dannion’s speaking engagements lend a vibrancy and colorful approach to the world as we know it, and are highlighted with a savvy sense of humor and genuine style.

The Mojo Doctors in New Orleans

Bradford Keeney, Ph.D, is an internationally renowned traditional healer, creative therapist, anthropologist of cultural healing traditions, and improvisational performer. Currently a professor at the University of Louisiana, Keeney has served as a professor, founder, and director of clinical doctoral programs in numerous universities.

As a scholar, his classic text, Aesthetics of Change, was cited by Heinz von Foerster as one of the key texts of cybernetics, the original science of complexity. He is the inventor of recursive frame analysis, a research method that discerns patterns of transformation in conversation and has been called “the Marco Polo of psychology and an anthropologist of the spirit” by Utne Reader. Keeney has spent over a decade traveling the globe living with spiritual teachers and healers and the result of his work is one of the broadest and most intense field studies of healing, chronicled in the critically acclaimed series, Profiles of Healing, an eleven-volume encyclopedia of the world’s healing practices.

In 2009, I interviewed Bradford Keeney to discuss his book, Shaking Medicine, which reintroduces one of the oldest forms of medicine on earth, the ecstatic shaking of the human body. With his many notable accomplishments, including authoring over thirty-six books, what I find most intriguing about Keeney is that he intuitively knows how to touch people at their spiritual core. Gently he reaches in with the luminosity of his voice and as the crescendo of his vocals reaches a fevered pitch, he pulls at the heartstrings until he awakens the soul suggestively whispering that it should open up and pay attention.

According to Keeney, most people’s worst fear is losing control of their circumstances, their emotions, and especially of their bodies. Yet in order to achieve the transcendent state necessary to experience deep healing, control must be surrendered. This led Keeney on a venture quest to examine cultural traditions from around the world where shaking has been used as a form of healing, from the Shakers and Quakers of New England to the shaking medicine of Japan, India, the Caribbean, the Kalahari, who are the world’s oldest culture having survived for over 60,000 years in peace.

The reward from this journey resulted in Keeney being recognized as an ecstatic spiritual teacher and healer by numerous cultures as he became a n/om-kxao (healer) with the Kalahari Bushmen and discovered that “shaking” can bring forth profound therapeutic benefits.

In 2011, I reconnected with Brad to discuss his explorations with the Kalahari Bushmen.  In his book The Bushman Way of Tracking God, Keeney connects spiritual techniques including: activating the non-subtle universal life force, heightening emotional experience, vibratory interaction, direct downloading and absorption of sacred knowledge, extraordinary healing, activation of the ecstatic “pump,” spontaneous ways of rejuvenation, attending spiritual classrooms, exploring an uncommon range of mystical experiences, and experiencing bliss.

Keeney’s latest work regarding these techniques has led him to settle in New Orleans and this is where I spoke with him again in early 2012. I had been filming a documentary in New Orleans exploring the creative vibe and magical power released by the ancient muses, pulling in artists, musicians, writers and bohemians to come and be reborn in New Orleans. Keeney had answered the siren’s call and responded by creating an extra-sensory explosion for the mind, body and spirit called The Mojo Doctors.

He and his partner Hillary Stephenson offer “Mojo Sessions”, weekend long intensives held in the French Quarter of New Orleans where Kenney skillfully blends his spiritual exposure to wisdom teachings with techniques from his book, The Flying Drum: The Mojo Doctor’s Guide to Creating Magic in Your Life to transform small groups of people during each session. Centered around ecstatic teaching, therapeutic humor, sanctified music, creative healing, and what he describes as “mojo doctoring”, workshop attendees rave about the results as the Mojo Doctor connects them with their inner spirit while embracing the spirited rhythm and hum of New Orleans.

In the modern world where the mind has become disoriented and detached from the body’s connection to emotion, passion and spirit, Keeney makes a compelling and entertaining case for the tradition based healing methods to once again reunite mind, body and soul. Check out the Mojo Doctors for yourself if the spirit calls you.

Kala's pink rose lamp just in time for Spring Equinox

The Spring Equinox, also known as the first day of Spring, arrives on the official date of March 20, 2012 at 1:14am EDT.   From a spiritual perspective, the Spring Equinox marks a seasonal cycle of rebirth, where the seeds planted in the Fall, (a quiet period of self-introspection and reflection), blossom into creative and colorful displays. Celebrate the renewal of Spring and the Divine Feminine energy which is present everywhere in nature at this season. This is the time to emerge from Introspection and Self Observation, into Spring Renewal and Focus on Action, Creation and Celebration.

As Mother Nature works her magic, there are tremendous boosts of natural energy presented to us during the Spring and Fall Equinox and the Summer and Winter Solstices. The energy lasts for three days: the day before, equinox or solstice day, and the day after. When we understand this transformational energy, which bursts forth in Spring, we can use this energy as a motivator in order to create great change in our lives.

There is an old teaching I share with my students which says: “We can not fully understand what we have not experienced”. In order to transform, we must first consider what we have learned through our past experience. This allows us to turn this information into wisdom and enhance who we are and who we wish to become.

Through our life experiences, we develop the wisdom to answer such questions and learn and grow from each experience in our lives. By doing this, we honor the people and experiences who have impacted us in our life. In honoring these things, we make them sacred and of great personal value. It is with this knowledge, that we can change our future. This occurs by first focusing our attention on what we truly desire to manifest. Then we must then actively create the right atmosphere and attitude to bring the desire to fruition.

Then during the Spring Equinox, we can create a new beginning. We are given the opportunity, just as we see in nature, to bloom and begin again. This is one example of the greatest gifts we were given here on earth, which is the abundant, creative and transforming energy found in nature.

Ancient schools once taught how to observe the powerful events occurring in nature to connect with the energy here on earth. We still have this ability to connect with nature in order to assist with our growth and development and cultivate balance and growth. I’m happy to present here a series of transforming activities which are best done during the Equinox.

The Equinox ritual consists of two parts, the outward celebration and the inner rebirth.

Step One:

It’s time for Spring Cleaning. Clean your house and remove clutter. As you clean each room and the items in it, do so with reverence and appreciation for the abundance in your life. Cover your home in loving energy as you clean, picturing you and your loved ones in each room, feeling happy, content, joyful and relaxed. Then smudge each room with white sage to purify and cleanse each room.

Next, add color to your home! Decorate with the soft pastel colors of Spring. Be creative and let your mind explore all the ways you can add color to your home! It’s a great time to paint, add new pillows, lighting, curtains, rugs and new towels.

Step Two:

Reflect upon the thoughts and goals you had during the Fall Equinox and for the New Year. Consider the lessons and experiences of the past six months and decide what is hindering progress with your goals.

Ask yourself — What important seeds of truth need to be revealed this spring, in order for me to truly know myself so that I may blossom into my power-filled being?

It’s time to awaken from your period of hibernation, inactivity and self-introspection and put these thoughts and plans into action!

To awaken to your higher self and activate your growth cycle, welcome the renewed energy of Spring while taking a shower. As the water flows over your body, imagine all negative thoughts leaving your mind, being washed away from you. As you dry off, say out loud, “All That Happens, Happens for Good – Divine Spring Energy is working through me now”!

Step Three:

Equinox Day is the day to Celebrate Rebirth, Renewal and Abundance. It is a time to toast to plans of action and growth, as you are becoming “a garden in bloom”!

Celebrate with rituals including creating and sharing Spring Equinox gift baskets with loved ones and friends. The day culminates with dinner to celebrate renewal, rebirth and the magic of the seasons and life and all the wonder it brings, along with sharing dreams being brought into fruition this year. This is a powerful day to put plans into action.

In ancient times, Spring Equinox was celebrated with an outward and inward celebration:

• Outwardly – people celebrated with egg hunts, (a symbol of the earth and rebirth), by giving and decorating with bunnies, (a universal symbol of fertility for both body – act of creation with birth and mind – turning thoughts into fruition) and by giving baskets, (a symbol of abundance). A special dinner with family and friends is also common to celebrate the return of Spring and renewal.

• Inwardly – people took action on the seeds (goals) that they planted during the Fall Equinox. Spring presented the time and divine opportunity to step forward and create oneself anew with the tools of Gratitude, Abundance and Creativity.

Here are some suggestions to activate your creative side and bring new perspective and balance into your life.

Plant flowers in the garden,

Take on a new creative project (preferably something new you have not done before)

Decorate your home in bright new colors

Have Gratitude for the ABUNDANCE of OPPORTUNITY in your life

Accept new challenges in order to grow and step closer to your goals

Embrace the future by spending time with people in your life who will encourage your dreams and aspirations.

The Spring Equinox is a great time to jump start your goals, but this ritual can be done anytime in Spring for wonderful and positive results. It has never made real sense with our current Julian calendar, that one would create New Year resolutions in the dead of winter on January 1st. Your dreams were planted as seeds of thought in the Fall and now is time to tend to your garden and bring forth beautiful blooms of creativity. You haven’t failed at your New Year Resolutions, You’ve Only Just Begun!

Decide what actions you will take and once the Mercury Retrograde has ended, which at this time is April 4th, then take action on your new goals and dreams. May the journey into the transformative sacred garden of Spring grow in delight with each step!

On this episode of Explore Your Spirit with Kala, Kala speaks with Lisette Larkins about her book, Difficult People: A Gateway to Enlightenment. For most of us, difficult people are the bane of our existence. They annoy us, they throw us off balance, they test our patience, and—to one degree or another—they provoke reactions that are decidedly unhealthy. But it is also true that difficult people (DPs) mirror our own dysfunctional mental states and provide us with wonderful opportunities to understand ourselves, heal ourselves, and learn to live in the moment. Lisette Larkins realized the positive aspect of dealing with difficult people when she was providing care for a late-stage Alzheimer’s patient. Through daily interactions with a DP, Larkins began a personal journey of exploration that ultimately led to spiritual awakening. In Difficult People: A Gateway to Enlightenment, Larkins shares her journey and guides readers in reaching a “chronic state of well-being.”

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More about Lisette Larkins:
Lisette Larkins has worked as a sales director in publishing and a spiritual guide. In 2007, she took a job as the caregiver of a late-stage Alzheimer’s patient, an experience that pushed her into a permanent state of “presence” and revealed the possibility of living in a “chronic state of well-being.” Larkins, who has had extraordinary paranormal experiences since childhood, is the author of three books.

LED color changing showerhead

During my experiences of reading auras over the years, I’ve found that they are almost as unique as fingerprints. While some characteristics are similar in form including some shades of color, each individual creates a distinctive pattern, which appears in their auric field. This field is created in by three energetic impulses which are: the individual’s thoughts and emotions, manifestations of energy flowing into the body, and the creation of thought forms, which have been around the person for a significant amount of time.  The overall result is incredulously beautiful. I am continually astounded by the beauty and energy of the patterns I see in people and what they create in their aura from their thoughts and emotions.

When viewing the aura, it leaves little doubt that each person is unique with a distinct purpose to be here and that everything we do matters and has purpose.  The auric body works as a container to hold our energy. As human beings, we are creators, with a vast abundance of energy within our reach. With each individual thought, word, action and deed we take, we release an energetic impulse, which has its own distinct imprint. These energetic creations are stored in the auric body, while also flowing outward, which can be felt by others.

Basically, each thought and action we take creates a ripple of energy that flows from the auric body and interacts with others in our field. This creates a unique pattern of cause and effect, of which no two are the same.  If you have ever wondered if what you do and who you are makes a difference in this world, rest assured that you do and that in most cases you are unaware of how much of an effect you have on others on a daily basis.  The aura contains all of this information and stores it for you, so that you can create what you give the most attention to outward onto the physical plane, as well as sending the message to the higher planes of existence. Each action, thought, emotion and deed that you experience and create on this physical plane is recorded and stored in your energy body. When you pass over from this lifetime, you will have the opportunity to review all of this information when you are on the other side.

Good Aural Hygiene

Reading the aura of one’s own body, as well as others can be very helpful in many ways. The aura can indicate the health of the body as well as the condition of the mind and soul.  In its most healthy state, the aura should surround the body with a distinctive shape, while allowing a level of flexibility. This can be compared to a filter. When a filter is clean, it maintains its natural shape and is porous, allowing air or water to move freely in and out of the filter as it functions and does its job. When too much debris becomes attached to the filter, it clogs. The result is that water or air is not able to pass through easily. Auras in the same sense can become clogged with negative energy. The auric body runs much like the physical body in that they both require maintenance and care to run at their maximum efficiency.  They will both do their best to operate as best as they can regardless of how much we do to help them, but just like providing lots of water, healthy food, rest and exercise can help the physical body, you can also help the aura to replenish its field.

One function is mandatory and built in to our system, so that your etheric battery can recharge and replenish the aura. Can you guess what this mandatory function is that charges your etheric battery?  It’s the process we call sleeping. When we sleep, the etheric battery charges overnight and begins to heal the multiple layers around the body working its way down to the physical body to assist with repairs and healing.  One of the best things you can do for your body and your aura is to get a good amount of sleep each day. The western world has interfered with the natural rhythms of the mind, body and spirit, by imposing a new calendar and time clock into modern society.  The aura and etheric body suffer according to this new time schedule.

In the past, people woke naturally with the movement of the sun and most cultures enjoyed a brief nap in the afternoon. Nap time allowed the physical body to shut down for an hour so that the mental and emotional bodies could absorb and digest the information gathered from the day and process the information while the etheric battery recharged the layers and body renewing its energy. The result was that people felt energetic and were more relaxed and tolerant, as they were following the natural process and healing techniques provided by the energy bodies.

The longer one goes without sleep, the more distressed the physical body and the surrounding energy bodies become, as they are unable to recharge. There are other means of recharging the aura, including meditation, which can be used to pull energy from the higher planes into the body to assist with healing at the physical, mental and emotional levels.

It is important to know how to recharge the aura and the energy bodies, as in our fast paced hectic life, sleep is often not enough to fully repair the bodies, due to mental and emotional stress, poor diet, and illness which put a strain on the body and energy fields.

Releasing Negative Energy from the Aura

A quick way to help release negative energy from our auric field is to take a shower and while the water flows down your body, take a deep breath in and when exhaling visualize all of the negative energy leaving your body.  As it is released, visualize it floating away from your body with the water as it pours down the drain and flows away from you.

The use of color as was taught in the ancient temples is very helpful in working with the aura to bring in renewed energy including using certain colors of foods, clothing, lighting, crystals and solarized water.

LED color changing showerhead

While the old ways work remarkably well, I also love to try out new inventions as they are being presented in our new age of evolution. Recently I discovered this new LED showerhead that changes colors! The rainbow LED colors light up using the power of water pressure, cycling every 2 seconds from red, blue, green, yellow, white, orange and violet. The manufacturer describes the products as …rainbow lights and water combine to provide a calming and revitalizing effect on body and soul. I find this to be a fascinating design and am looking forward to trying it out to see the effect it has with the water.

If you decide to try it as well, I’d love to hear from you and whether you noticed any positive effects from the combination of water and light.

Join Kala this Thursday, March 8, 2012 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm ET on the John Edward Presents Infinite Quest Show – Infinite Chat. Infinite Chat is InfiniteQuest’s DAILY, interactive, daytime webcast.

On this episode of Explore Your Spirit with Kala, Kala speaks with Alice and Richard Matzkin. Painter Alice Matzkin and her sculptor husband, Richard, contemplate growing older in their nearly 100 paintings and sculptures. In their award winning book, The Art of Aging, painter Alice Matzkin and sculptor Richard Matzkin share the wisdom of elder mentors to look for the positive side of growing older and to come to acceptance and appreciation of their aging.

In this beautiful and touching book, a couple – painter Alice Matzkin and sculptor Richard Matzkin – explore the experience of aging through their art. In a series of projects that confront their fear and curiosity about growing old, they examine physical changes, sensuality and relationships, aging parents, spirituality and death. Drawing on their personal experiences and the wisdom of older mentors, they conclude that the elder years can be a time of ripening and harvest rather than stagnation and despair. Their art features well-known people such as feminist Betty Friedan and potter Beatrice Wood, as well as friends, neighbors, relatives and themselves. Both artists find a source of creativity in the older nude body. This profusely illustrated book contains a wealth of inspiration, especially for those about to enter their later years.

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More about Alice and Richard Matzkin:
The Matzkin’s have written an award-winning art/inspiration book, THE ART OF AGING: Celebrating the Authentic Aging Self, produced a 45 minute documentary video on DVD, WOMEN OF AGE: Portraits in Wisdom, Beauty and Strength, featuring paintings and interviews of 21 elder inspiring women, and designed a wall calendar, NAKED TRUTH: Celebrating the Beauty of the Aging Feminine Body, featuring paintings of nude elder women age 58 to 87. They appear on television, in print media, on the radio, and offer presentations at universities, conferences, and medical schools. They live and work in Ojai, California

On this episode of Explore Your Spirit with Kala, Kala speaks with Timothy Wyllie, author of The Return of the Rebel Angels: The Urantia Mysteries and the Coming of the Light. As recorded in The Urantia Book, two hundred millennia ago 37 planets, including our own, were quarantined from the rest of the Multiverse to quell the spread of the rebellion within the angelic hierarchy. Now, after eons of isolation, the fallen angels have been forgiven and Earth’s connection with the Multiverse is being restored, initiating a massive transformation of consciousness as we reconnect with angelic guides, extraterrestrial beings, and our spiritual heritage as sacred vessels for God’s presence.

Providing an update to The Urantia Book through angelic transmissions he has received and remarkable spirits he has met, Timothy Wyllie investigates the underlying motives of the angelic rebellion and the impact it has had on our planet for the past 200,000 years. Offering a profoundly optimistic vision of the future and reassurance that the coming spiritual transition will be gentle, Timothy Wyllie describes his encounters with angels, ETs, and other enlightened beings around the world, including how he made contact with his own guardian angels, met the man who may have been Grand Master of the Prieure de Zion, fell in love with a beautiful Cathar reincarnate in Provence, and officiated at the 1981 Conference in Spirit inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. He explores different planetary cosmologies, authentic extraterrestrial intelligence, entheogenic revelations, and the spiritual implications of the Holographic Paradigm, weaving together a coherent and provocative understanding of the current state of our planet within the larger context of a benevolent and caring Multiverse.

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More about Timothy Wyllie:
Timothy Wyllie was born in Great Britain in 1940 and raised in London. Having wended his way through an English public school education and then seven years further study at college, he qualified as an architect. In the late 70s, Timothy began a systematic exploration of out-of-body states. This led to experiments in telepathic communication with dolphins and an open invitation to contact with nonphysical beings that continues to this day. During this time, he was also running his own business in New Your City, marketing a system he had co-devised for storing and filing color photographs. He retired from the business community in 1981 and turned full time to his creative endeavors.

Timothy travels frequently to give lectures and seminars or to investigate sites and locations for his drawings. He is the author of Ask Your Angels: A Practical Guide to working with the Messengers of Heaven to Empower and Enrich Your Life, Dolphins, ETs & Angels, and a co-author of Adventures Among Spiritual Intelligences: Angels, Aliens, Dolphins & Shamans. He lives in New Mexico.