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The Astral City and Healing Temples

Movie: The Astral City

A movie has recently caught my attention that I’d like to share with you. It’s titled The Astral City and was filmed in Brazil. The movie is in Portuguese and has English subtitles.

This film was recently brought to my attention and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the film! It describes what I have seen when I have visited the other spiritual planes and what life is like on the other side, in the astral realms and the other spiritual realms.
Even more astounding, during the healing segments shown on film, what they depict is very similar to what I describe in my new book, The Awakened Aura of how healing temples were once built here on the earth plane to heal at the body mind spirit level and how healing is experienced on the other side.
I highly recommend this film and if you’ve read my book, The Awakened Aura you’ll enjoy seeing the depictions of what I describe in the book.  It also shares the effect of karma in our lives and describes some but not all of the spiritual planes that exist on the other side.
It is my dream to build a healing center of this kind once again here on the earth plane in service to humanity. The seven healing techniques described in The Awakened Aura are being touted as the future of energy medicine and what would be incorporated in the healing centers.


Official Release of The Awakened Aura by Kala Ambrose

Since childhood, author and wisdom teacher Kala Ambrose has seen the aura around people, animals and nature. As a wisdom teacher, Kala shares her lifetimes of experience and training with her students and in workshops around the country. She teaches others how to see auras and more importantly, how to interact with the layers of the auric fields to clear the energy in the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fields of the aura in order to reach their highest and full potential.

Over the past decade, what Kala has been seeing in the auric fields is changing dramatically. She reports that our auras are actually evolving! They are creating new energy bodies around the physical body, connecting in new patterns and forming crystalline structures to enhance our conscious evolution, including our connectivity to each other, the world, and higher planes of existence. These structures are creating powerful crystalline receivers, which allow psychic abilities to be enhanced and provide regenerative energetic force fields to heal energy from within at the cellular level. Kala shares that we are truly evolving into super-powered human beings and it’s happening first in the aura!

In addition to the evolution occurring in the aura, Kala shares the wisdom of the Egyptian Mystery Schools and Healing Temples including how the High Priests and Priestesses understood the aura and used it in healing temples to restore the body, mind and spirit. She explains how we can use this knowledge to restore ourselves and connect further as our aura continues to evolve at a rapid pace. As an energy field around our body, the aura holds the energy we release from our thoughts and our emotions. It also displays the physical wellbeing of the body. When we can view the aura and discern what the colors, shapes and symbols mean when seen in these fields, we can take steps to release unwanted, unhealthy energy and replace them with powerful, life affirming manifestations.

Touted as the future of energy medicine, working with our auric field can potentially release blockages which otherwise may have led to disturbances in the physical body as well as in the mental and emotional fields. This inner transformation marks a historic evolution in our meta-physical bodies, as we are becoming powerful light energy beings who are able to connect with the forces of the earth and with the powers from the higher planes.  Join Kala Ambrose, a powerful priestess, wisdom teacher, intuitive and oracle, and host of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, as she shares what she sees in the aura, how it is rapidly evolving and how you can connect with your aura and energy body to expand your awareness and capabilities on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

This book contains a wealth of practical exercises, diagrams, and instructions. Learn how to interpret and work with the auras of others, sense energy in animals and sense and balance the energy in buildings and natural locations. Discover how energy cords attach in relationships, how to access the akashic records through the auric layers, how to use elemental energy to enhance your auric field, and much more.

What You’ll Learn About Auras in Kala’s book The Awakened Aura which is now also available for sale through Red Room

-       Discover what your aura body does for you and how it connects and represents the state of your chakra fields. Learn how balancing and stabilizing the chakras and aura nurture the energy fields, which changes according to your emotional and mental state.

-       Define what’s occurring in your life and those around you through the aura colors and the laws of attraction and manifestation. Learn how colors, foods, crystals and natural elements can enhance your aura and how becoming aware of your emotional and mental state can enhance or deflate the aura.

-Discover how the etheric body, astral body and aura work together to enhance personal energy levels and raise the energetic vibration of you and your surroundings and the multiple layers of the aura. Learn how energy cords are created in the aura and how they attach and connect you with other living beings.

- Interpret the symbolic messages of color, including what the colors in your aura mean and how to enhance your aura and raise your vibrational energy using color.

- Learn how to connect with the auras of Plants, Trees, Forces of Nature and Auras of Animals. Determine which of the five elements (earth, air, fire, water and spirit) give you the most strength and nurture your aura. Learn to work with these elements to enhance your aura and personal power. Uncover deep-rooted energetic patterns that are ready to be transformed in order to unleash your full potential as a spiritual being.

- The aura changes dramatically from birth to age 7, imagine seeing the aura of a crying infant and understanding what is causing their discomfort.  Read auras to create better relationships and communication with in the workplace with co-workers, and with friends and family.  Seeing the auric field in teens can be extremely beneficial when they are not open to verbal communication.

- Learn how to create a white light structure for your protection. Step by step instructions on how to create a protective seal around your aura, which can be extended around your car, home, office or into objects. Create a strong line of psychic self-defense for you, your loved ones and your home.

- Restore damaged and stressed auras in need of repair and disease in the aura. Learn how to repair, cleanse, and energize the aura and how to protect and strengthen the aura.  Identify the various types of auras, what the different sizes and shapes mean and what symbols can be found in the auric field.

- How to change the energy in a building, including your home, workplace or other properties and natural locations and learn when it is unwise to do so. Use your auric field to sense which buildings and spaces to avoid due to negative psychic energy patterns and residue, both in natural and man-made structures and locations.

- Release old patterns and karmic imprints in the aura that no longer serve you and uncover deep rooted energetic patterns that are ready to be transformed. Thought forms, given enough energy, can become real energetic creations and cause blocks to what you want to achieve in life. Understand how thought forms are created, what they represent and remove them. This clears the energy in the aura, creating space for new energy to enter and create a stimulus for new activity.

-Decipher symbols and other communications, which can be viewed in the aura body. Receive guidance on how to connect with your guides and learn the characteristics and how to identify the auras of non-human entities.

- Connect with the energy fields inside and outside the body and learn about the expanding crystalline structures now being created in the aura. See the aura using your third eye and feel the energy vibration of the aura in nature and people. The evolution of the aura – how these new crystalline structures forming in the auras today are altering humans on every level. Discover how it will alter the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies and forever change humanity.

Humanity is entering a new era – we are evolving into super-powered beings of light. Our auric and etheric bodies are experiencing a transformational shift as new crystalline structures from within and around our auras. In this new year, discover a whole new you as you awaken your aura and explore the evolution of your energy body.



Awaken Your Aura and Energy Bodies

I’m so excited to share this newsletter with you today on 11-02-2011. The sacred energy in the date today is powerful and magnetic and if you look at the date, it can be read in the same way, both backwards and forwards. Energetically, today is a day where you can be like Janus, the god of time and look at your life from both directions, with greater clarity and understanding of the past and what occurred and with deeper knowledge and energy to create your future. This energy continues through 11-11-11 next week.

On this energetically enlightened and creative day, I’m so thrilled to announce my new book – The Awakened Aura: Experiencing the Evolution of Your Energy Body.  The book is being touted as the future of energy medicine. Working with our auric field can potentially release blockages which otherwise may have led to disturbances in the physical body as well as in the mental and emotional fields. This inner transformation marks a historic evolution in our metaphysical bodies, as we are becoming powerful light energy beings who are able to connect with the forces of the earth and with the powers from the higher planes.
Over the past decade, what Kala has been seeing in the auric fields is changing dramatically. She reports that our auras are actually evolving! They are creating new energy bodies around the physical body, connecting in new patterns and forming crystalline structures to enhance our conscious evolution, including our connectivity to each other, the world, and higher planes of existence. These structures are creating powerful crystalline receivers, which allow psychic abilities to be enhanced and provide regenerative energetic force fields to heal energy from within at the cellular level. Kala shares that we are truly evolving into super-powered human beings and it’s happening first in the aura! As an energy field around our body, the aura holds the energy we release from our thoughts and our emotions. It also displays the physical wellbeing of the body. When we can view the aura and discern what the colors, shapes and symbols mean when seen in these fields, we can take steps to release unwanted, unhealthy energy and replace them with powerful, life affirming manifestations.
Join Kala Ambrose, a powerful priestess, wisdom teacher, intuitive and oracle, as she shares what she sees in the aura, how it is rapidly evolving and how you can connect with your aura and energy body to expand your awareness and capabilities on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.
The Awakened Aura
by Kala Ambrose
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Kala on John Edward’s Infinite Quest program reading the Aura

 

Join me this evening as I discuss the evolution of our Aura and read Auras live online via Skype on John Edward’s Infinite Quest program. My show is tonight, Thursday, October 6th, 2011 at 10:00pm Eastern Time.

Since childhood, author and wisdom teacher Kala Ambrose has seen the aura around people, animals and nature. As a wisdom teacher, Kala shares her lifetimes of experience and training with her students and in workshops around the country. She teaches others how to see auras and more importantly, how to interact with the layers of the auric fields to clear the energy in the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fields of the aura in order to reach their highest and full potential.

Over the past decade, what Kala has been seeing in the auric fields is changing dramatically. She reports that our auras are actually evolving! They are creating new energy bodies around the physical body, connecting in new patterns and forming crystalline structures to enhance our conscious evolution, including our connectivity to each other, the world, and higher planes of existence. These structures are creating powerful crystalline receivers, which allow psychic abilities to be enhanced and provide regenerative energetic force fields to heal energy from within at the cellular level. Kala shares that we are truly evolving into super-powered human beings and it’s happening first in the aura!

In addition to the evolution occurring in the aura, Kala shares the wisdom of the Egyptian Mystery Schools and Healing Temples including how the High Priests and Priestesses understood the aura and used it in healing temples to restore the body, mind and spirit. She explains how we can use this knowledge to restore ourselves and connect further as our aura continues to evolve at a rapid pace. As an energy field around our body, the aura holds the energy we release from our thoughts and our emotions. It also displays the physical wellbeing of the body. When we can view the aura and discern what the colors, shapes and symbols mean when seen in these fields, we can take steps to release unwanted, unhealthy energy and replace them with powerful, life affirming manifestations. More info at: The Awakened Aura



Workshop with Kala – Awaken the Aura at the Bodhi Tree in Charleston, SC

Now in the 21st Century, we are evolving into Super-Powered Human Beings! In ancient times, mystery schools of Egyptian and Greek origin taught the nature and destiny of mankind and revealed powerful secrets regarding universal natural laws. Inscribed above the entrance to one such mystery temple in ancient Greece were the words: “Hu-Man, Know Thyself.” Do you remember who you are and why you are here? It was these topics and others which were explored by inquisitive souls who were willing to delve into the transformational teachings of the mystery schools. This information is still as valid and inspiring today for those who seek to know themselves on a deeper level of consciousness and desire to learn the spiritual mysteries.


Discover these powerful ancient wisdom teachings from the mystery school temples of ancient Egypt and Greece with wisdom teacher and intuitive, Kala Ambrose. Connect between the two worlds to tap into the sacred knowledge and healing source at the mind, body and spirit level using color, light, crystals, botanicals and sound, which deepen the connection with your soul and the spirit world. Join Kala as she shares how your aura and energy bodies are evolving and what this means for the future of the world and for humanity.


About the Aura and Energy Bodies:

When the auric field along with other energy bodies is aligned in harmony, we are able to manifest to our full potential. The aura is part of this energy field and mirrors your mental and emotional states, and the physical vitality of the body, showing the level of health as well as potential blockages, which can lead to dis-ease before the onset of physical symptoms. The aura reflects our thoughts, feelings and desires, magnetizing and attracting to us what we create with our thoughts and emotions. As we become sensitive to the auric field, we can interpret the symbolic messages and use this as a compass to guide us on our path through life.

Learn how to see, sense, and interpret auras within yourself and others, including children, animals, buildings, and nature. We will discuss unique characteristics in auras, review how they were depicted historically, and reveal how the aura is changing in the twenty-first century.

The mystery teachings are best taught in small groups where the energetic vibrations are stronger and a deeper connection is established. This allows the body, mind and spirit to relax and the aura, chakras and energy centers surrounding the body the ability to open fully in order to receive the highest transmissions and attunements from the spirit world.Join Kala Ambrose as she teaches about The Awakened Aura  at the Bodhi Tree in Charleston, SC.

WORKSHOP:
Awakening the Aura with Kala Ambrose
The Bodhi Tree in Charleston, SC
Friday, September 16th at 6pm

Register at the BODHI TREE

About Kala Ambrose:
Noted wisdom teacher, author, intuitive, inspirational speaker, and host of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show (www.ExploreYourSpirit.com), Kala Ambrose’s teachings are described as discerning, empowering and inspiring. Whether she’s speaking with world-renowned experts on the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, writing about empowering lifestyle choices, reporting on new discoveries in the scientific and spiritual arenas or teaching to groups around the country, fans around the world tune in daily for her inspirational musings and lively thought-provoking conversations.

Kala is the author of three books including the award-winning 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled (Reality Press 2007), Ghosthunting North Carolina (Clerisy Press 2011) and The Awakened Aura: Experiencing the Evolution of Your Energy Body (Llewellyn Worldwide 2011). A highly interactive teacher on a mission to educate, entertain and inspire, Kala presents workshops nationally on the Mind/Body/Spirit connection including Auras and Energy Fields, Developing Business Intuition, and Wisdom Teachings at the Omega Institute, the Learning Annex, LilyDale Assembly, and online in Webinar presentations including John Edward’s InfiniteQuest and a course coming soon on Daily Om.



Would you like to tap into the limitless energy that is available to you every day?

Your Aura Energy is Unique and Powerful

Humanity is entering a new era—we are evolving into super-powered beings of light. Our auric and energy bodies are experiencing a transformational shift as new crystalline structures form within and around our auras.

Would you like to tap into this limitless, boundless energy that is available to you every day?

How about re-energizing yourself to the point that people ask you, how do you find the time to do all that you do and still glow and grow so strong?

Even greater, how would you like to connect with this energy so that creative ideas pour into your thoughts daily, encouraging you to reach your highest potential?

As a intuitive and oracle, I see this energy around each person in their aura and surrounding energy bodies. Over the past decade, the energy bodies around each person are expanding and opening to receive greater communication and down pouring of energy from the higher planes of existence in and around each person.

The result is that we are on the way to becoming super-powered human beings!

I’m also seeing energy in certain areas of the world growing, expanding and opening further to the light and becoming lighthouses of energy, attracting others to their shores in order to raise the vibration and assist in the evolution of the area around them.  I see this in the East Coast of the United States, with tremendous growth resurging in the SouthEast and NorthEast of this land.

Because of this, I am being drawn to travel and teach in the NorthEast this summer, to meet with as many people as I can and show them the magnificence of who they are and what they can do to raise their energy, to raise the energy of their loved ones and to raise the energy in their communities, creating lighthouse centers in every location.

I will be offering workshops in many locations around the Northeast this Summer, including Baltimore, Boston, Pembroke, Rhinebeck, Manhattan, LilyDale, Pittsburgh and other cities along the way.  In each location, I will teach about the aura and the energy bodies and what you can do to raise your energy and change your life today.

I’ve also been asked to film my journey this summer for a documentary as I spread the light across each area. During my travels, it will be my joy to show the beauty, grace and vibrancy of each area I visit, along with the inspiring people I meet along the way.

In each location, including the Omega Institute, The Learning Annex, LilyDale Assembly, Breathe Books, Heaven on Earth, Quaker Friends House, and other locations, I will be teaching how to:

  • - Explore the Seven Techniques from the Healing Temples and Mystery Schools, which include Color, Light, Sound, Crystals, Botanicals, Dreams and Nourishment.
  • - Enhance your Energy Field in order to communicate with the spirit world
  • - Walk the High Priest/Priestess Path of Light to Open and Balance the Heart Chakra using Rituals from the ancient Egyptian teachings.
  • - Examine the Intuitive Past-Life Exercises used by the Oracles of ancient Greece.
  • - Connect with the Natural Forces and Work with the Elements.
  • - Practice Sacred Rituals  including activating the energy of the pyramids
  • - Cleanse and Remove  Disharmonious Energy from the Body to Rejuvenate and Restore the Energy Centers.

In my work, I explain how to complete this process in Three Steps.

The first step is understanding that:

1.  “We Are All One, One Energy from One Light. Let Us Band Together as Humans with Love for All of Humanity, Living Each Day in Harmony as We Explore Our Spirit.” – Kala Ambrose

Step Two is, To Accomplish this Goal of Oneness, we must connect with Spirit and Awaken to the Divine Purpose within Each of Us. I explain this concept in the teaching of:

2. “Spirit does not exist in just one location; rather it is all encompassing, living within and amongst us in each moment, thought and action. I believe that Spirit is raised to it’s highest level, when individuals gather with wisdom, compassion and a discerning desire to provide service to humanity”. – Kala Ambrose

This leads to Step Three, which Activates our Energy Fields which are Evolving and Ready for Us to Engage With Them.  I am seeing Step Three come into action now with many people and I believe that…

3. “In this new decade, we are moving into a new Age of Enlightenment. The Aquarian information from the gods can no longer be contained, the Divine Feminine is being released in all her glory and we will once again see a Renaissance period, where great art, architecture, philosophy, literature and science will develop and flourish. During this decade the greatest minds will stir, to share, to illuminate and to build and create works and ideas that will be marveled around the world.” – Kala Ambrose

Please join me this summer as I journey to spread light, love and joy throughout each area of the Northeast and interact with light workers from around the world. Together, we will expand the energy within ourselves and then share this positive light with every person, place and thing we encounter.  We are on the way to creating a brand new world for each of us, from the inside out!

Visit the EVENTS PAGE on Explore Your Spirit with Kala to find our where to meet me this June and July 2011 as I travel and teach around the Northeast area of the United States. I am delighted that for some of these events I will be teaching with my Dear Friend, Color Intuitive Elizabeth Harper as we combine our wisdom and energy to create powerful moving experiences in each location.

I look forward to sharing this time with you as we co-create together!

The Awakened Aura by Kala Ambrose

I’ve written a book about what I am seeing in the evolution of our aura. The title of the book is The Awakened Aura: Experiencing the Evolution of Your Energy Body. This book is published by Llewellyn Publishing and will be available in stores on November 8, 2011. The book is now available for Pre-Order through Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com The Pre-Order price offers a discount of almost $5 off the price.  Save a little money right now by pre-ordering the book and have it delivered to your home on November 8th to enjoy.

About Kala Ambrose…

Noted wisdom teacher, author, intuitive, inspirational speaker, and host of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, Kala Ambrose’s teachings are

Kala Ambrose author, intuitive and wisdom teacher

described as discerning, empowering and inspiring. Whether she’s speaking with world-renowned experts on the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, writing about empowering lifestyle choices, reporting on new discoveries in the scientific and spiritual arenas or teaching to groups around the country, fans around the world tune in daily for her inspirational musings and lively thought-provoking conversations.

Kala is the author of three books including the award-winning 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled (Reality Press 2007), Ghosthunting North Carolina (Clerisy Press 2011) and The Awakened Aura: Experiencing the Evolution of Your Energy Body (Llewellyn Worldwide 2011). A highly interactive teacher on a mission to educate, entertain and inspire, Kala presents workshops nationally on the Mind/Body/Spirit connection including Auras and Energy Fields, Developing Business Intuition, and Wisdom Teachings at the Omega Institute, the Learning Annex, LilyDale Assembly, and online in Webinar presentations including John Edward’s InfiniteQuest and a course coming soon on Daily Om.



The River Birch speaks and I heed his call

River Birch at the tail end of Winter

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.” – John Muir

I’m being energetically pulled away from my work today to spend time gazing at my beloved River Birch tree outside my window as the wind blows past he and I. The wind has a howl to it this morning, it seems to be in a hurry to move debris and spread seeds for an early Spring. That’s just fine with me!

I have a deep connection to my River Birch and as I gaze upon him on this first day of March, I see his strong bare branches reaching upward towards the Sun. It reminds me of the ancient wisdom teaching of As Above, So Below and a practice I teach of reaching upward to bring white light energy into the body from the higher realms.  River Birch is doing the same today, gathering energy from the sunlight and preparing to blossom forth with new growth this Spring.

I’ve always had a strong relationship and love for trees, must come from my old Celtic Druid roots. Trees are wonderful teachers if you’ll spend some time in their company.  Today, he inspires me once again, with his patience through the long Winter and his knowledge that Spring will come again soon. Soon he will burst forth in his brilliant green glory again. I bet if I went out tromping through the forest back there this afternoon, that I’d come across the Green Man hard at work in the area.

What gifts of inspiration nature provides on a daily basis. Usually my River Birch has quite a few companions with him, a robin is always nearby as well as a hawk that visits daily and an owl joins us each evening. Today though he stands alone, focusing his energy on pulling in all the sunlight that he can, while moving and swaying with Brother Wind.  Today his wisdom reminds me that as Spring approaches, it’s time to shake off the energy of Winter and bring the new energy and light into my body, allowing for new creative ideas to blossom this Spring.

“Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far” – John Muir

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Can You Taste the Universe – Exploring Synesthesia with Maureen Seaberg

Tasting the Universe: People Who See Colors in Words and Rainbows in Symphonies by Maureen Seaberg

Welcome to Kala’s Quick Five, where I chat with fascinating authors, artists, teachers, and researchers and ask them five questions about their work. My guest today is Maureen Seaberg, author of Tasting the Universe: People Who See Colors in Words and Rainbows in Symphonies. Maureen is a NYC based journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, the New York Daily News, Irish America, ESPN magazine and on MSNBC, PSB, and NBC.

Kala: Maureen, your book is a spiritual and scientific exploration of Synesthesia, which is described as a “cross-wiring, or lack of chemical inhibition, between brain neurons.” What does the world look and sound like when one has Synesthesia?

Maureen: Hi Kala. Thanks for having me on Kala’s Quick Five. The world is as non-synesthetes know it, but with an overlay of color and impressions that enhance it. It is an add-on, not a deficit, and one of the coolest brain traits to have!

Kala: During your research, you discovered that both Marilyn Monroe and Billy Joel have synesthesia. How was it determined that they possess the trait?

Maureen: I won a scholarship to the Norman Mailer Colony and my professor there, Dr. John Michael Lennon, found Mailer’s writings on Monroe (he wrote a controversial biography of her) that seemed to suggest she had this brain trait. I later confirmed it with a surviving niece of hers in North Carolina.

Joel was a neighbor of a friend of mine who is a synesthete, the wonderful artist Marcia Smilack and she always thought he “got” her. When I spoke with him I realized not only is he a synesthete, but his musical inspirations appear to him, waking and sleeping, in a synesthetic vision — all in color.

Kala: You mention that one of the inventors of the internet, Sir Robert Cailliau, is a synesthete, who sees the letter “w” as a dark green color, which is one of his favorite colors. What prompted him to use the www. as the beginning url for all websites on the internet?

Maureen: Sir Robert was working at CERN with his colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee of Great Britain on the supercollider. One day after work, over a beer, Sir Tim suggested they call it “World Wide Web.” This seemed cumbersome at first to Sir Robert but he loved the dark green he perceived around all those “w’s” so he went with it. At the first World Wide Web conference they gave out green enamel www pins in honor of that synesthetic association.

Kala: I see auras and colors around people. I’m not sure that this is the same as synesthesia, but I also see colors with music and in elements, such as color around the wind when it blows. You see numbers, letters, days of the week, music and sound in colors. How many types of Synesthesia are there and how do they differ?

Maureen: Wow, Kala, welcome to the tribe! Seeing auras is now believed to be a form of synesthesia (I see them too in the right light) and there are over 50 forms known now with more being found all the time.

Kala: What would you say are the drawback and the benefits to having this trait?

Maureen: The only drawback is the lack of understanding that still lingers around it. The benefits are that the synesthesia usually acts as a mnemonic, giving you a great ability to remember things. (Phone numbers that might slip a “normal” person’s mind are backed up by the memory of the associated colors.) It also is eight times more likely in creative people. I’d feel color blind without it.

Kala: Maureen, thank you for your time, appreciate you joining me here on Kala’s Quick Five.

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Live, Love and Laugh – a guide to Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying

Laugh When You Feel Like Crying by Allen Klein

Welcome to Kala’s Quick Five, where I chat with fascinating authors, artists, teachers and researchers and ask them five questions about their work. My guest today is Allen Klein, the world’s only Jollytologist. Allen has a masters degree in humor (from St. Mary’s College in Minnesota-and that’s no joke!) He is also an award-winning speaker and best-selling author whose first book The Healing Power of Humor is in its 36th printing and ninth foreign language translation. He has written 17 books that all focus on humor as a means to deal with everything from traffic jams to tragedies, and his writing has appeared in four editions of Chicken Soup for the Soul. His new book is: Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying: Embracing Life After Loss.

Kala: Allen, welcome to Kala’s Quick Five. You teach workshops using humor to deal with changes, challenges, and stressful situations. Examples include Humor for Workplace Wellness, and Motivational Humor Presentations for Healthcare and other Professionals. How can one use humor in the workplace effectively without going too far and upsetting someone?

Allen: You are right. Humor in the workplace can be a tricky thing, especially in today’s culture and harassment issues. Still, I think it is possible to lighten up the work environment. First, stop, look, and listen for what kind of humor is acceptable where you work. What do people kid around about? What kind of humor ticks people off? Does the supervisor or the boss set a tone for appropriate humor?

Once you know some of this than you can introduce some light-hearted things everyday. For example, put up a ha-ha bulletin board where workers can post a cartoon a day, funny signs like, “Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it,” or their baby photos for everyone to guess who it is.  Or, you could introduce props on your desk to lighten the day like a jar of bubbles, Groucho glasses, or clown noses that can be used when meetings get too serious.

Kala: You lost your wife to a rare liver disease when she was 34. Near the end, as your wife lay dying in the hospital, you both received a lesson in the therapeutic value of humor. Tell us how you both connected and stayed strong during this time.

Allen: My wife had a copy of Playgirl by the side of her hospital bed and suddenly opened to the male nude centerfold. She insisted that we put it up on the wall. “This is too risque for a hospital” I told her. “Nonsense” she replied, “just take a leaf from that plant over there and use it to cover up his private parts.” I did that and things were fine for the first two days but by the third day the leaf began to shrivel up and reveal more and more of what we were trying to conceal.

After this every time we saw a plant or leaf we both laughed. Our laughter may have been brief and fleeting but it brought us closer together, revived us, and helped us rise above the painful process of her terminal illness and eventual death.

Kala: You’ve worked as a home health aid, hospice volunteer, and director of The Life-Death Transitions Institute in San Francisco. During this time, you gathered your experiences and put them into a book, Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying: Embracing Life After Loss to help others in their journey through loss and grief.  The book is described as a compassionate guide to the bereavement process in which you share the tools and encouragement necessary for transforming loss into a passion for living life to the fullest.  What was the most powerful lesson you learned while working in hospice and assisting with transitions to the other side?

Allen: The biggest lesson I learned from working with dying patients is that death is a natural and necessary part of life. Image, for example, that there were no death. Would you ever get anything done? Probably not because time would never run out. In addition, how would this world feed, shelter and support an ever increasing, never ending, and constant population growth?  Nature shows us with the four seasons that each one is important and how what looks like death in Winter is new growth in Spring.

Kala: Ok, Allen, what’s a Jollytologist and are you the world’s only one? Can others apply to join in on the fun?

Allen: Guess what Kala? I made the word, “Jollytologist” up. Since I studied the therapeutic value of humor for years, technically I’m a “gelotologist.” (Gelos is a Greek work meaning laughter.) But since most people don’t know the word Gelos, I change it to Jolly. Of course, anyone can join in the fun. According to my thinking, anyone can become anything they want. Since I’ve coined the word “Jollytologist,” others have become a Joyologist, a Happyologist, a Funologist, etc. But one word of caution…don’t call yourself a “Jollytologist” because it is Trade Marked.

Kala: Death is a natural part of life that every living being will experience here on earth. What has your work taught you most about the death process and about living?

Allen: I have learned that loss can be one of our greatest teachers. In fact, I’m convinced that we need major setbacks in our life to learn about our strength, our power, and our spirituality. We human beings are funny creatures. We don’t learn much when things are going well. We seem to need a nudge now and then to learn life’s lessons. It is why my book, Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying, has five stages for going from loss to laughter. First we begin with Losing someone or something dear to us. Second we start Learning from that loss.  Third we can move on by Letting Go.  Then, as we put the our loss in the background, we begin Living our life once more. And finally, once we live our life fully, we start Laughing again.

Kala: Allen, thank you for joining me here on Kala’s Quick Five.

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What Did We Discover and Uncover – 2010 in Review

2010 in Review - What Did We Discover and Uncover?

Looking back over the 2010 year, I was reminded that what we think about, we create in our world. Let’s take a look at what I wrote about this year to see how the world was unfolding. 2010 in Review – What Did We Discover and Uncover?  As I look it over, I see a collective journey moving into conscious thought and awakening. Now that the inner self for many has awakened, the years ahead will bring a time of action, rebirth and growth.

We began the year with my discussion about this new decade beginning in 2010, would mark the advent of a new Renaissance period. The New Year began with a full Blue Moon in conjunction with a Mercury Retrograde. I believe and feel that… ‘In this new decade, we are moving into a new Age of Enlightenment. The Aquarian information from the gods can no longer be contained, the Divine Feminine is being released in all her glory and we will once again see a Renaissance period, where great art, architecture, philosophy, literature and science will develop and flourish. During this decade the greatest minds will stir, to share, to illuminate and to build and create works and ideas that will be marveled around the world.’
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In Feb, I shared Seven Sacred Ways to celebrate Imbolc and the Goddess Energy. In the wisdom teachings of the Divine Feminine, there are certain earth cycles, which open a gateway between the higher planes of existence and the earth plane. These moments of enhanced connection allow us to view the rhythm and timing of the goddess in her form as mother nature. Imbolc is one of these powerful cycles of time throughout the year.  Many people are awakening again and connecting with the goddess energy and the natural laws of the universe.  Read the rest of the article here for the seven ways to connect…

Then came the launch of the Ask Kala column, where I invite you to email me with your metaphysical, spiritual and esoteric questions. One of my favorite questions of the year was.. ‘How can you communicate with someone who has passed on, after they have reincarnated again?’ This profound question is one that many have struggled with understanding the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Read my answer to this question here…

We looked into the eye of the tiger, as we celebrated the Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year is the most important traditional holiday in China and is also referred to as the Spring Festival. The date of the new year is based on a lunar calendar, which has been used for centuries and is much older than the solar Gregorian calendar used in the west for most events. In 2010, the White Tiger leaped into the year with his energy… Read the article here…

What’s going to happen in 2012 is a question on many minds and I sat down with Marie D. Jones, to interview her about her book – 2013: End of Days or New Beginning.  I delved into earth changes with Marie asking her questions including - ‘What are your thoughts about the earthquakes and tsunami’s occurring around the earth recently? Are there more to come? Also, what about the report that the 8.8 earthquake in Chile shifted the earth’s axis by eight centimeters, which removes 1.26 microseconds off of Earth’s daily rotation, therefore altering time?’ Read Marie’s answer here…

The explorations continued in the Ask Kala column, as millions are exploring their journey and life path and destiny. Another one of my favorite questions came from a man who wanted to know how to connect and find his spiritual teacher. Read my answer here…

In 2010, I traveled often and shared my experiences with readers. One of my favorite journeys was to return to my beloved New Orleans, which has suffered so greatly in the past decade. Through all of her troubles, she is still a beautiful jewel of a city and I was again, Charmed by the Spirit of New Orleans. Read about my journey through the city here..

Holidays play such an important role in our history, passage of time and destiny and in 2010, I touched into many of these holidays including Connecting to the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo and how our identity forms us and how our identities are merging into a new world. Read the article here…

Another favorite interview of the year was when I spoke with the legendary Stanton Friedman about startling new information about cures, theories and inventions which were formerly declared impossible. Stanton’s new book is Science Was Wrong and we discussed many of these theories as I asked him questions like – ‘You and the late Carl Sagan were class mates in the physics department at the University of Chicago for three years. You mention in Science Was Wrong and elsewhere that he was wrong about UFO’s, abductions, and government cover-ups. Did you two argue in physics class about these theories or  did the differences evolve at a later date?’ Read the article here…

I also took a turn away from traditional beliefs and invited readers to Embrace Mercury Retrogrades, rather than fear them.  I explained that… ‘What I am saying though, is while good old Merc causes his share of trouble when he goes retro, he also brings a wealth of opportunities and if you understand how the retrograde works, you can use this information to your advantage.’ Read my explanation here..

In my travels I journeyed to Rhinebeck NY to teach at the world famous Omega Institute during the time that Chelsea Clinton was preparing to be married in the lovely village of Rhinebeck.  I could easily understand why she chose the location, as the natural surroundings were so beautiful with the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains as a backdrop. I had quite the adventure in New York and you can read about it all including my bumping into a ghost here….

One of the features in my column here as the National Metaphysical Spirituality Writer for the Examiner, is Kala’s Quick Five, where I interview authors, teachers and researchers about their work. One of the most thought provoking books and authors I came across this year was Dr. Gabriel Constans, who wrote the book, Buddha’s Wife.  During my interview, Gabriel and I discussed what life was like during this time and I asked him, ‘Gabriel, thousands of books, texts and stories have followed Siddhartha’s path to becoming The Buddha (and his teachings), but little has been written about his wife Yasodhara, how she reacted to his leaving her and their newborn child in the middle of the night, and her desire to find compassion and enlightenment for herself and others. What prompted you to write this book?’ Read Gabriel’s answer here…

An interesting anomaly in 2010 was the overwhelming media focus on LeBron James and his decision to leave Cleveland this year. Moves like this always make the news, but the amount of media attention he received over this decision is unrivaled. I explored his astrological chart to determine why this attention was so hot about his move to the Miami Heat. Read my explanation here…

One of the most interesting animal stories of 2010, was about Paul the Psychic Octopus, who predicted the World Cup winners. His psychic predictions were so accurate that he drew media attention from around the world and even some death threats against him and his mother. Read the story here…

As a wisdom teacher, I love to share the history of the world, including the parts that have been conveniently swept under the rug from current society. It’s part of duty this lifetime to expose these hidden bits of our past and bring them back into the light.  This year I shared the spirit and history of the winter solstice/christmas/yule/holiday season. Enlightened minds read on here…

We wrapped up the year heralding the return of sentimental gifts for the holidays. I shared sentimental gifts which are thought-provoking, emotion filled, and packed full of memories to be enjoyed by children and adults of all ages. This may indicate a new trend for the Christmas holiday where more consumers choose not to go into debt each year and instead create simple traditions shared with family and friends rather than blown out gift bonanzas.  Read about the sentimenal gifts here…

and lastly, I explored the celebration of Yule and how it continues into early January. Madrigal Feasts commemorate this holiday season and invited you to explore this tradition here…

Here we are dear readers, a new year has begun. What intentions will we create this year?

The future is now and each word, thought, action and deed we think and speak will set the direction and intention for our path.

I look forward to exploring with you this year for all the adventures that come our way.

Stay tuned as I’ll soon be discussing what the Chinese New Year and what the forecast for this year will bring.

Much love and joy to you all!

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More about Kala Ambrose: Kala Ambrose is an award winning author, intuitive and talk show host of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show. Her thought-provoking interviews entice listeners to tune in around the globe! Described by her guests and listeners as discerning, empowering and inspiring, she speaks with world renowned authors, artists, teachers and researchers delving into metaphysical, holistic and paranormal topics. Kala’s book, 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled delves into the mysteries of ancient Egyptian mystery schools and explains their wisdom teachings. Kala Ambrose is a highly interactive teacher on a mission to educate, entertain and inspire. She lectures on the Ancient Wisdom Teachings of Egypt and the Mystery Schools, Working with Auras, Chakras and Energy Fields, and Wise Woman Wisdom.



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