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The September edition of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala newsletter is now available for your reading pleasure.

I’m discussing Finding Your Creative Mojo, Calling in Fall, sharing news about a new paranormal fiction novel, along with a great way to support the recovery from the oil spill in the Gulf and empowering you to change your thoughts about Mercury Retrogrades.

Sound like a good time?

Come on over and sit for a spell and find out what’s new!

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Much love, joy and Happy Fall!

*~Kala~*

Join North Carolina author Kala Ambrose along with fourteen other NC authors at the annual ‘Lunch with an Author’ event as they ‘pay it forward’ and invest in future generations of writers. This special event will be held on Thursday, June 10, 2010 from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm in Wilmington, NC, at Cape Fear Community College. Tickets to the Lunch with an Author event are $50 and proceeds from the event provide scholarships to students majoring in Creative Writing at Cape Fear  Community College.

The event includes a ticket to enjoy lunch with an author at their table, along with an autographed copy of their book, a souvenir tote bag, a meet and greet with all the authors and a Keynote Address by Andrew Young, author of ‘The Politician: An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down’.

Author Ambrose will be presenting her book, 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled. Noted metaphysical teacher, business intuitive, inspirational speaker, author and host of the highly acclaimed talk show – Explore Your Spirit with Kala (www.ExploreYourSpirit.com), Kala Ambrose’s wisdom 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 metaphysical and paranormal topics, reporting on new discoveries in the scientific and spiritual arenas or lecturing and teaching to groups around the country, fans around the world tune in daily for her inspirational musings and lively thought-provoking conversations.

Kala Ambrose is an award-winning author, voice artist of a trilogy of guided meditation cd’s and a columnist for the Examiner as the National Metaphysical Spirituality Writer. Described as a highly interactive teacher on a mission to educate, entertain and inspire, Kala explains her mission regarding her work as… ‘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 its highest level, when individuals gather with wisdom, compassion and a discerning desire to provide service to humanity. Let us gather together each day as we Explore Your Spirit’.

Kala lectures around the US including teaching a three-day workshop entitled: Energy Anatomy: Exploring and Healing Your Auras and Chakras on July 23-25, 2010 at the prestigious Omega Institute in New York. She lectures on the Wisdom Teachings of Ancient Egypt and Greece, Developing Your Business Intuition, Auras, Chakras and Energy Fields, and Wise Woman Wisdom.

More information about the Lunch with an Author event including how to purchase tickets at www.lunchwithanauthor.com

Have you noticed how quickly time is moving as we shift into the new age of consciousness? It seems like we were just celebrating the New Year and here we are days away from August… We set goals of wanting to take more time for ourselves this year and to read more about subjects that inspire, educate and sometimes just entertain us.  Yet it’s hard to carry around a stack of books to read in the few moments we have to ourselves… on a quick lunch break, waiting in the carpool to pick up the children, on the train to work or if we’re really lucky, a few heavenly moments curled up in a chair reading a wonderful story….

While nothing will replace a paper book for me, I love it all, the smell, the paper, the feel of it in my hands, I also realize that in this age of communication, there are times when the purpose of technology is to create time saving shortcuts to help us in all that we do each day.  One  example of these tech evolutions is the Kindle, which allows books to be read in an electronic format. The Kindle is compact, portable and holds over 200 books in its database. It’s the perfect gift for someone who travels often and can’t take a bag of books with them,  the busy executive who can read on the way into work on the train, moms and dads waiting to pick up children from an activity and for those techies, who we all know, who love playing with new technology, just because it’s new!  I don’t think Kindle will be the demise of books, too many people love books in their paper format, but Kindle will find its place in this world. One option that I see in the future, will be for high school and college students, who lug around so many heavy books from class to class, putting a strain on their backs and shoulders. Kindle would allow for all of their textbooks to be downloaded into the reader and the students will be able to search for certain paragraphs of information and mark these areas for study later.  The costly replacement due to the wear and tear on the books along with the children’s health, would be worth it alone!

I’m proud to say that my book 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled is now available on Amazon for Kindle. If you have a Kindle and you’ve read my book in this format, I’d love to hear from you about how you found the experience.  Drop in and share your thoughts with me on our new Explore Your Spirit Community where we discuss this book and others.

All the best to you on your journey,

*~Kala~*

Stephanie South is the author of 2012: Biography of a Time Traveler, which is the authorized biography of José Arguelles, the man who first introduced the date December 21, 2012 into mass consciousness with The Mayan Factor. The initiator of the Harmonic Convergence global peace meditation of 1987, Arguelles is also the founder of the annual Whole Earth Festival (1970) in California, and one of the originators of the Earth Day concept.

Recently, I had the opportunity to ask Stephanie some questions about the 2012 book, Jose’ Arguelles and what’s to come in 2012.  Enjoy the interview between Stephanie and I, presented here below….   All the best, *~Kala~*

KA: Stephanie, how did you meet and become involved with Jose’ Arguelles?

SS: In hindsight, it was purely a matter of destiny. As it actually happened a man I had been involved with who was the head of Padmasambhava Center in Portland, Oregon invited me to the 28th annual Whole Earth Festival in 1998. He had a strong intuition to go there to specifically honor Jose as being a terton, or ¨hidden treasure finder¨ in Tibetan terms.  This meant the discoverer of hidden or lost teachings. This was all new to me as at the time I did not know what a terton was, nor had I heard of Jose Arguelles. As it turned out, Jose had started the Whole Earth Festival in 1970 as a prelude to the first Earth Day.

After hearing Jose speak about time and synchronicity, something clicked inside of me and I immediately began to study his works. A few years later, I began to assist him in editing and organizational work, but it wasn´t until 2002 that this entire process began.

KA: At the age of 14, Jose Arguelles experienced what he describes as a life altering vision while on the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico. Can you explain what he learned during this time?

SS: He learned that there was a higher mind behind the world of appearance. He experienced the cosmic essence behind ¨things.¨  While standing at the top of the pyramid he understood that the minds that conceived of and created these amazing pyramid structures were vastly different than the minds that created modern civilization. He vowed to find what this knowledge was and bring it back to the modern world.

KA: What theory do you ascribe to as to how the Mayan people created such elaborate calendars?

SS: I think they could create such elaborate calendars because they were operating with a different perception of time than how we think of it. They did not have telescopes or any other astrological equipment, yet they knew the movement and position of different stars and were able to calculate large cycles both in the future and in the past. This was due to an advanced mathematical system that underlies calendars. I  highly recommend reading Jose Arguelles´ book, The Mayan Factor for more information about this.

KA: Can you briefly explain Jose’s theories on the Harmonic Convergence as well as what we can expect on December 21, 2012…

SS: For Jose, the Harmonic Convergence of 1987 was the fulfillment of a prophecy that opened a 25-year portal leading to the Harmonic Convergence of 2012. This was a prophecy of Quetzalcoatl that defined a cycle of time that began in 843 AD and ended on August 16, 1987.

Jose received the dates for the Harmonic Convergence in the early 1970s from Tony Shearer, a Lakota journalist and poet. Then in 1983 Jose had an amazing vision of an ¨Earth Surrender Rite¨, which would become known as the Harmonic Convergence.

The Harmonic Convergence marked the first time that human beings simultaneously coordinated their prayers, meditations and ceremonies at sacred sites around the planet. Many didn´t even know why, but they felt a type of magnetic pull. It resulted in the largest unified moment of collective synchronization.

According to Jose, the Harmonic Convergence of 2012 is all about collective synchronization and the shift of timing frequencies opening us into a harmonious new cycle.

KA:  Arguelles discusses the “telepathic nature of time”. Explain this concept as well as his theory that humanity is living in “artificial time” and how this is affecting our environment and civilization as a whole.

SS: The simplest way to understand the ¨telepathic nature of time¨ is through the experience of synchronicity.  Synchronicity is the key. Jose discovered that time is actually a frequency—the frequency of synchronization.  So when we experience synchronicity, like when someone calls that you were just thinking about, this is a direct experience of the telepathic nature of time. This means that your inner experience and your outer experience were in alignment or synchronized in that moment.

According to the Law of Time, which Jose discovered in 1989, synchronicity is our natural state. What keeps us from experiencing synchronicity all the time is that we are living in artificial time.

Artificial time, he discovered, is created by two instruments: the mechanical clock and the Gregorian calendar, with its irregular measure.  Together, these two instruments create a timing frequency known as the 12:60 (12-month calendar, 60 minute clock). This is artificial time. The whole of our civilization runs on this frequency unconsciously. But the rest of nature lives in natural time. The frequency of natural time is 13:20 (based on the harmonic mathematics of the Mayan calendar). In this frequency time is art and synchronicity and telepathy are the norm. Jose has discovered that we can shift to the 13:20 frequency by learning to live again according to the cycles of nature.  The 13 Moon, 28-day calendar is the main instrument he advocates to shift frequencies.

KA:  What is the Noosphere II Project?

SS: The Noosphere II Project is an experiment in time to aid in a positive planetary shift in frequency.  Noosphere can be likened to the sphere of mind of the planet. It is also the name given for the coming stage of evolution. So the Noosphere II project is an experiment of different meditations and visualizations to actually realize and bring about this next stage. It is about the cultivation of the mind and exercises in maintaining a lucid state of continuing consciousness within the natural 13:20 timing frequency. Part of this project involves large group meditations, particularly on the rainbow bridge around the earth. See http://www.lawoftime.org/law/rainbow.html

KA: Jose Arguelles discusses the Law of Time and the 13 Moon Calendar that we should follow. How can we begin to live following the 13 Moon Calendar while also needing to function in the current time frame set for work, school etc?

SS: You can just begin to follow it along with the Gregorian calendar. All the 13-Moon, 28 day calendars have the Gregorian dates, so you just find the Gregorian date and then pay attention also to the 13 moon date of the day. Remember that the Maya used many calendars simultaneously (up to 17!).  It is all about synchronicity.

The 13-Moon, 28-day calendar is like a lens to shift your frequency and perception of time. It basically gives you a portal to another experience of  reality. The mathematics behind this calendar are the mathematics of the fourth dimension.  It´s a good experiment to try following it for one moon (28 days) and note any shifts in your perceptions and increase of synchronicities that might occur.

KA: Has the Law of Time affected the current world Economic Crisis?

SS: According to the Law of Time, the economic crisis is a function of a system based on artificial time. Nothing artificial can last. The main distinction of the Law of Time is that we are shifting the paradigm from ¨time is money¨ to ¨time is art.¨ The question is, how do we make a positive transition to a new system in alignment with the laws of nature so there is abundance and equality for all?

KA: Through your study and work with Jose Arguelles, what have you learned and what would you advise people to do to shift their consciousness before 2012 and after?

SS: I feel Jose´s life is powerful example of holding to your inner vision and dream even though the world may be telling you otherwise. The main thing I have learned from Jose is the importance of discipline, focus and the cultivation of the mind. Through the training of the mind, we are able to experience more easily the rich textured meaning of this reality as well as other realities. Jose has brought through many ¨time science¨ tools that, when studied and applied, have palpable effects on the mind and consciousness.

My advice to others through this time of transition is to find your joy—find what connects you most directly with your essence–this is where the treasure lies. Also it is so important that each of us take full responsibility for ourselves and our reality. This means no longer blaming others for anything. And also forgiving everyone for everything, including ourselves!  Everything we see in the outer world is a manifestation of our collective inner world, so as each of us shifts our inner world, then our outer world changes!  Also I highly recommend a vegetarian, vegan or raw vegan diet to help raise our frequency along with living in the natural cycles of time.

KA: Tell us more about you and your work.

SS: Currently I am working with Jose on completing the Book of the Timespace, volume V of the Cosmic History Chronicles. I am also working on the Star Travelers13-Moon Almanac of Synchronicity. This is an easy-to-use introduction to the 13-Moon, 28-day calendar that people can follow day-to-day along with the Gregorian calendar to begin to increase their synchronicity and shift their frequency. This should be available in about 6 weeks at www.lawoftime.org.

More about Stephanie South….

Stephanie South is a former journalist and coauthor of the seven volume series, Cosmic History Chronicles, of which the first four have been published. She is currently working on the fifth volume, Book of the Timespace. She met Jose Arguelles in 1998 after a series of dreams in which he was demonstrating time travel and telepathy. Soonafter, she began a systematic study of his work on the Law of Time. She is currently working with him on the Noosphere II Project, an investigation into the nature of time and cosmic states of consciousness. She is also working on the Star Traveler´s 13-Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, available soon at www.lawoftime.org.  More info at:  http://www.south-timetraveler.com/

In the wake of Dan Brown’s bestseller, some people insisted that it was pure fiction, while others asked, “What remains when the fiction is stripped away from The Da Vinci Code.” What remains, I believe, is the belief of the earliest Christians that Jesus embodied the Sacred Bridegroom from the ancient mythologies and that Mary Magdalene was his spouse. This belief appears at the core of the Gospels and was later embellished by authors of the Gnostic texts discovered in Egypt, texts that unabashedly proclaim Mary Magdalene as beloved disciple and intimate companion, even “consort,” of Jesus.

My personal conviction that Jesus was married and that he and his wife modeled the hieros gamos (literally, “sacred marriage”) as the “archetypal divine couple” rests on the Passion narrative in the canonical Gospels, beginning with the anointing of Jesus by a woman, an event followed by his torture, death, and resurrection. This powerful sequence closely paralleled in numerous ancient mythologies and liturgies of pagan “bridegroom gods” similarly sacrificed and resurrected at the vernal equinox.

As Jesus was reclining at the banquet table in the town of Bethany, a woman carrying an alabaster jar of precious ointment approached him. She broke the jar open and anointed Jesus with its contents, precious unguent of nard. Then, as her tears fell on his feet, she dried them with her hair. This passionate story was so poignant that it survived for a generation in oral tradition and is one of only four stories included in all four canonical Gospels.

What was it about the story of this anointing by a woman that was so powerful, so unforgettable? Jesus himself proclaimed that wherever this story was told, it would be told “in memory of her.” And yet, most people do not even remember her name!

Over the years, the unnamed woman became identified with Mary Magdalene and was branded a prostitute, a slander derived from the association of the anointing with pagan rites of the sacred King. Later legends tell of the journey of the “Bride in Exile,” another familiar archetype from ancient mythologies and Micah 4: 8-10. Mary Magdalene brings the Holy Grail to the shores of Gaul, arriving in about 42 A.D. with her friends and family in a boat with no oars, fleeing persecution in Judea. With them is a pre-adolescent child, between the ages of nine and twelve whose name Sarah means “Princess” in Hebrew, yet legend declares that she is a servant. Was she, like Cinderella, really a princess from a faraway land? This legend lies at the core of the bloodline heresy that cannot be proven with facts, but echoes poignantly throughout medieval European folklore and art—the myth that a royal child descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene survived. The “lost princess” belongs in the realm of mythology, a story too dangerous to be told as fact, but one that contrives to confirm the marriage of the “Christ-couple” at the heart of the Christian mythology.

The “sacred union,” tragically lost in the cradle of Christianity, was to have been our birthright in the Western world.  In reclaiming this union of the “Archetypal Bride and Bridegroom,” we bring waters of Spirit and Truth to heal the wasteland.  Margaret Starbird Copyright 2005  All rights reserved

Listen to the interview with Kala and Margaret Starbird as they discuss her new book, 14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine, The DaVinci Code, the Divine Feminine, and Angels and Demons on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show here: http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows1.shtml#STARBIRD

More about Margaret Starbird….

Margaret Starbird holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Maryland and did graduate study Christian Albrechts Universität in Kiel, Germany, and at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, TN. A “cradle” Roman Catholic, Starbird taught Scripture classes for adults and CCD for many years and currently presents lectures and retreats centered on the Sacred Feminine in Christianity. She has been interviewed for numerous TV documentaries both in the USA and in Britain and is the author of several widely acclaimed books about the  Sacred Feminine in Christian tradition: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar (1993), and The Goddess in the Gospels: Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine (1998), both cited by Dan Brown as significant sources in his best-selling thriller The Da Vinci Code.  Her newest book, Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile, was published in 2005. Her other titles include Magdalene’s Lost Legacy and The Feminine Face of Christianity, both published in 2003, and a forthcoming book co-authored with a Jungian therapist, Joan Norton:  14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine. Starbird and her husband of forty years have five grown children and reside in Washington State.  More info at: www.margaretstarbird.net

With the world’s economy on such shaky ground as the old structures crumble to make way for the new, there are millions of people who consider themselves in dire financial straits. They are facing such potentially core-shaking events as home foreclosures, job losses, and bankruptcy. Many are experiencing utter desperation because they just don’t know what to do.

If that’s you—or if you’re in any situation that has you feeling in dire straits—I invite you to do the most powerful thing possible: surrender. Give everything over to your Spirit to sort out. Turn it over to the wise, powerful aspect of you to handle, and be willing to listen for and act on your Spirit’s guidance in taking any practical steps that need to be taken.

I invite you to use this experience as your proving ground for your beliefs—to put your spirituality to the test—so that you can demonstrate the very truths you’ve adopted and have made your intention to live by. And what better time is there to do that than when your back is to the wall? Up against the wall is a power place when you decide it is. When you’re up against the wall, the most powerful response is to say to your Spirit, “I surrender this to you.”

Only One Thing is Standing In The Way of The Abundant Life You Were Designed to Live

Your very design as a human being calls for you to thrive, live in harmony, and be abundantly blessed. But there is an important part of this that many have missed. This harmony and abundance depends on you listening to your Spirit’s voice above all other voices, and following its guidance faithfully. That is how the Creator set things up for humanity to live a life of joy, ease, and harmony.

But you cannot expect the level of abundant blessing you were designed to enjoy when you allow the loud, panicked voice of the Fearful Self to drown out the calm, sure, wise voice of your Spirit. And heaven knows, this whole economic scenario is riling up our fearful aspects and causing them to scream bloody murder! Financial trouble strikes right at the major hot buttons of your Fearful Self, also known as your ego.

The threat of losing one’s home, of not having enough food, of not being able to provide abundantly for one’s family, of feeling like a failure, and so on—these all hit ego right where it lives (no pun intended). Because ego’s agenda lines right up with the agenda of your primitive brain, known in the Triune Brain Model as the reptilian brain, that part of you that is concerned with your physical survival, it is particularly stressed at anything to do with threats to survival or status. And when ego’s buttons are pushed, it is loud and insistent on getting your attention.

But you can’t let the threatened ego take over and drown out the voice of your Spirit. You need to do whatever it takes to soothe the poor, terrified thing into quietude so that Spirit’s voice can be heard in response. The key to doing this is to raise your vibration, because the higher you go, the fainter ego’s voice is, and the clearer Spirit’s voice.

The Fearful Self Must Be Allowed Its Say, or There Will Be No Peace

The thing is, though, ego is not going to let this happen without first being heard. Ironically, in order to quiet its voice, you will first need to let it express itself. Your helpless little-child ego-self is going to need to wail it out and your teenaged ego-self is going to need to yell about how unfair it all is. Every level of ego will need to discharge its anger and express its fear. That is not dwelling on the negative; it is managing your vibration by managing your feelings. Trying to go higher without clearing out all this emotional energy is futile. Stuffing your fear and trying to paste a smiley face on it in the name of being positive is just not going to work.

You may recognize this emotional release as being Step 3 from the Step-By-Step Frequency Raising System. Whenever you feel the fear and emotional energy building up, have a #3 and clear it out on purpose. That is how you clear the way to the empowering guidance of your omniscient Spirit.

After releasing the fearful emotions, use some of the many tools listed in the Step-By-Step system to transcend your fearful ego and go higher in vibration, and, thus, closer to your Spirit. Uplifting music, aromatherapy, physical exercise, appreciating nature—or a combination of these or others—will help you move higher and higher. As long as it feels pleasurable to you—as long as you’re feeling better and better—you know what you are doing is uplifting you.

Surrender Again, and Again, and Again

If you find yourself worrying or trying to think your way through the problem, it’s time to surrender again. Your Spirit, always in alignment with the Design for Harmony, knows exactly what to do to bring you to your highest level of well-being, no matter the circumstances or the problems you may have created by allowing ego to lead. When you are aligned with your Spirit, it will tell you the practical steps you need to take in the process of sorting out a problem or moving to a more peaceful situation. Your Spirit is also a dispenser of miracles if you’re sufficiently surrendered and available to receive them.

The solutions your Spirit has for you won’t require engineering by your left brain—your left brain will only be needed to carry out the instructions Spirit gives you. Your left brain won’t be able to come up with the ideas to solve the problems—it would have already done so if it were able. Spirit will provide the ideas and solutions, but you have to be tuned in to receive its messages.

When you worry, plot, plan, and control, you are on the wrong wavelength to receive the perfect guidance of your Spirit. When worry sets in, just turn it around by saying, “I trust you Spirit. I surrender this to you.” How often do you need to surrender? How ever many times it takes. Your frightened ego will try to convince you that relying on your Spirit is impractical, but that’s only because it can’t see high enough to grasp what your Spirit is able to do that it can’t.

Keep affirming your trust in your Spirit. Praise your Spirit for its brilliance and power (this is not for your Spirit’s sake, but for your own!). And to really keep yourself in the zone, go ahead and thank your Spirit with all the enthusiasm of someone who has just been told that all her problems have been solved, because that is the very outcome that is being created when you trust your Spirit and follow its guidance to the abundant life you were designed to live.

Listen to Kala’s interview with Julia on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show as they discuss Julia’s first book and life experience in Recreating Eden: http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows3.shtml#RECREATINGEDEN

More about Julia Rogers Hamrick…..

Julia Rogers Hamrick, visionary author and teacher, has been a spiritual-growth facilitator since 1982 when she underwent a radical spiritual awakening, including an occurrence of spontaneous cosmic consciousness, as a result of surrendering her life to Spirit in response to a health crisis. With this experience as the foundation, her teaching focuses on deliberately creating new realities through managing our vibrational state, with an emphasis on the relationship between vibrational frequency and our experience of life. Most recently, in a whisper from the Divine, Julia was gifted with the remembrance of the parallel reality called Easy World, “where everything is easy.” Upon sharing this extremely simple concept, it began spreading like wildfire as people at all points of spiritual evolution have clicked with the words, “I live in Easy World, where everything is easy,” have found their lives transforming with utmost ease, and have shared Easy World with others. Her new book Choosing Easy World is due to be released soon.  More info at: www.juliarogershamrick.com or  www.iliveineasyworld.com

On tonight’s show, my guest is Annamaria Hemingway and we’re discussing her book, Practicing Conscious Living and Dying: Stories of the Eternal Continuum of Consciousness.

Annamaria’s book shares real life stories, showing death as an integral part of life, with personal accounts of near-death experiences and after-death communication.  Over the years, I’ve spoken with many people who have had near death experiences. I’ve also communicated with people in spirit from the other planes. In the courses that I offer as a teacher of esoteric teachings, one semester of study is dedicated to what is often referred to as the Death Series, where students learn how the soul prepares to leave this plane over a period of time. When one does not fear this process, it allows one to open up to the journey with more awareness and consciousness.

Birth, Death, Rebirth, it’s the Cycle of Life. Join us here in the interview as AnnaMaria and I discuss Conscious Living and Dying.  http://www.exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows3.shtml#HEMINGWAY

Pagan Pages is an online magazine, with the stated vision of… “From Knowledge Grows Acceptance.  The magazine covers a wide spectrum of topics to do with metaphysical and spiritual traditions. Recently, Pagan Pages columnist Michele Burke interviewed me about my book, 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled.  I’m usually on the other side of an interview asking the questions, so if you’ve been interested in finding out more about the 9 lessons book and what inspired me to write it, this interview covers a lot of ground about the book and how it came to be….

My interview with Michele is featured in the April issue of Pagan Pages magazine,

click on the link below to read:

http://paganpages.org/content/2009/04/interview-with-kala-ambrose/

At The North Carolina Renaissance Faire, you can step back 400 years into time and history! This full scale, interactive theater experience is like no other. The Faire offers you a chance to visit the days of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I! At this 16th Century Faire, you’ll find over 110 artisans hawking their wares, you’ll enjoy musicians, jugglers, and the ribaldry of actors in many distinct staging areas. You’ll see brave and bold knights competing for the favor of the Her Majesty’s Court (and for their lady’s affection) during any one of three full-contact jousts held in the Queen’s Tiltyard.

The theme of this Year’s Faire is….

Queen Elizabeth and her Royal Court have been invited by the Earl of Bedford to come and visit with him at his estate in Kingston-Upon-Hull, a major shipping port about ten days journey north of London. Good Queen Bess has accepted his invitation and the town is all abuzz with the exciting news of her imminent arrival. Lord Mayor Charles Babington has requested that the Towne Cryer, Master Harold, gather the citizens into the Towne Square for some important announcements. Just as his honour, Lord Mayor Babington, finishes checking with each of the towne merchants to verify that all preparations are in order for the Queen’s arrival, the gathering is interrupted by Count Bernadino Mendoza, the Spanish ambassador, who asks to address the crowd. It seems, he announces, that a courier, sent by King Philip with an important dispatch for the Queen, is missing. The Count offers a generous reward for anyone who locates the diplomatic pouch containing the dispatch, generating much excitement amongst the crowd.

Suddenly, Captain Richard Langstrom of the Mermaid’s Revenge pushes his way through the crowd, dragging a drunk and disheveled Spaniard behind him. “Is this the scurvy dog you be looking for?” he asks roughly. Indeed, it is the missing courier but, alas, he has misplaced the diplomatic pouch and too much ale has dulled his memory. The search for the missing pouch is on, with Count Mendoza leading the charge and enlisting the aid of the Sheriff and his Deputy and the good citizens of Kingston-Upon-Hull in the hunt.

Where is the missing pouch? What important message for Queen Elizabeth is contained within? And… what is the story behind the mysterious ship, the Mermaid’s Revenge, and its questionable crew? Come to the North Carolina Renaissance Faire and find the answer these questions and more. The fun and excitement of Elizabethan England is right around the corner.

Relive the old days and visit the NC Ren Faire this April 4th and 5th! For more information, visit: http://ncrenfaire.com