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Over the years, I’ve compiled a list of movies that inspire and entertain and are sure to stimulate great discussion, whether you gather with a group of like-minded people to watch and discuss or cuddle up with a significant other to share two hours of inspired and thought-provoking moments.  With Summer around the corner, it’s a good time to stock up on movies and host a movie night once a week with friends and discuss universal mysteries under a star filled sky….

Next time, I’ll bring my top list of Paranormal Movies, Chills, Thrills and Mysteries Galore!  Without further ado, here’s my Best Metaphysical Movies List….

Kala’s Recommended Best Metaphysical Movies List

(In no particular order…)  Defending Your Life, What Dreams May Come, Powder, The Matrix Series, GroundHog Day, Ghost The Sixth Sense, Heart and Souls, Patch Adams, Field of Dreams, What the Bleep Do We Know, The Fifth Element, Star Wars Triology, Pay It Forward, The Bucket List, Dogma, GhostBusters 1 & 2, I Heart Huckabees, Peaceful Warrior, Heaven Can Wait, The Butcher’s Wife, All of Me, City of Angels, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Harry Potter Series, The Golden Compass, The Last Mimzy, Meet Joe Black, Michael, A MidSummer Night’s Dream, Phenomenon, Practical Magic, Somewhere in Time, StarDust, DaVinci Code, The 10th Kingdom, Chocolat and a personal favorite, cause there aint’ nothing more spiritual than the blues… watch Blues Brothers 1 & 2.. For more serious discussion, consider The Power Of Myth with Joseph Campbell. I also can’t resist adding some favorite TV shows, including: Babylon 5 – The Series, *   Charmed – The Series * and Buffy The Vampire Slayer – The Series

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On The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, I’ve had the opportunity to interview Dr. Walter Semkiw to discuss his research on reincarnation. The author of Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation and Soul Groups Reunited, his work has been featured on CNN and cited in Newsweek. Semkiw founded the Institute for the Integration of Science, Intuition, and Spirit (IISIS), dedicated to researching reincarnation and related phenomena scientifically and promoting the social transformation that objective evidence of reincarnation will bring.  His research discusses reincarnation and past life cases are reviewed which demonstrate that from lifetime to lifetime, facial features, personality traits, passions, aptitudes and linguistic writing style remain consistent. People are also shown to incarnate in karmic soul groups and many times married couples come back together, which explains the phenomenon of “love at first sight.”

To listen to this interview on Explore Your Spirit, click here: http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows1.shtml#SEMKIW

For those of you on the East Coast, Dr. Semkiw will be speaking at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. (in Virginia Beach, VA) Annual Easter Conference, Reincarnation, Resurrection, and Renewal from April 10-12, which celebrates the eternal nature of the soul with ground-breaking research into proof of reincarnation.  Admission fee is $245, with special discounts for A.R.E. members, seniors, and full-time students.

For more information:  contact the A.R.E. at www.EdgarCayce.org/conferences

We used to go on vacations in order to ‘vacate’, to empty out our built up stress, our ‘backed up’ clogged up energies. We’d plop ourselves on the beach just ‘vegging’ and often using alcohol to force our bodies to relax. This is the old model that we are shifting out of. And then there came an ‘Eco Travel’ trend, or ‘Adventure Travel’ with mountain biking and ‘ziplining’ or white water rafting.  All fun and energizing. But we still weren’t able to ‘Be still and know That I Am God’ – we still weren’t able to truly relax and receive. So the pendulum swung from total ‘vacating, vegging out vacations’ to ‘Adventure Activity Vacations’- strenuous physical activity Adventures. As with all polarity paradigms the pendulum swings between the oppo-sites and eventually finds center balance.

Now there is a new balance emerging – the best of all worlds’ type of travel coming forth- Eco Spiritual Travel – where enjoying, caring, appreciating the Natural World – being in touch with Mother Nature combines with personal Spiritual growth & a rejuvenating, relaxing vacation. Is it ‘Work’ or ‘Play’? We also used to have very distinct boundaries between ‘work’ & ‘play’. We had to ‘work’ in order to save up enough $ and time to ‘play’ or ‘take time off’. This model is also starting to melt, blur and merge into something new where work & play are joining into something new. The new model is becoming more of – just Being. We are working-playing-being-doing all together at once. Perhaps we will outgrow the word ‘work’ and we will come up with a new word – or perhaps no word. ‘No Pain, No Gain’ is the old Model.

When we started doing ‘workshops’, retreats, awakening seminars – we were still under the old model of ‘no pain, no gain’. We felt in order to get something out of our ‘workshop’ there had to be some ‘pain’ involved. We had to get up early, spend most of the day in our ‘work’ shop with short breaks for food – and with very little time left over for just fun. These models were the right stepping stones at the time – at least we were ‘working’ on our Selves and not for someone else. But now things are moving towards more merging- unifying ways of being & doing in our lives. What if we can combine Fun, Relaxing & Play with personal Awakening &  Spiritual Growth? And how about we add contributing to the health of the Planet and the Ecosphere to that? This is a ‘light bulb moment’ when we see it –a win-win-win for everyone and everything involved. The old model of ‘if it’s good for me it tastes bad or is hard and no fun’ or ‘if it’s fun it has to be either illegal, immoral or fattening’ – those days are leaving.

Eco Spiritual Travel – is travel where you go somewhere you really enjoy, can really feel good in body, mind & spirit and enjoying Nature-Mother Earth- the Eco Sphere. Part of your ‘vacation’ may be to lie on the beach in Kona, Hawaii but not for all day for days on end. That’s like eating too much cheesecake! Instead your day might look like this – you may get up leisurely around 8-9am, enjoy the open air restaurant breakfast – an hour after breakfast you join your Spiritual Retreat Seminar being conducted under the palm trees . You do some breathing meditation and learn to feel your Inner Body more fully. After these simple timeless spiritual exercises & some social interaction time with likeminded new friends you have free time to swim with turtles, go into town to shop, or read a book in the hammock, go visit a Kona coffee farm or snorkel on the reef. Then in the late afternoon you meet back up with your retreat group and you go for short drive to a protected bay and swim with wild dolphins carefully respecting the dolphins’ natural boundaries. Then a Sunset meditation at an ancient Heiau – temple area where you can feel the ancient rhythms of true old Hawaii. And back to the resort for evening dinner overlooking the protected lagoons, watching the turtles swim below you. Private time, beach time, group spiritual time, dolphin time, sunset time, food time, hammock time… true en-join-ment.

En-join-ment = the new model is that when we truly en-joy we are ‘In Joy’ – en‘join’ing back up with God, reconnecting with our own Spirit. The old model is that we can only reach ‘God’, ‘Salvation’, ‘Nirvana’, ‘Enlightenment’ through pain, struggle, sore backs from meditation postures, having to ‘sacrifice’, fighting our minds to be ‘quiet’, “It’s in our Pleasure we find our Treasure.” Do flowers not en-joy opening into blooming? Do trees struggle? Does the Ocean have to ‘work’ when its waves move? Do Birds effort and huff and puff when flying? Isn’t this effortless flow perhaps what St. Francis was pointing to when he quotes – “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow – they neither toil nor spin – and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”  What is a flow-er? Maybe the Angels of Language left clues for us – a flower is a Flow-er, a flow of God-Spirit Energy erupting into our world to remind us to also surrender to this Flow of God-Source.

Sound too good to be true? To be able to relax, have fun, have pleasure all while Spiritually Awakening, respecting Mother Nature, and contributing financially to a group providing sanctuaries for animals? It’s happening now. These Eco Spiritual Vacations are a growth segment of travel for the future. They are here and available now. Small, boutique operators are creating truly connecting, spiritual experiences for small groups of travelers all over the world – that feed the travelers and the whole Eco Sphere – Mother Earth at the same time. “It’s not either/or — it’s both and more!” OSHO.

So why not make your next Vacation an ‘Eco Spiritual Travel’ Vacation – and feed your Self, re-connect with your Spirit while en-Joy-ing Nature-Mother Earth-the Eco Sphere.

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Listen to Kala’s interview with Tobias Lars on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show here: http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows4.shtml#LARS

More About Tobias Lars:
While attending undergraduate school Tobias Lars had an awakening experience where the energy centers of the body opened up and spontaneously reactivated ancient yogic energy practices. This happened without any work. The Yogic ‘Asanas’ – the postures came back to the conscious awareness and he felt other lifetimes of practicing yoga. As he did each posture they felt like a key unlocking energy grids in the body that had been previously locked and these energies were then released and flooded through the body. These powerful effects were undeniable to his young western scientific mind. That started a 25 year journey of spiritual study. Tobias spent time in India with a master teacher, studied shamanic practices with Native American free beings, heart centered Tantra, ego confrontation, the path of divine romantic love and with the help of a mentor opened back up to the energies of the nature kingdom of Pan and the Devic Kingdom. During this time Tobias Lars also received a Masters Degree in International Business and founded ventures in international business. A few years later another series of ‘wake up calls’ came through business ‘failure’, divorce and bankruptcy. He next spent a period of 5 years away from the day to day world going through another level of awakening of the soul.  Much of what he believed and thought he ‘knew’ – especially ideas of what spirituality really was – and what was previously held as reality, was transformed-exploded-shifted.  More info at: www.spiritravel.com

Across The Threshold: Creativity, Being & Healing is an interdisciplinary Conference bringing together  scholars and practitioners from scientific, creative, and  mystical disciplines to explore and share transformative paths leading to integration of mind, body and spirit.

Acknowledging the complex interrelationship of mind, body, and spirit is a step towards empowered and enlightened healing of ourselves, our relationships, and our environment. We are physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual beings, and the interplay between all these parts of ourselves affects our quality of life moment-to- moment — our ability to synthesize ideas and knowledge; to develop our intuition; to imagine and create; to heal.
The Conference, to be held on March 19 – 22nd, 2009 at Duke University and at the historic Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, North Carolina, is designed to be a stimulating blend of the experiential and theoretical, including:

• Keynote address by Bradford Keeney  

Listen to Kala’s interview with Bradford Keeney

on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show

• Keynote performance and workshop by  Vincent Mantsoe

• Participatory art installation with Cici Stevens, Workshops, Panels and Paper Presentations, Opportunities to share meals, network, and relax and a special pre-conference 1⁄2-day workshop with Bradford Keeney

For more detailed schedule information and to register,

visit www.duke.edu/web/threshold

How can someone simply insert his hand into the body of another person and remove tumors, scar tissue, congealed cholesterol, gall or kidney stones, and stagnant blood clots? Even though I have experienced this many times and have observed it at close hand—most recently at the clinic of Jun Labo in Baguio, Philippines—it still seems unbelievable. Yet, every day at 10 a.m., people from around the world with afflictions of body, mind, and spirit, line up at Rev. Labo’s door in anticipation of their own personal miracle. Three days a week, the same thing happens at The Casa, the clinic of John of God in Abadiânia, Brazil. This phenomenon cannot be easily dismissed.

What is “psychic surgery?” Perhaps you have heard about it before, but most of what was said was negative. In fact, there are many false healers, whose primary motivation is to make money from the suffering of others, but there are also incredibly gifted psychic surgeons. In order for a human being to be endowed with the ability to perform psychic surgery, she must be willing to enter into relationship with spirit. She must have what the Filipinos call the Power, meaning the ability to allow intense higher vibrations to flow through her for the purpose of helping others. Thus, psychic surgery can be understood to involve mediumship, which is the receiving of information and energy from spirit in a process called channeling. The healer uses this spiritual energy to affect positive change in the material world, i.e., remove disease from another person’s physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies.

Psychic surgery is also referred to as faith-healing or bare-handed surgery. The healer’s hands function like magnets inside of the body, drawing diseased tissue toward them, which is then removed and thrown away. Simply put, the body is opened in much the same way as medical doctors do when using a scalpel, except that in psychic surgery there is no cutting, no anesthesia is used, and there is no pain, scars, or infection. The incisions can even be made by the healer merely pointing a finger at the skin of the patient from a distance of one foot away. This process is entirely safe, however, because psychic surgeons are directed by the Holy Spirit and highly evolved, powerful spirit guides.

To better understand psychic surgery, imagine the body is like a glass of water. When you slip your finger into the water, the molecules of the water separate to make room for your finger, and when you remove your finger, the water fills in the space left behind.

Clearly, psychic surgery involves some law of physics we do not yet understand. In her book Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation, Shirley MacLaine describes her meeting with a well-respected Filipino healer: “Something we don’t understand is occurring, and I believe it is evidence of alternative realities and higher-dimensional capability.” (New York: Bantam Dell, 1989.)

We are physical beings living in a material world we call the 3rd dimension and experience through our five senses. But we are simultaneously so much more. Our 3rd dimensional world merges into the etheric plane, and from there into the 4th dimension, which is also called the astral plane. This alternate universe is inhabited by all sorts of spirits, entities, gurus, elementals, fairies, and ghosts—much like the spirits in the television show “Ghost Whisperer,” those unfortunate souls who have died but haven’t yet crossed over into the light because they have unfinished business on Earth. The astral plane can be visited consciously through astral projection, meditation, near death experience, lucid dreaming, and other means.

The 4th dimension has many levels, serving as a graduated bridge, or ladder, between the 3rd and 5th dimensions. (Different theories postulate anywhere from seven to 49 astral levels.) This bridge allows for the possibility of anyone making contact with the spiritual realms. However, in order to travel to the higher planes, we must first be filled with love for ourselves and others, and learn the necessary skills to raise our conscious awareness.

The 4th dimension merges into the 5th, which some people call heaven. This where Jesus and the saints, angels, and archangels reside. Some theorize that there are even higher spiritual dimensions, but in most religions this is the highest realm a soul can reach. Multi-dimensional reality is a complex subject and there are conflicting theories. Ultimately we will not really know the complete nature and structure of the universe until we die and “go to the light.”

My personal experience is that I am “here” in physical reality, but I am also simultaneously “there” in the spiritual realm. I perceive this “other place” with my inner vision during meditation, and when I am working with clients doing energetic healing and clairvoyant readings. I begin by reciting the Lord’s Prayer, which opens my 7th chakra (the energy center just above the top of the head). This allows me to receive information from my spirit guides, including messages for others. In this way, I experience myself as a multi-dimensional being.

You can begin your own journey of making contact with alternative dimensions by using the simple exercises given below. Just focus your awareness on the Divine—and, remember, your intention directs your destination.

EXERCISE: Connecting to Divine Energy
Sit in a relaxed pose with your feet on the floor and your hands in your lap, palms up. Imagine there is a cord of any color or thickness going from the base of your spine to the center of the earth. Once you create your cord, it will always be available to ground you. All you have to do is think about it. Your cord can go through solid objects, even if you are on the top floor of a tall building or flying in an airplane.

Next, visualize a large ball of sparkling, golden light about a foot above you. Bring this light gently down into the top of your head. See it moving throughout your body: your throat, heart, solar plexus, and abdomen. Send it down your arms and legs, and back up. Finally, flush the light down through your grounding cord, taking with it any “dis-ease” or negativity.

EXERCISE: Connecting to Earth Energy
Begin as above, but instead create a cord attached to the bottom of each foot. Visualize earth energy moving gently up towards you through these cords. Feel it enter your feet and begin to rise up into your body until it has filled you completely. This energy will feel thick and relaxing. Try this meditation when you feel overstimulated, stressed, or have trouble sleeping.

Listen to Kala as she speaks with Jessica Bryan about Psychic Surgery and Faith Healing on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show here: http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows3.shtml#BRYAN

More about Jessica Bryan….

Jessica Bryan is the author of “Psychic Surgery and Faith Healing: An Exploration of Multi-Dimensional Realities, Indigenous Healing, and Medical Miracles in the Philippine Lowlands” (Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari, 2008). She lives in Talent, Oregon.  Read her Blog at: www.psychicsurgery.wordpress.com

The moment that consciousness of the world around him first bloomed in the mind of primitive man, god was. Early man could only explain the awesome terror of thunder and lightning flashing through the night, the wonder of a child birthed into the world, the mysterious, inescapable power of death, as the work of some force, some entity greater than himself.  An eternal force, all-powerful, all knowing, immutable.

God.

Millions of years later, most of humanity still holds a belief in a god, or gods. This, despite the fact that there is not one shred of evidence to prove that god exists. Simply stated, a belief in god is an act of faith.

Over the last five years or so, I have been actively engaged in studying paranormal events as I researched my three books about ghosts and ghosthunting. As I conducted my research, my curiosity about paranormal activity deepened. I began to ask larger questions: What were ghosts, exactly? What was the nature of their existence if, in fact, they existed? What did their existence say about the nature of our existence? What did it say about the possibility of human existence after death? An afterlife?

That’s when parapsychology ran smack into theology.

If ghosts exist, then there must be another level of existence for us after death. Such an afterlife is incorporeal, a realm of spirit energy. Nearly all the world’s religions down through the ages have maintained a belief in some sort of afterlife, or at least, a belief in a spirit world distinct from the human plane of existence.

Here’s where things get a bit sticky. If god were spirit, then he would be part of, or would exist in that spirit realm. Is it possible then, that the existence of ghosts could be evidence of sorts of the existence of god, since both would presume that world of spirit?

A woman approached me after I had given a talk about ghosts at a library in Ohio. She said that she was a devout Christian and, as such, believed in ghosts because they proved to her that there was life after death as Jesus had promised.  A few minutes later, a second woman came up to me and said that, as a devout Christian, she categorically denied the existence of ghosts!  They were the work of Satan, designed to confuse us poor mortals and lead us astray. Two devout Christians, two opposite ideas about ghosts. These different viewpoints served as the springboard for my inquiry into the connections between parapsychology and theology, ghosts and religion.

I was raised in a traditional Roman Catholic family where the Holy Ghost was invoked every time I began to pray and made the Sign of the Cross. I didn’t give the term much thought as a youth, but in later years, I did question the word ghost, as did the Church apparently, since the term more commonly in use these days is Holy Spirit, rather than Holy Ghost. But, why the switch?

The change makes sense. The word spirit refers to a being that never had a corporeal existence, in other words, a being that was never human, but was always spirit. For religious folk, angels and demons, gods and goddesses would fall into this category.

The word ghost, on the other hand, refers to a being that was once alive as you and me. Now deceased and without a body, the essence–perhaps soul–of that person remains earthbound for whatever reasons. I think of this ghosthood as a transitional state, something akin to getting off a bus at the wrong stop. We know we haven’t reached our proper destination and now we’re lost, confounded, without a direction–or a bus–to guide us home.

This distinction between ghost and spirit, helpful as it may be while investigating paranormal events, becomes less clear when theology enters the picture. Some of the world’s religions, notably Christianity, believe in a god that is also human–fully human and fully divine. These gods die, just as we mortals die, but what then is the nature of their existence after death? Ghost or spirit? Reading the New Testament accounts of Jesus after his death suddenly appearing among his disciples in a locked room, or materializing beside two disciples on the road to Emmaus, one is struck by how ghostly these events seem. In many details, they mirror modern day ghost sightings. What of Lazarus coming forth from his tomb? Was he a ghost?

As we explore the connection between parapsychology and theology, it would be helpful to use one term that would encompass our traditional understanding of ghosts and spirits (gods). I propose the term spiritual energies. Here, spiritual refers to any being that does not exist in a corporeal state. The word energies means that these beings have some force, some essence associated with them. Since we know that all things are energy, the word energies is useful in capturing the conceept of both ghosts and spirits. It makes no claim as to whether these beings have intelligence, emotions, motivations, etc.; it simply says that they are.

There are three possible explanations for the existence of spiritual energies:

1. Spiritual energies are actually manifestations of physical laws whose science we do not yet understand. Just as centuries ago, radio waves and microwaves were unknown, it might be that science, especially quantum physics, will demystify paranormal and divine events to show them up as naturally occurring scientific phenomena.

2. Spiritual energies may be products of our own neurological and psychological functions. It may be that paranormal and divine manifestations stem from our own hallucinations, misperceptions, delusions, and physical and metal abnormalities. In other words, we experience spiritual energies in our minds and not as objective reality.

3. Spiritual energies may, indeed, be real entities inhabiting a realm of existence separate from our own and subject to metaphysical properties and laws unknown to us. Ghosts, then, are real in this scenario, as is god.

More about John B. Kachuba:
John B. Kachuba is the author of Ghosthunting: On the Trail of Mediums, Dowsers, Spirit Seekers and Other Investigators of America’s Paranormal World, Ghosthunting Illinois and Ghosthunting Ohio. Author John Kachuba holds advanced degrees in Creative Writing from Antioch University (Yellow Springs, OH) and Ohio University. He has taught writing at both the University of Cincinnati and Ohio University. He is also on the faculty of the Gotham Writers Workshop. John is a noted conference speaker and presenter and has appeared at Wildacres Writing Workshop, Florida Suncoast Writers Conference, Columbus Writers Conference, Erma Bombeck Humor Writing Workshop, Blooming Grove Writers Conference, West Virginia Ghost Hunters and Spirituality Conference, Haunted America Conference, and Victory of Light Psychic Festival. He has also spoken on many radio and television programs throughout the country and internationally. John lives in Athens, Ohio, with his wife Mary. More info at http://johnkachuba.com

Listen to interviews with Kala and John Kachuba on ghosts, hauntings and paranormal experiences on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show.

Shows include:

http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows2.shtml#GHOSTHUNTINGGUIDES08

and

http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows2.shtml#KACHUBAGHOSTTRAIL

and

http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows2.shtml#KACHUBA

A new year means a new opportunity to do better. This year, in particular with a new president, there has been a lot of talk about healthcare reform. Even under the most optimistic situation , if legislation passed tomorrow , significant changes would still be years away.

What can you do to make sure you are around and not bankrupt to see these reforms occur? Healthcare and medical expenses are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy. Do the following:

* Get preventive screening tests done. Even if you feel well, find out what tests you should get done even if you feel well. You do get routine maintence for your car don’t you? Why? So it doesn’t break down. Well how about your body?

* Pick a primary care doctor to be your healthcare advocate. Either an internist or family doctor will do. Research consistently shows patients who have a primary care doctor coordinate care and who is the first logical step to access the healthcare system not only are healthier but also spend less to get there.

* If you need medications, always insist on generic medications. They aren’t inferior. They are medications that previously were branded but no longer have patent protection. This means other pharmaceutical companies can manufacture the medications resulting in decrease prices. Recent generic medications over the past few years include allergy medications CLARITIN, ZYRTEC, cholesterol lowering medication ZOCOR, and heartburn medication – “the purple pill” PRILOSEC. Notice how before they went generic, companies plastered the airwaves and print with advertising. Now that they are generic, no one seems as enthusiastic, yet the medications work just as well for a lot less.

* Consider getting medications at Wal-mart or Target. At $4 copays for many generic medications and $10 copays for a 3 month supply, these are often cheaper than the plans offered by insurance companies.

* Eat less. With the economic crisis, people are more careful with their money. With 2/3 Americans already overweight or obese, changing your diet by eating less not only might save money, but also help you get healthier. Fewer calories in means less likely to add weight. It takes 3500 calories to equal 1 pound.

* Invest in walking shoes or other cheap forms of exercise. Forget the gym, unless you already do it regularly. Go for a regular walk. Realize that a 30 minute walk only burns about 200 calories, which means to lose weight, not only do you need to move more but also eat less.

* Quit smoking.  Drink in moderation (if you want to).

With all of these tips, not only will you improve your physical health, you might also help for financial health. By being healthier, you might be around long enough to see true healthcare reform and not be bankrupt in the process.

More About Dr. Davis Liu:
Davis Liu, M.D., is a practicing board-certified family physician with the Permanente Medical Group in Northern California since 2000. His opinion pieces have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee and he has authored numerous review articles for the Medical Software Reviews newsletter. He completed his residency training at the Glendale Adventist Family Practice Residency Program. He received his medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His secondary school education was at the Taft School. As the only physician in his family, many times his family has benefited from his medical knowledge. As an insider, he increased the chances that they would have good outcomes. This coupled with his business school training gives him a unique perspective not only on the challenges individuals have to stay healthy but also the financial implications to get there. Until healthcare reform improves the American healthcare system, he feels individuals today need to have the vital information necessary to ensure that they are doing the right things so that they and their families Stay Healthy, Live Longer, and Spend Wisely. More info: www.davisliumd.com

LISTEN to Dr. Liu’s interview on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show about his book: Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely: Making Intelligent Choices in America’s Healthcare System by clicking on the link here: http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows3.shtml#LIUHEALTH

Dr. Liu has a new interview coming up on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala show discussing more ways to save money and invest wisely in your healthcare. This show will air on Tuesday, March 3rd.  Check back then to listen to Dr. Liu and Kala as they discuss healthcare reform and the future of medicine in the U.S.

Explore Your Spirit with Kala is moving our show format to Fridays! Tune in for a new show every Friday at 8pm Eastern Time.

Journey with Kala as she speaks with world-renowned authors, artists, teachers and researchers, delving into ancient mysteries, paranormal events and metaphysical wonders. It’s the Show You Want, When and Where You Want to Listen To Them.

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From the time I was very young, I have been blessed with seeing auras. Although I didn’t know what they were called at first, I could see energies of diaphanous colors and hues around people, animals, plants, and even inanimate objects. When I was a teenager, I made the unmistakable connection between the aura and health. So began one of the most beautiful times in my life as I learned the art of spiritual healing with Divine Light.

The aura is a vibratory essence that surrounds all living things. It is your spiritual support system in all you do, your energy blueprint that shows how you’re using God’s infinite spiritual power. The aura is essential to healing because it is the first place you generate health.  There is a whole division of the aura dedicated to physical well-being. This health division shows itself in several ways. For example, the organs of the body each have their own aura. When healthy, the lungs and heart have blue auras, the liver usually has a red-orange aura, the stomach a pink aura, and the brain has a green aura. Even the cells of our body have an aura, a tiny, bright silver aura, revealing their inherent intelligence!

When we become ill, the aura becomes discolored. The primary color of illness is gray. Gray indicates a devitalization of spiritual power in the affected area in the body.  Our thoughts and emotions play an important part in effective healing and in maintaining health. It has been my clairvoyant experience that 50 to 75 percent of our ills are of our own making! Without our realizing it, destructive thinking and feeling can create an environment in which disease and physical distress can grow into the most terrible of conditions.

Fortunately, your aura is working for you constantly to build and maintain health, whether you are aware of it or not. Yet when you work in conscious cooperation with your aura, its effectiveness is greatly multiplied. I have seen many wonderful testaments to the power of spiritual healing, from Divine Light helping to alleviate a headache to its helping dissolve malignant tumors. You will find that by working with your aura and spiritual energy, you have discovered the single greatest key to building and sustaining health, and you are discovering the secret to healthy living in all departments of your life and are drawing yourself closer to your divine source.  Copyright © 2006-2009 by Barbara Y. Martin, Dimitri Moraitis

More about Barbara Martin…

Barbara Y. Martin is an internationally renowned clairvoyant, author and spiritual teacher. Her new book The Healing Power of Your Aura is the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award. She teaches classes on how to develop your aura and spiritual nature through her nonprofit organization Spiritual Arts Institute. Read Barbara’s Aura Blog at:  www.aurablog.org with more info available at: www.spiritualarts.org

Listen to Kala as she speaks with Barbara Martin and Dimitri Moraitis on the Healing Power of Your Aura on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show here:  http://exploreyourspirit.com/Media/shows1.shtml#MARTIN

February 18-22 2009 Singer / Songwriter Helen Reddy Keynote Speaker For Be Your Own Psychic Conference at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E.

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

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

According to Conference Manager, Allison Parker Hedrick, “It is a psychic training class, not like most other conferences we offer”.  “Attendees nearly always have a real breakthrough experience”. Opened to all, the Be Your Own Psychic Conference is scheduled for February 18 – 22nd 2009, at Edgar Cayces A.R.E., 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451.  Admission fee is $545, with special discounts for A.R.E. members, seniors, and full-time students. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this conference are approved by IACET and provided by Atlantic University. The conference is approved for up to 25.25 contact hours or 2.53 academic CEUs. To register, contact the A.R.E. conference registrars at 757-428-3588, ext. 7401, or go to EdgarCayce.org/conferences.

Edgar Cayce founded the non-profit Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) in 1931, to explore spirituality, holistic health, intuition, dream interpretation, psychic development, reincarnation, and ancient mysteries, all subjects that frequently came up in the more than 14,000 documented psychic readings given by Cayce, who died in 1945. The mission of A.R.E. is simply to help people around the world change their lives for the better through the ideas and information found in the readings. The Virginia Beach headquarters is a popular site for locals and tourists with free daily lectures, a day spa connected with the Cayce/Reilly School of Massotherapy, an extensive metaphysical library, a meditation garden, a labyrinth, and a bookstore and gift shop. A.R.E. also maintains an affiliation with Atlantic University. Through its many programs, services, publications, and membership outreach, Edgar Cayces A.R.E. provides individuals from all walks of life and a variety of religious backgrounds with tools for personal transformation and healing at all levels body, mind, and spirit. For more information about Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E., please visit EdgarCayce.org

Listen to Kala’s interview with Helen Reddy on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show on February 17th, 2009.