With this mysterious e-mailed message, a New Age researcher is led toward a mysterious Valley in New Mexico, along the way finding an enigmatic slab of stone carved with Native American rock art, and encountering a strangely shamanic guide, El Viejo.

Dr. Arlan Andrews

Dr. Arlan Andrews, a registered Professional Engineer and professional member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), founded SIGMA in 1992 to provide the practical futurism of science fiction writers for vital national needs. A former ASME White House Fellow in OSTP (White House Science Office), he retired from Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque as Manager of the Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives Department. He then co-founded several high-tech companies, including a virtual reality software firm, Muse Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MUZE, 1998 – 2001), and a biotech process company, Kinetic Biosystems, Inc., now located in Durham, NC.

Arlan previously held positions at AT&T Bell Labs and White Sands Missile Range, NM. He is presently the Environmental Program Manager for the U.S. Navy at Corpus Christi, Texas. He has published over 400 fiction stories, speculative fact articles, computer books and opinion pieces in 90 venues worldwide, including the first White House endorsement of nanotechnology in 1993. He holds six patents. More at: http://www.sigmaforum.org

Dr. Larry Burk

About Dr. Larry Burk:
Dr. Burk did his medical school and residency training at the University of Pittsburgh, and was former associate professor of radiology and director of integrative medicine education at Duke University Medical Center. He is a Certified Energy Health Practitioner, and is also certified in clinical hypnosis and trained in medical acupuncture. He is a former board president of the Rhine Research Center, and is currently president of Healing Imager, Inc. in Durham, NC, specializing in teleradiology and EFT. His scientific articles, newspaper columns, newsletters and video blogs are posted at www.letmagichappen.com.

Lynn Andrews

About Lynn Andrews:
Lynn Andrews is the New York Times and internationally best-selling author of the Medicine Woman Series, which chronicles her three decades of study and work with shaman healers on four continents. Her study of the way of the sacred feminine began with Agnes Whistling Elk and Ruby Plenty Chiefs, Native American healers in northern Canada. Her quest for spiritual discovery continued with a Shaman Curendera of the Mayan Yucatan; an Aboriginal woman of high degree in the Australian Outback or Nepalese healer in the foothills of the Himalayas. Today, she is recognized worldwide as a leader in the fields of spiritual healing and personal empowerment. A shaman healer and mystic, Ms. Andrews is widely acknowledged as a major link between the ancient world of shamanism and modern societies thirst for profound personal healing and a deeper understanding of the pathway to enlightenment.She is initiated as a member of the Sisterhood of the Shields, 44 women who are healers from cultures as diverse as Panama, Guatemala, Australia, Nepal, North America and the Yucatan. Remaining hidden, the Sisterhood has appointed Ms. Andrews as their public messenger. In addition to her Medicine Woman Series, she has written an additional 19 best selling books and workbooks about her work with these women and their unique and deeply profound teachings. Passed from generation to generation, their teachings, born of the sacred feminine, has been practiced, guarded and handed down from shaman to apprentice, mother to daughter, for over 5,000 years.
Together with her teachers, Lynn Andrews is the architect of the Personal Act of Power, finding balance around the sacred wheel of life. She presents these shamanic teachings in her four year program at the Lynn Andrews Center for the Sacred Arts and Training; provides online courses for conscious dreaming and manifesting your personal acts of power; and hosts annual live gatherings for shamanic healing and empowerment in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Hawaii, and Egypt. More info at: http://lynnandrews.com/

In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel reveals the source of self-limiting agreements that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. When we are ready to change these agreements, there are four deceptively simple, yet powerful agreements that we can adopt as guiding principles. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. More information can be found online at: www.miguelruiz.com or www.amberallen.com

Don Miguel Ruiz

A near-death experience changed his life. Late one night in the early 1970s, he awoke suddenly, having fallen asleep at the wheel of his car. At that moment the car crashed into a wall of concrete. He remembers that he was not in his physical body as he watched himself pull his two friends to safety. Stunned by this experience, he began an intensive practice of self-inquiry. He devoted himself to the mastery of the ancient ancestral wisdom, studying earnestly with his mother, and completing an apprenticeship with a powerful shaman in the Mexican desert. For more than two decades, Don Miguel Ruiz has worked to impart this wisdom to his students through lectures, workshops, and journeys to sacred sites around the world.

This is a best of Kala Series…the original air date was January 13, 2007.

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

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

Dannion Brinkley

In his lectures and tours, Dannion imparts a paramount message designed to empower his listeners, teaching them step by step how to find purpose, power and greatness in their everyday lives. He has been praised as ‘the best orator in the field’ by many of his compeers on the lecture circuit. Dannion’s speaking engagements lend a vibrancy and colorful approach to the world as we know it, and are highlighted with a savvy sense of humor and genuine style. More info at: www.dannion.com

Catriona MacGregor

While Catriona is a globally recognized environmentalist, she now devotes herself wholeheartedly to educating the public about the importance of the natural world, and assisting individuals in forging a unique connection and relationship to nature. Since childhood, Catriona has had mystical and shamanic experiences in nature that have provided her with a profound understanding of the natural world. A visionary bridge builder between nature and humankind – and an adept nature guide and naturalist, she now leads vision and nature quests, and explores the unfolding relationship between humankind and nature. Catriona’s work has been covered in Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, NPR Radio, The Shirley McLaine Radio Show, NPR, and the Today Show. Besides her nature tours, T.V. and radio appearances, Catriona has given presentations to up to 1,500 people. Catriona is the coauthor of Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and the Planet, along with Carolyn Myss, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Masaru Emoto, Fritjof Capra, Thich Nhat Hanh, etc al..

Lynn Andrews

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

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

Don Miguel Ruiz

A near-death experience changed his life. Late one night in the early 1970s, he awoke suddenly, having fallen asleep at the wheel of his car. At that moment the car crashed into a wall of concrete. He remembers that he was not in his physical body as he watched himself pull his two friends to safety. Stunned by this experience, he began an intensive practice of self-inquiry. He devoted himself to the mastery of the ancient ancestral wisdom, studying earnestly with his mother, and completing an apprenticeship with a powerful shaman in the Mexican desert. For more than two decades, Don Miguel Ruiz has worked to impart this wisdom to his students through lectures, workshops, and journeys to sacred sites around the world.

Within these pages we learn about the “Path of Return” to our wondrous Earth as a means by which we can reclaim our original soul powers. Soul on Fire is an inspirational guide for long-time seekers and those just beginning their journey alike.

At a time when old modalities no longer seem to be working for many people, the stories in this book reveal a different way of thinking, feeling, and being.

Peter Calhoun

Calhoun currently teaches workshops and leads sacred wilderness journeys and vision quests in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park as well as in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. He also meets with individuals for healing, intuitive counseling, and private apprenticeship in modern shamanism. More about Peter Calhoun at www.petercalhoun.com

In a refreshingly honest investigation of the true nature of love, Don Miguel Ruiz brings to light the commonly held fallacies and misplaced expectations about love that permeate most relationships. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda, he uses inspirational stories to impart the wisdom of three fundamental Toltec masteries (Awareness, Transformation, and Love). The themes explored include the Toltec wisdom of the heart, the track of love, and the war of control.
More information can be found online at: www.miguelruiz.com or www.amberallen.com

In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel reveals the source of self-limiting agreements that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. When we are ready to change these agreements, there are four deceptively simple, yet powerful agreements that we can adopt as guiding principles. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. More information can be found online at: www.miguelruiz.com or www.amberallen.com

Don Miguel Ruiz

A near-death experience changed his life. Late one night in the early 1970s, he awoke suddenly, having fallen asleep at the wheel of his car. At that moment the car crashed into a wall of concrete. He remembers that he was not in his physical body as he watched himself pull his two friends to safety. Stunned by this experience, he began an intensive practice of self-inquiry. He devoted himself to the mastery of the ancient ancestral wisdom, studying earnestly with his mother, and completing an apprenticeship with a powerful shaman in the Mexican desert. For more than two decades, Don Miguel Ruiz has worked to impart this wisdom to his students through lectures, workshops, and journeys to sacred sites around the world.