Explore Your Spirit with Kala

On this episode of Explore Your Spirit, Kala speaks with producer/director Stephen Olsson about the new TV series, Global Spirit. GLOBAL SPIRIT is a unique inquiry into humankind’s belief systems, wisdom traditions, and states of consciousness. Hosted by author and spiritual seeker Phil Cousineau and featuring renowned experts such as Deepak Chopra, Karen Armstrong, Robert Thurman, Riane Eisler, and many others, this new critically acclaimed series takes viewers on a mind and soul-expanding journey, exploring the relationships between ancient wisdom traditions, diverse belief systems, world religions, metaphysics and modern science. From the ecstatic state of the Turkish Whirling Dervishes to the personal journeys of American combat veterans who return to Viet Nam in search of forgiveness from their former enemies, GLOBAL SPIRIT blends compelling, experiential film segments with spontaneous, engaging studio conversations to shed light on mankind’s deepest questions, tracing the eternal, yet still evolving human quest for meaning, truth and wisdom. GLOBAL SPIRIT guests speak from first-hand experience about their own personal journeys into the realms of human consciousness and transformation — conversations unlike anything you’ve heard before on national television.

Arguably no American writer has had more of an impact on the modern horror scene than Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the man who created the Cthulhu Mythos, with its strange gods, eerie places, and forbidden books. But what sort of a man was Lovecraft, how did he create such a terrible universe, and where did his inspiration come from? Was it, as some have argued, based on esoteric knowledge forgotten or even denied to all sane people? In A Haunted Mind, Dr. Bob Curran explores what motivated Lovecraft—his personal life is just as strange as some of his creations—and drove him to create his terrible cosmos. Using both folklore and history, Dr Curran investigates a wide variety of Lovecraftian mysteries. A word of warning: you may never look at Lovecraft—or the world—in exactly the same way again!

On this episode of Explore Your Spirit with Kala, Kala speaks with author Nancy Red Star about her new book – Star Ancestors: Extraterrestrial Contact in the Native American Tradition. As humanity stands at the crossroads between the Fifth and the Sixth Worlds, American Indian wisdomkeepers have recognized signs that they must now speak their closely held knowledge about extraterrestrial contact, their original instructions from the Sky Elders. These ET relationships have existed since the beginning of time. They have been depicted on ancient rocks and hides, embedded in creation stories, choreographed in sacred dances, beaded on wampum belts, and continued to this day through rituals and the tobacco blessing. They show that with the vital support of our Star Ancestors, we can bring our planet back into balance with natural laws. Exploring the unifying “Sky Elder” theme found in virtually every Indian culture, Nancy Red Star shares her profound interviews with wisdomkeepers from several Native traditions–including Mayan elder and daykeeper Hunbatz Men, Stargate International CEO and UFO researcher Cecilia Dean, and Choctaw medicine man Sequoyah Trueblood–and offers their teachings on taking our rightful place among the peoples of the universe. Laying out a path for rebuilding our world, the Sky Elders’ original instructions initiate us into the possibility of a coming time of peace. Inviting all peoples to realize their Star ancestry, the women and men of proud lineage and inspiring wisdom who share their experiences here offer us a survival plan for walking into the next world.

Today, in the world of science, nothing is more controversial than parapsychology. The battle over the subject matter of parapsychology has been raging for centuries. It has been carried on in scientific academies, courtrooms, academic journals, newspapers and radio stations. The story of parapsychology’s struggle for legitimacy is an epic tale, containing victories, sudden reversals, intrigue, scandals, heated arguments, wild accusations, ruined reputations and some of the most bizarre characters that have ever walked the earth. * But why is parapsychology so controversial? * Why has the controversy lasted centuries? * And are we capable, at long last, of rationally resolving the issue? Science and Psychic Phenomena is a critical examination of the arguments of the skeptics. Starting with the history of the controversy, dating back to the scientific revolution of the 17th century, this book reappraises the controversy in light of 20th and 21st century scientific and philosophic developments.

On this episode of Explore Your Spirit with Kala, Kala speaks with Mary Ann Winkowski, the Ghost Whisperer. Mary Ann Winkowski’s abilities as a paranormal investigator have offered solace to countless people, either by reuniting them with loved ones who have died or by removing unwanted spirits and negative energy from homes, businesses or possessions. In her new book, Beyond Delicious: The Ghost Whisperer’s Cookbook, she offers a collection of recipes bequeathed to Mary Ann through spirits of great cooks who have passed on. Arranged as two-page spreads, each entry includes a recipe as well as the story of how the author came to learn it. Beyond Delicious: The Ghost Whisperer’s Cookbook is part cookbook and part ghost story anthology; together, these elements create the most entertaining cookbook of the season.

On this episode of Explore Your Spirit with Kala, Kala speaks with Normandi Ellis. Drawing from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Pyramid texts, the Book of Thoth, and other sacred hieroglyphic writings spanning the three millennia of the Egyptian Mystery Traditions, Normandi Ellis reveals the magical language of creation and words of power that enabled the ancient Egyptians to act as co-creators with the gods. Examining the power of hieroglyphic thinking–how thoughts create reality–and the multiple meanings behind every word of power, Ellis shows how, with the Neteru, we imagine the world into existence, casting a spell of consciousness over the material world. Uncovering the deep layers of meaning and symbol within the myths of the Egyptian gods and goddesses, Ellis investigates the shamanic journeys that ancient Egyptian priests used to view the unconscious and the afterlife and shares their initiations for immaculate conception, transubstantiation, resurrection, and eternal life—initiations that later became part of the Christian mystery school. Revealing the words of power used by these ancient priests/sorcerers, she explains how to search for the deeper, hidden truths beneath their spells and shows how ancient Egyptian consciousness holds the secret of life itself.

In the spiritual realms where the higher self resides, a record of every thought, action, word and deed is recorded for each soul. Referred to as the Akashic Records, these vibrational energy imprints remain attached to the soul through each lifetime. These imprints shape each soul’s destiny, karma and life purpose. Psychics are able to see these Akashic Records in the manner in which they are attached to each person in their aura and energy fields. The records explain “who you are” and “why you are here” in this lifetime. They define the challenges you are facing, the relationships you engage in and the primary motivations and desires that you are attracted to on the mind, body and spirit levels. 2012 is one of the markers of the evolutionary change we are experiencing as we are moving into the fourth dimension. Instead of living at only one point in time in the third dimension, we are now shifting into the fourth dimension where we can connect with our higher self and experience all points of time, connecting our past, present and future selves into a simultaneous consciousness. We are swiftly moving through this into the fifth dimension where we are creating multiple time lines, in a sense creating a greater number of life experiences within one lifetime. In this shift of conscious awakening and awareness, we are connecting past, present and future lives together and working through all of the karma from previous lives, while understanding how this defines our lives in the present tense. Our ability to process these lifetimes allow us to shift into the new dimensions of being. We are not alone in this process. Our spirit guides have been working with us in one of the most importantly evolutionary shifts in our consciousness on the earth plane. When we can can understand what is occurring to us on a body, mind and spirit level as well as learn how to connect and communicate with our spirit guides, we can accelerate the process in a state of grace and well-being. According to Sandy… This time that we are living in is crucial to both mankind’s evolution and the evolution of the planet we call home – the Earth itself. Sandy’s personal Guided messages and research into the writings of many author’s including Alice Bailey, Jane Roberts, Edgar Cayce, Bruce Lipton, Brian Cox, Ester and Jerry Hicks, and C.W. Leadbeater, to name just a few, has led her to the understanding that multiple root-races have come together NOW on our living planet for the purpose of choosing consciously to move to a new vibratory level. The Earth is awakening to her destiny as a Sacred Planet, and as each of us awakens to our own individual higher potentials we are contributing to the overall shift in consciousness of the Earth and every being that calls her home. Sandy’s paramount message is to accentuate the importance of conscious personal choice as we individually and collectively move forward along our evolutionary path. We are collectively in the process of opening and developing both our own heart chakra, and that of the Earth itself. We are living in an exciting time in which we are helping to bring a New Age and a New Soul Consciousness into being. According to Kala… Over the past decade, what she 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.

Dan Millman, is a former world-champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. His twelve books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Life You Were Born to Live, No Ordinary Moments, The Laws of Spirit and The Journeys of Socrates, have inspired millions of readers in 29 languages. The feature film, "Peaceful Warrrior," starring Nick Nolte, is based upon Dan's first book, an autobiographical novel. More about Dan Millman: Dan lectures worldwide, presenting practical ways to live with a peaceful heart and warrior spirit. His books and seminars have influenced leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, sports, and the arts. Married for 30 years, he has three grown daughters and two grandsons. For more information about Dan's work, including the movie and his new multi-media eBook, visit: www.peacefulwarrior.com

Brad Steiger is the master storyteller extraordinaire when it comes to true tales of the supernatural and of unexplained occurrences. This prolific and highly acclaimed author truly has no real equal in this branch of the literary field. Strange Guests is a genuine early Steiger classic about legendary poltergeist cases like the Bell Witch, Slawensick Castle, and many other haunting tales that should definitely send innumerable chills and shivers up and down your spine! Originally published forty years ago, and with an introduction by Ivan T. Sanderson, we learn in Brad’s updated Afterword many fascinating behind-the-scenes details of how this book came to be written, and the very significant and supportive role that the noted zoologist and Fortean Ivan Sanderson played in its production. Sanderson’s original introduction is also included, along with a new foreword by noted author and cryptozoologist Loren Coleman. Coleman recalled how Sanderson had years ago told him that out of all things psychic, the energetic poltergeist phenomenon stood the best chance of being proven to be real.

According to Don Miguel Ruiz, everything we do is based on agreements we have made agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have many agreements that come from fear, deplete our energy, and diminish our self-worth. 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

On this episode of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, Kala speaks with Kristen Wolf, author of The Way, which is currently listed as an Oprah Magazine book to pick up now. Traditional spiritual institutions have often been seen by their followers as a means to an end; a framework through which to guide the uncovering of oneâ s path, destiny and moral compass. But what about those of us who are looking for spirituality without bounds, who have felt fundamentally excluded by doctrine, altogether distant from the mythology and dogma? For the increasingly many who find themselves relating to the latter, enter The Way (Random House), the literary debut from Kristen Wolf. The Way tells the story of Anna, a fiery young tomboy living in ancient Palestine who finds herself captured by a mystical and secret society of women; a sisterhood who practice an ancient healing philosophy called The Way. With an unexpected power released within her, Anna’s spiritual destiny becomes clear: to preserve, share and defend “The Way” by proclaiming it among the masses. Breathing a gust of new energy and inclusiveness into the quest for spiritual fulfillment in the 21st century, The Way is an exciting, adventurous and elegant coming of age tale that is quickly becoming a book club favorite. Spurring provocative and important conversations about spirituality, as well as theme parties replete with flatbreads, dates, olives and food reminiscent of the book’ s setting, The Way is truly a book of spirit, meant for everyone, states Wolf.

On this episode of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, Kala speaks with author Naomi Lowinsky, author The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way. Who is this Sister from Below? She’s certainly not about the ordinary business of life: work, shopping, making dinner. She speaks from other realms. If you’ll allow, She’ll whisper in your ear, lead your thoughts astray, fill you with strange yearnings, get you hot and bothered, send you off on some wild goose chase of a daydream, eat up hours of your time. She’s a siren, a seductress, a shape-shifter . . . Why listen to such a troublemaker? Because She is essential to the creative process: She holds the keys to the doors of our imaginations and deeper life—the evolution of Soul. The Sister emerges out of reverie, dream, a fleeting memory, a difficult emotion—she is the moment of inspiration—the muse. Naomi Ruth Lowinsky writes of nine manifestations in which the muse visits her, stirring up creative ferment, filling her with ghosts, mysteries, erotic teachings, the old religion—bringing forth her voice as a poet. Among these forms of the muse are the “Sister from Below,” the inner poet who has spoken for the soul since language began. The muse also appears as the ghost of a grandmother Naomi never met, who died in the Shoah—a grandmother with ‘unfinished business.’ She visits in the form of Old Mother India, whose culture Naomi visited as a young woman. She cracks open her Western mind, flooding her with many gods and goddesses. She appears as Sappho, the great lyric poet of the ancient world, who engages her in a lovely midlife fantasy. She comes as “Die Ür Naomi,” an old woman from the biblical story for which Naomi was named, who insists on telling Her version of the Book of Ruth. And in the end, surprisingly, the muse appears in the form of a man, a long dead poet whom Naomi loved in her youth. The Sister speaks to all those who want to cultivate an unlived promise—those on a spiritual path, those interested in a Jungian approach to life, those who are filled with the urgency of poems that have to be written, paintings that must be painted, journeys that yearn to be taken.

On this episode of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, Kala speaks with Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, author of the award-winning book, Spiritual Liberation, and most recent release, Life Visioning: A Transformative Process for Activating Your Unique Gifts and Highest Potential. Michael’s new CD, TranscenDance, sets his non-sectarian teachings to rhythmical dance music, and is composed by Madonna composer/producer Stephen Bray.

On this episode of the Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show, Kala speaks with Dr. Richard Bartlett about Matrix Energetics©. It has been Dr. Bartlett’s burning desire for many years to push the envelope until he came up with a teachable system that people from all walks of life could use for themselves, not just a few select or “gifted” people. Not just health practitioners but people with no previous experience as well. Dr. Bartlett worked to develop a system that produced observable and verifiable changes and which could be taught to others as easily as any other life skill. Matrix Energetics© encompasses a new state of mind, a new way of looking at the world we live and breathe in, and a new way of reaching out to new possibilities, a consciousness shift. According to modern physicists, all reality can be described as vibrations and waveforms where everything is light and information. We chose the “matrix” name because we enter into a unique morphic field when we do this work. One can imagine it much like a lattice of information, and one learns to reach into the lattice and change that information. Often in a seminar the unconscious mind is the student and the logical mind has to take a breather. Then the logical mind gets its time to be happy as we explore the science behind the “magic.” Matrix Energetics© is dedicated to bringing this new consciousness shift and personal power of transformation and healing to as many people as possible. When people can observe and see for themselves verifiable physical changes rapidly as happens when using Matrix Energetics, it helps them to accept these new possibilities and makes it real for them.

Inside its transformative pages, Lucy Cavendish teaches you her own methods of working with ‘White Magic’, designed to heal your love life, your spirit, and your body. With fascinating glimpses into her own path and life, Lucy Cavendish's White Magic is at once a manual for magic, and an inspiring guide to living an enchanted life. This beautiful book includes magical yet practical step-by-step guidelines for developing your psychic abilities, discovering your magical name, uncovering past lives, and improving your romances, relationships, health and financial situation. It also contains never before published tarot spreads and a complete seven-day guide to a ‘Week of White Magic’ - a week that will transform your life forever. Original Air Date: 8/19/2007