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  Date / Time: 3/7/2008 3:48 AM UTC

  Michelle Belanger and Z Budapest!
  

  Tonights show was amazing!  Both guests were just a wealth of information and we truly hope they come back on the show one day soon!  I've attached their bio's that has links to their websites.  Please check them out!!!
  
  Music tonight by DJ Dual Gore with Pope George!
  
  ParaWomenRadio-Thursday nights from 7pm till 9pm ET!
  Who we will be talking with this week: 7 pm hour- Vampire, Michelle Belanger
  
  
  
  Bio:
  Michelle Belanger's childhood could be a story straight from Ray Bradbury's October Country. Her small Midwest town featured a haunted public library, and it celebrated the return of flights of turkey vultures every year on the Ides of March.
  
  Her home life was stranger still. Raised by her maternal grandmother, psychic experiences and ghostly phenomenon were common occurrences in the Belanger household -- but were only discussed behind closed doors. Her estranged grandfather's family included healers, tea-leaf readers, and circus freaks who openly embraced their extraordinary gifts.
  
  Afflicted with a life-threatening heart defect from birth, Michelle endured both out of body experiences and near death experiences before the age of five. Her mother believed that these traumatic brushes with death made Michelle more sensitive to psychic phenomenon. Michelle herself believes that her skills arise from a combination of genetics, environment, and fate.
  
  Michelle's psychic inheritance manifested in a variety of ways, the most remarkable of which was psychic vampirism. Michelle identified and came to terms with this condition while still in her teens. Her pioneering work, The Psychic Vampire Codex (Weiser, 2004), details concepts and techniques that she learned through an intensive study of her vampiric experiences. All of Michelle's other works similarly benefit from her unique combination of personal experience, intellectual insight, and intensive research. A firm believer that psychic perceptions are something that anyone can cultivate, she teaches a variety of techniques based upon a fundamental perception of psychic energy.
  
  Michelle is a prolific individual involved in a number of areas of creative expression. Her non-fiction works include the best-selling Psychic Vampire Codex, (Weiser, 2004) Sacred Hunger, (Dark Moon, 2005) and Psychic Dreamwalking (Weiser 2006), The Psychic Energy Codex (Wesier 2007), Vampires in Their Own Words (2007), and The Necronumina (Llewellyn, 2008). She is co-author of The Vampyre Almanac (Sanguinarium Press, 2000), and V: the Book of the Strigoi Vii, (Aangel Publishing, 2003). Her fiction includes The Enchanted Wood with artist Kimberlee Traub (Shadowfox, 1996), The Jewel of Desire (Incubus Chronicles, 2006) and a collection of supernatural short fiction, These Haunted Dreams (Dark Moon, 2006). She is also working on a Tarot deck with artist Jackie Williams, release to be announced.
  
  A talented vocalist, Michelle can also be heard on URN's Desecrated Ashes (2003) and Dancing with the Demigods (2006), Nox Arcana's Winter's Knight (2005), Xyla's Esoterica (2007) and the solo album, Blood of Angels (2006). She wrote the lyrics to several URN songs, Esoterica's "The God Within," and for all nine tracks on Blood of Angels.
  
  Michelle has been involved in a number of television shows and films documenting the vampire subculture. She can be seen on the History Channel's special Vampire Secrets as well as A&E's special The Secret Life of Vampires. She has also gained notice in France thanks to Laurent Courau's book and documentary Vampyres: When Reality Goes Beyond Fiction. Other credits include Night Bites: Women and Their Vampires on WE! and American Vampires on Britain's XYTV. She also been consulted for projects on SciFi, and her work was referenced in an episode of CSI. Her radio appearances include the X-Zone, Peter Anthony Holder's Soul Call, and Coast to Coast AM.
  
  A skilled energy worker, Michelle is the founder of House Kheperu, a magickal society with a unique style of energy work detailed in The Psychic Vampire Codex. Michelle teaches classes around the country on dreamwalking, energy exchange, spirit communication, and many other fascinating topics. Her latest releases include "The Psychic Energy Codex," an energy work omnibus for students and teachers alike, and "Vampires in Their Own Words," a fascinating look into the modern vampire community.
  
  Books by Michelle
  Vampires in Their Own Words (Llewellyn, 2007)
  The Psychic Energy Codex (Weiser, 2007)
  Psychic Dreamwalking (Weiser, 2006)
  Sacred Hunger (Dark Moon, 2005)
  The Psychic Vampire Codex (Weiser, 2004)
  The Vampire Ritual Book (Dark Moon, 2007)
  These Haunted Dreams (Dark Moon, 2007, fiction)
  This Trembling Flesh (Dark Moon, 2007)
  
  CD's by Michelle:
  Blood of Angels (Nox Arcana, 2006)
  Esoterica (Xyla, 2007)
  Dancing with the Demigods (URN, 2006)
  Winter’s Knight (Nox Arcana, 2005)
  Desecrated Ashes (URN, 2003)
  
  Michelle Belanger's Web Site:
  www.michellebelanger.com
  
  
  
  Who we will be talking to during the 8pm ET hour-Z Budapest!
  
  
  Bio:
  Zsuzsanna "Z" Emese Budapest is one of the most colorful women living in the United States today. Born in Hungary, only a few blocks from the studios that produced the Hungarian films, Z was influenced by the Entertainment Industry at a young age. Z fled Hungary in 1956 because of the Revolution, and thus began her adventures in the world. She studied in Innsbruck and Vienna, and earned herself an International Scholarship with the University of Chicago. Later she studied with the Second City Improvisational Theater where she studied the art of improvisation.
  
  Z's first job in television entertainment was as the Color Girl for the CBS Network in New York. She was assigned the Ed Sullivan Show, and it was her face that CBS adjust their camera's settings to. Later, Z moved to California where she opened up a candle and book store in Venice, California. There she brought forward her Hungarian heritage and traditions, which included reading tarot cards. In 1974, she was arrested for fortune telling as a result of reading tarot cards, and that lead to her being the last person to be tried for witchcraft in the United States. Ultimately, those outdated laws were over-turned as a result of her fortitude. Z found herself immersed within the feminist culture with the likes of such notable women as her friend Gloria Steinem.
  
  She grew as a feminist during the time of her legal battles with reading tarot. It was these two powerful influences that inspired Z to author ten internationally published books on the topics of Women's Spirituality. Ultimately, Z is accredited with the founding and propagation of the Women's Spirituality Movement, which continues to thrive to this day. Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women's newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess.
  
  In the eighties, Z created a TV show called 13th Heaven and it ran on syndicated cable to thirteen channels in the San Francisco Bay Area for seven years. She acts as the director of the Women's Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring a monthly lecture series in the Bay Area about the Goddess, spirituality retreats, and annual spiral dances on Halloween. Z founded and sponsors the Dianic University. California Institute for Integral Studies recognized recently Z's contribution to Women's Spirituality Movement. Today Z focuses her attentions on the development of her latest TV project called Femina Nation, which focuses on notable women in a unique and uplifting way.
  
  Books written by Zsuzsanna Budapest :
  Holy Book of Women's Mysteries
  Grandmother of Time
  Summoning the Fates
  Goddess in the Office
  Goddess in the Bedroom
  Grandmother Moon
  Celestial Wisdom
  
  Z Budapest's website:
  ZBudapest.com
  
  
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