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  Date / Time: 5/16/2008 1:27 AM UTC

  Madelyn Alt guest co/hosts and we talk about Power Animals/Shamanism and Dreams (and some other stuf
  

  A big thank you to all our guests and our special guest co/host! 
  
  Music was by:
  Serena Matthews
  

  http://www.myspace.com/serenamatthews

  
  
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  Kristy will be out on medical for the month of May. Therefore we will be having special guest Co/Hosts joining Amy. This week we have special guest CO/Host Madelyn Alt! Madelyn Alt is the author of the Bewitching mystery series. Chronicling life for an offbeat group of ghosthunters in anything-but-normal Stony Mill, Indiana, these exciting stories are giving readers spills, chills, and thrills--of both the supernatural and all-too-natural kind.
  
  A born aficionado of all things paranormal, Madelyn currently spends her days toiling away in the mundane world of business and her nights writing tales of the mysterious. She loves chocolate, Siamese cats, a shivering-good ghost story, the magic in the world around us, and sometimes, more chocolate.
  
  Madelyn writes from her home, an 1870s-era Victorian in Northeast Indiana, and is undoubtedly hard at work on the next Bewitching mystery.
  http://www.myspace.com/madelynalt
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  ParaWomenRadio-Thursday nights from 7pm till 9pm ET!
  Who we will be talking with this week: 7pm hour- Amy Benesch Joins us to to talk Shamanism!
  
  Bio: When I was nineteen years old I left college to join the Organic Theater Company in Chicago. We wrote plays based on whatever interested us at the time. One of the plays was based on the tarot cards. In order to familiarize myself with the subject, I bought a deck of tarot cards. I have been reading the cards ever since.
  
  Eventually I went back to school and majored in Anthropology while taking as many theater courses and appearing in as many plays as I could. I became fascinated by the connection between ritual and theater, especially in societies that don't make a distinction between the two. I felt that theater in modern society lost its ability to make a deep impact when it became mere entertainment to amuse and dazzle a mostly passive audience. At this time I was reading Carlos Castaneda's books and was moved by his teachings and experiences, especially after I had an intense out-of-body experience in my junior year.
  
  In 1980 I moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting. One day, as I was walking through a bookstore, a book found its way into my hands. The title was The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner. That book offered me what I had been searching for: a way for someone who grew up in a modern, industrialized society to integrate shamanic teachings into her life without having to move to the Amazonian jungles or the Siberian steppes. I took Michael Harner's course in core shamanism and went on to study soul retrieval with Sandra Ingerman. I did soul retrievals and power animal retrievals on friends.
  
  About seven years after moving to New York, I received guidance that I was to move from acting to writing. I took writing courses at Ensemble Studio Theater, The New School and with Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones. To date I have written two novels and over thirty short stories. I also took a course called "Spiritual Autobiography" with Dan Wakefield at the New School which, along with Natalie Goldberg's work, helped connect me to the idea of writing as a spiritual practice. I taught fiction writing and Spiritual Autobiography at the Rochambeau School in White Plains, NY and at Westchester Community College.
  
  In 2002 I became a partner in a holistic healing center in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where I offered tarot cards readings, soul and power animal retrievals, shamanic drumming circles and meditation classes.
  
  The shamanic work and meditation classes led me to hypnotherapy and the Holistic Healing Center in Chestnut Ridge, New York. I find hypnotherapy to be yet another way for us to communicate with our souls, or to use the Western terminology, with our subconscious and super conscious.
  
  I believe that these modalities (as well as many others) are different paths that lead us to the same place: wholeness, or as Carl Jung puts it, individuation. As I continue my own journey towards wholeness, I invite you to share a piece of the path with me - if I am going your way.
  
  May you walk in Beauty.
  
  
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  Who we will be taking with during our 8pm hour: Val and Mark of Naked Soma join us to speak about Dream Interpretation!
  
  
  
  Bio:
  Professor Val
  I am a New York State Certified School Psychologist with extensive experience with administering and interpreting psychological assessments, treatment planning, curriculum development, crisis intervention, neuro-somatic education, counseling, radio hosting, yadda yadda...
  
  While working as a School Psychologist at Green Chimney’s School (a residential and day school located in Brewster, NY), I designed and implemented a classroom program for children with Asperger’s Syndrome and related disorders. Parts of the program have been published in several academic journals.
  
  In addition to my clinical experience, I teach Psychology at both Manhattanville and Mercy Colleges. I also taught at Marymount College of Fordham University until it’s closure in May 2007.
  
  I am presently conducting research projects in the areas of Universal Somatics and human sexuality and writing a book on Dissociative Identity Disorder with a woman who has been diagnosed with DID. Additionally, I have been featured on WRKI FM in Brookfield, CT and on News 12 Westchester with regard to my therapy services. I have been published in a variety of academic journals including the New York Association of School Psychologists publication "School Psychologist" and "Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists". I have served as chairperson of several community-based organizations and was appointed as a member of the Adjunct Faculty Advisory Council at Westchester Community College.
  
  All of that is somewhat interesting but what is even more interesting is what I am doing right now at Soma Space with my partners!!
  
  Visit my sister site: www.somaspacecoaching.com to find out more about my phone, internet, and in-person coaching services.
  
  
  
  Bio:Mark
  I'm a board certified Doctor of Chiropractic in my 17th year of practice, which has also included 10 years of field research on social brain development. In 1999 and 2000, I published peer-review research in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research and was awarded Researcher of the Year in 2000 for it. Since then, I have served as an Associate Editor for the journal and also sat on the Research Committee for the 2003 revisions of the Council of Chiropractic Practice Clinical Practice Guidelines. I've done consulting work for various human performance software companies and have been a post-graduate CE instructor since 2001.
  
  In 1995, my son Kyle was born 8 weeks premature with congenital heart defects. His surgeries left him with a paralyzed vocal cord and many developmental delays. This propelled me to study brain development in general and social brain development in particular. My work traveled into the Special Needs community, where many of the Neuro-Linguistic Programming skills I was certified in back in 1995, soon after Kyle's birth, were honed. I was able to expand my network of progressive practitioners and scientists to the point where the World Chiropractic Association created a position for me called Director of Collaborative Education. In the early part of 2004, I co-created a program called Thresholds for chiropractic students and special needs instructors that was taught at Life University in Marietta, GA. I was able to develop a series of brain-based learning workshops since that time and have been able to deliver them through live demonstrations and teleclasses.
  
  My focus now is in offering experiential workshops on Universal Somatics, which represents the culmination of my years of interdisciplinary study on the science and art of social neurobiology. I have recently created an LLC partnership to be able to deliver this material to the general public, students and practitioners over the internet and our new body language center in Larchmont, NY. In 2008, I'm intending to publish a book on this topic too.
  http://www.somaspace.org
  
  
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