Healing From Within - Sheryl Glick

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: David Bennett

In today’s episode of “Healing From Within”, your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares stories of spiritual awakenings, spiritual communication, healing energies, miracles and ways to go Within to find your True Self, welcomes David Bennett author of his new book, A Voice As Old as Time which follows David’s first book Voyage of Purpose that tells the story of his life changing near death experience. David has been a guest on Dr. Oz, Angels Among Us, NBC National News and PBS.

David Bennett is an energy healer and transformational coach who uses contemplations to develop a center of focus in meditation and during daily life. The contemplations we will discuss provide subject matter for serious thought or consideration into the readers divine nature. We will find out how unlike meditation techniques, contemplations focus on an idea while in a state of stillness or while being mindful.David tells us about his own near death experience on the ocean research vessel, Aloha and his second transformative experience in 1994 while in meditation in Sedona, and then the third experience or event in November 2000. While the Chief engineer of the ocean research vessel Aloha, David had a NDE by drowning. In 1994, when in meditation in Sedona Arizona, which was his childhood home, he had a second transformative experience. The third occurred in November 2000 when he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer that metastasized into his spine causing its collapse. Now in remission, his passion includes volunteering with experiencer groups (mystical experiences) and cancer survivors to help integrate their spiritually transformative experiences.

While posting reflections on David’s Face book Dharma Talks page, he found that other people following his daily contemplations online reported similar experiences. This points to synchronicity and coincidences, as well as the interconnectedness of all beings and life through Universal Energy or Source, pointing towards the direction of an afterlife and the continued help from spirit, guides, teachers, angels and God Source.

David goes on to mention Contemplations. Contemplations are a voice as old as time spoken by our ancestors and the ancients, reflections of what still hold the wisdom of the ages for those ready to listen. Reflections are thoughts, ideas, or remarks that occur as a result of meditation. When a reflection becomes your center of focus, or a subject for serious thought, they become contemplations that lead you on a path into your divine nature.

David then mentions many places he and his wife traveled to over the past years which led to many inspirational and insightful additions to the book. Sheryl Says…. “In my book the Living Spirit I also suggest that nothing is random and that our guides or loved ones in Spirit are helping us fulfill our destiny or life plan and direct us to places and people that might be beneficial to our awakening and a remembrance of our soul essence and Sheryl wrote….”Everyone can recall having at least one flash of intuition. It may have been a strong feeling or as subtle as a breeze on a hot summer day, but it was there. It may have assisted you in making a good decision or prevented you from making a poor one. Perhaps you knew—just knew—that something was going to happen, only to get confirmation an hour, a day, or a week later that it had indeed occurred. Most people write it off as a coincidence or perhaps good luck but that could not be further from the truth. These feelings are whispers from Spirit, the support of our family and friends on the Other Side.”

Sheryl, like David, has traveled to many places she was guided to visit. Most recently, she was interviewing Dr. Richard House who when he was younger, had been aware that a Captain or higher source was gu...

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: Mary Mueller Shutan

In today’s episode of “Healing from Within” your host, Sheryl Glick, author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares stories of spiritual awakenings, spiritual communication, healing energies, miracles and ways to go within to find your Higher Self, welcomes Mary Mueller Shutan author of The Spiritual Awakening Guide. Mary is an acupuncturist, herbalist, cranio-sacral therapist and spiritual healer who helps others navigate their spiritual awakening process and to enhance their intuitive development.

Mary says “We are all part of the overwhelming and joyous experience of the flow of divine unfolding.” For some awakening is something that is actively searched for..years of meditation yoga workshops and healing methods…one of gradual changes and deep understanding of a spiritual nature. Some of us were simply born into an awakened state and may gradually lose this state or put ourselves to sleep when we come to understand that it is not culturally appropriate to be awake in a world that is not. In an effort to be normal—relating in similar ways and understandings to our family members friends and community we shut down our awareness. Some awaken over time and in a step by step process while others awaken suddenly resulting in dramatic physical, psychological and spiritual changes within a short time. Along with different types of awakenings there are also variations in the degree of the awakened state. However an awakening begins it is the start of an inner calling, a chance to do something great to contribute to humanity. It is a signal to become a teacher, leader healer, a force of compassion and wisdom in the world…it is a call to service.”

Mary goes on to describe 3 states of Being:

1 The Sleeper state is a lack of the present moment and ordinary conditioned reality where we just get through life and often relive the same patterns of trauma over and over again failing to make the changes that might let go of the past and future worries.

2 When Somewhat Awakened we have an understanding of our place in society but are looking for more out of life than the same wants and needs of those who are asleep…We also have an understanding of our emotions and an understanding that our past and childhood have contributed and made us who we are.

3 For Those Who Are Awaken know that real spiritual understanding is a constantly evolving process. A truly awakened teacher will teach the student to follow his own path.

Sheryl Says “In my book The Living Spirit I express the joy of knowing and awakening to your own divinity and personal power to manifest a healthy and joyful life by being in alignment to Universal Energy this way…. “ My role In my work to assist my clients in realizing that they have ultimate control over their life decisions while not necessarily over the circumstances that occur. In the moment of awareness, they achieve a sense of completeness and oneness with Spirit that is beyond anything they have felt before. The question is how do we arrive at this wonderful moment of awareness? How might you begin to let go of the bits and pieces of beliefs imposed on you during your childhood, which in adulthood limits your ability to find fulfillment? By realizing our childhood beliefs and behaviors no longer work for us, we can choose to take responsibility for making positive improvements in thoughts and actions and move past the bits and pieces imposed on us in childhood. Even a child who has a difficult early life can, with the right support, transcend his or her circumstances to find a decent and fulfilling life.”

When we have an experience that shows us how small we are in the universe it creates recognition and an understanding that “we are part of “the collective whole” or something bigger than ourselves”…this awareness cata...

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: Garnet Schulhauser

In today’s episode of Healing From Within, your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love welcomes Garnet Schulhauser author of his newest book Dancing Forever With Spirit who shares startling new revelations about our soul journey on Earth and the Afterlife that awaits us.

Garnet, who lives near Victoria on Vancouver Island with his family, recounts his personal encounter with Albert who appeared to be a homeless man but turned out to be something else. Albert offered Garnet a new view of life and life beyond this physical plane. Garnet believes he was asked to participate in an opening of his vision and perceptions to a level of higher consciousness and awareness as it was necessary for him to answer the many questions he had since childhood and to begin an inner journey to discover the real values and truths of Man God and Nature so he could continue to evolve thrive and explore life in all its many layers and dynamics.

Garnet thinks back to childhood and the memories or thoughts that were important to him and shares how that is now reflected in his life work and attitudes. Garnet says, “I was raised in a very religious Roman Catholic family. I remembered the answers to my many concerns as a child like Why am I here..Did God select this life for me and is all the stuff I learned in Sunday school about God and the afterlife the real truth..Does God really exist. The Catholic Church’s explanation for all this did not sit well with me. When held up to the light and examined with a critical eye it did not make sense. At the other end of the spectrum I knew many atheists denied the existence of God and believed our lives were random and death would be the end for us and we would not continue to exist in any afterlife. As a lawyer I sought to explore life in terms of right and wrong and human rights and fairness to all.” Garnet was in his adult life and as a result of his communications with Albert able to put the pieces of these many concerns of life and death and right and wrong into proper perspective and alignment to Universal Laws and to find answers to his deepest question.

Garnet’s first book Dancing On a Stamp describes his first encounter with his spirit guide Albert. Garnet tells us about that first contact and that he then eca was aware of a higher power or energy overseeing his life journey and asked for an experience. Garnet writes, “One sunny afternoon in May of 2007 at a mall near my office a homeless man stepped out of the shadows and offered to answer all my vexing questions Had God put me into this life to serve his purpose according to the rules of the Catholic church whose dogma I had swallowed as a child but upon deeper investigation later on did not make much sense..It seemed illogical to me that God the all powerful knowing Supreme Being who had everything and lacked nothing would display many of the negative emotions that are common to humans such as vanity jealousy and anger. Why did he need to be worshipped and why would God give humans free will to live their lives on Earth when it was obvious that this would enable them to breach the rules he expected them to follow And how do we know that all of God’s Rules dictated to us by religious holy men who claimed to be speaking for God actually came from God.”

Garnet writes, “Albert, I discovered, was not really a homeless man but was my Spirit Guide in disguise and his amazing blue eyes penetrated my whole being down to the depths of my soul..he told me much to my surprise that he and I were old friends although I had no recollection of our previous association. Perhaps Albert had come because lately life was making me tired. Although I had everything I had ever hoped for ..a devoted wife 2 wonderful sons, a successful career as a corporate lawyer and financial prosperity something was...

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: Diane Goble

In today’s episode of Healing from Within, your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love welcomes Diane Goble, author of Beyond The Veil. Diane is a near death survivor who shares the art of conscious dying that can help people live a more peaceful and joyful life. She will share how the patients and their caregivers are able to learn more about themselves and life during the end of life process and increase their awareness of death as a spiritual process of rebirth We will also share more about palliative and hospice care dealing with death with dignity, the process of transition, life review questions, communicating with the dying, letting go and grief and mourning.

Diane thinks back on her childhood… “As a child I remember having an intense fear of death and no idea of what death really meant…We all know we’re going to die—someday ..We just don’t want to talk about the monster, “The Grim Reaper” who is coming to take our loved one or us away..I began to fear my parents would suddenly disappear and my sister Bobbie and I would be orphaned I was born during World War 11…my father was in the Navy..there was talk about the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, and the atomic bomb…then just before my 11th birthday my sister Bobbie died when hit by another 8 year old who swung a club…it was my first funeral and I had nightmares about being buried alive and put in a coffin like my sister.. Nobody talked about death or Bobbie again. It was as if she never existed.We moved to another house in another city and didn’t bring anything with us from the past…My parents had 2 more children I found some solace in Catholicism, got married, had 3 children and then left the church after a disagreement over the birth control issue when after the 3rd child my doctor told me not to get pregnant again because I had fibroid tumors…..I became more of an agnostic, a secular humanist, not believing in anything….until I drowned on July 18, 1971….almost before my 30th birthday.”

At the beginning of the book, Diane a poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye…

“Do not stand by grave and weep

I am not there, I do not sleep

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sun on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning’s hush, I am the swift, uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight

I am the soft star-shine at night.

Do not stand by my grave and cry.

I am not there, I did not die.”

Sheryl tells Diane a story. “My sister recently left the earth plane and the last time I saw her I asked her to give me a sign that she would use to let me know she understood what I had been trying to share with her for years but which she was resistant to believing…. that we are spiritual beings having a physical life…. nothing is random…. and we are guided by those above throughout our life… She told me the message was her very sweet faced white fluffy dog a Bijon and every time I saw that type of dog I was to think of her….I got many messages but the one that moved me the most was an Amazon commercial with that little white dog with a blue cast on his leg who couldn’t run like the other dogs so his thoughtful and otherworldly kind young owner ordered a baby carrier and carried him and then he was happy. At the end of the commercial I thought it odd that there was music and the words….”I was born among the stars”….and I started to cry…for that is the truth I was trying to share with my sister…the nature of our immortal life force or soul energy coming from a divine source.”

Diane tells us about her near death experience and how it changed her life. “A group of eight of people took two rafts out on the Chattooga River and we made a little mistake that trapped our raft in a hydraulic at the bottom of a wat...

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: William J. Hall

In today’s episode of Healing from Within, your host Sheryl Glick author of Life Is No Coincidence and her newest book The Living Spirit which shares stories of spiritual awakenings, spiritual communication, healing energies, miracles and ways to go within to find your True Self, welcomes William J Hall author of The Haunted House Diaries who shares a profound investigation into the Unknown.

William J. Hall is the author of the paranormal best seller The World’s Most Haunted House and is professionally equipped to recognize trickery after 25 years as a performing magician who knows how to create and recognize illusions. William is also an experienced researcher from folklore and urban legend to fortune telling… the pyramids… and other mysteries worth exploring, and will discuss a paranormal crossroads in the heart of Connecticut: a house with great paranormal happenings based on a five decade series of journals and research ,interviews and photos, in and around the town of Litchfield Hills.

William tells us how he came to investigate the house on Lindley Street in Bridgeport Connecticut and about the lives of the extended family which for generations had occupied the house which sat at the vortex of a paranormal flap. Litchfield Hills and its surrounding towns contain a crossroad or paranormal flap. Located in Torrington and Goshen, Connecticut lies one of the most fascinating and unusual flaps ever discovered. My friend and mentor Paul Eno began said it was one of the most interesting and varied cases they had investigated and the study was ongoing from 2005. Paul felt it was right down my alley and we decided to meet there at the house- a 1700”s farmhouse at the very center of this paranormal flap. The family was cordial and open and a relationship built easily. This one house in particular located at the epicenter of this activity is the subject of The Haunted Diaries and is the focus for identifying the broad scope of phenomena that transverses this rural area. At my first meeting with Donna Randall Fillie the keeper of the diary that is central to the investigation document unworldly of perhaps multi-worldly events that she has witnessed in her life while living in the historic farmhouse. More than ghost stories they do not conform to the more typical single entity encounter. Six generations of the family have lived in the house owned now by Donna and Bob.

William says, “The story is very similar in concept to those people that have seen Carrie. That movie kind of captures the typical kind of poltergeist experience. But in a little tiny bungalow in Bridgeport, Connecticut—in 1974, when it really broke out to the public—was a family that started experiencing all kinds of things happening in the house. Things moving, dishes flying and a variety of things. Didn't know what to do. Had lived with it for one day already. And in a panic, called on their neighbor, who was a police officer, and also their neighbor up the street, who in turn, called the police.”

When William asked them why they continue to stay in this house, “Donna simply shrugged her shoulders and said, I honestly don’t know! Understand that I am not afraid: this is my home. It’s all I know. Throughout everything we’ve seen and heard in our house, our ties remain strong and unwavering. The extraordinary old New England farmhouse was built in 1793 and has been the home to 6 generations of the Randall family…Donna and her family have been there for more than 60 years. It is extraordinary in size and stark simplicity in service and security….Here in this paranormal flap time and dimensions, life forms and realms, flow together seamlessly where visitation between and among them occurs more by chance than plan, more as unexpected bumps in the night than the meeting of well-defined visions. It is less a haunted house than a path side inn wh...

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: Nick Redfern

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In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit which shares stories of spiritual awakenings, spiritual communication, Universal Healing energies and the mysteries beyond, welcomes Nick Redfern author of Bloodline of the Gods and is a former guest of Healing From Within Today I am delighted to discuss with him his new book Weapons of the Gods.

Nick Redfern is the author of more than 30 books on UFO’s cryptology and the world of the paranormal and discusses the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japanese cities, the first and last victims of the atom bomb in modern times and whether they were just the latest in a long line of Armageddon-level events. Nick will take us back in time to discover that many ancient civilizations may have cracked the secrets of the atom, only to become the victims of its terrifying power. Others may have been destroyed by hostile aliens with their own nuclear arsenals.As we examine these thoughts let us look to evolution and present times for the peaceful solutions.

Weapons of the Gods takes an open-minded look at the theory that wars of an utterly devastating kind were fought thousands of years ago. In that sense the possibility of Atomic wars is not new. Was that technology created and unleashed by hostile extraterrestrials and shared with elite humans? Were their atomic confrontations involving aliens and humans. These are the controversial and thought provoking questions at the heart of this book.

Looking back in history, some events that may show destruction by nuclear weapons may even be evidenced from the biblical accounts of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the ancient Pakistani culture of Mohenjo-daro to the Lonar Crater in India, and the revelations in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, two ancient Sanskrit texts that may describe nuclear warfare thousands of years ago.

The discovery in the early 1950’s of a buried layer of what appeared to be a form of green glass in the deserts of Israel which closely resembles trinitite a substance found at the site of the first atomic bomb test in 1945: at the so called Trinity Site Alamogordo New Mexico. Similar sheets of glass have been found in parts of Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula. High temperatures exceeding 3,000 degrees F are needed and ancient atomic war is at the top of the list for these findings.

A study of not only those Middle Eastern sites where trinitite was found but also tales of ancient battles, warring factions and powerful warlords, who may have turned portions of Israel and Iraq into radioactive deserts.

Immanuel Velikovsky in his book Worlds In Collision noted endless numbers of black stones fused by high temperatures in the Middle East..an absence of lava speaks against a volcanic origin for the stones.

A careful analysis of the curious Lonar Crater 250 miles from the Indian city of Bombay is huge with a diameter in excess of 2,000 meters which displays evidence of massive heat having played a critical and key factor in the creation of the crater as is clear from the trinitite style fused glass within its depths and estimated to be in excess of 50,000 years old.

The revelations of Richard B Firestone and William Topping whose research focuses on what they term a nuclear catastrophe in Paleo-Indian times that is between 18,000 and 8,000BC is the Great Lakes of the United States from where mysteriously high levels of radiocarbon data has been obtained.

Philip Coppens suggested evidence for ancient nuclear war in the Indus River Valley where the city of Harappa Pakistan once stood. It was mysteriously abandoned in times long ago. Localized atomic skirmishes may be the reason and an extensive layer of radioactive ash has been discovered at Rajasthan Indi...

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: Phyllis King

In today’s episode of Healing From Within, your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love, a story of people’s encounters with Universal Energy, Spiritual communication and healing principles which can help develop and use intuition to create a fulfilling life journey. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Phyllis King, author of The Energy of Abundance: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom to Achieve Anything You Want In Life.

Phyllis King, a common sense psychic and psychic comedienne who has mentored and advised individuals businesses and audiences will help you find ways to achieve abundance in every aspect of life, from relationships to income, peace of mind, and emotional health as we master the Universal Laws of Energy and play the Energy Game for success and well being.

Phyllis says she was born with a heightened awareness of a kind..Sheryl like Phyllis usually describes her earlier life as being sensitive and aware of what others were not and was described as a sensitive child who felt and responded deeply to the emotions of others and situations where she could not be moved from her own sense of knowing what was best for herself and others…Phyllis says “It could not be superseded by any philosophy or dogma that was suggested to me as truth or a path. It over-rided my need for tribal connection. Phyllis and Sheryl are of course not the only ones to share a perspective about the intangible existence or the world of Spirit energy or dimensions of life beyond the earth plane.”

As Phyllis tells us in her book, “Energy is synonymous with life.: This includes tangible matter, intangible matter emotions thoughts and anything the mind can consider or anything we can speak about. Energy is moving around in all places at all times. The world is fluid and changing all the time on all levels…Our relationship to life is “The Energy Game.” As Albert Einstein said, “ Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another.” Hard to define what energy is….The Dave Watson definition says, “Energy is a property or characteristic (or traits or aspect?) of matter that makes things happen or has the potential to make things happen”… Yahoo reveals “Capacity for work or vigorous activity: vitality or intensity of expression.” A consciousness itself is what creates energy and this produces the tangible outcomes we experience as a natural sequence. What we put into consciousness will determine the content of our outcomes in life. If we master the inside game of our perceptions, quiet ourselves internally and listen we can find our balance and choices become clear. Then we can put out energy to pull in energy Our dreams require a certain level of energy. We have to create that energy and put it into consciousness…It’s all about that exchange.

In Phyllis’ view of the energy game there is a spectrum…On one end you may have apathy, boredom, and depression….these are low level, slow moving frequencies….they are compacted in nature without space in them. Life created from a compacted position will take you to a place of limited vibrations and outcomes…without space or expansion or growth. On the other side of the spectrum we find happiness, generosity enthusiasm and joy and are working with high level frequencies.. fast moving and filled with space When we create from this energy we are going to like what we create.

This book suggests that everyone can have everything: Can people really have it all? Sheryl thinks if our intentions and needs are in alignment with our life plan and our soul reasons for having this life then Yes we can have what we need though not always what we think we want. “If we want to allow abundance to drive our experience we have to have a way to get in the flow of divine wisdom. That is an open position of listening and respon...

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: Rose Elliot

In today’s episode of Healing From Within, your host Sheryl Glick, author of The Living Spirit, which is a book that shares through stories and miracles a look at Universal Energy Healing, Spiritual Communication offering a way to awaken to one’s true human and divine potential and today welcomes special guest Rose Elliot, author of I Met A Monk. Rose hosted a Buddhist Monk and 15 other novice mediators at her home for a meditation course and describes the many benefits derived from mindful meditation that became central to her ability to survive a tragic family situation.

Rose Elliot will describe the monk’s teachings and the group’s reactions to them and includes in her book short meditations quick reviews and practices designed for those struggling or new to the practices and techniques of meditation which has been scientifically proven to be a means to relaxation, greater health, peace and self-discovery.

Rose is asked by Sheryl to think back to her childhood for a moment and remembers a person or event that may have been a sign even early on as to the talents and values that were important to her then and how this has influenced her to become the person she is today. Rose tells us, “I am indebted to my grandmother Grace Cooke for her vision and courage and together with grandfather Ivan Cooke for creating the spiritual environment into which I was born and my parents for their wisdom and my Aunt Ylana who played an important part in my early life and my sister Jenny and my cousins who were more like brothers and grew up with us at the retreat center….I thank Ian Gordon Brown and Barbara Somers for their Transpersonal Psychology courses and writers Louise Hay Doreen Virtue and Wayne Dyer.”

Rose tells us about the first group meeting at her house and writes.. “There was “Tim, Suzi, Sam, Dan ,Nikki, Maurice, Pa m, Rodney and Joan, Ed, Maggie, and Gwyn and Debbie and then there were 15 pairs of shoes and sandals at the doorway. It became a time of peace and inner replenishment, an oasis away from the pressures of daily life…We began with chanting the words in Pali the ancient language from India..a bit like Thai..the words express gratitude to the Buddha and his disciples who have brought it down to us over the centuries…I do not feel so comfortable with the chanting but the monks voice is pleasant and melodious…We bow our heads at certain poins..We introduce ourselves and tell our hopes for the course…The Monk begins…He tells us his name is Venerable Bhante and he has been a Buddhist Monk for over 30 years and a Zen Buddhist for 15 years before he moved to the Theravada school of Buddhism. He mentions that there is a branch of Tibetan Buddhism headed by the Dalai Lama.”

Theravada Buddhism we find out is the oldest form given directly by the Buddha to his disciples in repetitive almost poetic form learned by hearing and saying them over and over and handed down generation to generation until it was written down about 300 years after the Buddha died. The Tibetan and Zen Schools of Buddhism developed later but shared the same roots.

Some declare Buddhism is the fourth largest religion after Christianity, Islam and Hinduism…Buddhism does not have many of the things that normally constitute a religion. There is no deity to be worshipped—the Buddha always insisted he was a teacher you listen to and follow if his words make sense. He wanted people to test his teaching and try it out for themselves….He told his followers not to believe anything that was told to them nor written in holy scripture or handed down by previous generations: only believe in things that seem and feel right and helpful to you and those around you….

Sheryl Says, “Buddhism as any spiritual journey is for the refinement of the soul which is the divine spark or aspect of Universal Source connected to eternal energy and life but still a unique independen...

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: Dr. Miguel Farias

In today’s episode of “Healing from Within”, your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares stories miracles and insights into the metaphysical world of Universal Energy for achieving a higher level of consciousness and awareness of our multi dimensional status welcomes Dr. Miguel Farias author of The Buddha Pill which questions both the efficacy and also highlights the darker side of the Mindfulness movement.

Miguel and Sheryl will explore the multi-dimensional aspects of life in both its physical and energetic components in the search for greater awareness of the human and divine matrix of possibilities for creation and evolution.

Miguel explores the human ambition for personal change and its possible illusions with a focus on yoga and meditation. The Buddha Pill is a balanced view of meditative techniques suggesting that personal chance affected by these spiritual practices vary widely from one individual to another and that peace and compassion touted by instructors may not always be the end result or may not be lasting.

Miguel shares a glimpse into his childhood days and writes, “My interest in meditation began at the age of 6 when my parents did a course on Transcendental Meditation..I didn’t realize it then but I was effectively being introduced to the idea that meditation can produce all manner of changes in who we are and in what we achieve.”

Many scientists and teachers claim that this spiritual practice…yoga is one of the most efficient and economic tools of personal change…The Yoga Health Foundation states more than 250 million people practice it regularly and through yoga we learn to notice thoughts feelings sensations the energy within and around us while working with physical postures that open the energy chakras of the body and inner soul essence. Yoga practices include a period of lying or sitting meditation….It was world conditions and the need for personal change in a world moving in many incongruent ways that captured the mind and heart of so many to help them understand and make the necessary changes for their health and personal growth.

In the 1970’s when the Beatles studied with Mahesh Yogi this gave respectability to the practice and benefits of Transcendental Meditation for improved mood well being and perhaps reducing criminality rates. This interest at that time was short-lived until 30 years later a new generation of researchers re-ignited interest with the first neuroimaging studies of Tibetan monks meditating and the first explorations of the use of mindfulness in the treatment of depression.

Miguel tells us of a randomized controlled study with prisoners in the UK where a lack of change in most of the prisoner’s aggressive behaviors after 10 weeks of yoga therapy was noted. Sheryl suggests that perhaps the inmates did not actively chose this activity and change we know is a greater possibility when someone is highly motivated to succeed. Sheryl also suggests that 10 weeks is perhaps not long enough to see long term results.

In America similar studies to see the benefits of yoga and mindful meditation practices were also being explored. A quote by Bo Lozoff American Prison Reform Activist and founder of the Prison Ashram Project and the Human Kindness Foundation “ If we forget that in every criminal there is a potential saint, we are dishonoring all of the spiritual traditions. Saul of Tarsus persecuted and killed Christians before becoming Saint Paul author of much of the New Testament. Valmiki the revealer of the Ramayana was a robber and murderer and became one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist gurus but had killed 37 people before he became a saint…We must remember that even the worst of us can change…

Sheryl asks Miguel about certain interesting scientists ...

Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.

Special Guest: Candace Talmadge And Jana Simons

In today’s episode of Healing From Within, your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love, which shares an in depth look at Universal Energy Laws, Healing, Spiritual Communication that offer ways and possibilities to awaken your true divine and human potential, welcomes Candace Talmadge and Jana Simons authors of The Afterlife Healing Circle - an approach for contacting souls on the other side. As a leader of such a group for many years which Sheryl has called an “Unfoldment Group” or a way for the souls or participants to remember and align to their soul energy consciousness, rid themselves of fears and limitations reach a higher level of conscious and communication with Spirit while they reflect on the reasons they have chosen a physical life and attain a higher level of awareness and love for life and also a greater awareness of the Afterlife.

Candace and Sheryl will discuss whether an intense interest in the afterlife may lead to finding out what happens once the physical body dies and whether it is possible to communicate with the dead. Many mental health professionals are beginning to realize that after-death communication helps alleviate grief to a greater extent than just counseling or bereavement groups. Candace believes that our society’s entire definition and understanding of life and energy is too limited and while after life communication is possible…. it is also possible to have pre-birth communication with the soul energy consciousness of those not yet born. Candace Talmadge is a professional writer syndicated political columnist and has appeared on the Edge of the Unknown radio show with Mark Henry discussing psychic abilities, the afterlife, pre life and other paranormal subjects. She has co-founded the Sattva Institute and is a Sunan therapist.

Candace grew up suspecting something survives the physical body at death. She also describes herself as skeptical about many of the beliefs and attitudes she was expected to embrace and was curious and open to many possibilities for exploring life in its many forms. Then in 1986 Jana Simons the co-author of this book helped Candace to meet her spirit guides who are what might be regarded as “dead.” Yet they were very real to Candace..soon after Jana conducted the first afterlife healing circle and this experience deepened Candace’s conviction that an afterlife is real. Sheryl has found that many people who experience an afterlife healing circle already have a deep interest in knowing more about energy the soul and how to use this knowledge to improve the quality of life in the physical realm. While in the environment of this Universal Energy one is able to feel and see or hear expressions from other souls and know more about their own life plan and what comes next.

Sheryl says…. “I may have sensed as a child that a higher force or energy was always present but never thought much about help from this higher realm, or that souls were energy and as such science tells us energy can never be destroyed only transmuted so Consciousness must survive physical death. When I had my own synchronistic and dream events I was propelled rather abruptly from a state of non-belief and skepticism into discovering not only is the Afterlife real!! but that the possibilities for happiness and success in this life are dependent on that knowledge. So I decided I had to share the truth with everyone who would listen. So I wrote my first book Life Is No Coincidence The Life and Afterlife Connection and then in my next book The Living Spirit I wrote…” There can be no spiritual development without as the above quote says “true self remembering” for the two concepts are actually one and the same. We are eternal beings already perfect in our divinity; therefore there is nothing to develop, only to remember.”