The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network

Linda Alice Dewey taught music in public school for nearly twenty years, and is a regular stage performer in musical and theatrical productions as well as a painter. In 1987 she discovered her spiritual skills, including channeling, face reading, mediumship and psychometry. She is the author of Aaron's Crossing and The Ghost Who Would Not Die. She lives in northern Michigan in the cottage where Aaron and Jacobs first contacted her. Her psychic skills include automatic writing, channeling, psychometry, mediumship, face readings from photographs, and general readings. She is currently helping her father write his memoir of a catastrophic WWII air battle that decimated his bomber group, and how the survivors and former POW's from that day's battle met their German enemies four decades later to become friends and heal. Another project is adapting AARON'S CROSSING to the stage in a PHANTOM-like musical with music she composed over the past three decades. Dewey co-facilitates a spiritual listening group in Glen Arbor, just a mile from the wooded cemetery where she first encountered the ghost of Aaron Burke. She also travels to give inspirational talks on her experience and the resulting new awarenesses.

Stephanie Riseley's life is filled with more exciting challenges than a summertime thriller. For instance, at 19 years old, she almost died, but had a classic Near Death Experience. She saw the golden light and then got "pulled back" into her body - somewhat against her will. After 4 years in and out of hospitals, and still in massive pain, she realized that Western medicine was killing her, so she was forced to find an alternative way to heal herself. But she did it. In her mid-20s and 30s, she worked as an actress in New York City, drove a cab in Manhattan for seven years, and lived to tell about it. In the mid-80s, she worked for UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, and did research that became the Diagnostic Statistical Manual III. After that, she went to UCLA's School of Film & Television, and landed a writing job at Walt Disney Studios. At the age of 42, after years of people asking her why she wasn't married, Stephanie finally met the love of her life, and ladies? He asked her to marry him on the 4th date. Romantic, yes? Unfortunately, he died in her arms 12 years later. But that's why she's here on our show. She's written a wonderful new book called "Love From Both Sides - A True Story of Soul Survival Sacred Sexuality," and it tells the story of his "coming back" to her and connecting from the In Between. Stephanie's also a Certified Hypnotherapist, and has a private practice in Los Angeles. She trained with noted psychiatrist Brian Weiss, M.D.

Joyce Schwarz's career strategy business is called Center for Successful Recareering. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, on NBC National News and NPR. Her clients include Hollywood producers, network managers and film studio managers. She has conducted more than 500 seminars, keynoted 100 conferences and workshops at Learning Annexes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, and spoken at 300 panels and corporate retreats for companies like AT&T and Sheraton Hotels. She is a launch strategist for more than 75 venture funded start-ups including emusic.com, and launched the Missing Kids on the Milk Carton campaign and AOL's Workplace of the Future. She also heads JCOM a new media consulting firm in Marina Del Rey, California, and received an NEA grant for her community outreach programs.

Tim O'Brien has been blessed with wanderlust since elementary school, and fortunately for him, he has always had jobs that required travel. In turn he has been given the opportunity to explore the world for more than three decades. He positions each business trip as a new adventure. Tim is currently the VP of Publishing & Communications for Ripley Entertainment, the owners and operators of the Believe it or Not! Odditoriums, Ripley Aquariums, and a host of other attractions in 13 different countries. Tim's books include: Ripley's Believe It or Not! Frog Oddities; Ripley's Believe It or Not! Baseball Oddities; Ripley's Believe It or Not! Amusement Park Oddities; Legends: Pioneers of the Amusement Park Industry; Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2005 Baseball Media Guide; The Wave Maker - The Story of Theme Park Pioneer George Millay; TP on AB - The Life & Times of Industry Journalist Tom Powell; The Amusement Park Guide; Tennessee Off The Beaten Path; Where the Animals Are; Fun with the Family in Tennessee; and he penned The Essential Guide to Six Flags Theme Parks with his daughter, Carrie.

Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950-51), X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio. The first 15 episodes were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with a few original scripts. Episodes of the show include adaptations of Robert Sheckley's "Skulking Permit," Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven," Heinlein's "Universe" and "The Green Hills of Earth", " Pohl's "The Tunnel under the World," J. T. McIntosh's "Hallucination Orbit," Fritz Leiber's "A Pail of Air" and George Lefferts' "The Parade." The program opened with announcer Fred Collins delivering the countdown, leading into this introduction (although later shows were partnered with Galaxy Science Fiction rather than Astounding Science Fiction): Countdown for blastoff... X minus five, four, three, two, X minus one... Fire! [Rocket launch SFX] From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future; adventures in which you'll live in a million could-be years on a thousand may-be worlds. The National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction presents... X Minus One. The series was cancelled after the 126th broadcast on January 9, 1958. Tonight - 1957 - 002.

Arthur Bebell, a noted hypnotherapist, former photographer, founder and director of a motion picture film laboratory, residing in New York City, has not led a sugarcoated life. Plunged into poverty after his father's death when Arthur was only six, he witnessed family betrayal, greed, anger, dishonesty, and jealousy throughout his childhood. These feelings grew up alongside him, like a shadow that haunts you forever.

Dr. Shelley Kaehr is known throughout the world as one of the leading authorities on energy healing and mind-body medicine. She is author of fifteen non-fiction books and several fiction novels, Shelley is best known for her expertise on the healing properties of gems and minerals as well as for her groundbreaking work as a past-life regression therapist and her work in alternative realities and parallel universes.

Dr. Shelley Kaehr is known throughout the world as one of the leading authorities on energy healing and mind-body medicine. She is author of fifteen non-fiction books and several fiction novels, Shelley is best known for her expertise on the healing properties of gems and minerals as well as for her groundbreaking work as a past-life regression therapist and her work in alternative realities and parallel universes.

Since David was 9 he has experienced various forms of psychic information. At that age he was answering the phone by greeting the person he knew would be on the other end -- until his father made it quite clear that he'd prefer he stopped since it was unnerving to those calling the house! So many interesting and unusual events from then until now (he's 61) have occurred in his life which confused him or saved him, that it would not be practical to try to tell you about all of them. When he was in his early 20's he prayed to God for roots. David felt he needed stability in his life and specifically asked for "roots". Just a few short moments after that prayer he met my future wife, whose maiden name was Root! (They'll be celebrating our 37th anniversary later this year.).So, over the years psychic experiences occurred from time to time, but he didn't really understand them or, for that matter, want them. In 1980 he was working at a funeral home while he was a graduate student, and the psychic gift "flared up"! One evening he received a call and at the end of the conversation he said, "I don't understand why, but I believe I know everything about you." The woman on the phone then asked him several questions, all of which he answered correctly. Well, that had been interesting but David didn't think it signified anything special. In the morning when his shift was over he went across the street to a grocery store and while in line he observed the cashier and just knew she was upset my something. When she rang up his items and put the change in his hand, he looked at her and said, "Your brother who is in a hospital in Wisconsin will be okay." She looked at David and -- screamed -- and started crying!! Everyone thought a robbery was being committed. After that particular excitement died down (and yes, her brother was in a hospital in Wisconsin and she had told no one locally about it), there followed about a two week period of overwhelming psychic information coming to him. he could feel the pain and feelings of people wherever he went.

You can't avoid death or taxes - and everyone knows taxes are no laughing matter. Death, on the other hand, can be pretty hilarious, when you're talking to Lee B. Downs. Lee, who's known at home as "Digger" Downs, is a retired funeral home and cemetery owner who worked his way - pardon the expression - from the ground up in the funeral business. After 33 years, he's seen some pretty strange stuff - from the special requests his customers have to what really goes on behind the scenes at a funeral home. Dark and funny, but ultimately heartwarming, Digger Downs will give your listeners reasons to cheer when he talks about: o Strange customers, like the woman who arrived to buy a casket for her husband - who had already died and was seated in the front seat of her car. o Dealing with squeamish customers - and employees who were afraid of cemeteries. o The time he sold a pre-arranged funeral - during a televised bingo game! o The many famous gravesites he's visited - and how he was one of the first people at Graceland to see Elvis Presley right after he died.