The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network

Communicating with the Spirit World - Carole J. Obley has been the bridge between heaven and earth in over 7000 group and individual readings. It's no surprise that she is fast becoming a sought-after medium, author, workshop leader and speaker given the startling clarity, specificity and accuracy with which she sees, hears and senses people's loved ones in spirit. Names,descriptions of loved ones' personalities and uncanny, validating details as well as grief support and teachings about the Afterlife are typically delivered in her readings. She has been the subject of newspaper articles, spoken on both radio and TV and is the author of three books on mediumship and healing. Ms. Obley has published articles on spiritual and metaphysical subjects and taught workshops at Lilydale, N.Y., the largest US center for Spiritualism. She has produced audio programs to help people with spiritual development and teaches three levels of classes in intuition and mediumship. - www.soulvisions.net

Corrupted Spirituality Has Tragic Results - Zulfiqar Rashid was born in Pakistan and lives in southern California. As a regular contributor to various newspapers, he has written extensively about his travels to Pakistan, and major figures in the Pakistani artistic and cultural scene. Rashid is also an accomplished artist and calligrapher, whose art has been featured in the San Diego Union Tribune. His works have been exhibited at galleries in San Diego, Del Mar, and La Jolla, as well as the San Diego Art Institute and the San Diego Port Authority's "I Madonnari" festival. - http://www.zulfiqarrashid.com/

What It's Like Growing Up In A Cult - On occasion one of the unorthodox religious cults makes the news and we get a brief glimpse into what goes on in their world. We rarely get the real inside story beyond the journalistic sensationalism. Joan Miller finally takes us deep into the life of just such an organization and shows just what can take place when a charismatic leader manipulates scripture to satisfy his own ends. But it doesn't end there. The first part of The Transformation of Joan Faith is about Joan's upbringing and her struggles with the abuses visited upon women and young girls. It is a fascinating and compelling story written with an even hand and lack of rancor. It is, in part, an expose of one such misguided religious organization. It is the second part of the book, however, that shows how Joan's faith was re-channeled, though the sheer power of vision, determination, and dependence on God into a positive endeavor for good. One that appears destined to help countless children survive and prosper. It addresses in detail the five basic needs of children: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and financial health, and shows how she is proceeding to provide them. Joan's life work, Faith Works, is a labor of love and grace. The Health Project is clearly described and beckons the support of all who catch its vision of healthy, happy people contributing positively to our society. It is detailed from inspiration to practice, with a healthy serving of the uplifting belief that has transformed Joan into who she is today. In its totality, The Transformation of Joan Faith is an illustrated guide map for taking charge of life and overcoming the past to create a better future for self and others. - www.faithworksmedia.com

Are You Addicted To Your Smartphone? - Steve Fogel is a principal and cofounder of Westwood Financial Corp., one of the largest owner-operators of retail properties in the United States. He is a licensed real estate broker and past chairman of the California Arts Council. Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, publishing March 11, 2014, is his third book. He is also the author of My Mind Is Not Always My Friend: A Guide for How to Not Get in Your Own Way (Fresh River Press, 2010) and The Yes-I-Can Guide to Mastering Real Estate (Times Books-Random House). www.stevenjayfogel.com.

Alvin Toffler coined the phrase "electronic cottage" in the 80's. Futurist Frank Ogden carried the concept further. From his high-tech houseboat in Vancouver harbour, he is wired to the world by computer, phone, cable and phone modems, satellite, infra-red transmissions and CD-ROMs. The Financial Post describes Frank as a "20th Century visionary" and calls his ideas "outrageous", an ideal combination of qualities for a life of profitable nonconformity. From Papua New Guinea to the high-tech jungles of silicon, satellites and photons, Frank has a reputation for innovation and originality. In 1979, he began monitoring 200 satellites and 2,000 data banks, to provide a video clipping service for forward thinkers wanting information on new and relevant business developments. Now Ogden circles the globe as consultant to companies and countries, preparing people to trek along the fast track. "A bulldozer of change is charging over the planet," he says. "And if you're not part of the bulldozer, you'll become part of the road." Born in 1920, Ogden was educated in Canada and the United States and served as a flight engineer during World War II. Unflaggingly energetic and curious, he graduated to a dizzying array of jobs flying airplanes and helicopters and selling aircraft (He is currently checked out as Pilot-In-Command in 55 different flying machines), real estate and housewares. During the 1960s, he joined a medical team researching LSD at Hollywood Hospital, and he crossed Canada by helicopter to celebrate the country's centennial. He also helped found Canada's first think-tank, taught at the Ontario College of Art and the New England School of Art in Boston, and managed a Montreal radio station, leading it boldly into progressive rock. He was also a founding member of the World Future Society in Canada.While studying voodoo in Haiti and establishing a think-tank for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Ogden recognized the link that exists between primitive thinking and high tech. "Everything in life is information. So-called primitive cultures have known this for thousands of years," he explains. "Voodoo priests get their information through a hierarchy of gods; we get ours through a hierarchy of technology." Such concepts as these have made Frank a celebrity speaker on the conference circuit, where he outlines the electronic and information revolutions of the current and coming decades. Frank suggests a future of teleports, limited labour unions, as more people become self-employed, and body implants to make cyborgs of us all. Audiences praise him because "he shakes people up and gets us thinking about the future!" - www.drtomorrow.com

The new doctrine of the Golden Age, called the Cosmic Teachings of Love - Gift of Father Sky and Mother Earth's great humanity, encompassing Prospects and opportunities of moral and Ascension for every person, regardless of ethnic, racial, sexual, cultural, religious, social and other affiliation. - http://www.star-transform.org

Marjory Wildcraft - Marjory Wildcraft is the founder of The Grow Network, which is the online home of a global community of people who produce their own food and medicine. The purpose of The Grow Network is to stop the destruction of the Earth. "Home grown food on every table" is the solution. Marjory was featured as an expert in sustainable living by National Geographic, she is the host of the Mother Earth News Online Homesteading Summit. She works with groups such as the Transition Town movement, and The Organic Consumers Association (millions against Monsanto). Many people in the survival and preparedness community fully endorse her work, such as the host of The Survival Podcast and Jim Rawles, perhaps the most famous survivalist in the world).

Aleister Crowley - Richard Kaczynski is an author and a lecturer in the fields of social psychology and magic, and a magical practitioner specializing in Thelema and related magical paths. He is also a talented keyboard player, a founding member of the band House of Usher, and has appeared on four CDs on the Mellow Records label. Kaczynski is an Adjunct Instructor of Orthodontics at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry. He holds Bachelor of Science, Masters degrees, and a PhD in Social Psychology from Wayne State University. He is currently a research project director and statistician at Yale University's Department of Psychiatry. Kaczynski has been a student of Thelema since 1977 e.v., a member of Ordo Templi Orientis since 1987, and a lecturer on magick since 1990. Within the O.T.O., he is past Master of Blue Equinox Oasis in Detroit, a Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, and a Certified Initiator Trainer[. As a member of U.S. Grand Lodge's Education Committee, he is chair of its Qabalah subcommittee. and he was interviewed for the PBS documentary, Secrets of the Occult. Kaczynski's medical and psychological writing has appeared in several publications in those fields, especially in the American Journal of Orthodontics. He is the author of a biography of Aleister Crowley entitled Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley. His occult writing has appeared in various magazines including High Times, The Magical Link, Neshamah, Cheth, Mezlim, Eidolon, and Different Worlds, and in such books as The Golden Dawn Sourcebook, Rebels and Devils, and People of the Earth. - www.richard-kaczynski.com

The Mind/Body Fertility Connection - Millions of women around the world-including over seven million in the U.S. alone-have been diagnosed with unexplained infertility. This condition has driven the pharmaceutical and medical industries to focus on biologically manipulating the body to create life. The Mind/Body Fertility Connection asks a different question about the reasons for infertility; if there is no physiological explanation for the condition, then could the answers exist in the mental and emotional realms, buried in the subconscious minds of women who struggle to conceive? The Mind/Body Fertility Connection is written by a practitioner who specializes in working with infertility clients, understands the real blocks and issues that prevent conception, knows how to process and heal those issues and whose writing captures the strategies and solutions in a clear, easy to understand language. It is especially written for the woman who is looking for a new perspective on infertility, one that offers solutions and techniques for taking charge of her ability to conceive. With the exception of a handful of pioneering practitioners around the world who have discovered the importance of this work, this is a virtually unexplored area. No other books on the market deal directly with the mind/body connection to fertility. James Schwartz, BCH, is a Board Certified Hypnotherapist and an NLP practitioner. He is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and a member of the Colorado Association of Psychotherapists. James is the founder and director of the Rocky Mountain Hypnotherapy Center in Lakewood, Colorado, and is certified in Complementary Medical Hypnosis, NeuroLinguistic Programming and HypnoBirthing®. Through his extensive hypnotherapy work with infertility clients, James created and developed a highly successful fertility program called Hypnosis to Promote Fertility which focuses on healing the mental and emotional barriers that can often prevent conception. This work became the basis for The Mind/Body Fertility Connection. - www.rmhypnotherapy.com and www.mindbodyfertilityconnection.com

The Mafia Exposed - Criminal Landmarks of Sicily - Mafia Exposed takes you to key locations that mark events in the history of the Sicilian Mafia as it has developed since the mid-19th century. It offers brief glimpses of the malavita that thrives in dark alleys hidden from the bright Mediterranean sun. The provocative nature of this project is not a condemnation of the great people of Sicily. On the contrary, it is written in a spirit of solidarity with the brave individuals-private citizens and police agents alike-who make up the anti-Mafia movement. The aim is to demystify and strip away the romance of the Cosa Nostra, an institutional phenomenon better perceived as "mafias," separate but collaborative crime "families" that control discrete regions of the island. Carl Russo is a San Francisco Bay Area native who has written for the Oakland Tribune, Indiewire and other publications. Russo fell in love with Sicily on his first trip to the island in 1999 and has returned many times since. In 2010, he began a blog, Mafia Exposed, which became the basis for his book. Russo was also a radio producer and disc jockey at KUSF-FM, San Francisco, from 1990 to 2003. The self-described cinema freak made a comic short in 2005 called Baby Pepper, which screened at 48 film festivals in 13 countries. - www.mafiaexposed.com