Holzer offers her perspective of what it was like living a normal life amidst the paranormal activities with which both of her parents were involved. She includes memories of gatherings and parties at their upper Westside New York apartment and generously shares some of her father’s “famous ghost stories.” Full of family photographs, anecdotes, and comments, Holzer covers her mother’s lineage to Catherine the Great, her father’s childhood fascination with ghosts in Vienna, how her parents met, their early work together investigating ghosts, and more.

Nancy Mehagian discusses ‘Hidden Treasures ‘in healing: “Due to various tensions–physical abuse of the body, accident or injury, hereditary characteristics and/or mental and emotional anxieties–these flows may be disrupted or stagnate, causing various ailments to appear. When these flows are in balance and harmony, all sources of stagnation are removed and the body is recharged and rejuvenated.”

Merlian News welcomes back spring with this month’s newsletter! We’d like to introduce a new category, Consciousness! Inside you will find a new section entitled Website of the Month, as well as articles on Eckhart Tolle & Oprah Winfrey’s free live online seminars, podcasts with Alexandra Holzer and Ray Rolando, Sahar Huneidi’s latest article on belly dancing, The Remote Area Medical® (RAM) Volunteer Corps : Founder Stan Brock, The International Tibetan Medical Association & Jian Za Home of Hope, a new article by Stephen Thomson and much more!

A noted gastroenterologist and Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine specialist discusses why we must listen to our guts. A traditional diagram of the gastrointestinal tract usually reveals the organs — esophagus, stomach, small bowel and colon — but what is often left out are the nerve bundles or plexus (the centralized collection of neurons that are smaller yet analogous to the Hindu notion of chakras) and the enteric nervous system. These are the ‘brain in the gut’.

New York water contains trace amounts of the sedative Diazepam , the mood stabilizer Carbamazepine and estrogen. Some male fish are becoming “feminized,” probably from the estrogen. No one is sure if the situation is safe for humans. -It has been documented that Rockland County, NY has traces of arsenic in its drinking water and a potential link to the area’s recorded high cancer rate.- People take pills. Their bodies absorb some of the medication, but the rest of it passes through and is flushed down the toilet. The wastewater is treated before it is discharged into reservoirs, rivers or lakes. Then, some of the water is cleansed again at drinking water treatment plants and piped to consumers. But most treatments do not remove all drug residue. Rural consumers who draw water from their own wells aren’t in the clear either, experts say.

Echkart Tolle’s dynamic book about finding one’s true self by quieting the mind and learning to live in the Now. “When introducing his book, Tolle explains its basic premise as he writes,”…people would occasionally come up to me and say, ‘I want what you have. Can you give it to me, or show me how to get it?’ And I would say: ‘You have it already. You just can’t feel it because your mind is making too much noise.’ Tolle goes onto write, “That answer later grew into the book that you are holding in your hands.”

Shake things up and use dance to boost your energy and shimmy your way to enlightenment. ” Ever had one of those days, when no matter what you do, it seems like you can’t shift that dark cloud hovering over your head? Well, now there’s an easy, fun and simple solution — all you have to do is belly dance ! A simple belly dancing movement for 10 minutes a day can help shake blues away. Here is why: if your lifestyle dictates spending most of your day sitting down or where you do not get enough exercise and move about enough, energy in your aura gets to ‘precipitate’. As it becomes heavier, and denser it affects your mood and feelings.”

With a foreword by Buddhist Scholar, Robert A.F. Thurman, Ph.D., Living Deeply was researched and written by acclaimed scientists from the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and weaves together science and wisdom from the world’s transformative traditions to explore and better understand what it takes to make the positive and lasting changes required to lead deeper, more rewarding and contented lives. “The goal of Living Deeply is to make what we have learned through research about the transformative process accessible and immediately applicable to the lives of everyone,” said Living Deeply Co-Author and Vice President of Research & Education at IONS, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Ph.D.

In this podcast, Ray Rolando speaks with Merryn Jose about how he found his calling, his work as a “newly discovered psychic/medium”, ghost hunting with Alexandra Holzer, and more! Ray Rolando is an intuitive energy healer, psychic, & medium from upstate NY. He owns and operates a healing center out of his home in the quaint village of Chester where he sees clients daily for energy work and readings. He is an accomplished writer and metaphysician, whose articles have appeared in The Alien Seeker News and UFO Digest. Ray has also appeared as a guest on alternative-based talk radio shows such as Rick Fischer’s Paranormal PA on Blog Talk Radio as well as with Bill Metz on the Paranormal Awareness Radio Show.