Animals are having a variety of roles in your life. They are friends, teachers, healers, family. They remind you of your importance in the order of things. They remind you of your insignificance in the order of things. They mirror both your power and your ineffectualness. They continually teach you that you cannot destroy love, despite your lack of understanding, perhaps, of their needs and desires…

In this podcast, Asandra speaks with Merryn Jose about channeling. This is the first time Asandra has channeled her Master SpiritGuide on the air, sharing messages on evolutionary consciousness. Asandra is an Artist, Writer, and Metaphysician. For the past 23 years, she has worked as a full-trance Channel. Asandra channels Master Spirit Teachers with an emphasis on assisting highly focused individuals in the fulfillment of their souls’ journey.

Tao Porchon Lynch is an inspiration to everyone who knows her. At age 96, she is the Guiness World Record holder as the oldest yoga instructor. Featured on Fox News, TedTalks, the BBC and YouTube, she has been teaching yoga for over 56 years. On her website, www.taoporchon-lynch.com , you can see her having an audience with the Dalai Lama. She still teaches six days a week and drives herself to work.

Ready to celebrate Halloween next week? Why not join one of the most famous celebrations in the world? It’s the legendary Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, now hitting it’s 41st year! Just to add another level of fun, the Grand Marshall this year is none other than Whoopi Goldberg. The 2014 41st Annual Parade will be on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014 at 7 p.m.

There’s a time when every crisis can become transformation; when simply surviving can become joyous thriving. In our lives that time is The Turning Point. In our world that time is now! In this compelling new work, best-selling author and visionary Gregg Braden merges his expertise in leading-edge science with present-day realities to answer the questions on everyone’s minds…

We cannot say enough good things about the online courses from Master Mingtong Gu and the staff at www.chicenter.com ! This is a phenomenal resource for learning Wisdom Healing Qi Gong. We all know that there’s nothing like learning from a true master, taking the time to sit with him or her and soaking up the wisdom, skill or techniques that will help you advance physically or spiritually. Unfortunately, in this busy day and age it can be difficult to take the time off necessary to devote to learning, or worse, the teacher you need may live on the other side of the country.

How much do I miss my sleep? Let me count the ways: I can’t remember the last time I woke refreshed from six to eight unbroken hours of rest; hell, I can’t remember much of anything anymore as short term memory seems to be the first casualty of sleep deprivation. I miss dreaming and when I say, “I am tired of waking up like the house is on fire, sweating, with my heart pounding from the surge of hormones,” I mean it literally: I am tired of it.

God is in the Little Things: Messages from the Golden Angels by Patricia Brooks Review by Cheryl Shainmark — In the second of what promises to be a lively series, (click here for a review of the first book), author Patrica Brooks shares more of her autobiographical tale of spiritual growth. Written in an upbeat and humorous fashion, God is in the Little Things: Messages from the Golden Angels skips along in an engaging manner. Brook’s stories are lovely, like little pearls strung together in a delicate necklace.

It’s with great sadness that we report the death of our dear friend and sound editor, Carl Casella. Carl was a sound designer at Sound Designs in NYC, and had a brilliant award-winning career working on and off Broadway on productions such as A Night With Janis Joplin, Relatively Speaking, Sly Fox, Little Shop of Horrors, and others.