{"id":7667,"date":"2014-04-03T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2014-04-05T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T05:23:06","slug":"april-5-2014-deborah-mitchell-growing-up-godless-janice-carlson-soul-sensing-and-guest-host-dr-robert-forman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=7667","title":{"rendered":"April 5, 2014 &#8211; Deborah Mitchell, &#8220;Growing Up Godless,&#8221; Janice Carlson, &#8220;Soul Sensing,&#8221; and GUEST HOST, Dr. Robert Forman with Kerry Gordon, &#8220;Soul Jazz Program&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 2014 &#8211; Archives\/Pod Casts\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archives2014.gcnlive.com\/Archives2014\/apr14\/AmerikaNow\/0405141.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"> Hour 1 <\/a> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/archives2014.gcnlive.com\/Archives2014\/apr14\/AmerikaNow\/0405142.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Hour 2 <\/a> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/archives2014.gcnlive.com\/Archives2014\/apr14\/AmerikaNow\/0405143.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Hour 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hour 1:\u00a0 Deborah Mitchell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7670\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DeborahMitchellPHOTOApr2014-150x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"102\" \/><\/strong>Joining Amerika Now during the first hour is author and blogger, <strong>Deborah Mitchell<\/strong>, who will be discussing her new book, <strong><em>Growing Up Godless:\u00a0 A Parent&#8217;s Guide to Raising Kids Without Religion.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to blogger Deborah Mitchell, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/docs\/DOC-910282\" target=\"_blank\">CNN iReport &#8220;Why I Raise My Children Without God&#8221; <\/a>went viral and sparked numerous debates, &#8220;People misunderstand or are fearful of people who don&#8217;t believe in God.&#8221;\u00a0 In her essay, Mitchell states that she understands why people need God and Heaven and how she does not want religion to go away.\u00a0 She just wishes for it &#8220;to be kept at home or in church where it belongs&#8221; so that her children can &#8220;be free not to believe and to know that our schools and our government will make decisions based on what is logical, just and fair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7680\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GrowingUpGodlessBOOKCOVER-99x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" \/>Mitchell&#8217;s book, <strong><em>Growing Up Godless<\/em><\/strong>, was written to help others who may be struggling with how to assert their beliefs in a reasoned, non-confrontational, and honest manner.\u00a0 Tonight, she&#8217;ll address issues that agnostic, atheist, humanist, or secularist parents may face as what to tell classmates to disapproving grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Mitchell is a graduate of North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Dallas.\u00a0 She has an M.A. in Humanities with a major in History of Ideas.\u00a0 Deborah grew up Catholic, but lost her religion over 20 years ago.\u00a0 She doesn&#8217;t expect to find it again.\u00a0 She blogs about raising children free of religion at<a href=\"http:\/\/raisingkidswithoutreligion.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"> raisingkidswithoutreligion.net. <\/a>Her article, &#8220;Why I Raise My Children Without God,&#8221; went viral after it was published on CNN&#8217;s iReport, and was moved to the front page of CNN.com.\u00a0 This is her first book.\u00a0 Deborah currently lives in Texas with her husband and two teenage sons.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/raisingkidswithoutreligion.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">raisingkidswithoutreligion.net. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL\u00a0\u00a0 800-259-5792\u00a0\u00a0 TO SPEAK WITH DEBORAH MITCHELL.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hour 2:\u00a0 Janice Carlson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7672\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JaniceCarlsonPHOTOApr2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"93\" \/><\/strong>Author, psychic, and medium <strong>Janice Carlson<\/strong> joins the show during the second hour to talk about her life as a medium\/psychic and her book, <strong><em>Soul Sensing:\u00a0 How to Communicate With Your Dead Loved Ones.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Think it&#8217;s impossible to communicate with your dead loved ones?\u00a0 According to Janice Carlson, &#8220;they&#8217;re probably already communicating with you!&#8221;\u00a0 All you need is to understand the language and messaging methods of the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Janice lost her mother and adoptive father to death by the age of 10.\u00a0 After years spent as an advertising copywriter and then as an author of over a dozen novels and novellas, in 1992, Janice accidentally discovered her ability to communicate <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7690\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SoulSensingBOOKCOVERApr2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"128\" \/>with the dead.\u00a0 She now uses her two decades of professional afterlife-communications experiences to help you recognize the signs of visitation by your passed loved ones&#8217; souls; pierce the veil between the living and the dead by awakening your seven soul senses; sense the presence and messages of your deceased loved ones using intuition; use afterlife communication tools; encourage visitation from passed loved ones and pets; monitor your dreams for visitations and messages; send messages and receive replies; understand the differences between being visited by spirits and being haunted; and learn why, how, and when to protect yourself from the spirits of the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Afterlife communications aren&#8217;t just for seances anymore.\u00a0 They&#8217;re being used the world over to ease grief, help survivors move forward with their lives, and come to understand that most human souls do not perish, but continue to be active in our lives on a spiritual basis.<\/p>\n<p>Janice Carlson holds a B.S. degree in Communications and Secondary Education.\u00a0 After years spent as an advertising copywriter, she authored over a dozen novels and novellas released by New York publishers under her fiction-writing pen name, Ashland Price. In 1992, Janice accidentally discovered her ability to communicate with the dead.\u00a0 Since that time, she has done thousands of professional afterlife communications for clients throughout the U.S., with a money-back guarantee of contact.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit her website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.JaniceCarlson.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.JaniceCarlson.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL\u00a0\u00a0 800-259-5791\u00a0\u00a0 TO SPEAK WITH JANICE CARLSON.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hour 3:\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">GUEST HOST<\/span> &#8211; Dr. Robert Forman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7673\" title=\"RobertFormanPHOTODec2013\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RobertFormanPHOTODec2013-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"RobertFormanPHOTODec2013\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" \/><\/strong>Renowned spiritual leader <strong>Dr. Robert K. C. Forman<\/strong> will be Amerika Now&#8217;s <strong>Guest Host<\/strong><strong> <\/strong> during the third hour.\u00a0 Dr. Forman will be interviewing Toronto Psychotherapist and Theorist on Intimacy, <strong>Kerry Gordon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robert Forman has often been called \u201cone of the leading voices in the academic   debates on mysticism\u201d because of his work in the international   scholarly debate about mystical experiences, which came to be known as   \u201cThe Katz-Forman Debates.\u201d\u00a0 Many of his insights about the spiritual  path and goal came from his  work as Founder and Executive Director of  the Forge Institute for  Spirituality and Social Change and the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-7693\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/EnlightenmentAintBOOKCOVER1-97x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" \/> Forge  Guild of Spiritual  Professionals, a nonprofit dedicated to helping  people from any  religion or spiritual path live \u201csoul to soul.\u201d He  routinely gives  lectures, trainings, and workshops around the world. He  was the Co-founder and is Executive Editor of <em>The Journal of  Consciousness  Studies <\/em>, which has become the principle journal in the  field. In addition, he is  also the author of ten scholarly books on spirituality,  mysticism,  consciousness and world religions, including<em> Enlightenment Ain&#8217;t All It&#8217;s Cracked Up To Be:\u00a0 A Journey of Discovery, Snow and Jazz in the Soul.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information on Robert , visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enlightenmentaint.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.enlightenmentaint.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7686\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/KerryGordonPHOTOApr2014-94x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" \/>Robert&#8217;s guest for tonight will be <strong>Kerry Gordon<\/strong>, a psychotherapist and spiritual director in Toronto, Canada, who has been in private practice working with couples, individuals, and groups since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was when my father died in 1986 that my relationship with psychotherapy really began.\u00a0 His death was the tipping point in a series of events that pulled the rug from under my life.\u00a0 All that I expected and depended on seemed to suddenly vanish.\u00a0 I was overcome with a sense of hopelessness and despair.\u00a0 But I have come to realize that what seemed so unbearable at the time was actually a rare gift.\u00a0 If not for the profound <em>emotional and spiritual crisis<\/em> that touched my life I would never have reached out for help.\u00a0 Finding a sympathetic psychotherapist to guide me I began a journey that took me below the surface and into the depths of who I really am.\u00a0 I and others (including Robert Forman) have developed the SoulJazz program to bring the depths of who you are to others and to create much deeper intimacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Kerry, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/kerry_gordon.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/kerry_gordon.phtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL\u00a0\u00a0 800-259-5791\u00a0 TO SPEAK WITH ROBERT AND KERRY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: &quot;Helvetica&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #444444;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 2014 &#8211; Archives\/Pod Casts\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hour 1 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hour 2 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hour 3 Hour 1:\u00a0 Deborah Mitchell Joining Amerika Now during the first hour is author and blogger, Deborah Mitchell, who will be discussing her new book, Growing Up Godless:\u00a0 A Parent&#8217;s Guide to Raising Kids Without Religion. 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