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Having had my own spiritual initiations, beginning in 1985 at the Jung Institute in Zurich,\u00a0which are recounted in the latest volume in the\u00a0Keep This Quiet!\u00a0<\/em>series:\u00a0Initiations<\/em>,\u00a0I like working with people to\u00a0integrate\u00a0the shift and\u00a0jolts that often accompany\u00a0awakening to your deeper identity. \u00a0Another thing I like\u00a0is to\u00a0mentor\u00a0people wanting to maximize their potential. I\u00a0additionally offer\u00a0services to \u201cread\u201d your energy by tracking its path\u2014its divergences, obstacles, blocks, and potential. My focus is on acceptance and love,\u00a0a deep sense of reality, humor, diversity, and breakthroughs\u2014cutting out the excuses and detours to get to where the road is open and even sometimes simple.<\/div>\n
Light Body\u00a0Background<\/strong><\/div>\n
I\u2019ve\u00a0studied the light body through Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer since 1992 \u2013 in Belgium, Ibiza, and the U.S. In 1997, I completed the teacher requirements, and upon my return from Belgium to Raleigh in 2001 began\u00a0teaching a large variety of\u00a0courses\u00a0in the\u00a0Orin\/DaBen\u00a0<\/a>curriculum.<\/div>\n
Other Hats<\/strong><\/div>\n
I wear various hats that all revolve around creativity. Besides working in the light body, I\u00a0have been for decades a freelance\u00a0editor and a cloud photographer. Some of my most wonderful memories are as a three-time Fellow of MacDowell Colony for artists<\/a> in a cabin in New Hampshire. There, artists of all stripes have their own private cabin in the woods to work in, being brought a lunch basket in the middle of the day and congregating in the evening for a meal together. It’s wonderful. In my thirties I switched from novelist to consciousness-research author, and the result is ten books in the Love in Transition\/Space Encounters<\/em> series (published in Romania while I lived in Belgium).\u00a0Much earlier at Random House, I\u00a0copy edited Hunter Thompson\u2019s first book, Hell\u2019s\u00a0 <\/em>Angels.<\/em> Hunter lavishly acknowledged me in Gonzo Letters 2<\/em>. Letters from Hunter from that time gave me the right tuning fork for my 2011-13\u00a0Keep This Quiet! <\/em>I-III memoir series (Saeculum University Press); he is highly prominent in the first two volumes. As a result, I was lucky enough to give a presentation at the 2014 Gonzo Fest in Louisville, KY.<\/div>\n
In the wisdom \u00a0traditions, I had shaktipat into a Hindu lineage, of Lord Ram in the early 1990s, through the sat guru Dhyanyogi-ji, a Kundalini Maha Yoga teacher. I\u2019m\u00a0interested in indigenous teachings and was a co-founder\u2014in the early 90s\u2014of Kayumari, a spiritual community in California, which helped open the door to the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Academically, I graduated with a BA in history (Honors & Distinction) from Duke\u00a0and an MA in contemporary Brit and American literature from Columbia University. After leaving the Jung Institute Zurich, I\u2019ve continuously\u00a0studied and experimented in energy and consciousness.<\/div>\n
Top Photo:\u00a9Jinn Bug<\/div>\n
Alternatively:<\/strong>\"Margaret<\/a><\/div>\n
I have been called \u201ccomplicated\u201d and \u201cornery,\u201d \u201cangelic\u201d and \u201cintimidating.\u201dAt different times I can identify with them all. My light body teacher in Belgium, Roland Verschaeve,\u00a0used to say, \u201cMargaret, you don\u2019t have to do anything but show up\u201d (at a workshop).\u00a0I\u2019ve relished it when someone said that in my classes people leave their egos at the door.\u00a0I guess that about sums it up. Email me at marharrellnc.rr.com. Below are three testimonials about my light body courses<\/strong>:<\/div>\n
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I am writing to try to articulate what the Light Body course has done for me. Mainly I am so peaceful inside and I can take the stress of life with much greater ease…Since starting the course I have also been able to take on the world without fear. In fact my income doubled because I took on managing a company that I had been working in for 6 years. You see, I had a very easy, low-paying position that I THOUGHT was the only thing I could handle since I had believed that I was incapable of more. This course has almost made me fearless! I have travels all over the country alone…again before this course I would NEVER fly alone…<\/div>\n
On a moment to moment basis I just can let things go…I deal with the issue at hand and then…bam…I lose the emotion and I am back to peace again. Yes, I still have the HABIT of reacting…but it is empty now…like a shadow that fades. I feel wonderful…I am able to draw on the course all thru the day for peace. I really know that I have unlimited potential!!! – Denise Carey<\/strong>, author of A Little Book of Extraordinary Love by an Ordinary Person: 12 Steps to Lead Us All into a More Loving World<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
Margaret’s Harmonic Melody in voice . . . in presence . . . in word . . . takes you up an octave\u2014Teres Larocca<\/strong><\/div>\n
Witty, gentle and wise, Margaret Harrell guides us to greater awareness and self-knowledge. I recommend her to anyone who, like myself, wants to explore the frontiers of their own inner worlds. North Carolina is lucky to have her\u2014Edward Lee Hester<\/strong>, Founder of the Clan of the Earth Keepers<\/a><\/div>\n
From Day One to Now of knowing Margaret, she has been only and always purposeful with her life’s work, and aligned integrally with that Work in its myriad forms out in the world. She has a brilliance of light in the mind\u2014and heart\u2014that is a constant in the universe. Thank you, Margaret – Ani Lea<\/strong>, Soul Fusion <\/a>founder<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Publications Where I Can Be Found:<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
UPDATE – August 2016: If you want a full, narratively told, professional account, click here <\/a>for my new Marquis Who’s Who Legacy Bio. For a long time, I have been<\/span> in <\/span>Marquis Who’s Who in the World,\u00a0in America, and\u00a0in American Art. Additionally, in other art books, such as: One Hundred Fine Art Photographers <\/em>and\u00a0Seventy-Five Fine Art Photographers<\/em> (German\/English). In November 2016 I became a Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award inductee.<\/span> I am also officially a Marquis Who’s Who Expert. Also, in 2016, my photography has been exhibited in Florence, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.<\/div>\n
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Podcast interviews:<\/strong><\/div>\n
The latest:<\/strong> The Hunter-Gatherer Podcasts<\/a>, 2020, is a short, fun interview; also, Ayrial Talk Time, Victoria Lynn Weston interviews me “On the Value of Meditation.” Click here to listen<\/a>.<\/div>\n
“Using Dreams to Clear Clutter”: <\/strong>Julie\u00a0 Coraccio (“Reawaken Your Brilliance”). Click here to listen. <\/a><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n
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And to round out the picture, up close and personal, here’s the latest in ballet photos at North Carolina Dance Institute.<\/p>\n

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