I N T RO D U C T I O N

Even as a little girl growing up in Romania (Transylvania, to be exact), I knew I was different. After a "near-death" experience at age five, I was able to see things others couldn’t. My near-death experience opened my perception to a whole different level of being. I had been given the gift of prophecy and prediction. Some people call it intuition, the sixth sense, or being psychic. I personally prefer

to call myself a metaphysical intuitive. I take the wisdom I have gained through my gift of sight and help people apply this wisdom to their everyday lives.

Everyone who has had a near-death experience describes the sensation of "going towards the light." In this parallel world there is extraordinary light energy around you, an inexpressibly beautiful light and no negativity, no fighting, nothing but love. It is a perfect, glowing world, filled with dazzling insights and pure truth, the way our Creator meant it to be, and I’ve never forgotten it or the lessons it taught me. Why, I wondered, wasn’t life on earth like this?

This parallel world, that I call the Invisible World, is just as real as the physical world here on Earth. It is even more real because the people there are souls unencumbered by ego, emotions, and attachment to material things. Without these negative distractions,

love, joy, and peace can exist harmoniously. Even as a child, I knew this was a realm of pure energy, and that I would spend my own life guiding people through that doorway, toward the light. This was my special gift.

I want you to forget everything you think you know about psychics. Surrender your prejudices and skepticism and be open to my message. The way I work is different in that I take the knowledge my psychic abilities have provided me with an understanding of

how energy works in the Universe, and combine them with a solid understanding of psychology.

While I do make predictions and prophecies, and have a 93 percent accuracy rate, I am wary of anyone who claims to tell clients a piece of information as if it were written in stone, an inevitable fate. While certain things are predetermined, such as the timing of

your birth and death, most things in your life are a matter of free will and choice. The choices you make create your destiny. My purpose in writing this book is to help you make better choices by developing a deep sense of self-awareness. Mankind has learned how to travel to the moon, and even to Mars, yet he hasn’t succeeded in traveling inward to knowing the Self. Only in knowing ourselves can we make our lives better and make the changes necessary in the world to create a peaceful and hopeful future.

My gift brings me in contact with celebrities, royalty, high-powered executives, doctors and psychologists, and people from all walks of life. But all of them have one thing in common—they have come to me to gain insight into their problems, make better

choices, and find purpose in their lives. I often feel as if these individuals

are seeking a new kind of therapy, a way to heal karmic wounds and shape a more positive future.

I’ve spent the past thirty years developing my psychic abilities, studying metaphysics, and learning about the parallel world of the spirit. I’ve come to realize that my psychic ability, the so-called sixth sense, is the bridge between the Visible and Invisible worlds.

I’m a licensed hypnotherapist, an astrologist, numerologist, and expert in the Kabbalah, cosmology, and astrophysiognamy. These are the tools I use to help you learn more about yourself and the universe you live in.

Most of my clients have been in therapy for years and yet they are still unhappy. They turn to me the way a patient using conventional medicine seeks alternatives. Too often they are desperate—they want to know what the future has in store for them; they want to know how to be happy; they want answers. But my "therapy" is not a magic bullet; it is an interactive process. I can’t tell you what is going to happen unless you are able to heal old wounds, so you can discover who you really are and what you want from life.

I have worked with people dealing with problems ranging from divorce, heartbreak, the death of a child, family discord, the loss of a job, accidents, substance abuse, heart disease, cancer, domestic violence, financial disaster, and many other difficult situations. I

have helped people find their soul mates, change careers and jobs, stop being workaholics and alcoholics, build their dreams, and detect dangerous tumors or health problems early enough to treat them successfully.

My gift of prophecy and prediction give me insights that can be shared and taught to others in the here and now. As a psychic I can help you pinpoint your issues, your blocks, your secret dreams. I push my clients to make changes by broadening their perception, by opening a doorway so they can see their infinite potential. Through this book you will see yours, too!

The only way to do this is to learn about your own karma, how to recognize it, understand its meaning, and fix it if it’s broken. Simply put, karma is the law of cause and effect: what you sow, you will reap. Your life is a process of resolving karmic issues and in doing so you grow and move on. Unresolved karma breeds negative energy, disease, and unhappiness. Many of the things that go wrong in your life, and in the world, are a result of unresolved karma.

With Everyday Karma, I will set you on your own path so that you can begin to understand your life’s journey and read the sign-posts ahead which will eventually become more visible, even with-out the aid of psychic guide.

In Part II will share my personal story and the lessons I gained from the Invisible World. In Part II I will show you how to take these lessons and bring them into your day-to-day life in the Visible World. In Part III I present the foundation of this book: my

Karmic Resolution Method which takes you through a ten-step process of recognizing your karma, resolving it, and envisioning a new reality for yourself.

Everyday Karma is the culmination of my life’s work; it is a way for me to share the lessons I’ve learned from the Invisible World by bringing them into focus for you in the visible realm. These lessons have everything to do with karma, our daily thoughts and actions, and how they relate to our relationships, health, and life purpose. Everyday Karma will help you heal; it will help you create a better life and a state of mind with balance, security, and confidence. It will show you that life is not about how long you live or how much you accumulate, but what you bring to life, your spiritual legacy. It

will take you on a journey of self-discovery that will crack your perception wide-open so you will be free to do what we are all meant to do—enjoy and celebrate the precious gift of life!

Part I

ENTERING THE INVISIBLE WORLD:

THE LAND OF SPIRIT AND LIGHT

C H A P T E R O N E

We Don’t Die

anything serious?" When I give them the answers they usually just stare at me in disbelief. I may tell a client about an exciting new job that is coming up but they won’t believe it because it’s in a completely different field. Or I’ll tell them they will meet the man or woman they’re going to marry at a party within the next month but they’ve sworn they’ll never get married again. Inevitably, they’ll come back some time later and tell me, "Carmen you’ll never believe it but after I saw you I got a call out of the blue for

this job interview and I left the retail industry and now I’m working for a magazine" or "Carmen, I know I said I’d never get married again but just as you said, I went to this party and met a man who wasn’t my usual type. We fell in love and are getting married next year."

My clients claim that I changed their lives but in actuality all I did was change their perception. I’ve shown them all the possibilities and it has affected how they perceive their lives.

I’ve found that every person has his or her own level of perception and it defines what "reality" means to him or her. Your perception becomes your reality. Perception is really nothing more than our ability to become aware of things through our five senses

and then process and understand what we’ve seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched. If you think about it, our physical perception is actually very limiting. We go through life collecting life experiences and processing them through a narrow lens. I believe, no, I

know, that we all have a perception that goes beyond the limitations of the sensory. We all have the ability to see beyond the five senses into a parallel universe that rises above and beyond the senses. When your perception opens up, you can begin to find the

answers to your questions.

My own perception of the world completely changed when I was just a little girl five years old, growing up in Bistrita, a small town in Northern Romania in a part of the country most Americans think of as the home of Count Dracula—Transylvania.