Karen Frances McCarthyKaren Frances McCarthy, MA CSNU, is a published author, public speaker, and progressive, Spiritualist medium. Formerly a major media political journalist and war correspondent, she now focuses on writing and speaking about spirituality, existential bliefs, and the philosophy of religion, including belief systems surrounding death, dying, and the afterlife. Her first book, The Other Irish (Sterling, New York, 2011) was supported by Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs as part of Ireland's cross-border peace process; for this work, she was named one of the top Irish female broadcasters who have made an international impact. In television, she produced The Crystal Cave and Alchemy: The Art of Spiritual Transformation for Deepak Chopra. She holds three Certificates of Recognition in mediumship, spiritual healing, and public speaking from the Spiritualist National Union governing body of the Arthur Findlay College in London where she trained. She has a private mediumship and healing mediumship practice in New York, where she also teaches. She is currently researching a PhD at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK and is also working on a non-fiction book about science and spirituality and the search for truth. Read More Read Less