title: Whispers from Above: Answers for a Wailing Heart
author: Felora Ziari
description: Felora Ziari is a motivational speaker, human potential consultant, an entrepreneur as well as a peace-building consultant. Her passion to make a difference, led her to start a non-profit organization focusing on the empowerment of women and personal and professional leadership consulting. Her organization, Crimson Woman, serves to enable people to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary results. Through the transformative power of self-knowledge, empowerment, and personal leadership, she has helped thousands of women, around the world, to achieve their goals. Her poems became a gateway to greater insight and healing that helped her live in a state of awe and the gap she calls the silence of being. In this state of being she was able to hear the words of her heart and be more present and be a witness the mystery of life.
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  SHEER DANGER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  High, piercing wails shook the air, and my hands flew up to cover my ears.
  What the—
  
  
  
  
  
  I stumbled back as the shade clawed free of the body. A gaseous head and
  shoulders emerged from the body bag. The screaming never dampened. Her face
  twisted, as if the agony of her death had reached beyond the grave.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Be quiet,” I commanded the shade, but the wailing didn’t drop in volume. I
  gritted my teeth. Okay, time for a different approach. “Tell us your name.”
  
  
  
  
  
  The shade continued screaming. Her hands moved to her face and began digging
  at her eyes. I grabbed the vaporous wrists, tugging them down. She flailed in
  my grasp.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Alex?” John stepped closer.
  
  
  
  
  
  The edge of the circle trembled as he crossed it, and a shiver of power
  crawled down my skin. I held my breath, unsure whether the already weak circle
  would hold. It was meant to keep out magic, not John, who was a null and as
  magically dampened as cou