title: Psychic Dreamwalking: Explorations at the Edge of Self
author:  Michelle Belanger 
description: Michelle Belanger's childhood could be a story straight from Ray Bradbury's October Country". Her small Midwest town featured a haunted public library, and it celebrated the return of flights of turkey vultures every year on the Ides of March. Her home life was stranger still. Raised by her maternal grandmother, psychic experiences and ghostly phenomenon were common occurrences in the Belanger household -- but were only discussed behind closed doors. Her estranged grandfather's family included healers, tea-leaf readers, and circus freaks who openly embraced their extraordinary gifts. Afflicted with a life-threatening heart defect from birth, Michelle endured both out of body experiences and near death experiences before the age of five. Her mother believed that these traumatic brushes with death made Michelle more sensitive to psychic phenomenon. Michelle herself believes that her skills arise from a combination of genetics, environment, and fate.
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  # The Angel Trials
  
  
  ### The Complete Series
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Michelle Madow
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### [Dreamscape Publishing](http://www.michellemadow.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # The Angel Trials
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Dark World: The Angel Trials 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Raven
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The last way I’d ever imagined spending my twenty-first birthday was by
  working the register at my mom’s new age store—Tarotology—below our Venice
  Beach apartment.
  
  
  If I hadn’t traipsed off on a solo backpack trip around Europe without telling
  anyone—and without returning until after the semester began—I’d be getting
  ready for a night out with my friends right now.
  
  
  Instead, I was grounded. And I still didn’t even know _why_ I’d gone to
  Europe.
  
  
  Yet, I’d done it.
  
  
  The memories of the trip were hazy—like I was watching someone else go off on
  the adventure instead of me—but they were there.
  
  
  According to the spiritual psychologist my mo