Having a conversation with metaphysician and therapist Dr. Carmen Harra is like getting plugged into a live socket after being dead -- or just a little run-down. The Romanian born Dr. Harra, who divides her time between Rego Park, Queens and Ft Lauderdale, has two weekly talk shows that share the same name of her first two books – Everyday Karma and Decoding Your Destiny. Also, she has just released her fourth book, The Trinity of Health. She also maintains a private practice on 61st St. and 5th Avenue. Since coming to New York 20 years ago to become a singer, Dr. Harra has established herself as a renowned intuitive to celebrities and fashion-industry insiders, like V Magazine Editor-in-Chief Stephen Gan and Jennifer Lopez, alike. She has sold pyramids and her own line of jewelry on QVC, and has been contacted by the spirit of Anna Nicole Smith, who lived two miles from Dr. Harra's Fort Lauderdale home. Harra regularly communicates with, and recommends others to speak to, those who have passed on - a trend that has been seen everywhere from John Edwards to Lisa Williams.

"We are all having more interesting experiences with this," Dr. Harra says about the recent phenomenon of contacting the dead. Like all good intuitives/metaphysicians, Dr. Harra's vibration is infectious. Here, psychoPEDIA sat down with her to discuss her newly released tome, and her thoughts on the mantras everyone should take to heart:

You use many different traditions as part of your practice -- therapy, metaphysics, Kabbalah, talking with the dead. How do these all come together in you work?
I am working as a therapist, while also working as a metaphysician. I believe in the paranormal - I go beyond cognitive therapy. There are many ways to understand and demystify who you are. But I am a philosopher more than anything else. We must go beyond psychology to parapsychology. Let's talk about birth codes, your divinity, going into past lives. I truly believe there is another dimension and we must go there in order to heal.

Your new book The Trinity of Health talks about how being overweight and sick stems from the emotions.
It's insane, this world we live in. We don't completely understand how desperate we are. You date online. And you question why we are so fat. It's all in the brain and all in the thinking. Everything is too fast. We create the disease. We blame gravity. But, we can transform by asking where is the root of the problem. Before anything else, we must be aware of our thinking. There is no change without awareness.

What do you think about the recent interest in books like The Secret that talk about the Law of Attraction?
There is no secret. The law of attraction is one of the many laws. But, there is no law of attraction without good karma. What exists in you is what you will attract. It's all about laughter and being in a state of joy. The function of dopamine in the brain is to make joy. But, first you become aware. That is the first law of life. There is no change without awareness. The manifestation of your thinking is all in conjunction with awareness.

Why do you recommend being in contact with the dead?
It is a huge devastation when you lose a loved one. That raises distress and negative emotion to 100. You get out of balance. Knowing how to communicate is the best way to heal. And, what they tell you is never wrong. There is a good message. You have to believe in it. If you don't accept it, it can never be done. And, you must practice by paying attention to the world beyond the physical.

Can you explain the existence of the dead for someone who has never believed it to be possible?
We have been talking to the dead over 2,000 years. The body is just gas and water. We are energy that never dies. The carbon dies and the physical die but the vibration never dies. The karma never dies. We are like plants. The winter comes and the flower dies. The spring comes and the flower comes again. If you believe, you don't need words.

Can you give us a simple exercise for communicating with those passed on?
Nostradamus discovered that by looking at water after midnight is a way to be in touch. He broke linear time by doing this.

Will meditating in a bowl of water work?
Yes. You start to have images of what will happen. You must go beyond this world to be in touch. Because you are in the sensory level you don't hear. So, you must disconnect and isolate from the outer world to invite them in. They work on vibration and frequency. They try to make noise. The door was open; now it's closed. Light a candle for them, talk to them. You might have to wait. They may come in a day. But what they tell you is always true.

~Sara Costello