Pamela Bloom is an award-winning writer, interfaith minister and spiritual counselor with a passionate interest in healing. She started her writing career as a music critic in New York, later veering into travel writing, where her adventures included dancing samba in Rio's Carnaval, biking through China, trekking through the Amazon, and dancing reggae with the Hopi Indians. Her books on Brazil--"Amazon Up Close" and "Brazil Up Close," both won the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for Guidebook of the Year. She has also written a number of spiritually oriented books, including "on the Wings of Angels" and an essay packaged with the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A conscious medium for over 25 years, Pamela had the exciting experience recently of channeling her latest work: "Heaven Speaks: Intimate Interviews with Illuminated Souls" with co-author Carla Flack. Her 2000 book, "Buddhist Acts of Compassion" is now being republished by Hampton Roads in April, 2010 under the new title "The Power of Compassion: Stories that Open the Heart, Heal the Soul and Change the World"--a compilation of true-life stories about transformative moments of kindness. A children's story for adults, "The Little Guitarra Who Played Herself," will also be available imminently on Amazon.com. Please visit her website--www.BooksbyPamelaBloom.com for more information, private sessions and press. And please visit her YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/thepowerofcompassion--to enjoy original videos based on her book "The Power of Compassion."