Patching Me Together

Margaret Ann Harrell was born in North Carolina and educated academically at Duke University (BA) and Columbia University (MA). She did postgraduate work at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich (1984-'87), followed by energy studies and investigations that continue to this day. Since, in late 2001, after thirty adventurous years abroad in Morocco and Europe, she moved back to the United States, she has been an advanced-meditation light-body and luminous-body teacher-in the Orin & DaBen LuminEssence work. Margaret was a copyeditor/assistant editor at Random House, New York City, often to first-book writers who later became prominent, such as Hunter S. Thompson. Introduced to parapsychology by Dr. J. B. Rhine at Duke University, she eventually found a part of her calling in exploring the meaning and boundaries of consciousness/unconsciousness. She is a three-time fellow at MacDowell Colony. Margaret is in demand as a speaker. most recently, at the launch at the Canessa Gallery in San Francisco in July 2021 of her book "The 'Hell's Angels' Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic," in collaboration with Ron Whitehead, US National Beat Poet Laureate (published by Norfolk Press). In cloud photography, exhibited in Romania, Italy, Bruges (Belgium), and New York City, she is fascinated with experimenting with the sun. Her biography and photographs were also many times in "Marquis Who's Who in Modern American Art." For several years she has been a VIP presenter at the Gonzofest (Louisville). Margaret, a longtime freelance book editor, now edits additionally for authors in the Self-Publishing School. For a fuller picture of her, see https: //margaretharrell.com.