Spirit Matters with Philip Goldberg: Recent Episodes
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Never before has the spiritual landscape been as diverse and abundant as it is today. The opportunities for learning and growth are enormous, and Spirit Matters will help you make sense of it all and apply it to your life. Here you’ll meet teachers, scholars, and other experts from a broad range of traditions (and some from no tradition). Some of our guests are well known; others should be well known. They all have wisdom and practical guidance to impart. The aim is to help you expand and deepen your spiritual practices and speed your progress on your chosen path.
Karen Tate is an Interfaith Minister, a public speaker, a podcaster, a social justice activist, and an author. Her books include Sacred Places of Goddess; Voices of the Sacred Feminine; and her latest, Normalizing Abuse: A Commentary on Our Pervasive Culture of Abuse. Observing that "abuse and exploitation are pervasive and global," she warns about the risks of accepting this as "ordinary, acceptable, usual, or standard." The conversation focuses on her research on the various forms of abuse found in spiritual institutions and her advice about protecting ourselves and our communities. Find out more about Karen Tate here Connect with Philip Goldberg Author, Speaker, Spiritual Counselor, Writing Coach
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Mark Matousek is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker whose work focuses on transformative writing for personal, professional, and spiritual development. He’s the founder of the Seekers Forum, an online community for non-sectarian spiritual dialogue, a founding member of V-Men, an organization devoted to ending violence against women and girls, and he offers workshops in self-inquiry and personal development, featuring a method he calls Writing to Awaken. He blogs for psychologytoday.com and is the author of eight books including the memoir Sex Death Enlightenment, Writing to Awaken, and his new book, Letters from an American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life. That’s the subject of this conversation, which dives deeply into the valuable lessons to be gleaned from Emerson’s life and thought and the enduring ideas of the American Transcendentalists.
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Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired psychotherapist, a prolific author, and a practitioner and teacher of meditation for more than 50 years. Best known for her research and writing on Carl Jung's concept of the shadow, she's the co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and the author of A Moth to the Flame (a novel about the life of the Sufi poet Rumi), the bestselling book on aging, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, and her latest book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening. About that book, the author says: "Within each of us is a spiritual longing that prompts us to unite with something greater than ourselves. Yet, no matter the spiritual path we choose, we inevitably encounter our own shadow." How to understand, recognize, and work effectively with our shadow is the main focus of this illuminating conversation.
Connie Zweig, Ph.D. Connect with Philip Goldberg Author, Speaker, Spiritual Counselor, Writing Coach Find books by Philip Goldberg and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Author, Educator, and Developmental Psychologist Robert Atkinson, joins us to talk about his timely new book, A New Story of Wholeness: An Experiential Guide for Connecting the Human Family. We spoke about the need, in our fragmented time, for a shared vision of our interconnectedness and the unity that binds us in spite of our superficial differences. Atkinson shares his belief that we're approaching what he calls "a consciousness of global integration." Connect with Robert Atkinson https://www.robertatkinson.net/ Meet author, spiritual counselor, speaker, and writing coach Philip Goldberg
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Yoga teacher and teacher trainer Eric Shaw joins us to discuss his exhaustively researched book, Sacred Thread, A Comprehensive Yoga Timeline: 2000 Dates That Shaped Yoga History. The subject, and our conversation, goes well beyond just the developments in what's known as "postural yoga." It includes the entire range and depth of yogic precepts and practices and their spread from India to the rest of the world. We also touched upon the impact yoga has had on other traditions and the importance of protecting the system from distortion and dilution. We also discussed some controversies that Eric was involved in. Find Eric Shaw on Facebook Find out more about Philip Goldberg To find books from Philip Goldberg and other MindBoydSpirit.fm podcast hosts visit the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to the official podcast of the MindBodySpirit.fm podcast network. For our debut episode we will explore the concept of Gratitude as a life practice through the eyes of award-winning cinematographer and director of the documentary film Gratitude Revealed, Louie Schwartzberg. We gathered three podcasters from the network Philip Goldberg host of Spirit Matters, Cynthia Occelli host of Rewritten and Dr. Steven Farmer host of The Dr Steven Farmer Podcast-Healing for Your Soul to get their impressions of this incredible film. In a candid Q and A with Louie, each person shared their reactions and feelings about the film. Moderated by Co-Founder Diane Ray, we discover why Louie was drawn to the subject of gratitude, what his definition of gratitude is, and how we can live a more meaningful life full of gratitude. What began as a short film viewed by millions at TED in 2014 has evolved into a global effort to make this film available to all. If you would like to find out more about this extraordinary film or host your own screening of Gratitude Revealed, please visit www.gratituderevealed.com. If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to hear other podcasters views on the idea of gratitude, visit the Gratitude page https://mindbodyspirit.fm/showcase/gratitude/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder work together as spiritual teachers through the Human Sun Institute, the organization they co-founded. Best known for the process called Waking Down (later Waking Down in Mutuality), they describe their mission this way: "To being heart-based embodied awakening to a worldwide audience." Our conversation focused on their spiritual histories and their current work, such as what it means to become "a human sun." We also addressed delicate issues relevant to contemporary spiritual seekers: the potential of power abuse by teachers and the vulnerability of their students. SanielandLinda.com Find books from Philip Goldberg and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
To most of us, the word surrender evokes weakness, defeat, captivity, and giving up -- not good things. Yet, many spiritual traditions call upon followers to surrender and portray it as the key to the kingdom. In this spirited and illuminating interview, the globally-known transformational teacher, Kurt Blackson, author of the inspiring new book, The Magic of Surrender, describes how surrender, properly understood and applied, can lead to freedom, strength, and spiritual riches by syncing individual consciousness with divine intelligence. Connect with Philip Goldberg- Author, Speaker, Spiritual Counselor, Writing Coach Find books from Philip Goldberg and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcasters in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We explore deep and powerful spiritual lessons from the Christian mystics with one of the world's leading experts, Mirabai Starr. From John of the Cross and the dark night of the soul to the liberating teachings in the lives of female saints like Teresa of Avila, there are spiritual blessings to be gleaned. We also plunge into the heart of despair as Mirabai shares from personal experience how to grow spiritually following the heartbreak and grief of a painful loss. Connect with Mirabai Starr Find out more about author, spiritual teacher, counselor, and writing coach Philip Goldberg Find book from Philip Goldberg and other MindBodySpirit.fm podcast hosts in the online store Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Arielle Ford was a highly successful agent and publicist who represented some of the world's top self-help and spiritual authors. Then she became an author herself, writing 11 non-fiction books including Wabi Sabi Love and The Soulmate Secret, which launched her on a new career as a respected coach and speaker on the subject of love and relationships. Now she's published her first novel, The Love Thief, about the spiritual transformation of the main character, an American woman who finds herself in India. We spoke about why she wrote the book, the plot and characters (without giving anything away), and why fiction can be especially transformative for both author and reader alike.
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