The New Dimensions Café: Recent Episodes
New Dimensions Foundation
Activism, art, education, science, psychology, philosophy, health, spirituality… All these and more are featured in this lively, short (10-20 minute) companion to the diverse, award-winning one-hour New Dimensions program that has been broadcast on public radio since 1973. For more information and over a thousand hours of downloadable programs visit newdimensions.org.
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.
Mark Nepo is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), More Together Than Alone: Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the World (Atria Books 2018), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019), The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin’s Essentials 2020), Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity (St. Martins’ Essentials 2022) and Falling Down and Getting Up: Discovering Your Inner Resilience and Strength (St. Martins’ Essentials 2023). His many audio learning courses include Staying Awake (Sounds True 2012) and Holding Nothing Back (Sounds True 2012
Interview Date: 6/30/2023 Tags: Mark Nepo, inner truth, integrity, Rabbi Omer-Man, noise, guiding center point, inner voice, enlivening, friendship, disheartening, discernment, Kalevala, isolation, Joseph Bruchac, original instructions, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Relationship
Karen Casey Ph.D. received her doctorate in philosophy with an emphasis on Native American studies. She’s an accomplished author with over two dozen books and is the 2007 winner of the Johnson Institute American Honors Recovery Award for her contribution to the field of recovery. Karen’s focus as a writer and spiritual teacher is to strengthen our connection to a Higher Power, which is the invisible source of inspiration, guidance, strength, and wisdom available to each of us. Her books include Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women (40th anniversary edition).(Hazeldon 2022), 52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles: Cultivate a Simpler, Slower, More Loved-Filled Life. (Conari Press 2016) and Let Go Now: Embraced Detachment As a Path to Freedom (Conari Press 2022)
Interview Date: 5/19/2023 Tags: Karen Casey, Higher Power, AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, recovery, presence of God, Course in Miracles, spirituality, creativity, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Writing
Dan Drasin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and has been a photographer and media producer for more than six decades. He’s also the Operations Manager of New Dimensions and the announcer whose voice you hear on each program. His short 1961 documentary film titled Sunday was widely acknowledged as the first social-protest film of the 1960s and is part of the permanent film collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Since the early 1990s, Drasin has been actively investigating the field of afterlife communication through traditional mental and physical mediumship, as well as modern electronics as featured in his documentary film, Calling Earth. He is the author of A New Science of the Afterlife: Space, Time, and the Consciousness Code (Park Street Press 2023)
Interview Date: 5/5/2023 Tags: Dan Drasin, Materialism, clocklike view of reality, wireless communication, electromagnetic waves, beyond physical reality, NDE, near-death experiences, International Association for Near Death Studies, IANDS, hypnotherapist Michael Newton, between lifetimes, Instrumental Trans-Communication, Suzanne Giesemann, Pim van Lommel M.D., death, consciousness, the problem of language, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Science, Philosophy, Intuition/Psychic
Wes “Scoop” Nisker is a Buddhist meditation teacher, journalist, and author. He is founder and co-editor of the Theravada Buddhist journal, Inquiring Mind, and an affiliate teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. His delightful humor accompanies his philosophy and experience of Buddhist insight meditation. Prior to being a meditation teacher, he was a well-known radio announcer in the San Francisco Bay area who went by the name of "Scoop." Where he was known to say, “If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.” He is the author of Buddha's Nature: A Practical Guide to Discovering Your Place in the Cosmos (Bantam 2000), Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again! Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution (Stone Bridge Press 2008), The Essential Crazy Wisdom (Ten Speed Press 2012), The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation (Iro Books 2013) and Being Nature: A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Inner Traditions 2022)
Interview Date: 10/24/2008 Tags: Wes Nisker, Scoop Nisker, Wes “Scoop” Nisker, Crazy Wisdom, Gods, Revolution, Radio, Aging, Baby Boomer, Humor, Storytelling, evolution, Philosophy, Social Change/Politics, Media, Art & Creativity, Buddhism, Community, Education,Personal Transformation, Peace/Non-Violence
Rt. Rev. Dr. Marc Andrus is the eighth Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of California, elected in 2006. Raised among the hills and lakes of East Tennessee, Bishop Marc developed an early love for the beauty of the earth and a call to protect it. His activism, grounded in contemplative prayer, has focused on key issues related to peace and justice, including immigration reform, civil rights for LBGTQ+ persons, health care, and climate change. Mark has led the Episcopal delegation to the annual UN Climate Conference. In service for Presiding Bishop Michael Bruce Curry, Bishop Marc serves as representative to the Anglican Communion Environmental Network. He is the author of Stations of the Cosmic Christ (Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox) (Unity 2018) and Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.(Parallax Press 2021)
Interview Date: 4/20/2023 Tags: Marc Andrus, John Lewis, The Beloved Community, world citizen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize, bodhisattva, Earth as living entity, James Lovelock, Gaia theory, Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, gravity, desire, Beloved Community Circles, Four Nobel Truths, life is suffering, universal moral code, History, Buddhism, Social Change/Politics, Peace/Nonviolence
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA. He’s founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. Also, the founder and president of the Global Compassion Coalition. He is the author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (New Harbinger 2009), Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time (New Harbinger 2011), Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Harmony Books 2013), Meditations to Change Your Brain - CD Set (Sounds True 2009), Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength and Happiness (Harmony Books 2018), NeuroDharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness (Harmony Books 2020), Making Great Relationships: Simple Practices for Solving Conflicts, Building Connections, and Fostering Love (Harmony Books 2023) and Meditations to Change Your Brain - CD Set (Sounds True 2009)
Interview Date: 4/10/2023 Tags: Rick Hanson, listening, dialogue, disagreement, conflict, values, lying, Living Room Conversations, Joan Blades, arguing, no-win dialogues, progressives, compassion, kindness, bridging differences, gun violence, self-righteousness, argumentative, persuading, persuade, vote, voting, Global Compassion, Coalition, Stone Age conditions of humanity, Relationships, Psychology, Philosophy, Social Change/Politics
John Crowley is co-founder of Cool City Petaluma 2030 and co-owner of the Aqus Café in Petaluma, California. He’s a social instigator and champion connection-maker. It was his intention in starting Aqus Café to recreate an Irish pub atmosphere with a focus on social dynamics that create opportunities and support the connection of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits by bringing them together with their various interests, talents, and energy. He believes that social capital determines the health and happiness of a community and that as individuals of a town are provided more opportunities to interact and connect the entire town benefits.
Interview Date: 8/19/2022 Tags: John Crowley, social capital, social investment, Cool Petaluma, civic engagement, carbon neutral, cool city challenge, challenge grant, carbon footprint, disaster preparedness, meeting neighbors, support for block leaders, Community, Social Change/Politics
Peter Fiekowsky is an MIT educated physicist and engineer, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a social innovator. He has worked at NASA and the Fairchild/Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence Lab in Palo Alto, California and has taught at MIT. He holds 27 patents and was instrumental in launching the Foundation for Climate Restoration whose purpose is to work with top scientists, innovators, policymakers, and others to create the understanding and policy needed to further climate restoration. He is co-author with Carole Douglis of: Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race (Rivertown Books 2022)
Interview Date: 9/25/2022 Tags: Peter Fiekowsky, Paris Accords, net zero carbon emissions, climate restoration, CO2 in atmosphere, CO2 footprint, development of civilization, history of agriculture, human population, number of children per family, I Am Humanity, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Science
Linda Yael Schiller, MSE, LICSW is a psychotherapist who has taught dreamwork and led dream groups for over three decades. She teaches and consults on trauma treatment, PTSD, and nightmares. She is the author of: Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Soul’s Wisdom (Llewellyn Publications 2019) and PTSDreams: Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma through Healing Dreamwork (Llewellyn Publications 2021).
Interview Date: 9/15/2022 Tags: Linda Yael Schiller, dream work, nightmares, Justine’s dream of horse and stone wall, sleeping dreams, waking dreams, dreams as homeopathic inoculations, GAIA Method of dreamwork, guided active imagination approach to dreamwork, C.G. Jung, EMDR, Dreams, Personal Transformation
Lindsay Andreotti is the founder of several companies and has held leadership positions in small and large organizations, including government, nonprofit, and Fortune 500 companies. For many years she served as an organizational development coach, business transformation consultant, and executive coach. She believes that when you are authentic and in your brilliance, you can achieve anything. She's the founder and host of The Kindness Club. She's the author (with co-author, Brian Hilgendorf) of Sex, Intimacy and Business: A Revolution Has Begun And It's Time To Get Undressed (Brilliance Press 2005)
Interview Date: 9/5/2022. Tags: Lindsay Andreotti, kindness, Kindness Club, love, compassion, self-critic, mother’s dealing with children freaking out, kindness currency, kindness coins, Personal Transformation, Social Change/Politics
Leslie Shore has worked in the retail industry and personal management fields as well as being a professor and instructional designer where she has gained much wisdom in what it takes to be an effective listener. She is the owner of “Listen to Succeed,” a consultancy that focuses on using listening analytics to help personal and professional clients achieve their highest level of effective communication. Her book is currently being used as a text book in several universities. She is the author of Listen to Succeed: How to Identify and Overcome Barriers to Effective Listening. (self published 2012)
Interview Date: 4/15/2016 Tags: Leslie Shore, barriers to listening, emotions, interrupting, attention, daydreaming, being present, emotional IQ. body language, eye contact, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D. is a coach and consultant on embodied leadership and mastery and has spent more than five decades researching, developing, and teaching Somatics and embodiment practices to organizations in such fields as education, healthcare, leadership team development, military, technology and international peace work, including the United States Marine Corps.He holds a Shihan 7th -degree black belt in aikido and has founded and cofounded several Aikido schools and projects including the Mideast Aikido Project and Training across Borders, organizations that bring citizens from warring countries together to practice aikido. He was advisor to General Jim Jones, the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe from 2003 to 2006 in Afghanistan. He is the founder of the Strozzi Institute, where he teaches courses on somatic coaching and leadership in action. He is the author of many books including In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets (Blue Snake Books 2007), Embodying The Mystery The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion (North Atlantic Books 2014) and Somatic Wisdom for Emotional, Energetic, and Spiritual Awakening (Inner Traditions 2022)
Interview Date: 8/26/2022 Tags: Richard Strozzi-Heckler, aikido, grasping, averting, impermanence, murmuration of Starlings, Chӧgyam Trungpa, certainty, shamanic journey, feral cat, Arkan Braveheart, Arkan Lushwala, Sun Dance ceremony, Spirit, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Spirituality
Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. is among a handful of individuals awarded the National Distinguished Service Award from the National Alzheimer’s Association. Post is a leader in research on the benefits of giving and on compassionate care in relation to improved patient outcomes and clinician well-being. In 2001 he founded The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which researches and distributes knowledge on kindness, giving and spirituality. Post served as a co-chair of the United Nations Population Fund Conference on Spirituality and Global Transformation. He’s a professor in the Department of Preventative Medicine at Stony Brook University and founder and director of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics. He is the author of: Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving (Broadway Books 2008), The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd edition 2000), God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness (Mango 2019) and Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press 2022)
Interview Date: 8/19/2022 Tags: Stephen G. Post, caregiving, dementia, Alzheimer’s, deeply forgetful people, declining cognition, compassionate care, medical treatments as an assault, music and Alzheimer’s, offering emotional dignity, good language when in cognitive decline, Health & Healing, Death & Dying, Philosophy
Robert W Jensen, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books including Plain Radical: Living, Loving and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully (2015 Skull Press), The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men (Spinifex Press 2017) and The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sustainability (University Press of Kansas 2021)
Wes Jackson, Ph.D.is recognized as a leader in the international sustainable agriculture movement and earned his Ph.D. in genetics. He is cofounder and president emeritus of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, and a 1992 MacArthur Fellow. He is the author and co-author of numerous books, including Hogs Are Up: Stories of The Land, With Digressions and New Routes for Agriculture. (University Press of Kansas 2021) and Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture (Counterpoint 2011)
Jensen and Jackson are coauthors of An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, And the Fate Of Humanity. (University of Notre Dame Press 2022)
Interview Date: 8/12/2022 Tags: Wes Jackson, Robert W Jensen, down-power, Wallace Stegner, Henry David Thoreau, World is more beautiful than useful, beauty, attention, consumerism, origins of civilization, we are carbon-based, Mary Oliver, pay attention, be amazed, tell about it, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Philosophy, Social Change/Politics, technology
David Gibson is a leader in the field of sound healing and therapy. He’s the founder and director of the Globe Sound and Consciousness Institute in San Francisco which offers an Associates degree in sound healing therapy. He is also the producer of sound healing music and runs the sound therapy center at the Institute offering different types of sound healing treatments. He is a founder of the sound healing research Association designed to help bring sound healing into the mainstream. He is the author of The Complete Guide To Sound Healing (Sound Healing Center 2013)
Interview Date: 3/8/2016 Tags: David Gibson, sound, sound healing, pain, disease, frequency, ultrasound, anxiety, grief, grieving, emotion, emotions, crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, vibration, white noise, Health & Healing, music, science
Joseph Selbie, a dedicated meditator for nearly 50 years, has taught meditation and yoga throughout Europe and the United States. He is a founding member of Ananda, a meditation-based community and spiritual movement inspired by Paramahansa Yogananda. He resides with his wife at the long-standing Ananda Village near Nevada City, California. He is the author of The Yugas: Keys to Understanding, The Physics of God: How the Deepest Theories of Science Explain Religion and How the Deepest Truths of Religion Explain Science (New Page Books 2021) and Break Through the Limits of the Brain: Neuroscience, Inspiration, and Practices to Transform Your Life (New Page Books 2022)
Interview Date: 7/29/2022 Tags: Joseph Selbie, brain science, the brain’s filtering system, angels, multiple personality disorders, the mind, sensory input, nonlocal mind, emotional body, negative neural brain circuits, quantum field of intelligence, astral body, Meditation, Spirituality, Science
Joseph Selbie, a dedicated meditator for nearly 50 years, has taught meditation and yoga throughout Europe and the United States. He is a founding member of Ananda, a meditation-based community and spiritual movement inspired by Paramahansa Yogananda. He resides with his wife at the long-standing Ananda Village near Nevada City, California. He is the author of The Yugas: Keys to Understanding, The Physics of God: How the Deepest Theories of Science Explain Religion and How the Deepest Truths of Religion Explain Science (New Page Books 2021) and Break Through the Limits of the Brain: Neuroscience, Inspiration, and Practices to Transform Your Life (New Page Books 2022)
Interview Date: 7/29/2022 Tags: Joseph Selbie, brain science, the brain’s filtering system, angels, multiple personality disorders, the mind, sensory input, nonlocal mind, emotional body, negative neural brain circuits, quantum field of intelligence, astral body, Meditation, Spirituality, Science
Will Jawando is an attorney, an activist, a community leader, and a councilmember in Montgomery County Maryland, a diverse community of more than 1 million residents. Called “the progressive leader we need” by the late Congressman John Lewis, Jawanda has worked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Sherrod Brown, and Pres. Barack Obama. He is the author of My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022)
Interview Date: 7/8/2022 Tags: MP3, Will Jawando, Black men, Black boys, Kalfani, mentors, mentoring, fatherhood, mentorship, basketball, Barack Obama, NAACP, Catholic University, Alia Jawando, Coach Wayne Holmes, AmeriCorps program, Wayne Farrell, My Brother’s Keeper, Social change/politics, Personal Transformation, Men’s studies, Community
Will Jawando is an attorney, an activist, a community leader, and a councilmember in Montgomery County Maryland, a diverse community of more than 1 million residents. Called “the progressive leader we need” by the late Congressman John Lewis, Jawanda has worked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Sherrod Brown, and Pres. Barack Obama. He is the author of My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022)
Interview Date: 7/8/2022 Tags: MP3, Will Jawando, Black men, Black boys, Kalfani, mentors, mentoring, fatherhood, mentorship, basketball, Barack Obama, NAACP, Catholic University, Alia Jawando, Coach Wayne Holmes, AmeriCorps program, Wayne Farrell, My Brother’s Keeper, Social change/politics, Personal Transformation, Men’s studies, Community
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019), The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin’s Essentials 2020), Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity (St. Martins’ Essentials 2022)
Interview Date: 7/20/2022 Tags: Mark Nepo, Japanese Haiku poet, Masahide, storms, suffering, grief, disappointments, loss, broken open, premature baby, incubator, silence, stillness, solitude, global body, injustice, web of interconnection, falling down, getting up, corridor of aliveness, lifeforce, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019), The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin’s Essentials 2020), Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity (St. Martins’ Essentials 2022)
Interview Date: 7/20/2022 Tags: Mark Nepo, Japanese Haiku poet, Masahide, storms, suffering, grief, disappointments, loss, broken open, premature baby, incubator, silence, stillness, solitude, global body, injustice, web of interconnection, falling down, getting up, corridor of aliveness, lifeforce, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
Kira Asatryan is a certified relationship coach who provides individual life coaching, relationship coaching, conflict mediation, and couples’ coaching. Before becoming a relationship coach, she was director of performance marketing for prominent Silicon Valley technology start-ups and cofounded an online marketing consultancy. She lives in San Francisco. She is the author of Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships (New World Library 2016)
Interview Date: 4/3/2016 Tags: Kira Asatryan, depression, anxiety, loneliness, isolation, friendship, affection, support, respect, appreciation, encouragement, comfort, open ended questions, conversation, communication, feeling lonely in a crowd, Relationships, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Kira Asatryan is a certified relationship coach who provides individual life coaching, relationship coaching, conflict mediation, and couples’ coaching. Before becoming a relationship coach, she was director of performance marketing for prominent Silicon Valley technology start-ups and cofounded an online marketing consultancy. She lives in San Francisco. She is the author of Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships (New World Library 2016)
Interview Date: 4/3/2016 Tags: Kira Asatryan, depression, anxiety, loneliness, isolation, friendship, affection, support, respect, appreciation, encouragement, comfort, open ended questions, conversation, communication, feeling lonely in a crowd, Relationships, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Justin Zorn has served as a senior advisor for Policy and Strategy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He has also served as a meditation teacher in the U.S. Congress and is a Harvard-and-Oxford-trained specialist in the economics and psychology of wellbeing. Leigh Marz is a collaboration consultant and leadership coach for major universities, nonprofit coalitions, and federal agencies. Marz and Zorn are the cofounders of Astrea Strategies whose purpose is to help businesses, nonprofits, and leaders find creative and enduring solutions in living beyond the noise. They are the co-authors of Golden: The Power of Silence in A World of Noise. (Harper Wave 2022)
Interview Date: 6/30/2022 Tags: Leigh Marz, Justin Zorn, noise, silence, auditory noise, informational noise, noise in our heads, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Eric Schmidt, mediation retreat, Mindfulness, poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama, Social Change/Politics, Personal Transformation
Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has scoured the world to bring to us meaningful folk tales that tap into ancestral sources of wisdom and acts as a guide to connect them to the stories we are living today. Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. He also offers regular Living Myths Podcasts and workshops. He is the author of many books including Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss (GreenfirePress 2012), Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2012) , The Genius Myth (GreenfirePress 2016), Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World (GreenFire Press 2018) and The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2019)
Interview Date: 6/17/2022 Tags: Michael Meade, archetype, apocalypse, collapse, renewal, collective darkness, threshold, doorway, liminal times, COVID, prophecy, river of time, inspiration, imagination, letting go, ego, little self, Mnemosyne Greek Goddess of Memory, unseen world, what’s forgotten coming into consciousness, creativity, falling apart, renewal, birth, death, rebirth, Mythology, Psychology, Personal Transformation
Mamphela Ramphele, M.D., Ph.D. is an activist, medical doctor, academic, businesswoman, and global servant. Besides her medical degree, she holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. She was the managing director of the World Bank, and is a trustee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, as well as chairwoman of the Bishop Desmond Tutu Trust. She also serves as co-president of the Club of Rome, which was founded in 1968 as a nonprofit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is to identify holistic solutions to complex global issues, and to promote policy initiatives and actions to enable humanity to emerge from multiple planetary emergencies. She is the author of A Passion for Freedom (I.B. Tauris 2014), Conversations with My Sons and Daughters (Penguin 2013) and Dreams, Betrayal and Hope (Penguin Books 2017)
Interview Date: 5/22/2022 Tags: Mamphela Ramphele, apartheid, South Africa, political settlement, socio-economic development, Zondo Commission, University of Stellenbosch, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, securicrats, ANC Government, ubuntu, History, Social Change/Politics, philosophy, Education
Debra Silverman holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and has specialized in helping thousands of individuals achieve emotional health and wisdom based on their unique personality and the four elements of water, air, earth, and fire. She combines this work with her expertise in Soul-Centered Astrology. She is a host of an on-line radio program “Tell me a Story.” She works on an individual basis as well as with groups, and is the author of The Missing Element: Inspiring Compassion for the Human Condition (Findhorn Press 2016). She is the author of The Missing Element: Inspiring Compassion for the Human Condition (Findhorn Press 2016)
Interview Date: 3/3/2016 Tags: Debra Silverman, personality, water people, air people, fire people, earth people, four elements, fire element, air element, water element, earth element, missing element, shame, Psychology, Self Help, Spirituality, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality
Jan Phillips is an award-winning photographer, writer, multimedia artist, and workshop leader. She's a co-founder of the Livingkindness Foundation, a global network for grassroots philanthropists. Early in her life she entered a convent as a novice to become a nun at the Catholic community of nuns at St. Joseph’s Provincial House in Latham, New York. After three years she was abruptly and surprisingly dismissed which led her on a life-quest to seek her personal spiritual truth. Jan Phillips is the author of many CDs and books including The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader (9th Element Press 2006), Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity(Quest Books 1997), God Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art (Quest Books 2000), Born Gay: Images & Reflections of an Ordinary Lesbian (Jan Phillips 2003), No Ordinary Time: The Rise of Spiritual Intelligence and Evolutionary Creativity(Livingkindness Foundation 2011) and Still On Fire: Field Notes of a Queer Mystic (Unity Books 2021)
Interview Date: 4/25/2022 Tags: Jan Phillips, faith, dismissal from a convent, homosexuality, coming out as gay, Catholicism, Catholic Mass, Earth as original source, car accident, activism, pacifist, we are the help that is on the way, Memoir, Religion, Spirituality
Judith Valente is a former staff writer for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal and is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Valente contributes to the US Catholic magazine and National Catholic Reporter. Besides her life as a journalist, she’s a poet, retreat leader, TV & Radio Producer, and Benedictine lay Associate. Judith Valente and Brother Paul Quenon, OCSO are co-authors of a book of letters entitled:
How to Be: A Monk and a Journalist Reflect on Living & Dying, Purpose & Prayer, Forgiveness & Friendship (Hampton Roads 2021)
Interview Date: 4/8/2022 Tags: MP3, Judith Valente, Paul Quenon, letter writing, Covid pandemic, journalism, climbing a tree, wasting time, Spirituality
Guy Finley is a spiritual teacher and author. He is the Founder and Director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit center fortranscendent self-study located in Merlin, Oregon. He hosts the Life of Learning Foundation’s Wisdom School and offers free online classes open to all every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Each class also includes a question-and-answer session with Guy. He is the author of over 45 books including The Secret of Letting Go (Llewellyn Publications 2008), The Lost Secrets of Prayer: Practices For Self-Awakening (Llewellyn Publications 1998) and The Seeker, the Search, the Sacred: Journey to the Greatness Within (Weiser Books 2011). Also: CD: 5-Prayers for Self-Transformation - a self-discovery course.
Interview Date: 5/3/2022 Tags: Guy Finley, overwhelm, consciousness, reaction, blame, triggers, unconscious expectations, breath, breathing, T.S. Eliot, resistance, stop, drop and endure, negativity, intelligence, conscious witness, Philosophy, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
Shelly Tygielski is founder of the Pandemic of Love movement and is a self-care activist, community organizer, and mindfulness teacher. She is the author of Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World (New World Library 2021)
Interview Date: 4/18/2022 Tags: Shelly Tygielski, self-care, Audre Lorde, burnout, inner work, cooperation in nature, mutually beneficial, coexist with nature, fungi, social media, Pandemic of Love, Personal Transformation, Community, Social Change/Politics
Colleen Mauro is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Intuition magazine published from 1988 to 2001. It explored the potential of the mind and the many varied ways of intuitive knowing, and featured research and how-to information on intuition, inspiration, and telepathy for the general reader. Colleen Mauro is the author of Spiritual Telepathy: Ancient Techniques to Access the Wisdom of Your Soul (Theosophical Publishing House 2015)
Interview Date: 1/22/2016 Tags: Colleen Mauro, Intuition, telepathy, soul, communicating with higher levels of information, qualities of the soul, awakened heart, Raja Yoga, Patanjali, divine downloads, inner Google search, rational mind, intuitive mind, divine mind, Soul/Spirit Guides/Angels/Spirit, Personal Transformation, Meditation, Spirituality, Intuition/Psychic
Dean Sluyter lived in New Jersey for 33 years where he developed the Literature of Enlightenment Program at the Pingry School and worked with inmates at Northern State Prison and Mountain View Youth Correctional Facility. He now lives in Santa Monica, California and teaches natural methods of meditation and awakening throughout the United States and beyond. He's known for his funny, down to earth style and for making life transforming teachings accessible and easy. He is the author of many books including The Zen Commandments (Tarcher/Putnam 2001). Why the Chicken Crossed the Road and Other Hidden Enlightenment Teachings (Tarcher/Putnam 1998), Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies (Three Rivers Press 2005), Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice (Tarcher/Penguin 2015), Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction (TarcherPerigee 2018) and The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature (New World Library 2022)
Interview Date: 4/1/2022 Tags: Dean Sluyter, J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye, Fanny and Zooey, Glass family, Bhagavad Gita, Krishna, Arjuna, yoga, Venus of Willendorf, Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn, Mark Twain, cat in the hat, Dr. Seuss, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma, poetry, chanting mantras in Sanskrit, Coleridge, Kubla Khan,Meditation, Education, Writing, Art & Creativity, Buddhism
Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. is the only person who has been awarded a doctoral diploma in Parapsychology by an accredited American University - the University of California at Berkeley. For the past 50 years he's been a pioneer in the research of parapsychology. He is the founder and host of the radio and TV program series Thinking Allowed, and most recently, New Thinking Allowed. Both are available on YouTube. Dr. Mishlove is the recipient of the prestigious Bigelow Institute Award of $500,000 for his essay on parapsychology entitled Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death. Jeffrey Mishlove’s books include Roots Of Consciousness: The Classic Encyclopedia of Consciousness Studies Revised and Expanded (Da Capo Press; Revised 1997) and PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter ( Hampton Roads 2000)
Interview Date: 2/25/2022 Tags: Jeffrey Mishlove, white crows, William James, afterlife communications, hyperspace, afterlife, Ted Owens, UFO sightings, reincarnation, near death experiences, NDEs, covid pandemic, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Life After Death, dreams
Loch Kelly, M.Div, LCSW is founder of the nonprofit Open-Heart Awareness Institute. He is an educator, licensed psychotherapist, and recognized leader in the field of meditation, who was asked to teach Sutra Mahamudra by Mingyur Rinpoche and to teach nondual realization by Adyashanti. He collaborates with neuroscientists in the study of meditation to discover ways to improve compassion and well-being. He’s an emerging voice in modernizing meditation and social engagement. He is the author of Shift Into Freedom: The Science and Practices of Open-Hearted Awareness (Sounds True 2015) and a CD set of Meditations: Shift Into Freedom: A Training in the Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness (Sounds True 2015
Interview Date: 1/13/2016 Tags: Loch Kelly, meditation, mindfulness, calm abiding, stress, suffering, effortless mindfulness, awareness, spacious awareness, waking up, bliss, spiritual bypass, emptiness, spirituality
Connie Zweig is a psychotherapist and has been initiated into elderhood as a certified Sage-ing leader. She is known as an expert in Shadow Work and uncovering our inner shadow. Although she is retired from clinical practice, she leads online workshops listed on her website which is also populated with many activities, blogs, videos, and audio references. She is the author of several books including: Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (Tarcher/Perigee 1991 reprint iUniverse 2017), with (Steve Wolf, PhD.) Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital Authentic Life (Wellspring/Ballantine; Reprint edition 1999), A Moth to the Flame: The Life of the Sufi Poet Rumi (a novel) (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2006) and The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul. (Park Street Press 2021)
Interview Date: 2/14/2022 Tags: Connie Zweig, aging, longevity, senior, elder, letting go of control, impermanence, unconscious shadow, need to be right, deep listening, perfectionism, not being enough, having an impact, study circles on aging, Wisdom Circles, Sage-ing, Aging, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
Dan Millman is a lifelong student and longtime teacher of practical wisdom devoting his life to mastery, first in sports and then in everyday life. He is a former World trampoline champion, Stanford gymnastics coach, and Oberlin College professor. He teaches The Peaceful Warrior’s Way and is the author of 18 books published in 29 languages. He and his wife Joy live in Brooklyn, New York. His books include Way Of the Peaceful Warrior (adapted to a 2006 feature film.) (HJ Kramer Revised Edition 2006), The Laws of Spirit: A Tale of Transformation (HJ Kramer book, published jointly, New World Library 1995), The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Purpose (HJ Kramer, Anniversary Edition 2018) and Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit: The True Story of My Spiritual Quest. (New World Library 2022)
Interview Date: 2/4/2022 Tags: Dan Millman, Socrates, perennial philosophy, practical wisdom, Oscar Ichazo, Arica, Franklin Jones, Bubba Free John, Adi Da, mentors, gymnastics, synchronicity, finding teachers, stress, paying attention, humor, beginner’s mind, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
Brooke Williams is an advocate for the preservation of wilderness. He writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. He lives in Utah with his wife and partner, the writer and former New Dimensions guest, Terry Tempest Williams. He is the author of several books including: Half-Lives: Reconciling Work and Wildness (Johnson Books 1999), Escalante: The Best Kind of Nothing (photos by Chris Noble) (University of Arizona Press 2006), Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet (Trinity University Press 2017 and Mary Jane Wild: Two Walks & A Rant (Homebound Publications 2021).
Interview Date: 1/14/2022 Tags: Brooke Williams, wandering, hunters and gatherers, human species, dawn of agriculture, segregation, desegregation, either or thinking, Bill Kittredge, silos of belief, Paul Shepard, awe, wild places, Dacher Keltner, pro-social behavior, beauty, vast vistas, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Social Change/Politics
Dawna Markova, Ph.D. is the CEO emeritus of Professional Thinking Partners. She’s known Internationally for her research in the fields of learning and perception. She’s a former senior affiliate of the Society for Organizational Learning, originated at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Angie McArthur is the CEO of Professional Thinking Partners and co-founder of SmartWired and the Smart Parenting Revolution. As an expert in communication and learning styles, she has developed strategies for authors, corporations, CEOs, and the ongoing Executive Champions’ Workshop.
Tags: Dawna Markova, Angie McArthur, collaboration, CQ, collaboration intelligence, intelligence, mindset, market share mindset, mind share mindset, Ubur, Air B&B, diversity, thinking, intellectual passport, Smart Spark, teaching children, cooperation, compromise, competition, brain, confusion, Business, Personal Transformation, Work, Livelihood, Social Change, Politics, Education, Parenting
Marie-Rose Phan-Lê was born in Vietnam, emigrated to France, and later came to the United States. She is the founder and president of Healing Planet Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of healing and spiritual traditions through media. She is an award-winning writer, director, and producer of a documentary film and companion book.
Tags: Marie-Rose Phan-Lê, authentic self, indigenous healers, Papa K, Kahuna, Lomi Lomi, Aunty Mary Fargas, ho’oponopono, Ayahuasca ritual, divine feminine, Shamanism, Indigenous wisdom, Travel, Spiritualty, Global Culture
Matthew Fox, Ph.D. is a priest and was a member of the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church for thirty-four years. He holds a doctorate in History and Theology of Spirituality and is a scholar in residence with the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as founder and president of Friends of Creation Spirituality.
Tags: Matthew Fox, Creation Spirituality, Bible, Wisdom Tradition, feminist, mysticism , The fall and redemption, spirituality, Jesus, Stations of the Cosmic Cross, crucifixion, ritual, Burning Man, Meister Eckhart, Buck Ghost Horse, funeral ritual, grief, Wallace Black Elk, Indigenous Wisdom, Religion, Philosophy, Buddhism
Ralph White is cofounder of the New York Open Center, America’s leading urban center of holistic learning. He was the former editor of the award-winning Lapis magazine. Born in Wales, he now resides in New York City. His current activities include the Esoteric Quest series of conferences in Europe that focus on the lost spiritual history of the West. He also presents the Art of Dying conferences. He is the author of the memoir The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning (Divine Arts 2015)
Interview Date: 9/22/2015 Tags: MP3, Ralph White, Vision Quest, Peru, holistic retreat centers, Open Center, Esoteric Quest, Tibet, South America, Travel, History, Global Culture, Social Change/Politics
Paul Levy is a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence and is also a certified art teacher teaching both painting and drawing for a handful of years to people of all ages. He considers himself a wounded healer and is in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for more than 35 years and is the founder of the “Awakening in the Dream” Community; in Portland, Oregon. Along with these activities he is deeply steeped in the work of C. G. Jung. He is the author of several books including Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil(North Atlantic Books 2013), The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality(Select Books 2018) and Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World (Inner Traditions 2021)
Interview Date: 12/15/2021 Tags: Paul Levy, Wetiko, C.G. Jung, shadow, psycho-spiritual disease, totalitarian psychosis, totalitarian psychosis, thirst for power, underworld, Hades, Kabbalah, Michael Mead, art of seeing, awakening, Corona virus, collective psychosis, collective madness, counterfeiting spirit, Paper and Glue documentary, creative spirit, Social Change/Politics, Philosophy, Health & Healing, Indigenous Wisdom, Intuition/Psychic, Mythology
Cerridwen Fallingstar refers to herself as a Shamanic Witch and has taught classes in magic and ritual for over 40 years. She gives lectures tying together psychology, spirituality, history, contemporary issues, and politics. She is the author of three historical novels based on her past lives. Her books include White As Bone, Red As Blood: The Fox Sorceress (Cauldron Publications 2009), White As Bone, Red As Blood: The Storm God (Cauldron Publications 2011), The Heart of The Fire (Cauldron Publications 2021) and Broth from the Cauldron: A Wisdom Journey Through Everyday Magic (She Writes Press 2021)
Interview Date: 12/7/2021 Tags: Cerridwen Fallingstar, Wicca, Zsuzsanna Budapest, Wiccan, witchcraft, magic, teachers, witch, evil, powerlessness, Spirituality, Ecology/Nature/Environmental
Peter Coyote is an award-winning actor, author, director, screenwriter, and narrator who has worked with some of the world’s most distinguished filmmakers. He’s won several Emmys for his narrations and was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest in 2011. In 2015 he received “transmission” from his teacher, making him an independent Zen teacher. He’s conceived mask training experiments and workshops as tools to give us a reprieve from the repetitive weight of our normal attachments and habits. His books include The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education (Counterpoint 1998/2015), Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle (Counterpoint 2015), Tongue of a Crow: A Book of Poetry (Four Way Books 2021) and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet Buddha: Masks, Meditation & Improvised Play to Induce Liberated States (Inner Traditions 2021)
Interview Date: 12/30/2021 Tags: Peter Coyote, intention, compassion, mask, enlightenment, waves in ocean, emptiness, dependent origination, Buddha, Zen, Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, engaged Buddhism, Buddhism, Meditation
Steve McIntosh, J.D. is a leader in the integral philosophy movement. He’s president and co-founder of the nonprofit, social policy and think tank organization: The Institute for Cultural Evolution. He founded the consumer products company Now & Zen and practiced law and held an executive position with Celestial Seasonings Tea Company. He is an honors graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and the University of Southern California Business School. Besides these accomplishments, he enjoys Olympic-class bicycle racing. He is the author of Integral Consciousness: The Future of Evolution (Paragon House 2011), Evolution's Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins (Select Books 2012), and The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness (Quest 2015)
Interview Date: 10/22/2015 Tags: Steve McIntosh, Integral Philosophy, evolution, cosmology, three big bangs, Big Bang, multi-universe theory, consciousness, evolutionary spirituality, Alfred North Whitehead, pluralistic community, Philosophy, Spirituality
Phil Cousineau is a freelance writer, filmmaker, photographer, art and literary tour leader, teacher of creativity, mythographer, storyteller, and an all-around Renaissance man. He's published over 40 books and has over 25 documentary film writing credits. He is also host and co-writer of "Global Spirit," a nationally broadcast television series. His books include Wordcatcher (Viva Editions, Cleis Press 2010), Beyond Forgiveness: Reflections On Atonement (Jossey-Bass 2011), Stoking The Creative Fires (Red (Wheel/Wiser 2008), Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words For the Long Night's Journey Into Day (Viva Editions 2014), The Book of Roads: Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakech (Viva Editions 2015), The Art of Pilgrimage revised (Conari Press 2021), The Lost Notes of Sisyphus (Sisyphus Press 2021)
Interview Date: 11/17/2021 Tags: Phil Cousineau, Joseph Campbell, Albert Camus, Greek mythology, Sisyphean task, struggle, metaphor, boredom, despair, rise of authoritarianism, The Great Gatsby, Rollo May, shame, Persephone, pandemic, Merope, Prometheus, Zeus, Mythology, Philosophy
Margaret Barkley is a teacher, poet, and curious observer of humans and nature. Her poetry has been published in the Redwood Writers poetry anthologies Beyond Distance, And Yet, and Crow, in which she was an Award of Merit poet. She holds an MA in Psychology with a focus on group facilitation and emotional intelligence and has taught for over twenty years, including at Sonoma State University and University of San Francisco. Her latest love is leading women’s retreats in the Tetons. She is the author of a book of poetry, Ribs (Finishing Line Press 2021)
Interview Date: 11/4/2021 Tags: Margaret Barkley, poetry, poems, listening, Art &Creativity, Writing
Susan Campbell, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and the author of close to a dozen books on relationships and conflict resolution. She leads seminars internationally, is a couple’s therapist, relationship coach, trainer of professional coaches, and works with private clients through her relationship coaching practice. Her books include Getting Real: Ten Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life (H.J. Kramer 2001), Saying What’s Real : 7 Keys to Authentic Communication and Relationship Success (H.J. Kramer 2005), Five-Minute Relationship Repair: Quickly Heal Upsets, Deepen Intimacy, and Use Differences to Strengthen Love (John Gray) (H. J. Kramer 2015) and From Triggered to Tranquil: How Self-Compassion and Mindful Presence Can Transform Relationship Conflicts and Heal Childhood Wounds (New World Library 2021)
Interview Date: 11/24/2021 Tags: Susan Campbell, brain, prefrontal cortex, primitive brain, triggered response, reactive brain, amygdala, signs of triggers, pause agreement, core fears, repairing triggered response, Relationship, Psychology, Health & Healing
Tim Zentetsu Burkett, Ph.D. is Guiding Teacher of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also a licensed psychologist and a former director of People Incorporated, a large mental health agency in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has been a student of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and later Katagiri Roshi, in whose linage he is a dharma heir. Suzuki Roshi’s book of talks, Zen Mind, Beginner Mind (Shambhala 2011), is a classic for all spiritual seekers. Tim Burkett is the author of Nothing Holy About It: The Zen of Being Just Who You Are (Shambhala 2015)
Interview Date: 9/24/2015
Dean Sluyter has spent a lifetime learning authentic methods of natural meditation from eastern and western sages and making them accessible to thousands, including prisoners, tech innovators, filmmakers, high school students, and entrepreneurs. He has completed numerous retreats and pilgrimages in Tibet, India, Nepal, and Europe, and for decades has led workshops throughout the United States. He is the author of The Zen Commandments (Tarcher/Putnam 2001), Why the Chicken Crossed the Road and Other Hidden Enlightenment Teachings (Tarcher/Putnam 1998), Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons From the Movies (Three Rivers Press 2005), Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice (Tarcher/Penguin 2015)
Interview Date: 4/23/2015 Tags: Dean Sluyter, Beingness, The Musk Deer Story, thoughts, Nature of Mind, enlightenment, Sri Mooji, Mickey Mouse, blank mind, Meditation, Buddhism
Richard Miller, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and host of the syndicated talk radio show Mind, Body, Health & Politics. He’s founder of Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program and has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan and Stanford University. He also served as advisor on the President’s Commission on Mental Health and a founding board member of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco as well as a member of the national board of directors for the Marijuana Policy Project. He also restored and reopened the Wilbur Hot Spring Retreat facility in Northern California. He is the Editor and author of the book Psychedelic Medicine: The Healing Powers of LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ayahuasca. (Park Street press 2021)
Interview Date: 9/30/2021 Tags: Richard Miller, Psychedelics, LSD, MDMA, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, PTSD, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bucky Fuller, Watson and Crick, DNA researchers, Carl Sagan, alcohol prohibition, Rick Doblin, psychedelics clinics, Ketamine therapy, politics of psychedelics, Health & Healing, Psychology, Social Change/Politics
Shugri Said Salhwas born in Somali in 1974. And in 1992, she immigrated to North America after civil war broke out in her home country. She attended nursing school at Pacific Union College and graduated with honors. From her grandmother and the nomadic community in which she spent her early years, she heard stories and learned of their power to entertain, teach, and transform. She now lives in Northern California with her husband and three children and works as a post-operative nurse and infusion specialist. She is the author of The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert (Algonquin books 2021).
Interview Date: 9/24/2021 Tags: MP3, Shugri Said Salh, Somalia, storytelling, refugee, making yogurt, camels, herding goats, infusion nursing, Personal Transformation, Global Culture, History, Women’s Studies
Robert Thurman, Ph.D. is the retired professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University as well as cofounder and president of Tibet House which is dedicated to the service of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet. He’s been a close friend of the Dalai Lama for over 50 years and is a passionate activist for the rights of the Tibetan people. He is a skilled translator of Buddhist texts and an inspiring writer of many popular Buddhist books, including: Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet (graphic novel co-creator) (Tibet House 2016), Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier (co-author Sharon Salzberg) (Hay House 2013) and Wisdom Is Bliss: Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life. (Hay House 2021)
Interview Date: 8/20/2021 Tags: Robert Thurman, enlightened, enlightenment, awakened, inter-being, freedom from suffering, eightfold path, critical wisdom, Nicholas Negroponte, conversation, perception, relative truth, deep listening, dark matter, fake absolutes, the Buddha, Buddhism, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Education
Glenn Aparicio Parry, Ph.D. is an educator, international speaker, entrepreneur, and visionary whose life-long passion is to re-form thinking and education into a coherent, cohesive whole. He’s the founder and past president of the SEED Institute, and is currently the president of the think tank: The Circle for Original Thinking. Parry organized and participated in the groundbreaking Language of Spirit Conferences from 1999 – 2011 that brought together Indigenous Native Elders and Western scientists in dialogue. This series of conferences was moderated by Leroy Little Bear. Parry is an avid outdoorsman and makes his home in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, NM, with his wife, dog, and cat. He is the author of Original Thinking: A Radical ReVisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (North Atlantic Books 2015).
Interview Date: 8/18/2015 Tags: Glenn Aparicio Parry, Original thought, thoughts, intent, Hopis, hydraulic cycle, David Bohm, fragmented thinking, Grandfather Leon Secatero, The Circle for Original Thinking, assumptions, vision quest, conspiracy with nature, Native Americans, Language of Spirit Conference, brain, David Bohm, Leroy Little Bear, Dan Moonhawk Alfred, sacred ratio, golden mean, map story, rational thinking, rational thought, New Mexico, Navajo, Grandfather Leon, Orlando Secatero, campfire, spirit dialogues, Science, Self Help, psychology, Ecology/Nature/Environment
Brant Cortright is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies. His consulting practice specializes in cutting-edge brain health and neuroscience-informed depth therapy. He’s the author of Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal Psychotherapy (Suny Series, Philosophy of Psychology) (State University of New York Press 1997), Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth, and Opening the Heart (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) (State University of New York Press 2007) and The Neurogenesis Diet & Lifestyle: Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life (Psychic Media 2015)
Interview Date: 8/11/2015 Tags: Brant Cortright, Brain, neurogenesis, diet, oxidized cholesterol, oxidized fats, cooking oils, Alzheimers, memory loss, relationships, spiritual practice, meditation, exercise, changing habits, neurotoxic, Health & Healing, Relationships/Partnerships/Sexuality
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and blogger. She is the author of The End of Self-Help: Discovering Peace and Happiness Right at the Heart of Your Messy, Scary, Brilliant Life (Ananda Press 2015)
Interview Date: 6/25/2015 Tags: Gail Brenner, happiness, thoughts and feelings, emotions, law of attraction, attention, negative thoughts, self-criticism, affirmations, we are not our stories, fully alive, suffering, direct experience, cognitive therapies, mindfulness therapies, Personal Transformation, psychology, Self Help
Ethan Nichtern is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition and the founder of the Interdependence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to secular Buddhist study as it applies to transformational activism, mindful arts and media projects, and Western psychology. Nichtern has taught meditation and Buddhist studies classes and retreats across the United States since 2002. He is based in New York City. He's the author of One City: A Declaration of Interdependence (Wisdom Publications 2007) and The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path (North Point Press 2015)
Interview Date: 5/20/2015 Tags: Ethan Nichtern, awakism, being awake, millennials, fundamentalist dogma, Chogyam Trungpa, Shambhala Tradition, nontheistic, nontheism, theism, rituals, ceremonies, ceremony, Spirituality, Buddhism, Religion, Meditation
Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry and two collections of essays. She has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and the Donald Hal-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Her poems appear in a wide range of prestigious outlets. A resident of Northern California, she is a chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets. She presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her many oetry books include The October Palace (HarperCollins 1994), Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2015), The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf 2015) and Ledger (Alfred A. Knopf 2020)
Interview Date: 5/9/2015 Tags: Jane Hirshfield, unkindness, uncertainty, doorway, I Profess the Uncertain, Two Linen Handkerchiefs, Eros, taking stock, My Life Was the Size of My Life, perspective, poetry as a conversation, Perspective: An Assay, Arts & Creativity, Philosophy
Lisa Broderick earned her BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke University. She’s a Transcendental Meditation ™ Sidha and has attended the Monroe Institute for the exploration of expanded states of consciousness. For 15 years she studied imagery and dream reading at the American Institute for Mental Imagery. She currently runs a business consultancy based in New York City that helps socially conscious entrepreneurs manifest their creativity and energy. She is the author of All the Time In The World: Learn To Control Your Experience of Time to Live a Life Without Limitations. (Sounds True 2021)
Interview Date: 8/12/2021 Tags: MP3, Lisa Broderick, Time, time is stretchable, Einstein, Einstein Rosen Bridge, Wormholes, spooky action at a distance, particle and wave experiments, speed of light, quantum entanglement, quantum field, super computer that mimics the brain, quantum mechanics, changing the past, multi universes, quantum eraser, Personal Transformation, science
Terry Patten is the founder of A New Republic of the Heart, a co-creative social experiment in Being of Benefit. He’s a philosopher, activist, social entrepreneur, and teacher of integral practice and transformation and has taught Integral Life Practice to over ten thousand people. Terry also founded the consciousness technology company Tools for Exploration and led the team at the HeartMath Institute that developed their first heart-rate variability monitor. He advises businesses addressing restorative forestry, fossil-fuel alternatives, collective trauma, and the reclaiming of personal data and power. His books include Biocircuits: Amazing New Tools for Energy Health (co-author Leslie Patten) (H.J. Kramer 1988), Integral Life Practice: A 21st Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening (co-author with Ken Wilber, Adam Leonard, and Marco Morelli) (Integral Books 2008) and A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries (North Atlantic Books 2018)
Interview Date: 8/26/2021 Tags: MP3, Terry Patten, grief, heart intelligence, awe, wonder, forgive, forgiveness, be of benefit, Spiritual Friends, gratefulness, generosity; care, courage, creativity, beloved community, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Social Change/Politics, Community
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. was the catalyst that sparked Larry Ward's journey into a life of planetary peacemaking. He's been subjected to racial profiling and has experienced a bombing in his home in Idaho. He was able to move past these traumas when his path led him to the introduction of Buddhist practice in Calcutta in 1977. Then when he met Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in 1991, the practice of Buddhism became truly central to his life. He was ordained as a Dharma teacher in Plum Village in 2000 and is the co-founder of the Lotus Institute, which offers Buddhist practice for change makers on the journey of individual and collective liberation. Larry Ward, Ph.D. is the author of America's Racial Karma, An Invitation to Heal (Parallax Press 2020)
Interview Date: 7/31/2021 Tags: MP3, Larry Ward, racism, Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village, mindfulness, unprocessed trauma, systemic unjustice, ancestral trauma, Resmaa Menakem, white body supremacy, racialized trauma, circles of sanity, Social Change/Politics, Buddhism
Joel Fotinos is a vice president at Penguin Random House Publishers and publisher of the Tarcher/Penguin imprint. He’s also a licensed minister with the Centers for Spiritual Living. He is the author and coauthor of several books including The Prayer Chest (Doubleday Religion 2007), Multiply Your Blessings (Hampton Roads 2012), A Little Daily Wisdom (Paraclete Press 2009), Think and Grow Rich Starter Kit (Napoleon Hill) (Tarcher 2014), The Think and Grow Rich Journey: Enhance and Enrich Your Path to Success (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013), My Life Contract: 90-Day Program for Prioritizing Goals, Staying on Track, Keeping Focused, and Getting Results (Weiser Books 2014)
Interview Date: 5/28/2015 Tags: Joel Fotinos, Personal Life Contract, contract, joy, goals, my life contract, commitment, excuses, consistency, Personal Transformation, Self Help. Writing, Philosophy
Father Matthew Fox, Ph.D. was a member of the Dominican order of the Catholic Church for 34 years. He was silenced for a year and later expelled from the Dominican order under the Papal Sees of John Paul II and Benedict the XVI. He then joined the Episcopal Church to work with young people and to create postmodern forms of ritual and worship known as The Cosmic Mass. He is the cofounder of the Order of The Sacred Earth and is an author of many books including Original Blessing (Tarcher 2000), Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times (Nameste Publishing 2012), Letters to Pope Francis (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013), Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times (New World Library 2014), Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest (HarperSanFrancisco 2015), A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey (New World Library 2016), Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action (coauthors Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Listug) (Monkfish 2018), Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Ixia 2020), The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times (iUniverse 2020), Julian of Norwich: Wisdom In A Time Of Pandemic And Beyond (iUniverse 2020)
Interview Date: 7/2/2021 Tags: Matthew Fox, bubonic plague, flagellation, Middle Ages, Goodness, God is nature, dualism, trust, Divine Feminine, Saint Augustine, suffering, wisdom, original sin original goodness, Hildegard of Bingen, web of creation, species extinction, return to normal, common breakdown, new normal, immigration, mass migration, sacred Earth, warriorship for the Earth, compassion, joy, grief, suffering, Spirituality, Philosophy, Social Change/Politics, Women’s Studies, History, Ecology/Nature/Environment
Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has scoured the world to bring to us meaningful folk tales that tap into ancestral sources of wisdom and acts as a guide to connect them to the stories we are living today. Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. He also offers regular Living Myths Podcasts and is the author of many books including: Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss (GreenfirePress 2012), Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2012), The Genius Myth (GreenfirePress 2016), Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World (GreenFire Press 2018), The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2019)
Interview Date: 6/17/2021 Tags: Michael Meade, rite of passage, 3 steps to initiation, ordeal, separation, renewal, community, Jed Diamond, polarization, bone memory, unfinished funerals, coming of age rituals, song, singing, Jill Purce, church steeples, spirit, pandemic, global suffering, Islamic call to prayer, plotline, our individual thread, storytelling, communitas, Social Change/ Politics, Mythology,Personal Transformation, community
Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter and author of many books, which often include stories of her encounters with animals. During research for her books, films, and articles, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silver back gorilla in Zaire and bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica. She worked in a pit of 18,000 snakes in Manitoba and handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University System of New Hampshire. Her many books have garnered numerous awards, and include The Curious Naturalist: Nature’s Everyday Mysteries (Down East Books 1991), Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species (Chelsea Green Publishing 2009), The Good, Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood (Ballantine Books 2007), Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur (Atria Books 2011), The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness. (Atria Books 2015), How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018), Becoming a Good Creature (a children’s book) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020), Condor Comeback (Scientists in the Field Series) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020), The Hummingbirds’ Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings (Atria Books 2021)
Interview Date: 6/4/2021 Tags: Montgomery, hummingbirds, pollinators, Brenda Sherburn LaBelle, grass lawns, milkweed, monarch butterflies, Animals, Ecology/Nature/Environment
Regina Louise is a teacher and coach on advocacy work. Her memoir was featured in a Lifetime movie, I Am Somebody’s Child. She’s a Hoffman Process teacher. She is the author of two memoirs: Somebody’s Someone: A Memoir (Agate Bolden 2008) and Someone Has Led This Child To Believe: A Memoir (Agate Bolden 2018), as well as Permission Granted: Kick-Ass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self-Love (New World Library 2021)
Interview Date: 7/19/2021 Tags: Regina Louise, mothering yourself, inner critic, letter of recommendation, character reference, dignity, false modesty, intimacy, journal writing, emotional signature, self-love, unworthiness, primal wound, Personal Transformation
Patrice Vecchione is a poet, author, and artist. She teaches creative writing retreats, and collage and poetry workshops. She has also worked with children, leading classes in poetry and the imagination in elementary, middle, and high schools. She is the author of several books including Writing and the Spiritual Life: Finding Your Voice by Looking Within (McGraw Hill 2001) and Step Into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life (Beyond Words Publishing 2015)
Interview Date: 5/12/2015 Tags: Patrice Vecchione, backpacking, nature, woods, starlight, owl, trees, holding mass in nature, the natural world, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ph.D (1929-2019) shares with us ways we can be conscious evolutionaries. She was a visionary futurist and evolutionary educator. She was the cofounder and chair of the board of The Foundation for Conscious Evolution and was a guide and teacher for The Shift Network's Agents of Conscious Evolution training. She was the author of : Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity's Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution (Shift Books 2012)
Interview Date: 6/29/2012 Tags: Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious evolution, Philosophy
Laura Basha, Ph.D. holds a combined doctorate in clinical and organizational psychology. She’s an international consultant in leadership development and a personal coach. And she is a fine artist whose paintings reside in many private collections. She is the author of The Inward Outlook (Xlibris 2014)
Interview Date: 4/9/2015 Tags: Laura Basha, creating your response to your experience, choice point, victim, creating our experience, creating our reality, value system, your personal purpose, silence, a quiet mind, Muir Woods, Philosophy, Personal Transformation
Bodhipaksa was born Graeme Stephen in Scotland and currently lives and teaches in New Hampshire. He is a Buddhist teacher and author who has been practicing within the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order since 1982 and has been a member of this order since 1993. Bodhipaksa runs the online meditation center, Wildmind, to increase awareness of the positive effects of meditation. His published works include The Wisdom of the Breath (CD) (Sounds True 2009), Wildmind (Windhorse 2010) and Living As a River: Finding Fearlessness in the Face of Change (Sounds True 2010)
Interview Date: 10/22/2010 Tags: Bodhipaksa, retreats, mindfulness, happiness, consciousness, Spirituality, Buddhism, Science, Meditation
Priscilla Stuckey is a writer, book editor, scholar, and Earth-advocate. She teaches humanities at Prescott College and holds a Ph.D. in religious studies and feminist theory from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Kissed by a Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature (Counterpoint 2012)
Interview Date: 1/21/2013 Tags: Priscilla Stuckey, Ph.D., Fox, wild animals, reading trees, natural world, biodegradable, plastic, trash, techno-nutrients, eating close to home, zero waste, Peralta Creek, gratitude, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Community
Dr. Jed Diamond, Ph.D., is a licensed psychotherapist, a founding member of the American Society of Men’s Health, and an internationally respected leader in the men's health movement. He’s the Founder and Director of MenAlive, a health program that helps men live long and well. Though focused on men’s health, MenAlive is also for women who care about the health of the men in their lives. Jed Diamond is the author of many books including: The Irritable Male Syndrome (Rodale Press 2004), Mr. Mean: Saving Your Relationship from the Irritable Male Syndrome (Numina Press 2010). MenAlive: Stop Killer Stress with Simple Energy Healing Tools (Fifth Wave Press 2012), My Distant Dad: Healing the Family Father Wound (Lasting Impact Press 2018) and 12 Rules for Good Men (Waterside Productions 2020).
Interview Date: 5/27/2021 Tags: MP3, Jed Diamond, Man Box, isolation, loneliness, Men’s groups, Robert Bly, male cells sing, rite of passage, Men’s Studies, Personal Transformation, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality
Rabbi Paul J. Citrin has served various congregations as a rabbi for over 40 years. He is retired from the pulpit, but continues to teach in synagogues and community centers. He is the author of several books including Gates of Repentance for Young People (Paul Abrams, Judith) (CCAR Press 2009), Ten Sheaves: A Collection of Sermons and Articles (2014), Lights In The Forest: Rabbis Respond To 12 Essential Jewish Questions (editor) (CCAR Press 2016) and I Am My Prayer: A Memoir and Guide for Jews and Seekers (Resource Publications 2021)
Interview Date: 5/20/2021 Tags: MP3, Rabbi Paul J Citrin, prayer, Sabbath, Torah, metaphor, Avi HaRachamim, Father of Mercies, Mother Father God, metaphor as springboard, shekinah, Jewish tradition, Judaism, Hindu Kālidāsa, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Religion, Spirituality, Meditation, Community
Belleruth Naparstek is a psychotherapist, author, and guided imagery pioneer, She, along with George Klein, launched the Health Journeys guided imagery audio series in 1991. Since then, this audio library has expanded to include over 250 carefully curated, science-based meditations that target a wide range of physical and mental health conditions. Many major medical institutions, departments of corporate human resources, and wellness centers provide this content to their members. Some of these organizations include Kaiser Permanente, Johns Hopkins, the US Veterans Health Administration, the Mayo Clinic, Blue Shield of California, Progressive Insurance, the US Armed Services and many more. Belleruth Naparstek is the author of Staying Well With Guided Imagery (Warner Books 1995), Your Sixth Sense (HarperSanFrancisco 1998) and Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal (Bantam 2004).
Interview Date: 5/14/2021 Tags: MP3, Bellruth Naparstek, guided imagery, surgery, inflammation, sensation, repurposed muscle, body betrayal, body as closest friend, gratitude, Emmett Miller, Marty Rossmann, Bodhipaksa, OCD, panic attacks, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation, Psychology
Gregg Levoyis a former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, and former columnist and reporter for USA Today and the Cincinnati Enquirer. He’s written for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, and Psychology Today. He has presented lectures and seminars for the Smithsonian Institution, Environmental Protection Agency, Microsoft, National Conference on Positive Aging, American Counseling Association, National Career Development Association, and others.He is the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion (Penguin 2014) and Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life (Random House 1998)
Interview Date: 4/16/2015 Tags: MP3, Gregg Levoy, retirement, passion, entropy, dispassion, vitality, reigniting our spark, tenure, acknowledge what is missing, negative thoughts, mission statement, Chartres Cathedral, saying yes, improv, making lists, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Gabrielle Glancy is an award-winning poet and translator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review among other publications. She’s also a top expert in getting high school students into the college. She is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of The Art of the College Essay (Oneiric Press 2014), Best College Essays 2014 (editor) (Oneiric Press 2014), I’m Already Disturbed Please Come In: Parasites, Social Media and Other Planetary Disturbances (A Memoir, of Sorts) (Oneiric Press 2014)
Interview Date: 3/26/2015 Tags: Gabrielle Glancy, illness, diagnosis, Facebook, haunting, parasites, Health & Healing
Linda Graham, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist and meditation teacher in full-time practice in the San Francisco Bay area. She integrates her passion for neuroscience, mindfulness, and relational psychology through trainings, workshops, and conferences. She publishes a monthly e-newsletter entitled Healing and Awakening Into Aliveness and Wholeness, and weekly e-quotes on resources for recovering resilience, archived on her website. She is the author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain For Maximum Resilience And Well-Being (New World Library 2013)
Interview Date: 3/20/2015 Tags: Linda Graham, resilience, neuroplasticity, brain, neural pathways, rewire brain, rewiring our brains, survival responses, Barbara Fredrickson, prefrontal cortex, tunnel vision, Darwin, most adaptive survives, mindfulness, compassion, self-compassion, window of tolerance, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Science, Health & Healing, Self Help
Peter Russell, D.C.S. is an author and meditation teacher focusing on consciousness and spirituality. His studies include theoretical physics, mathematics, experimental psychology, and computer science. His principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through. His work seeks to distill the essence of the world’s spiritual traditions and present them in ways relevant to current times. In 1982, with his bestseller of the same name, he coined the term “global brain” and predicted the Internet and the impact it would have on our culture. His many books include: Waking Up in Time: Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change (Origin Press 1992), The Global Brain (3rd Edition, Floris Books 2008), From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness (New World Library 2001) and The Brain Book: Know Your Own Mind and How to Use It (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1979)
Interview Date: 2/10/2015 Tags: Peter Russell, consciousness, problem solving, root causes, global crisis, wisdom, spiritual traditions, peace, meditation, direct path, ritual, creativity, mindfulness, becoming present, Meditation, Personal Transformation, Philosophy
Eric Maisel, Ph.D. is a licensed family therapist, a creativity coach, and author of more than 40 books. He also conducts writing workshops and trains creativity coaches. His books include Life Purpose Boot Camp: The 8 Week Breakthrough Plan for Creating a Meaningful Life (New World Library 2014), Secrets of a Creativity Coach (Motivational Press 2014), Why Smart People Hurt (Conari Press 2013, Fearless Creating (Tarcher 1995), Van Gogh's Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression (New World Library 2007), Mastering Creative Anxiety (New World Library 2011), Making Your Creative Mark (New World Library 2013), Natural Psychology: The New Psychology of Meaning (Natural Psychology Press 2012), Rethinking Depression (New World Library 2012), Brainstorm: Harnessing The Power of Productive Obsessions (New World Library 2010), Creativity For Life (New World Library 2007) and Coaching the Artist Within (New World Library 2005)
Interview Date: 1/15/2015 Tags: Eric Maisel, writing, creativity, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, DSM5, mental health reform, morning writing, meaning boost
Diane Hennacy Powell, M.D. is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who completed her training in medicine, neurology, and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a former member of Harvard Medical School's faculty and of a think tank on consciousness at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and has published articles in neuroscience and neuropsychiatry journals. She is the author of The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena (Walker & Company 2009) and Seriously Strange: Thinking Anew About Psychical Experiences (contributor) (Viking 2012)
Interview Date: 12/4/2014 Tags: MP3, Diane Powell, Diane Hennacy Powell, esp, ESP, telepathic, telepathy, parapsychology, The Telepathy Progect, Telepathy Project, autism
Alan Steinfeld is an explorer of consciousness. For over 30 years he has hosted and produced the weekly television series New Realities in New York City. The series includes interviews with luminaries in the field of health, spirituality, and UFO, human potential, remote viewing, and the nature of alien contact. For five years he has emceed the largest UFO event in the country, Contact in the Desert. He is the editor of Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of Extraterrestrial Existence
Interview Date: 3/27/2021 Tags: MP3, Alan Steinfeld, imagination, UFOs, aliens, ETs, extraterrestrial contact, Ufology, drones, butterfly and cocoon, chaos, consciousness, Avi Loeb, Stanton Friedman, Oumuamua, 1947 Roswell, atomic bomb, crop circles, parapsychology/paranormal, intuition/psychic
Michael Mendizza is an entrepreneur, author, educator, documentary filmmaker, and founder of Touch the Future, a nonprofit learning center focused on optimizing human potential beginning with the parent-child relationship. His books include Magical Parent-Magical Child (co-author Joseph Chilton Pearce)(North Atlantic 2004) and The Life and Insights of Joseph Chilton Pearce: Astonishing Capacities and Self-Inflicted Limitations (Editor) (Park Street Press 2021
Interview Date: 3/19/2021 Tags: MP3, Michael Mendizza, timeless wisdom, technology, hope, fear, caterpillar and butterfly, Crack in the Cosmic Egg, intellect, silence, emptiness, meditation, contemplation, state specific, David Bohm, intelligence, ego, information, intellect is not intelligence, Krishnamurti, primary perception, intellect creates false reality, field effect, cosmic soup, mindfulness, attention, Personal Transformation, education, Buddhism
Nelson-Isaacs shares the good news that the cosmos is responsive and synchronicity occurs to help us come into our wholeness. Here we explore some of the filters that hold us back from being our whole, vibrant, creative selves and some tools to help us achieve it. Sky Nelson-Isaacs is a physicist, musician, teacher, parent, and activist. He has many years of experience as a physics and math instructor and has also worked in the software industry. His current work involves research in the field of quantum foundations and he has published a growing body of peer-reviewed work developing the foundation of a theory of synchronicity. He has also earned recognition as a singer, songwriter, and performer. His books include Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World (North Atlantic Books 2019) and Leap To Wholeness: How The World is Programmed to Help Us Grow, Heal, and Adapt (North Atlantic Books 2021)
Interview Date: 3/19/2021 Tags: MP3, Sky Nelson-Isaacs, Big Bang Theory, quantum field theory, wave function, abundance, synchronicity, shame, psychological wounds, self compassion, forgiveness, curiosity, Night At the Museum Movie, feelings, isolation, Black Lives Matter, grief, sadness, Personal Transformation, psychology, Health & Healing
Allen Klein is the former Director of Life and Death Transitions in San Francisco. He's a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. He is the author of many books including The Healing Power of Humor (Tarcher/Putnam 1989), The Courage to Laugh, Change Your Life: A Little Book of Big Ideas (Tarcher 1998), Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying: Embracing Life After Loss (Goodman Beck Publishing 2011), Embracing Life After Loss: A Gentle Guide for Growing through Grief (Mango 2019) and The Awe Factor: How a Little Bit of Wonder Can Make a Big Difference in Your Life (Mango Publishing Group 2020 or Conari Press 2020)
Interview Date: 2/26/2021 Tags: MP3, Allen Klein, therapeutic humor, est training, not knowing, synchronicity, curiosity, vision board, Jollytologist™, Paul Harvey, intention, Personal Transformation
David Bedrick, J.D., Dipl. PW is an attorney, educator, and process worker. He founded the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-Based Studies where he teaches and works with individuals from around the world. He is the author of Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology (Belly Song Press 2013), Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change (Belly Song Press 2017) and You Can't’Judge a Body By Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame, and Redemption (Belly Song Press 2020)
Interview Date: 2/23/2021 Tags: MP3, David Bedrick, weight gain, dieting, shame, body intelligence, body image, weight loss, hunger, lose weight, body positivity, body intelligence, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Health & Healing, Women’s Studies
Glenn Aparicio Parry, Ph.D. is an educator, international speaker, entrepreneur, and visionary whose life-long passion is to re-form thinking and education into a coherent, cohesive whole. He's the founder and past president of the SEED Institute, and is currently the president of the think tank: The Circle for Original Thinking. Parry organized and participated in the groundbreaking Language of Spirit Conferences from 1999 - 2011 that brought together Indigenous Native Elders and Western scientists in dialogue. This series of conferences was moderated by Leroy Little Bear. Parry is an avid outdoorsman and makes his home in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, NM, with his wife, dog, and cat. He is the author of Original Thinking: A Radical ReVisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (North Atlantic Books 2015) and Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again (Select Books 2020)
Interview Date: 2/19/2021 Tags: Glenn Aparicio Parry, sacred purpose, Native America, natural rights, equality, liberty, America’s shadow, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Andrew Johnson, reconstruction, suffrage, chaos, myth of the old woman and the black dog, insurrection on the capital, Trump, racism, White supremacy, George Floyd, Barack Obama, Derek Black, KKK, respect, love, Cory Booker, sacred politics, the Munich Security Conference, every voice matters, Social Change/Politics, Indigenous Wisdom
J. Ruth Gendler is an artist and a writer, and has been a teacher of writing and art for more than twenty years. She leads workshops in writing and creativity throughout the United States, and has been an artist in residence with California Poets in the Schools and Young Audiences of the Bay Area. She has worked with elementary, middle school and high school students teaching through California Poets in the Schools and writes about the transformative power of art. In October 2007 the Lineage Dance Company presented a theater piece based on her book The Book of Qualities (HarperCollins 1988), now in its 52nd printing. Her books also include Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day (Editor) (Harper Collins 1991) and Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality (Marlowe & Company 2007).
Interview Date: 9/17/2014 Tags: MP3, J. Ruth Gendler, beauty, fashion, Lily Yeh, embellishments, Arts & Creativity
Claire B. Willis is a clinical social worker who works in the field of oncology and bereavement. She is a cofounder of the Boston nonprofit Facing Cancer Together and regularly leads bereavement, end of life, support, and therapeutic writing groups. As a lay Buddhist chaplain, she focuses on contemplative practices for end-of-life care. She maintains a private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. She is coauthor with Marnie Crawford Samuelson of Opening to Grief: Finding Your Way from Loss to Peace (Dharma Spring 2020)
Interview Date: 2/2/2021 Tags: Claire B. Willis, grief, grieving, loss, Covid-19, mourning rituals, Shiva, grief altar, communal grieving, putting grief into action, suffering, Joe Biden models positive grieving, Death & Dying, Personal Transformation
Bill Plotkin, PhD, has been a psychotherapist, research psychologist, rock musician, river runner, professor of psychology, and mountain-bike racer. As a research psychologist, he studied dreams and nonordinary states of consciousness achieved through meditation, biofeedback, and hypnosis. The founder and president of Animas Valley Institute, he has guided thousands of people through initiatory passages in nature since 1980. Currently an ecotherapist, depth psychologist, and wilderness guide, he leads a variety of experiential, nature-based individuation programs. He is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (New World Library 2003), Nature and the Human Soul: Creating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (New World Library 2008), The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries (New World Library 2021)
Interview Date: 1/21/2021 Tags: Bill Plotkin, soul initiation, Earth community, true adult, transcendence, cocoon, mythopoetic identity, ego metamorphosis, true purpose, caterpillar and butterfly, dissolution experience, descent to soul, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
Cognitive decline is rampant in today’s world. It’s a toxic jungle regarding pollutants in the air, water, and foods we eat, as well as the negative media we take in. Here our guest touches on how to protect ourselves and our brains as we navigate the neuro-toxic forces that are currently pitched against everyone on the planet.Brant Cortright, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies. His consulting practice specializes in brain health and neuroscience-informed depth therapy. He is the author of: Psychotherapy and Spirit: Theory and Practice in Transpersonal Psychotherapy (Suny Series, Philosophy of Psychology)(State University of New York Press 1997), Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth, and Opening the Heart (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) (State University of New York Press 2007), The Neurogenesis Diet & Lifestyle: Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life (Psyche Media 2015), Holistic Healing for Anxiety, Depression, & Cognitive Decline (Psyche Media 2020)
Interview Date: 1/14/2021 Tags: Brant Cortright, depression, mental illness, Neurotoxins, hormone disruptors, glyphosates, microbiome, inflammation, Alzheimer’s disease, smog, antidepressants, neuroplasticity, neurogenesis, gut microbiome, microbial diversity, bacteria in our intestines, conspiracy theories, Science, Self Help, Heath & Healing, psychology, meditation
Devon Price, Ph.D. is a social psychologist, writer, activist, and professor at Loyola University of Chicago’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Price's work has appeared in numerous publications such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Slate, and has been featured on the front page of Medium numerous times. Price is the author of Laziness Does Not Exist (Atria Books 2020)
Interview Date: 1/7/2021 Tags: Devon Price, overworking, laziness, laziness lie, pandemic, universal income, Rebecca Solnit, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bucky Fuller, students, motivation, overwork, productivity, working from home, setting boundaries, achievement orientation, achievement indoctrination, Stephen Covey, Personal Transformation, Work/Livelihood, Creativity
Celeste Yacoboni is an ordained Minister of Walking Prayer and is a spiritual coach. She is the editor of How Do You Pray? Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists & Other Lovers of Humanity (Monkfish Publishing 2014)
Interview Date: 8/27/2014 Tags: Celeste Yacoboni, prayer, Matthew Fox, Ph.D., Michael Meade, Michael Gelb, Ph.D., chanting, Hail Mary full of grace prayer,prayer field, grief, muslim prayer practice, prayer of dedication, Spirituality, Religion
Stuart Brown. M.D. is a pioneer researcher on the effects of play. He’s the founder of the National Institute for Play in Carmel, California. In 1987, he was the producer of the classic documentary film The Hero's Journey, the Life and Work of Joseph Campbell and executive producer and originator of the three part PBS series, The Promise of Play. He is the author of: Play, How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination and Invigorates the Soul (co-author Christopher Vaughan) (Avery 2010)
Interview Date: 2/3/2014 Tags: Stuart Brown, M.D. Play, playing, violence, Charles Whitman, playlessness, pre-school children and play, bullying, physical playing versus virtual playing, creativity, vitamin play, Personal Transformation, Parenting
Margaret Wheatley is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher. She is co-founder and President Emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works with people around the world who strengthen their communities using the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions, and environment. Wheatley's books include Leadership and the New Science (Berrett-Kohler 1998), Perseverance (Berrett-Kohler 2010) and So Far from Home: Lost and Found In Our Brave New World (Berrett-Kohler 2012)
Interview Date: 12/11/2012 Tags: Persevere, relationship, community, General Sherman, Civil War, supporting one another, buddies, Social Change/Politics, Philosophy
Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter and author of many books which often include stories of her encounters with animals. To research her books, films and articles, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silver back gorilla in Zaire and bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica, worked in a pit of 18,000 snakes in Manitoba, and handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University System of New Hampshire. Her many books have garnered numerous awards, and include: Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species (Chelsea Green Publishing 2009), The Good, Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood (Ballantine Books 2007), Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur (Atria Books 2011), The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness. (Atria Books 2015)
Tags: Sy Montgomery, octopus, suckers of an octopus, evolution, octopus enrichment manual, octopus venom, octopus arms, Nancy King’s octopus Ollie, Octopuses like TV, Animals, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Science
Jennifer Butler is an ordained Presbyterian minister with her Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. She is the founding Executive Director of Faith in Public Life and former chair of the White House Council of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Butler is a staunch advocate for women’s rights and human rights and is passionate about the need to counter religious extremism. She is the author of Who Stole My Bible: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny (Faith in Public Life 2020).
Interview Date: 11/30/2020 Tags: Jennifer Butler, justice, Jesus, freedom, oppression, nuclear weapons, racism, feminist hermeneutics, Bible, Mary Magdalene, Mariam in Hebrew scripture, book of Exodus, Moses, Valarie Kaur, Sikh, darkness of the womb, dignity, Ayn Rand, Metamorphosis of a caterpillar, imaginal cells, giving birth, John Lewis, Black Lives Matter, voting rights, activism, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rebecca Solnit, hope, cloud of witnesses, Václav Havel, lamentation, lamenting, power of the lament, Royal Reality, Religion, Social Change/Politics
Betsy Wiersma is the founder of the CampExperience
Interview Date: 11/16/2020 Tags: Betsy Wiersma, do good have fun, sisterhood, Camp Experience Network, love as a business plan, power of the purse, women who rocks, mentoring, networking, women’s network, catalyst for good, choosing joy, lights on energy, Cathy Hawk, Clarity International, fashion as artistic expression, Paralympics, Sock-It-To-Me project, podcasting, Arts & Creativity, Community, Women’s Studies
Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has scoured the world to bring to us meaningful folk tales that tap into ancestral sources of wisdom, and acts as a guide to connect them to the stories we are living today. Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. He also offers regular Living Myths Podcasts, and is author of many books including Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss (GreenfirePress 2012)and Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World (GreenFire Press 2018)
Interview Date: 11/6/2020 Tags: Michael Meade, mythic imagination, pull of opposites, maturity, polarization, rites of passage, life is not binary, tribe, wisdom, soul, winners and losers, dire straits, Jason and the Argonauts, comunita, community, vertical imagination, Carl Jung, 2020 election, inclusive humanity, interconnected, Coronavirus, breath, Mythology, Social Change/Politics, Philosophy, community
Sim Van der Ryn is an architect, author, and educator. He is President of The Ecological Design Collaborative and has, for over forty years, been at the forefront of integrating ecological principles into the built environment, creating multi-scale solutions driven by nature’s intelligence. He served as California’s first energy conscious state architect and is emeritus professor of architecture and environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley. He was founder of the Farallones Institute, now known as the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.
His books include The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City (Random House 1982), Sustainable Communities (co-author Peter Calthorpe) (Sierra Club Books 1991), Ecological Design: Tenth Anniversary Edition (co-author Stuart Cowan) (Island Press 2007), The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water (Chelsea Green Publishing1999) and Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting to People, Nature, and Self (Island Press 2013)
Interview Date: 1/22/2014 Tags: Sim Van der Ryn, empathic design, architecture, homes in Samoa, community based architecture, Real Goods Solar Living Center, housing, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Social Change/Politics, Arts & Creativity
Paria Hassouri, M.D. is a pediatrician, mother of three, and a transgender rights advocate. She’s a proud Iranian-American and has written articles that have appeared in multiple media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Huffington Post. She is the author of a memoir: Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change (New World Library 2020)
Interview Date: 10/26/2020 Tags: Paria Hassouri, denial, regret, anger, grief, transgender, trans, bisexual, gay, LGBTQIA, pediatric training regarding gender issues, Iranian-American, transition in gender, Social Change/Politics, Parenting, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality
Richard Louv’s writings and books have helped launch an international movement to connect children, families, and communities to nature. He is cofounder and chair emeritus of the nonprofit Children & Nature Network. In 2008 he was awarded the Audubon Medal which he shares with such notables as Rachel Carson, E.O. Wilson, and Sir David Attenborough. He is the author of many books including Last Child in the Woods (Algonquin Books 2008), The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age (Algonquin Books 2012) and Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs (Algonquin Books 2019)
Interview Date: 10/8/2020 Tags: Richard Louv, Nature Deficit Disorder, species loneliness, noticing life outside your window, crows, nature is the oldest language, Louv’s dog Banner, dogs, wolves, wolves domesticated humans, anthill, embedded in nature, reciprocity principle, conservation is no longer enough, reimaging our cities, zoonotic diseases, biodiversity collapse, climate disruption, climate change, Glenn Albrecht, feminism, gay rights, civil rights, imaginative hope, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Social Change/Politics, Science
Sherry Ruth Anderson writes and teaches about spiritual development, with a special interest in women's experience and aging as awakening. Her documentary film "A Woman's Descent to the Sacred “ was an official entry in the Mill Valley Film Festival in 2011. She’s the author of The Feminine Face of God (co-author Patricia Hopkins) (Bantam 1991), The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World (co-author Paul Ray) (Crown 2001) and Ripening Time: Inside Stories for Aging with Grace (Changemakers Books 2013)
Interview Date: 10/3/2013 Tags: Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., aging, story of Sophie the baker, asking questions, storytelling, ripening time, Hameed Almass, A.H. Almass, Diamond Approach, not knowing, staying in the question, Philosophy
Since the 1960s Paul Winter has been in the vanguard of musicians who express special appreciation for the natural music of our world, including wolves, whales, birds, wind and water. His inclusivity combines everything from Bach to Bossa Nova, and his albums, Common Ground and Callings, are cultural landmarks, as is his album Missa Gaia/Earth Mass. Our New Dimensions theme music, "Icarus," is performed by the Paul Winter Consort. Paul Winter’s albums include: Common Ground (1989), Wolf Eyes: Retrospective (1989), Callings (1989), Canyon Lullaby (1998), Prayer for the Wild Things (1994), Missa Gaia/Earth Mass (1994), Miho: Journey to the Mountain (2010), Light of the Sun (2020)
Interview Date: 10/9/2020 Tags: Paul Winter, improv, jazz, music ensemble, Jackie Kennedy, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Roger Payne, Humpback whale, wolves, orcas, I.M. Pei, Miho Museum, Paul Spong, Mickey Hoolahan, Ralph Towner, David Darling, Grand Canyon, Soviet Space Bridge, Art & Creativity, History
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who, for over three decades, has been teaching in the fields of poetry and spirituality. As a cancer survivor, Mark remains committed to the usefulness of daily inner life. He devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many books including As Far As The Heart Can See (HC I books 2011) and Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012)
Interview Date: 12/6/2013 Tags:Mark Nepo, deep listening, technology, multi-tasking, problem solving, creating lists, time, what really matters, friendship, loss and grief, information overload, conscience, coming together and falling apart, The Tao, Philosophy
Moeller describes herself as a former “self help junkie” but when her home and all of her belongings burned in a raging wildfire she realized that she had only dipped her toes into the waters of living the life she longed to be living. After the fire, she was inspired to quit waiting for things to be “perfect” before acting on her passions. In this dialogue we explore the many reasons we wait for our life to begin, such as waiting for enough money, waiting for the right time, waiting to be smart enough, or to have the right relationship. Kristen Moeller is a coach, speaker, workshop leader, author, and radio show host. She is the author of Waiting for Jack: Confessions of a Self-Help Junkie: How to Stop Waiting and Start Living Your Life (co-author Jack Canfield) (Morgan James Publishing 2010) and What Are You Waiting For? Learn How To Rise to the Occasion of Your Life (Viva Editions 2013)
Interview Date: 5/3/2014 Tags: Kristen Moeller, wildfire, house burned down, forest fire, insurance companies, life as being fluid, Personal Transformation, Self Help, Writing
James Fadiman, Ph.D. is former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a Professor of Psychology, and one of the foremost researchers in microdosing studies. He’s cofounder of Sofia University, rooted in transforming the transpersonal, and has been researching healthy multiplicity for more than 20 years. He is the author of many books including The Psychedelic Explorers Guide (Park Street Press 2011) andYour Symphony of Selves: Discover and Understand More of Who We Are (coauthor Jordan Gruber J.D.) (Park Street Press 2020)
Jordan Gruber holds a J.D., Juris Doctor degree, and has forged and sculpted authoritative volumes in forensic law, financial services and self development. He founded the enlightenment.com website. He is the author of The Bounce: The Complete SuperBound® Guidebook to 21st-Century Rebound Exercise (coauthor Joy Daniels) (SuperBound 2020) and Your Symphony of Selves: Discover and Understand More of Who We Are (coauthor James Fadiman, Ph.D.) (Park Street Press 2020)
Interview Date: 9/14/2020 Tags: Jordan Gruber, James Fadiman, single self assumption, sub-personality, sub-personalities, a multiplicity of selves, angry self, AA, addiction, addicted self, schizophrenia, multiple selves, people are inconsistent, being in the wrong self at the wrong time, partnering with our multiple selves, our angry self, Tsultrim Allione, inner demon, Hal and Sidra Stone, voice dialogue, Virginia Satir, Parts Party, NLP, Neural-linguistic Programming, Psychology, Personal Transformation
Hersch Wilson is a former ballet dancer (along with his wife Laurie) and is now a 30-year veteran volunteer firefighter–EMT with the Hondo Fire Department in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. He is also a writer, speaker, and consultant who has worked extensively with leadership teams from a variety of organizations including IBM Japan, the US Postal Service, and the CIA, to name a few. He also writes a monthly column on dogs for the Santa Fe New Mexican. He is the author of Choosing Growth Over Fear In Work And Life (coauthor with his late father, Larry Wilson)(Bard Press; Revised Edition 2004)and Firefighter Zen: A Field Guide To Thriving In Tough Times (New World Library 2020)
Interview Date: 9/25/2020 Tags: Hersch Wilson, go slow to go fast, Richard Leider, take time to stop, deep breathing, mantra, anger, being intentional, calm, secret power words, emergency, problem, inconvenience, daily rituals, being kind, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Keep Calm-Carry On, showing up, listening to uplifting stories, being brave, outside of comfort zone, being uncomfortable, manageable chunks, small steps, Personal Transformation
Bonni Goldstein is a physician, pediatric ER doctor, and cannabis specialist. She is the medical director of Canna–Centers Wellness & Education, a Los Angeles-based medical practice that helps patients use cannabis for serious and chronic illnesses. She has successfully treated thousands of adult and pediatric patients with cannabis medicine. She is a board member of the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine and is medical advisor to Weedmaps.com. Dr. Goldstein was awarded the 2017 Medical Professional of the Year by Americans for Safe Access. She is the author of Cannabis is Medicine: How Medical Cannabis and CBD are Healing Everything from Anxiety to Chronic Pain (Little Brown Spark, 2020).
Interview Date: 9/4/2020 Tags: Bonni Goldstein, medical marijuana, medical cannabis, reefer madness, endocannabinoid system, homeostasis, inflammation, endocannabinoid system, phytocannabinoid system, autism, vitamin D, THC, CBD, GABA, cannabinoid receptors, adenosine, single compound drugs, elders using cannabis, Canna-Centers Wellness and Education, Society of Cannabis Clinicians, www.cannabisclinicians.org, Health & Healing
Guy Finley is a spiritual teacher and author. He is the Founder and Director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit center fortranscendent self-study located in Merlin, Oregon. He also hosts the Foundation’s Wisdom School — an on-line self-discovery program for seekers of higher self-knowledge. He offers free online classes open to all every Wednesdays and Sundays. Each class also includes a Question and Answer session with Guy. He is the author of over 45 books including The Secret of Letting Go (Llewellyn Publications 2008) and The Lost Secrets Of Prayer: Practices For Self-Awakening (Llewellyn Publications 1998).
Interview Date: 8/22/2020 Tags: Guy Finley, driving in traffic, driving on the freeway, prayer, consciousness, resistance, evil, opposition, ceaseless perfection of the soul, presence of God, witnessing myself, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Spirituality.
Ronita Johnson has worked at the intersection of DEI which stands for diversity, equality, inclusion, and has been convening sacred circles for over 30 years. She cut her teeth in the corporate world as a first diversity manager in a large corporate organization in the 80s. Skilled in the practice of dialogue, she creates safe spaces for listening, learning, and self-reflection to bring conscious that which lies in shadow. In 2010, after a successful diversity consulting career, Ronita retired to devote all her energies to convening circles. She hosts online and in person circle gatherings, organic in nature and focused on authentic conversations toward excavating truth around life giving topics that matter. She, along with Justine Toms, are founding conveners of the Millionth Circle. She is also an original convener of Women Eradicating Racism and convener facilitator of Becoming Anti Racists. She is the author of Coming To Forgiveness: A Daughter’s Story Of Race, Rage And Religion (Ronita Johnson & Associates 2012). She created and acts in the one woman show Forgivable.
Interview Date: 8/26/2020 Tags: Ronita Johnson, White Fragility, racism, tender box, oppression, inequality of races, diversity, inclusion, antiracism, internal racism, The Millionth Circle, diversity is a coded word, Ubuntu, Sam Cooke, Change is Gonna Come, Jim Crow, black woman walking in a white neighborhood, resilience, empathy, I don’t see color, I describe myself first as black, internalized prejudice, being an ally to people of color, microaggressions, Social Change/Politics
Kate Marianchild is a “Citizen Scientist” who shares the delight that comes from walking slowly or sitting quietly in nature. She is the author of Secrets of The Oak Woodlands: Plants & Animals Among California’s Oaks (Heyday 2014).
Interview Date: 2/23/2017 Tags: Kate Marianchild, topophilia, adaptive survival skills, movie Lion, Yosemite, Scott Sampson, John Lane, Ann Meyer Maglinte. Oak Woodlands, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Science, Animals
Sarah van Gelder is cofounder and editor-at-large of the award-winning YES!Magazine. She writes and speaks internationally on environmental, social, and economic alternatives and on community-based change. She is the editor of:
Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2015), This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99 Percent Movement (Berrett-Koehler publishers 2011) and The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America. (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2017)
Interview Date: 3/11/2017 Tags: Sarah van Gelder, grassroots activism, Dr. Victor Garcia, worker owned businesses, Jubilee year, Tamera Village Spain, place based community, reclaiming local power, Community, Political change/Politics, History, Indigenous Wisdom
Robert Fuller, Ph.D. is a physicist and former president of Oberlin College. He has consulted with Indira Gandhi, met with Jimmy Carter regarding the President's Commission on World Hunger, and worked to defuse the Cold War in Russia when it was known as the USSR. As Fuller reflected on his career he realized that he had been, at different times in his life, a somebody and a nobody. His periodic sojourns into “Nobodyland” led him to identify rankism - the abuse of the power inherent in rank - and ultimately to write the book Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank. He has become a recognized leader of the dignity movement to overcome rankism and keynoted a Dignity for All conference hosted by the President of Bangladesh. His many other accomplishments include co-authoring the text book Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. His books include: Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank (New Society Publishers 2003), Dignity for All: How to Create a World without Rankism (co-author Pamela A. Gerloff) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2008), Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship? (e-book, Smashwords 2012), (novel) The Rowan Tree (CreateSpace 2013), (children’s book) Theo: The White Squirrel (co-author Claire Sheridan) (Amazon Digital Services 2016), Questions and Quests: A Short Book Aphorisms (Amazon Digital Services 2017), The Theory of Everybody (Robert Fuller 2017)
Interview Date: 2/5/2013 Tags: Robert Fuller, rankism, Marshall Plan, indignity, dignity, racism, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, predation, somebodies and nobodies, Social Change/Politics
Philip Goldberg has been studying the world's spiritual traditions for more than 50 years. He's a workshop leader, spiritual counselor and meditation teacher, and an ordained interfaith minister. He also co-hosts the Spirit Matters Podcasts. He leads American Veda tours and blogs regularly on Elephant Journal and Spirituality & Health. He is the author of many books, including: American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation How Indian Spirituality Changed the West. (Harmony 2013), The Life of Yogananda: The Story of the Yogi Who Became the First Modern Guru (Hay House, 2nd Edition 2020) and Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times: Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity, and Courage (Hay House 2020)
Interview Date: 8/10/2020 Tags: Philip Goldberg, pragmatic mysticism, inner peace, Bhagavad Gita, flexibility in spiritual practice, spiritual pantry, smiling, Thich Nhat Hanh, Meditation,Personal Transformation,spirituality
W. Keith Campbell, Ph.D. is professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, and is a nationally recognized expert on narcissism, society, and generational change. Both his work and lectures expose the rise of narcissism and individualism more generally, and its influence on every level of society. His books include When You Love A Man Who Loves Himself, How To Deal With A One Way Relationship (Sourcebook 2005) and The New Science Of Narcissism : Understanding One Of The Greatest Psychological Challenges Of Our Time-- and What You Can Do About It. (Sounds True 2020)
Interview Date: 8/4/2020 Tags: W. Keith Campbell, narcissist, narcissism, personality trait, entitlement, empathy, can psychologists criticize politicians, cyber bullying, dark tetrad, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, Machiavellianism, selfies, social media, Ice Bucket Selfies, covid-19 pandemic, chaos and change, narcissistic leaders, centralized media, zoom meetings, Facebook, social networks, Psychology, Health & Healing, Social Change/Politics
Susan Campbell, Ph.D. trains and coaches therapists and individuals throughout the US and Europe. She works with singles, couples, and work teams to help them communicate responsibly and with respect. She is the author of Getting Real: Ten Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life (H.J. Kramer 2001), Saying What’s Real: 7 Keys to Authentic Communication and Relationship Success (H.J. Kramer 2005) and Five-Minute Relationship Repair: Quickly Heal Upsets, Deepen Intimacy, and Use Differences to Strengthen Love (John Gray) (H. J. Kramer 2015)
Interview Date: 3/18/2015 Tags: Susan Campbell, recurring fights in relationship, triggers in relationship, calming process, pause period, repair relationship, repairing relationship, couples therapy, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality, Self Help, Personal Transformation
Dr. Laura Koniver is an artist, author, holistic physician, and an internationally recognized grounding advocate. She also runs on-line heath classes. She is the author of From the Ground Up (Do Life Right, Incorporated 2012), Health Flow Unleash eBook (www.intuition-physician.com) and The Earth Prescription: Discover The Healing Power Of Nature With Grounding Practices For Every Season.
Interview Date: 7/10/2020 Tags: Laura Koniver, grounding, recharging our body, Schumann frequency, heartbeat of the Earth, cement sidewalks, asphalt does not ground us, grounded fish aquariums, grounding while sleeping, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation
Merlin Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and writer and with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history of philosophy of science. He received his Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He's also a musician and a keen fermenter. He is the author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures (Random House 2020).
Interview Date: 5/19/2020 Tags: Merlin Sheldrake, fungi, decomposers, Roundup, soil communities, fungicides, Paul Stamets, bee colony collapse, Steve Sheppard, antivirals, Peter McCoy, amateur mycologists, Mary Hunt, microbial crowdsourcing, fungal architectures, domesticated minerals, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Science, Indigenous wisdom
Shannon Sullivan is an interfaith spiritual teacher and teacher of meditation. She has broad experience with many spiritual traditions from around the world as well as her communion with nature. Trees in particular have a deep significance for her and she's developed a series of teachings and meditations using the metaphor of trees. One of her teachings involves healing our ancestral roots.
Interview Date: 5/12/2020 Tags: MP3, Shannon Sullivan, family wounds, ancestral wounds, forgiveness, chanting, Buddha, Mara, anger, healing ancestral trauma, anxiety, Reiki, Health & Healing, Dreams
Rebecca Solnit is the author of fifteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. She works with the group 350.org on climate issues and is a contributing editor to Harper’s and regular contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com. Her books include An Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness (Trinity University Press 2014) and A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Penguin Books 2006)
Linda Carroll, M.S. is a licensed therapist and has worked as a couples therapist for more than 30 years. Her work is deep and varied, based on Voice Dialogue, Holotropic Breath Work, and Angeles Arrien's The Fourfold Way as well as The Diamond Heart Work of A. H. Almaas. She is a certified IMAGO therapist, private coach to couples and families, and leader of workshops and retreats. She works with a limited number of couples in a new style of "concierge therapy" for which she travels to their home or office for 2 to 6 days a year for private, all-day sessions. Linda lives in Corvallis Oregon. She is the author of Remember Who You Are: Seven Stages in a Woman's Spiritual Path (Conari Press 2008), Her Mother's Daughter (Doubleday 2006) and Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love (New World Library 2014)
Interview Date: 12/1/2014 Tags: Linda Carroll, cycles of relationship, relationship, falling in love, long term relationship
Michael Gelb, Ph.D. is a business consultant, seminar leader, and authority on applying genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He's also a certified qigong teacher. His books include Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor (co-author Sarah Miller Caldicott) (Dutton 2007), Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age (co-author Kelly Howell) (New World Library 2012), How To Think Like Leonardd da Vinci (Dell 2000) and Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius (Sounds True 2014)
Interview Date: 7/26/2014. Tags: Michael Gelb, Ph.D., Creativity, Qi energy, chi energy, Thomas Edison, Arts & Creativity
Catherine Ann Jones is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and a Fulbright Scholar to India, studying shamanism. She holds a graduate degree and teaches depth psychology and archetypal mythology. As a screenwriter, Jones has contributed to such television series as ‘Touched by an Angel’ and wrote the teleplay ‘The Christmas Wife’. She teaches writing workshops, and is the author of Heal Your Self With Writing (Divine Arts 2013), and The Way of Story: The Craft & Soul of Writing (Michael Weise Productions 2007)
Interview Date: 2/28/2014. Tags: Catherine Ann Jones, Heal Yourself with Writing workshops, narrative therapy, storytelling, Chauvet Caves, who would you take to a desert island, your personal thematic line, The Way of Story Workshops, Writing, Psychology
Thomas Moore, Ph.D. was a monk for twelve years, and a university professor. He is a musician and a psychotherapist and lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. He has a Ph.D. in religion from Syracuse University. His books include Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life (HarperPerennial 1994), The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love (Harper Perennial 1999), Dark Nights of the Soul (Gotham 2005) and A Religion of One’s Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World (Gotham 2014)
Interview Date: 1/15/2014. Tags: Thomas Moore, Ph.D., Religion, Spirituality, Confession, Catholic, marriage, therapy, dreams, dreamwork, Spirituality, Religion, Dreams, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality
Arjuna Ardagh is a writer, public speaker and founder of the Awakening Coaching Training in Nevada City, California. It's a training program dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life. His books include The Translucent Revolution (New World Library 2005). Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and into the Moment (Sounds True 2008), Last Laugh (Hay House 2013) and Better Than Sex: The Ecstatic Art of Awakening Coaching (Awakening Coaching 2013)
Interview Date: 6/7/2014 Tags: Arjuna Ardagh, awakening, limitless consciousness, Awakening Coaching Training, direct experience of the nature of consciousness, guru, coach, Michael Phelps, Bob Bowman, stories we make up about ourselves, unified field, Leonard Cohen, acquisition, contribution, happiness, meaning, money, income, 7 Innate Brilliances, Quantum Physics, quirky electrons, Silence of the Lambs movie, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Philosophy
Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox is a priest and was a member of the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church for thirty-four years. For speaking out on women’s rights, gay rights, and Native American rights, he was silenced for a year and later expelled from the Dominican Order under the papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He then joined the Episcopal Church to work with young people to create postmodern forms of ritual and worship known as the “Cosmic Mass” that incorporates dance, DJ, VJ, rap, and other postmodern art forms. He is the co-founder of the Order of the Sacred Earth and, since Mother’s day 2019, has offered free daily meditations. He holds a doctorate in History and Theology of Spirituality and is founder of the University of Creation Spirituality. He is the author of more than thirty-five books including Original Blessing (Tarcher 2000), Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times (Namaste Publishing 2012), Letters to Pope Francis (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013), Occupy Spirituality (co-author Adam Bucko) (North Atlantic Press 2013), Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth (HarperOne 1991), The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (HarperOne 1988), Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times (New World Library 2014), Confessions: The Making of a Post-Denominational Priest (HarperSanFrancisco 2015), A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey (New World Library 2016), Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action (coauthors Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Listug) (Monkfish 2018), Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Ixia 2020) and The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times (iUniverse 2020)Interview Date: 4/30/2020 Tags: Matthew Fox, Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis of Assisi, indigenous thinking, Aristotle, nondualism, feminism, Mary, Magdalene, resurrection, Daily Meditation with Matthew Fox, waking up, eco-theology, ecotheology, preserve things in the good, anthropocentric narrowness, goodness, joy, justice, awe, wonder, wisdom, Rabbi Heschel, Descartes, knowledge, information, History, Philosophy, Social Change/Politics, Spirituality, Religion
Martin Shaw, Ph.D. is a storyteller and mythologist. He's a wilderness rites-of-passage guide and is internationally regarded as one of the most exciting proponents of the mythic imagination. He tells "prophetic stories" that speak deeply to the challenges we face today, in the world and in our personal lives. He has devised and led the Oral Tradition course at Stanford University, is a visiting fellow at Shumacher College, and the Director of the Westcountry School of Myth, a learning community in Dartmoor in the far west of the United Kingdom. Hs books include A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness (White Cloud Press 2011), Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet, Black Branch of Language (White Cloud Press 2014), Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (White Cloud 2016), The Night Wages: Bidden or Unbidden Initiations Come (Cista Mystica Press 2019), Courting the Wild Twin (Chelsea Green Publishing 2020)
Interview Date: 4/23/2020 Tags: Martin Shaw, our wild twin, Robert Bly, Questing Beast, Poets, The Lindworm story, Tatterhood story, fairy tales, desire, Hermes, listening, multitasking, Danny Deardorff, initiation, William Blake, storytelling, coronavirus, lock down, staying in place, Rumi, Lorca, duende, Arts & Creativity, Mythology, Writing, Soul
Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry and two collections of essays, and has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and the Donald Hal-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Her poems appear in a wide range of prestigious outlets. A resident of Northern California, she is a chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets. She presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. She has authored many books including The October Palace (HarperCollins 1994), Lives of the Heart (Harper Collins 1997), Women in Praise of the Sacred (HarperCollins 1994), Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Perennial 1998), After (Harper Collins 2006), Given Sugar, Given Salt (Harper Collins 2001), Come, Thief (Knopf 2011), Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2015), The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf 2015), Ledger (Alfred A. Knopf 2020)
Interview Date: 4/16/2020 Tags: Jane Hirshfield, poetry, pandemic, sheltering in place, illusion of normality, muse, uncertain times, isolation, beauty, suffering, space station, Robert Rauschenberg, refugee crisis, Art & Creativity, Social Change/politics
At the time of this interview, Arianna Huffington was the chair, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group. She has been a nationally syndicated columnist, and is the author of many books. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. Her books include Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder (Crown 2014), Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream (Broadway Books 2011), On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life (Little, Brown and Company 2007).
Interview Date: 2/15/2014 Tags: MP3, Arianna Huffington, success, wealth, The Third Metric of Well-Being, Wisdom, Wonder, Giving, sleep, habits, meditation, group support, technology, Personal Transformation, Meditation
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist with a deep interest in neuroscience and mindfulness. He is a senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California Berkeley and creator of the year-long course The Foundations of Well-Being. He is the author of many books including: Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (New Harbinger 2009) , Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time (New Harbinger 2011), Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Harmony Books 2013), Meditations to Change Your Brain - CD Set (Sounds True 2009), Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength and Happiness (Harmony Books 2018) and NeuroDharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness (Harmony Books 2020)Interview Date: 2/24/2020 Tags: Rick Hanson, media, despair, compassion, courage, common humanity, take heart, the fruits of practice, changing the structure of brain, neuroscience, neuroplasticity, inner peace, neural circuitry, letting go of results, 7 practices for happiness, empathic imagination, reacting amygdala, less reactive, somatic learning, somatic markers, steady presence of mind, not being attached to outcome, attachment, tenacity, Fern Hill poem by Dylan Thomas, Social Change/Politics, Meditation, Personal Transformation, Science
Judith Prager, Ph.D., CHT, is a clinical hypnotherapist with a Ph.D. in psychology and a practice in the Los Angeles area. As a consultant to Cedars-Sinai Medical center, she developed a “Guided Imagery for Surgery” series of pre-, intra- and post-operative and ICU creative imagery CDs that has been used with significant results in a pilot program in the Cardio-thoracic Surgery Unit. She’s trained physicians, nurses and first responders across the U.S. in hypnotic language for pain and stress relief in emergencies and interactions with children. She presents keynotes and talks at conferences and medical centers. She is the author of:Journey to Alternity: Transformational Healing through Stories and Metaphors (iUniverse 2000), What the Dolphin Said (Self published 2017) and The Worst Is Over: Verbal First Aid to Calm, Relieve Pain, Promote Healing and Save Lives (revised edition) (Judith Acosta) (Self Published 2014)To learn more about the work of Judith Prager go to www.judithprager.comHost: Justine Willis Toms Tags: MP3, Judith Prager, Judith Acosta, stopping bleeding with verbal suggestions, coronavirus pandemic, sheltering in place, fear, isolation, laughter, teenagers, anger, frustration, punishment, figuring ways to be together while sheltering in place, wolf howling in Mill Valley, exercise, Personal Transformation, Psychology, Parenting, Health & Healing
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting (Sounds True 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019) and The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin’s Essentials 2020)Interview Date: 1/14/2020 Tags: MP3, Mark Nepo, wisdom, quest for wisdom, joy, curiosity, wonder, sage, Naropa, embodied wisdom, Martin Heidegger, Nazis, being hypocritical, sphere of influence, shortcomings, The awakened teacher within, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Philosophy, Psychology
Gail Storey was formerly administrative director of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. She is a writer, hoop dancer and comic performance artist. Porter Storey, M.D. has been a full time hospice physician since 1983. He is a national leader in hospice and palliative medicine. Together they bicycled on their tandem from Maine to San Diego, and years later trekked the Pacific Crest Trail. Gail is the author of The Lord's Motel (Persea Books 2011), God's Country Club (Persea Books 2011) and I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail (The Mountaineers Books 2013) (winner of the Barbara Savage Award). Porter is the editor of: The Primer of Palliative Care, 4th edition (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2010)
Interview Date: 10/2/2013 Tags: Gail Storey, Porter Storey, M.D., Pacific Crest Trail, trekking, river rafting, falling into river, flooding in Boulder, Colorado, Personal Transformation, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality
Arlene Goldbard is a writer, speaker, consultant, workshop leader, and cultural activist whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics, spirituality, the arts and artists. She is a fierce advocate for the power of human creative expression.
Interview Date: 6/11/2013 Tags: Goldbard, paradigm shift, Datastan, Stories, availability cascade, attention, resilience, possibility, Czechoslovakia Velvet , Berlin, Estonia, Banyan, endangered languages, Boal, education, Ravitch, Occupy Movement
Phil Cousineau is a freelance writer, filmmaker, photographer, art and literary tour leader, teacher of creativity, a lifelong lover of the night, and an all around Renaissance man. He’s published over 30 books and has over 25 documentary film writing credits. He is also host and co-writer of "Global Spirit," a nationally broadcast television series. He’s a guest host for New Dimensions Radio. His books include Wordcatcher (Viva Editions, Cleis Press 2010, Beyond Forgiveness: Reflections On Atonement (Jossey-Bass 2011), Stoking The Creative Fires (Red (Wheel/Wiser 2008) and Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words For the Long Night’s Journey Into Day (Viva Editions 2014)
Interview Date: 12/20/2013 Tags: MP3, Phil Cousineau, night, Blue Mosque Reverie, Sultan Ahmet Mosque, creativity, Rilke, Circling the ancient tower, dominoes, café, numinous, Edward Hopper, Charles Bukowski, pay attention, paying attention, iconic images, storytelling, Arts & Creativity, Writing
Christine Page, M.D. received her medical degree from the University of London in 1978. She’s an international seminar leader on healing and empowerment. She became a well-known bridge builder and played an important role in the acceptance of alternative therapies in the British Health System. She is the author of: Frontiers of Health (Rider 2010), The Healing Power of the Sacred Woman: Health, Creativity, and Fertility for the Soul (Bear & Company 2013)
Interview Date: 11/13/2013 Tags: Christine Page, illness, emotion, soul, intuitive, intuition, women's biological cycles, moon cycles, menstrual cycles, menses, Health & Healing, Women’s Studies
Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is a respected kamasqa curandero and shamanic adept from Peru, and has been guiding cross-cultural, ethnospiritual apprenticeship expeditions to sacred sites of the world since 1986, with special emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. He's been a popular faculty member at numerous U.S. colleges and universities. He originated the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross-cultural shamanism, and is the founder of the Heart of the Healer Foundation. His works and programs have been featured on CNN, Univision, A&E and the Discovery Channel. Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is the author of: Lessons in Courage, Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life (co-author Bonnie Glass-Coffin)
Interview Date: 8/26/2013 Tags: don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Pachakuti Mesa tradition, don Celso Rojas Palomino of Salas, Chiclayo, don Benitao Corihuaman Vargas of Wasau, Cusco, Andean and Peruvian shamanic tradition, rituals, ceremony, communion, consecration, composition, connection, cooperation, spiral, pilgrima ge to sacred places, Indigenous Wisdom, Shamanism
Carla Malden has been a screenwriter and published author. She began her career as the assistant to renowned director Elia Kazan. With her husband and screen writing partner, Laurence Starkman, she co-wrote many screenplays and produced and wrote several award winning short films. She is author of When Do I Start? [co-authored with her father, Academy Award winning actor Karl Malden] (Limelight Editions 2004) and Afterimage, A Broken Hearted Memoir of a Charmed Life (Skirt! 2011)
Interview Date: 9/6/2012 Tags: Carla Malden, grief, loss, Death & Dying
Will Tuttle, Ph.D., is a professional pianist, composer, and teacher who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. For more two decades he has presented at progressive churches, vegetarian and human potential conferences, and intentional communities throughout the United States. He trained in Korea as a Zen Buddhist Monk and has worked extensively in Tai Chi, Yoga, and meditation. He also works with his artist wife Madeleine Tuttle who contributes to his presentations, books, and albums. He is the author of many books including Your Inner Islands: The Keys to Intuitive Living (Will Tuttle - revised 2017), The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony (Lantern Books 2005), He also has many original piano albums including: Ascension: A Journey Beyond and Islands of Light.
Interview Date: 1/12/2020 Tags: Will Tuttle, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, vegetarianism, world peace, animal agriculture, plant-based eating, ahimsa, The Farm, glyphosate, GMOs, sexual abuse of animals, Health & Healing, Meditation, Spirituality, Social/Change/Politics, Peace/Nonviolence, Media
Anat Baniel was born in Israel and worked with the great master of movement Moshe Feldenkrais, who frequently taught classes in her parents' home. She has established an international reputation for her work with children with special needs. A clinical psychologist who, since the early 1980s, has refined her method for working with children and now runs the Anat Baniel Method facility in Marin county in Northern California. She created the Anat Baniel Method for working with special needs children and adults. She is the author of Kids Beyond Limits: The Anat Baniel Method for Awakening the Brain and Transforming the Life of Your Child With Special Needs (TarcherPerigee Books 2012).
Interview Date: 4/24/2012 Tags: Anat Baniel, brain science, working with special needs children, Health & Healing, Science, Parenting
The RAIN Process (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) reminds us to pause and reconnect with a wise and compassionate presence allowing us to align our lives with our hearts. It can assist us when we get lost in unconscious, mental, emotional reactivity, fear, and are living on “autopilot.” RAIN is a healing process available to us that opens us to our inner radiance. Tara Brach, PhD, is an internationally known teacher of mindfulness, meditation, emotional healing, and spiritual awakening. each month. Tara is the senior teacher and founder of Insight Meditation Center of Washington, DC. and she produces a weekly podcast. She is the author of many books including Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your world with the Practice of RAIN (Viking 2019), Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha (Bantam 2004) and True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart (Bantam 2016)
Interview Date: 1/24/2020 Tags: MP3, Tara Brach, RAIN process, Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture, mindfulness, compassion, fear, shame, anger, somatic, allowing, Viktor Frankl, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, failure, difficult emotions, vulnerability, Alice Walker, Babemba tribe of South Africa, kindness, attention changes our brain, BJ Fogg, Tiny Habits, Personal Transformation, Meditation
Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist, environmentalist, and award-winning author. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. On the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Ms. Williams received the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award honoring a distinguished record of leadership in American conservation. She currently is the writer in residence at Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Castle Valley, Utah. She is the author of many books including: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Pantheon 1991), Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert (Vintage Books 2002), An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field (Vintage Books 1995), Leap (Vintage 2001), Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert (Vintage Books 2002), The Open Space of Democracy (The Orion Society 2004), Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Pantheon 2008), When Women Were Birds (Sarah Crichton Books: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012), The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks (Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016), Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019)Interview Date: 12/13/2019 Tags: Terry Tempest Williams, erosion, public lands, oil and gas industry, coal industry, Bears Ears, seeing, Mormon, Mormonism, Creation Myths, Marie-Louise van Franz, Adam and Eve, Fazal Sheikh, State of Utah, gospel choir, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Big Dipper, Assault on American Lands, hidden violence, Nuclear bombs, uranium tailings, war games in the desert, coal and copper mines. Grand Staircase-Escalante, radioactive waste, President Donald J. Trump, Senator Orrin Hatch, Lamanites, Racism. Book of Mormon, Environmental racism is the outcome of bad stories, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Meditation, Spirituality, Social Change/Politics, Personal Transformation, Peace/Nonviolence, Community, Mythology
BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician who has worked in many settings, inpatient, outpatient, hospice facility and home and now sees patients and families at U.C.S.F. Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Miller speaks all over the country and beyond on the theme of living well in the face of death. He’s also the founder of the Center for Dying and Living. He is co-author, with Shoshana Berger, of A Beginners Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death (Simon & Schuster 2019)
Interview Date:12/3/2019 Tags: MP3, BJ Miller, caregiving, dementia, Alzheimer’s, etiologies of dementia, physician assisted death, physician aid in dying, VCED, voluntary cessation of eating and drinking, unplugging from life-sustaining treatments, comfort care, getting out of the way of death, Death & Dying
Mary Mackey, Ph.D. is a novelist, screenwriter, and poet. She is Professor Emeritus of English and former Writer-in-Residence at California State University, Sacramento. During her twenties she lived in the rain forests of Costa Rica. Recently she’s been traveling to Brazil incorporating her experiences in the tropical rainforests into her fiction and poetry. Her historical novels include Earthsong Series - covering the lives of the people of Neolithic Europe and Immersion (iUniverse 2013), Her books of poetry include Travelers with No Ticket Home (Marsh Hawk Press 2014), Sugar Zone, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence, Breaking The Fever (Marsh Hawk Press 2006), The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1974 through 2018 (winner of Eric Hoffer Book Award 2019).
Interview Date: 11/27/2019 Tags: Mary Mackey, poetry, adventure, rain forest, army ants, jungle, rural Kentucky, regional microknowledge, ecosystem, Gees Bend quilts, Portuguese, ancestral quilts, fevered dreams, Earthsong Series of novels, Elizabeth Bishop, Art & Creativity, Women’s Studies, writing, Ecology/Nature/Environment
Michael Gelb, Ph.D. is a business consultant, seminar leader, and authority on applying genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He’s also a certified qigong teacher. His books include Innovate Like Edison: The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success (co-author Sarah Miller Caldicott) (Plume 2008), Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age (co-author Kelly Howell) (New World Library 2012), How To Think Like Leonard da Vinci : Seven Steps to Genius Every Day (Dell 2000), Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius (Sounds True 2014)
Interview Date: 2/20/2012. Tags: Michael J. Gelb, Ph.D., Michael Gelb, Brain, aging, Self Help
Ronita Johnson, an African American daughter of a preacher, grew up initially in the southern part of the U.S., and later in Northern California. She came of age during the civil rights movement. She is a certified integral coach, and a convener and guide of sacred women’s circles including a monthly forgiveness circle in Berkeley, California. Johnson has worked with inclusion and diversity issues since the 1980s. She is the author of: Coming To Forgiveness: A Daughter’s Story of Race, Rage, and Religion (Ronita Johnson & Associates 2012).
Interview Date: 4/6/2012. Tags: Ronita Johnson, forgivenes,s gratitude, civil rights movement, molestation, family secrets, circles, circle work, deep listening, shame, Personal Transformation
Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founding Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Caucus, where she is working nationally and internationally with grassroots leaders, policy-makers, business people and scientists to promote resilient communities and foster a post-carbon energy future, while also addressing societal transformation. She is an advisor to the International Eco-Cities Framework and Standards Initiative; an international advocate for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature; and has traveled to five continents studying ancient and modern cultures while making presentations at international conferences and universities. In addition to her advocacy work, she is a bronze sculptor and author. She is the author of Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature (White Cloud Press 2010) (Winner of 2011 Nautilus Book Award)
Interview Date: 1/11/2012 Tags: mp3 Osprey Orielle Lake, water,climate change, nature, Ecology/Nature/Environment
Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California who teaches at Stanford University. She has been an artist-in-residence at such places as the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She is the author of: How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy (Melville House Publishing 2019).
Interview Date: 8/30/2019 Tags: MP3, Jenny Odell, technodeterminism, age of soylent, The Dump art installation, Recology San Francisco, David Hockney, A Bigger Exhibition, slow art, Ellsworth Kelly,Blue Green Black Red, attention, shallow attention, reactive attention, impatient attention, bird watching, sustained attention, ego-dissolving attention, angry tweet mob, crows, fear, anxiety, bioregion, loneliness, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweet Grass, Social Change/Politics, Art & Creativity, Philosophy, Technology, Money/Economics
Allen Klein is the former Director of Life and Death Transitions in San Francisco. He's a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. He is the author of many books including The Healing Power of Humor (Tarcher/Putnam 1989), The Courage to Laugh, Change Your Life: A Little Book of Big Ideas (Tarcher 1998), Learning to Laugh When You Feel Like Crying: Embracing Life After Loss (Goodman Beck Publishing 2011)
Interview Date: 12/17/2011
Jan Phillips is an award-winning photographer, writer, multimedia artist, and national workshop leader. She's co-founder and Executive Director of the Livingkindness Foundation, a global network for grassroots philanthropists. She is the author of many books and CDs, including The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader (9th Element Press 2006), Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (Quest Books 1997), God Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art (Quest Books 2000), Born Gay: Images & Reflections of an Ordinary Lesbian (Jan Phillips 2003), No Ordinary Time: The Rise of Spiritual Intelligence and Evolutionary Creativity (Livingkindness Foundation 2011)
Interview Date: 11/4/2011 Tags: Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known speaker. She is a former board member of the Ms. Foundation, an advocate for a 5th UN World Conference on Women, a convener of the Millionth Circle Initiative, and a permanent representative to the UN of the Pathways to Peace NGO. Her books include The Tao of Psychology (Harper & Row 1979), Goddesses in Every Woman (Harper Paperbacks, 2004), God’s in Every Man (Harper & Row 1989), Crones Don't Whine (Red Wheel/Weiser 2003), The Millionth Circle (Conari Press 1999), Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women (Conari Press 2004), Save the World (Conari Press, 2005), Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can People Can Save the Planet (Conari Press 2010), Artemis: the Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman (Conari Press 2014)
Interview Date: 7/9/2014. Tags: MP3, Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., Artemis, trees, mythology, myths, Tree people, Mother bear in mythology, dreams,
Kara Valentine is a co-founder and COO of Threads Worldwide. Through collaboration with thousands of Artisans and Fair Trade Partners around the world, Threads Worldwide is dedicated to building a growing market for handmade goods. Partnering with artisan cooperatives and businesses it seeks to create dignified jobs for women through the fair trade of artisan jewelry made by women from Uganda to Ecuador. Many of these artisans have watched their dreams become a reality: dreams of sending their children to school, accessing healthcare, and making their homes safer.
Interview Date: 9/27/2019 Tags: Kara Valentine, Threads Worldwide, fair trade partners, livable wage, developing countries, privilege, handmade jewelry, women living in poverty, penpals, Angela Melfi, #trustthechills, premature baby, authenticity, take the first step, labyrinth, Guatemala, Lake Atitlan, Business, Art & Creativity, Social Change/Politics, Personal Transformation, Global Culture, Community, Women’s Studies
Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. is among a handful of individuals awarded the distinguished service award by the National Alzheimer’s Association. In 2001 he founded The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which researches and distributes knowledge on kindness, giving and spirituality. Post served as a co-chair of the United Nations Population Fund Conference on Spirituality and Global Transformation. He’s a professor in the Department of Preventative Medicine at Stony Brook University and founder and director of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics. He’s a leader in medicine research and religion and the author of several books, including Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving (Broadway Books 2008), he Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd edition 2000) and God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness.
Interview Date: 10/31/2019 Tags: Stephen G Post, synchronicity, Joseph Michael Foley, M.D., Case Western Reserve University, Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia, forgetfulness, deeply forgetful people, terminal lucidity, Rudy Tanzi, M.S., Heather Hill Nursing Facility, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Health & Healing
Cynthia Spring is a media producer and for 20 years was deeply involved in local ecology in the San Francisco Bay area. Her most recent book, is a collaboration beyond the veil of death between herself and the late Dr. Francis Vaughan who passed from this life in 2017. Cynthia's books include The Wave and The Drop: Wisdom Stories About Death and Afterlife (Wisdom Circles Publishing 2018) and Seven Questions About Life After Life: Book One (with Frances Vaughan)(Wisdom Circles Publishing 2019)
Interview Date: 9/30/2019 Tags: Cynthia Spring, Dr. Frances Vaughan, Matthew McKay, death, Nirvana, soul, loss, grief, other side of death, animal companions that have did, Michael Toms’ Mother’s death story, Grateful Dead, learning doesn’t stop at death, our perilous time in history, Omnipresence, Joseph Campbell, Huston Smith, direct experience, a greater reality, contacting loved ones across the veil, Personal Transformation, Death & Dying, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Intuition/Psychic, social change/Politics
Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has the unusual ability to tap into ancestral sources of wisdom and connect them into the stories we are living today. Michael is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. He is the author of The World Behind the World (GreenFire Press 2006), The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2006), Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul (revised & expanded, Greenfire Press 2012), Why the World Doesn't End, Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss (Greenfire Press 2012)
Date: 8/18/2014 Tags: Michael Meade, genius, talents, IQ, teacher as mentor, suicide, The Genius Project, soul, Personal Transformation, Social Change/Politics, Education
Zen Honeycutt is the mother of three boys and Founding Executive Director of Moms Across America, a national coalition of unstoppable moms. Their motto is “Empower Moms, Healthy Kids.” She is the author of Unstoppable: Transforming Sickness and Struggle Into Triumph, Empowerment and a Celebration of Community (Create Space 2018)
Interview Date: 9/12/2019 Tags: MP3, Zen Honeycutt, GMOs, glyphosate, food supply, Roundup, autism, allergies, gut bacteria, autoimmune issues, 4th of July Parades, Toxins in food, corporations can’t fire mothers, Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, Wayne Parrott, organic food, Sustainable Pulse, Séralini Studies, Stephen Frantz, chelation, nutrients, children’s cancer, buy organic, Moms Across America Gold Standard, CAFO, Confined Animal Feeding Operations, eco-friendly, absorbs carbon, regenerative ag, fair trade, humanely raised, ocial Change/Politics, Health & Healing
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting (Sounds True 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019)Interview Date: 8/10/2019 Tags: MP3, Mark Nepo, making a living as a poet, poetry, metaphors, waves and undertows, fish breathing with gills, inner spiritual practice, naming things, the three friendships, wisdom of source, river of experience, friendship with each other, personal expression, perfection, Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Writing, Philosophy, Art & Creativity
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist with a deep interest in neuroscience and mindfulness. He is a senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California Berkeley and creator of the year-long course The Foundations of Well-Being. He is the author of many books including Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (New Harbinger 2009), Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time (New Harbinger 2011), Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Harmony Books 2013), Meditations to Change Your Brain - CD Set (Sounds True 2009), Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength and Happiness (Harmony Books 2018)
Tags: Rick Hanson, Compassion, Golden Rule, Resilient, Resilience, Self-Compassion, Loving Ourselves, Inner Critic, Internal caring Committee, Inner Victim, Inner Attacker, Inn Protector, Cravings, Psychology, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Françoise Bourzat is a consciousness guide and counselor. She has a master’s degree in Somatic Psychology and is a Certified Hakomi Practitioner. After traveling the world, she became an apprentice to an indigenous Mazatec woman leading healing ceremonies with sacred mushrooms in the high mountains of Southern Mexico. Drawing from years of her close apprenticeship with this Mazatec curandera, as well as her training in other indigenous traditions, Bourzat has developed a comprehensive approach that bridges Western and indigenous modalities. She trains therapists and facilitators and teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She also lectures internationally. She is the co-author with Kristina Hunter of Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth. (North Atlantic Books 2019)
Interview Date: 7/6/2019 Tags: MP3, Françoise Bourzat, psychedelic mushroom ceremonies, psychedelics, entheogens, hallucinogens, vision quest, sweat lodge, transdance, altered states, psychoanalytic model, somatic work, Hokami, visualization, imagination, 5-rhythm class, Indigenous wisdom, Shamanism, Health & Healing, Psychology, Personal Transformation
Isaac Bentwich, M.D. is a longtime practitioner and teacher of Yoga and Meditation. Trained as a physician in Western and Ayurvedic medicine, he founded three life-science technology companies, leading revolutions in medicine, genomics, and environment conservation. Dr. Bentwich lives in Israel. He’s a translator of the Bhagavad Gita and the author of Gita: A Timeless Guide for Our Time (Harmonia Publications 2018)
Interview Date: 6/29/2019 Tags: MP3, Isaac Bentwich, Bhagavad Gita, inner battlefield, Bhagavad Gita, Prince Arjuna, Lord Krishna, the Buddha, God, pearls of wisdom, Personal Transformation, Religion, Spirituality
Diana "Di" Percy is the founder of the internationally acclaimed Organisation Development Australia, a director of Vogel Percy and past chair of the Dharma School, with experience in psychology, Gestalt Therapy, business, leadership education and governance. She has served as a corporate advisor working with Boards of Directors and CEOs. She is also a poet, leads pilgrimages to oceans and forests and participates in a project she calls, “The New Elders” which centers on the positive development of elders and changing a negative community mindset. She resides in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of: Becoming an Elder: Practicing the Wisdom Arts.
Interview Date: 8/3/2019 Tags: MP3, Diana Percy, Di Percy, elderhood, reevaluating meaning and purpose, perfect your love, Jack Kornfield, courage, hope, Personal Transformation
Carla Marie Manly, Ph.D. is a licensed psychotherapist who’s focus is on fear-based disorders such as trauma, anxiety, and depression as well as women’s issues. With her doctorate in clinical psychology and her master's degree in counseling, Manly merges her psychotherapy skills with her writing expertise to offer easily understood guidance. Through a highly personalized approach that focuses on discovering and understanding each individual's unique needs and life-path goals, Dr. Manly's psychotherapeutic approach blends her clinical knowledge with a holistic, body-mind-spirit approach. She’s passionate about creating healing from the inside out and maintains her clinical practice in Sonoma County, California just North of San Francisco. She is the author of Joy From Fear: Create the Life of Your Dreams by Making Fear Your Friend. (Familius 2019).
Interview Date: 7/30/2019 Tags: MP3, Carla Marie Manly, constructive fear, destructive fear, flight or fight, childhood trauma, volunteering, Psychology, Health & Healing, Personal transformation
Marc Lesser is a Zen teacher who leads trainings and talks worldwide. He has led mindfulness and emotional intelligence programs at many of the world’s leading businesses and organizations including Google, Genetech and Kaiser. He’s currently CEO of ZBA Associates, a company providing mindfulness-based leadership trainings and creating community by supporting ongoing groups. Previously, he served as CEO and co-founder of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, whose core programs he helped develop within Google. Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years and former director of Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center. His books include Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less (New World Library 2009), Know Yourself, Forget Yourself (New World Library 2013) and Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons From Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen (New World Library 2019).
Interview Date: 6/7/2019 Tags: MP3, Marc Lesser, mindfulness, Norman Fischer, vulnerability, deep listening, ground truth, conflict, failure, Zen, business world, negativity bias, cultivating trust, building trust, connection, Meditation, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Buddhism, Work/Livelihood
Lama Palden Drolma is a licensed psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, and coach. She has studied Buddhism in the Himalayas with some of the preeminent Tibetan masters of the twentieth century, including Kalu Rinpoche, who authorized her to become one of the first Western lamas. She is the founder of thae Sukhasiddhi Foundation, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Fairfax. California.She is the author of Love on Every Breath: Tonglen Meditation for Transforming Pain into Joy (New World Library 2019)
Interview Date: 7/16/2019 Tags: MP3, Lama Palden Drolma, Buddhist Meta Meditation, transforming suffering, Tonglen, Niguma, Jetsuma Tenzin Palmo, taking refuge, on the spot meditation, Dilgo Khyentse, Chenrezig, three jewels, Buddha, Sanga, Dharma, sin, Matthew Fox, mantra, Kalu Rinpoche, 16th Karmapa, Meditation, Personal Transformation, Buddhism
Martin Shaw, Ph.D. is a storyteller and mythologist. He’s a wilderness rites-of-passage guide and is internationally regarded as one of the most exciting proponents of the mythic imagination. He tells “prophetic stories” that speak deeply to the challenges we face today, in the world and in our personal lives. He has devised and led the Oral Tradition course at Stanford University, is a visiting fellow at Schumacher College, and the Director of the Westcountry School of Myth, a Learning community in Dartmoor in the far west of the United Kingdom. His books include A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness, (White Cloud Press 2011), Snowy Tower: Parzival and the Wet, Black Branch of Language (White Cloud Press 2014), Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (White Cloud 2016), The Night Wages: Bidden or Unbidden Initiations Come, (Cista Mystica Press 2019).
Interview Date: 6/4/2019 Tags: MP3, Martin Shaw, fairytales, folk tales, monsters, Beowulf, Lindworm, feral, Siberian tale, underworld, naïveté, Baba Yaga, decent, underworld, Robert Bly, efficient initiation rites, grief, innocence, experience, rite of passage, self esteem, Mythology, Philosophy, Personal Transformation
David Hanscom, M.D. is a board certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in complex spine problems in all areas of the spine. He is the author of Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain (Vertus Press 2012).
Interview Date: 4/13/2013 Tags: David Hanscom, M.D., stress and anxiety, chronic pain, education, dysfunctional families, bullying, Hoffman Institute, Dr. Daniel Wegner paper White Bears, Dr. David D. Burns Feeling Good about Negative Thoughts, negative thoughts, Health & Healing, psychology
Zachiah Murray is a landscape architect and member of the Order of Interbeing in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh. She is the author of Mindfulness in the Garden: Zen Tools for Digging In the Dirt.
Interview Date: 1/12/2013 Tags:MP3, Zachiah Murray, mindfulness, gardening, breath, meditation, nature, trees, taking a shower, water, weeding the garden, pests, Meditation, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Spirituality
Patricia Sun graduated Phi Beta Kappa at the top two percent of her class in 3-1/2 years from the University of California, Berkeley with two degrees, one in Social Sciences: Psychology and the other in Conservation and Natural Resources. She began her work as a family counselor. Her work today concentrates directly on creative solutions:“re-creating” thought patterns and “re-perceiving” experience. She is a pioneer in describing “right-brain” thought and is considered to be a teachers’ teacher. She leads workshops and gives private consultations.
Interview Date: 1/17/2012 Tags: Patricia Sun, fear, worry, Personal Transformation
Steve McIntosh is a leader in the integral philosophy movement and is a co-founder of the think tank, The Institute for Cultural Evolution. His books include Integral Consciousness: The Future of Evolution (Paragon House 2011) and Evolution's Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins (Select Books 2012)
Interview Date: 9/18/2012 Tags: MP3, Steve McIntosh, J.D., Evolution, cultural evolution, cosmological evolution, biological evolution, purpose, meaning, goodness, psycho-social evolution, psychosocial evolution, integral philosophy, modernism, Japan and cultural evolution, Social Change
Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has the unusual ability to tap into ancestral sources of wisdom and connect them into the stories we are living today. Michael is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. He is the author of The World Behind the World (GreenFire Press 2006), The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2006), Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul (revised & expanded, Greenfire Press 2012) and Why the World Doesn't End, Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss (Greenfire Press 2012). His CD recordings include The Soul of Change (Mosaic Audio 2010), The Ends of Time, the Roots of Eternity: Tales of Myth, Nature & Culture (Mosaic Audio 2007) and Finding Genius In Your Life (Mosaic Audio 2014)
Interview Date: 8/13/2012 Tags: Michael Meade, Mythology
Sky Nelson-Isaacs is a physicist, musician, teacher, parent, and activist. He has many years of experience as a physics and math instructor and has also worked in the software industry. His current work involves research in the field of quantum foundations and has published a growing body of peer-reviewed work developing the foundation of a theory of synchronicity. He has also earned recognition as a singer, songwriter, and performer. He is the author of Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World (North Atlantic Books 2019)
Interview Date: 5/10/2019 Tags: MP3, Sky Nelson-Isaacs, synchronicity, meaningful coincidences, choices, connection, authenticity, responsiveness, LORAX Process, momentum, Science, Personal Transformation, Philosophy
Roberto Tostado, M.D., has been practicing medicine for over 26 years and is board certified in regenerative and anti-aging medicine. He’s a fellow of nutritional and digestive medicine at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, dedicating his practice exclusively to preventative and regenerative medicine. He is one of a new breed of doctors pioneering in integrative approach to wellness. Dr Tostado inspires his patients with the simple, powerful idea that good food is medicine. He enables his patients to experience newfound vitality at any age. He received his degrees from Columbia University, the University of Michigan Medical School, and a USC Medical Residency at the California Medical Center in Los Angeles. He founded the IBody Wellness Center in San Marino, California. He is the author of WTF (or What the Food) Is Wrong with Our Health? A Rebel Physician’s Manifesto for Reversing Disease and Increasing Smiles. (Roberto Tostado, MD 2019)
Interview Date: 5/27/2019 Tags:* Roberto Tostado, chronic disease, cure disease, manage disease, nutrition, generative medicine, detoxification, medications, toxins, lactobacilli, probiotic, standing up straight, mindset, detoxing our thoughts, Health & Healing
Kaliko Beamer-Trapp was born on the Isle of Wight, England. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, joined a performing group named Dances of the Pacific and spent the following nine years as a performer of Polynesian music and dance both in California and also in group tours of England, Spain, Mallorca, Hawaiʻi, and Fiji. In 1994 he moved to the island of Hawaiʻi at the invitation of well-known Hawaiiana expert and cultural historian Aunty Nona Beamer (1923-2008). Being in Hawaiʻi brought about a deep affection for things Polynesian, and Kaliko focused his studies particularly on the languages and cultures of Hawaiʻi and the Marquesas Islands (Te Henua ʻEnana). He attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and joined the Hawaiian Studies department at the University of Hawai’I both as a student and an employee in 1994. In 1996, he became the editor for Hawaiian language curriculum at the Hale Kuamoʻo, a Hawaiian language center on the university campus. That same year, Kaliko was adopted into the Beamer family in Waipiʻo Valley, after the late Louise Beamer, Aunty Nona's mother, suggested privately to Aunty Nona, "I wish Kaliko could be my moʻopuna (grandson.)". He speaks as an interpreter of a local language person wants to speak Hawaiian in court and also, as a musician understands how mele and oli music an chant are an important part of the language and are a big part of hula. Interview Date: 4/24/2019 Tags: Kaliko Beamer-Trapp, Aunty Nona Beamer, moon calendar, Mauna Kea, Hawaiian language, Battle of Kuamo’o, Arts & Creativity, History, Global Culture, Indigenous Wisdom
Kate Gustin, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who received her education from Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley. She’s worked in a variety of settings such as a mental health practitioner: Outpatient psychiatry, Community Mental Health Clinics, VA Hospital, College Counseling Services, and currently in private practice in San Rafael in Northern California. She integrates the science of positive psychology and leads classes, workshops, and trainings throughout the region. Dr. Gustin offers No-Self Help – an approach to identity, relationship, and responsibility that draws on the spirituality of eastern wisdom traditions and advances in western psychology. She is the author of The No-Self Help Book: 40 Reasons to Get Over Your Self & Find Peace of Mind (Non-duality Press 2018)
Tags: Kate Gustin, no-self, no self, primordial consciousness, selfing, spaciousness, lamps of light analogy, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Psychology, Meditation
A former innovative farmer, James Olson is a philosopher whose studies have included business, engineering, art, Eastern and Western religion, yoga, qigong, psychology, language, neuro-linguistic programming, sacred geometry, and brain science. For many years, he’s investigated the effects of brain perspective on government, corporate life, war, and our personal lives. He’s the author of The Whole-Brain Path to Peace: The Role of Left- and Right-Brain Dominance in the Polarization and Reunification of America (Origin Press 2011).
Interview Date: 1/30/2012 Tags: James Olson, Brain, Right Brain, Left Brain, Psychology, Science, Personal Transformation
Patrice Vecchione is a poet, author, and artist. She teaches creative writing retreats, collage and poetry workshops. She has also worked with children, leading classes in poetry and the imagination in elementary, middle, and high schools. She's the author of several books including Writing and the Spiritual Life: Finding Your Voice by Looking Within (McGraw Hill 2001). Step Into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life (Beyond Words Publishing 2015), The Knot Untied: a Book of Poetry (Palaquin Press 2013) and Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (coauthor Alyssa Raymond) (Seven Stories Press 2019)
Tags: Patrice Vecchione, poetry, immigrants, Gary Soto, bilingual, language, Javier Zamora, haiku, teaching poetry, remembering childhood, empathy, the five senses, Li-Young Lee, Writing, Social Change/Politics
Mirabai Starr has taught philosophy and world religions at the University of New Mexico, Taos, for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and the interspiritual dialogue. She’s a certified bereavement counselor and travels the world speaking and giving workshops on contemplative practice and the teachings of the mystics. She is the author and editor of many books including Dark Night of the Soul: St. John of the Cross (Riverhead 2003), The Interior Castle: St. Teresa of Ávila (Riverhead 2004), Devotion, Prayers & Living Wisdom (Sounds True - six-volume Christian mystics series 2008), God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity & Islam (Monkfish 2012) and Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics (Sounds True 2018)
Tags: Mirabai Starr, transcendence, masculine paradigm, ascetic renunciation of the body, embodiment, earth, charlatan teacher, on fire for God, sexual abuse, guru disciple relationship, feminine leadership, collaboration, authoritarianism, circle work, spiritual discipline, efficiency and urgency, bereavement, restorative justice, feminine wisdom, Spirituality, Philosophy, Religion, Buddhism, Women’s Studies
Ellen Grace O’Brian is a yogacharya (an esteemed yoga teacher) and the founder and spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, a meditation center and spiritual community in the tradition of Kriya Yoga, based on the teachings Paramahansa Yogananda brought to the U.S. in 1920. The Center for Spiritual Enlightenment is headquartered in San Jose, California. She is the author of many books including The Moon Reminded Me (a book of poetry)(Homebound Publications 2017), Living the Eternal Way: Spiritual Meaning and Practice in Daily Life (Center for Spiritual Enlightenment Press 2009), The Jewel of Abundance: Achieve Success and Prosperity through the Principles of Yoga (New World Library 2018)
Tags: Ellen Grace O’Brian, Kriya Yoga, prosperity, true wealth, abundance, affirmations, financial wellbeing, ego’s default, small self, separation from source, Ela Gandhi, spiritual resources, essential wholeness, sufficiency, inner peace, worry, Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Meditation
Shiv Singh advises Fortune 500 companies and startups on strategy, marketing and how to succeed in the digital era as the Founder of Savvy Matters. Prior to starting his consultancy, Shiv was a senior executive driving marketing, innovation and digital strategies at Visa Inc. and PepsiCo. He has previously advised Ford Motor Company, Chanel, Genentech, Citibank, and Verizonand is a member of the Board of Directors at United Rentals Inc., a Fortune 500 company. In 2016, Shiv was inducted into the American Advertising Hall of Achievement and has also been recognized by Adweek as a Top 50 marketer. His books include Social Media Marketing for Dummies (co-author Stephanie Diamond) (For Dummies 2014) and Savvy: Navigating Fake Companies, Fake Leaders and Fake News in the Post-Trust Era (co-author Rohini Luthra, Ph.D.)(Ideapress Publishing 2019).
Tags: Shiv Singh, personal biases, naive realism, personal biases, opposing point of view, diversity of opinions, fake news, news bias chart, media bias chart, owlfactor.com, factcheck.org, snopes.com, media literacy, social media, bots, headlines, media silos, Media, Social Change/Politics, Technology, Personal Transformation
Diana Raab is an advocate of the healing power of writing and teaches nation-wide workshops and in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. She’s an award-winning memoirist and poet. Her books include Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey (Loving Healing Press 2010), Regina’s Closet, editor of Writers and Their Notebooks (University of South Carolina Press 2010) and Writers on the Edge: 22 Writers Speak About Addiction and Dependency (co-editor James Brown) (Modern History Press 2012).
Interview Date: 3/22/2012 Tags: Diana Raab, journaling, journal, Writing, Personal Transformation
Robert J. Wicks, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and serves as a professor in the graduate programs in pastoral counseling at Loyola University, Maryland. In 1994 he was responsible for the psychological debriefing of relief workers evacuated from Rwanda during their bloody civil war. In 2006, he delivered a presentation on self-care to health care professionals responsible for Iraqi war veterans with multiple amputations and severe head injuries at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and Walter Reed Army Hospital. He's the author of many books including Riding the Dragon: 10 Lessons for Inner Strength in Challenging Times (Sorin Books 2012), Bounce: Living the Resilient Life (Oxford University Press 2009), Prayerfulness: Awakening to the Fullness of Life (Sorin Books 2009) and Streams of Contentment: Lessons I Learned on My Uncle's Farm (Sorin Books 2011).
Interview Date: 11/3/2011 Tags: Spirituality, Self Help, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Philosophy
Azarm Ghareman, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, and holds advanced degrees in chemistry and business administration, and has conducted many professional training workshops. She is the author of Longing for a Land: The Story of a Persian Woman's Individuation in America (Mazda Connections 2005) and Six Life Secrets of Content Women: a Guide for Emotional Self-Care (Mazda Connections 2010)Interview Date: 6/7/2011 Tags: Women's Studies, Personal Transformation, Psychology, Self Help
Thomas Huebl is a spiritual teacher and workshop presenter who has dedicated his life to the task of exploring consciousness and supporting people worldwide in this exploration. He founded The Celebrate Life Festival and The Academy of Inner Science. He resides in Germany.
Interview Date: 4/1/2012 Tags: Thomas Hübl,Thomas Huebl, being awake, transparent communication, competency of silence, thinking, competence of movement, the shadow, stillness, Philosophy, Psychology
Lama Surya Das, a renowned Western Buddhist meditation teacher and scholar, teaches and lectures around the world, conducting dozens of meditation retreats and workshops each year. He is the founder and spiritual director of the Dzogchen Foundation, and founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network. He is the author of many books, including Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World (Broadway 1997), Buddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living (HarperOne 2008), Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now (HarperOne 2011)
Interview Date: 6/20/2011
Edwin Rutsch is a computer expert, a filmmaker, and the founding director of The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy. This center serves as one of the leading organizations of the global empathy movement and focuses on bridging social and political divides by designing a free online empathy training course and holding face to face and virtual empathy cafés.
Tags: Edwin Rutsch, empathy, cultural divide, deep listening, self-empathy, empathic, empathetic, empathy circles, political divide, Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow, Fox News, MSNBC, the 60s, personal freedom, Social Change/Politics, Peace/Non-Violence
Pam Houston is a prize-winning author and professor of English at the University of California Davis. She cofounded the literary non-profit Writing by Writers and also teaches in the Institute of American Indian Arts, Low Residency MFA Program and at writers conferences around the country and the world. Her books include Cowboys Are My Weakness (W.W. Norton 2011), Deep Creek: Finding Hope in High Country (W.W. Norton 2019), Contents May Have Shifted (W.W. Norton 2012)
Tags: Pam Houston, Ranching, wildfire, Bob Pinckley, Belted Kingfisher, donkeys, Irish Wolfhounds, power of routines, Living in extreme temperatures, Animals, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Community
Kenneth R. Pelletier, M.D. is an integrative medicine pioneer and clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and former clinical professor of medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Corporate Health Improvement Program, known by the acronym (CHIP), which is a collaborative research program between CHIP and fifteen Fortune 500 corporations. He is a peer reviewer for several medical journals, including the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and is a vice president with American Specialty Health. He is the author of many books including Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer: A Holistic Approach to Preventing Stress Disorders (Dell Publishing 1977) and Change Your Genes Change Your Life: Creating Optimal Health with the New Science of Epigenetics (Origin Press 2019)
Tags: Kenneth Pelletier, genes, genetics, diet, stress, exercise, psychosocial support, environment, mind/body connection, intestinal tract, epigenetics, biochemical pathways, inflammation, medical assays, 4 components to assay, health care insurance, healthy lifestyle, Health & Healing
Sheldon Norberg received his training at the Academy of Intuition Medicine and has developed an extensive practice in meditation and energetic space healing. He became an adjunct faculty member at the Academy of Intuition Medicine while earning his B.A. in Psycho-Spiritual Healing at San Francisco State University. He is a Certified Practitioner of Chi Nei Tsan (Chinese Organ Massage), a Certified Hypnotherapist, and a non-denominational minister. He has trained in Holotropic Breathwork®, Alchemical Divination, Shamanism, and Feng Shui. He is the author of Healing Houses: My Work as a Psychic House Cleaner (North Mountain Publishing 2010)
Tags: Sheldon Norberg, psychic, ghosts, emotional charges in home, hard to sell house, Native American spirit, spirit world, sacralize, intuition, Parapsychology, Paranormal, Intuition, Psychic, Science
Christina Rasmussen is an internationally recognized grief educator and founder of Life Reentry Institute and Seconds First. She has helped countless people break out of what she coined as the “waiting room” of grief to rebuild their lives through her Life Reentry Model. She is author of Second Firsts: Live, Laugh, and Love Again (Hay House 2013) and Where Did You Go? A Life-Changing Journey to Connect with Those We’ve Lost. (HarperOne 2018).
Tags: Christina Rasmussen, Temple Journeys, Temple World, invisible world, third-dimensional world, entanglement, ghosts, multi-universes, imagination, holographic universe, Death & Dying, Science, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Personal Transformation
Elson Haas, M.D. is an integrative medicine practitioner with more than four decades of experience. He’s the Founder and Director of Haas Health Online and the Preventative Medical Center of Marin (PMCM). He is the author of Staying Healthy with the Seasons (Celestial Arts 2003), Staying Healthy Shopper’s Guide (Celestial Arts, 1999), The False Fat Diet: The Revolutionary 21-Day Program for Losing the Weight You Think Is Fat (Ballantine, 2000), The Detox Diet, Third Edition: The Definitive Guide for Lifelong Vitality with Recipes, Menus and Detox Plans (Ten Speed Press 2012), Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (revised) (Celestial Arts 2006) and Staying Healthy with NEW Medicine: Integrating Natural, Eastern and Western Approaches for Optimal Health (Elson Haas 2016).
Tags: Elson Haas, natural medicine, Eastern Medicine, Western Medicine, integrated medicine, energy flow, Chinese, Chi, blood pressure medicine, holistic health, juice cleanse, strengths of Western medicine, insomniac, insomnica, c-pap machine, 5 keys to good health, nutrition, exercise, sleep, managing stress, attitude, positive self-talk, medical insurance and althernative medicine, natural energy, Health & Healing, Self Help
Margaret Wheatley is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher. She began caring about the world's peoples in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in postwar Korea. She is co-founder and President Emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works with people around the world who strengthen their communities using the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions, and environment. She is a guide in leading people back to understanding who we are as human being able to create the conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community, and love. She is a grand contributor in creating an Island of Sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas. Her books include Leadership and the New Science (Berrett-Kohler 1998), Perseverance (Berrett-Kohler 2010),Turning To One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope in the Future (Berrett-Kohler 2009), So Far from Home: Lost and Found In Our Brave New World (Barrett-Kohler 2012), Who Do We Choose To Be: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity (Berrett-Kohler 2017)Tags: Margaret J. Wheatley, Meg Wheatley, leadership, despair, Warriors for the Human Spirit, nonviolent, generosity, aggression, activism, expectations, disappointments, hope, fear, staying present, cycles of civilization, useful action, not attached to outcome, Community, Community, Meditation, Philosophy, Buddhism, Social Change/Politics
Pilar Jennings, Ph.D. is a writer and researcher who has focused on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation practice. She received her Ph.D. in Psychiatry and Religion from Union Theological Seminary, and has been working with patients and their families through the Harlem Family Institute since 2004. Dr. Jennings is also a researcher at the Columbia University Center for Study and Science and Religion as well as a facilitator of a Columbia University Faculty Seminar. She is a long-term practitioner of Tibetan and Vipassana Buddhism and has also trained as a Buddhist chaplain through the Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Her books include Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism (Wisdom Publications 2011) and To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action (Shambhala 2017)
Tags: Pilar Jennings, psychotherapy, suffering, desire, frustration, disappointment, loss, resilience, resiliency, greed, inner resources, friendly curiosity, happiness, Buddhism, Community, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Psychology
Mark Gober is a senior member of the Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley, California, a firm that advises technology companies on mergers and acquisitions and business strategy. He previously worked as an investment banker analyst in New York. Mark graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University and has collected and surveyed a large body of research of various scientific papers and books about consciousness, biological processes, psychic phenomena, near-death experiences, and quantum physics. He is the author of An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the implications for Everyday Life (Waterside Press 2018)
Tags: Mark Gober, scientific materialism, consciousness, conventional view of science, psychic phenomena, remote viewing, clairvoyance, previous lives, rencarnation, savants, brain filters, Diane Hennacy Powell, autism, Dr. Jefffrey Mishlove, epigenetics, Max Planck, Science, Death & Dying, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Intuition/Psychic
Katy Butler is a journalist and speaker on doctor-patient communication and the choices families face near the end of life. She is the author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door (Scribner 2014) and The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life (Scribner 2019)
Tags: Katy Butler, community, quality of life, advance medicine, Western medicine, passivity in our health care, end of life, mortality, palliative care, knowing the trajectory of your illness, chemotherapy, caregivers, palliative care doctors, length of life, honest hope, practice of presence, denial, Kaiser RESPECT checklist, Death & Dying, Health & Healing, Spirituality
Linda Graham, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist and meditation teacher in full-time practice in the San Francisco Bay area. She integrates her passion for neuroscience, mindfulness, and relational psychology through trainings, workshops, and conferences. She publishes a monthly e-newsletter entitled Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness and weekly e-quotes on resources for recovering resilience, archived on her website. She is the author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being (New World Library 2013) and Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster (New World Library 2018)
Tags: Linda Graham, resilience, resilient, rewiring our brains, imagination, visualization, guided meditation, negative spiral, AFGOS, Another frickin growth opportunity, curiosity, optimism, awe, gratitude, self compassion, Science, Personal Transformation, Self Help, relationship
Dan Millman teaches worldwide, speaking to women and men from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment, and the arts. He is the author of many books including: Way of the Peaceful Warrior (H.J. Kramer 1994) (adapted into a major film starring Nick Nolte and Amy Smart) and The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World (New World Library 2011) Tags: Dan Millman, arising moment, Self Help, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Psychology
Jacques Vallee, Ph.D. is one of today's most widely respected researchers of unexplained aerial phenomena. He earned a Masters Degree in Astrophysics while living in France and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University. His life experience was the model portrayed by François Truffaut in the Steven Spielberg award winning film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He is the author of numerous books, including: Passport to Magonia, (his seminal work) and Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times (co-author with Chris Aubeck) (Tarcher/Penguin 2010) Tags: Jacques Vallee, UFOs, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Intuition/Psychic
Don Lattin is a journalist covering alternative and mainstream religious movements. His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazine and newspapers. He's been a commentator on many television news programs. He is the author of many books including Jesus Freaks; A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge (HarperOne 2008), Following Our Bliss: How Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today (Harper Collins 2004), Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium (co-author Richard Cimino) (Jossey-Bass 2002), The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America (HarperOne 2010). Tags: Don Lattin, Richard Alpert, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, psychedelic research, History, Social & Political Change
Cathy Hawk is founding director of Get Clarity International. She along with her partner, Gary Hawk are experts in human energy systems and have mentored and consulted with thousands of individuals and business leaders to turn human energy into peak experience and peak performance. They are the co-authors of Creating the Rest of Your Life: An Atlas for Manifesting Success and Excellence in Life and Work (Brilliance Press 2007), Get Clarity, The Lights-On Guide to Manifesting Success in Life and Work (Get Clarity Press 2011), Get Clarity for Powerful Partnering: From Power Struggles to Co-Creative Adventures (co-author Theresa Byrne) (Amazon Digital Services 2018)
Tags: Cathy Hawk, negative words, positive words, words that symbolize conflict, shorthand language, words have vibrational frequencies, deadline, timeline, knocking it out of the park, overwhelmed, exhausted, stop look and listen, stumbling block, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Business
Jane Hirshfield is a poet, translator, and essayist and is the author of many collections of poetry and other books, including three collections of women poets from the past. Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, the California Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, and other honors. Her poems appear regularly in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry and have been included in six editions of The Best American Poetry. Her poetry books include The October Palace (HarperCollins 1994), Lives of the Heart (Harper Collins 1997), Women in Praise of the Sacred (HarperCollins 1994), Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Perennial 1998), After (Harper Collins 2006), Given Sugar, Given Salt (Harper Collins 2001), The classic translation of the ancient Japanese court women, The Ink Dark Moon (Vintage 1990), Come, Thief (Knopf 2011), Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2015), The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf 2015) Tags: Jane Hirshfield, poetry, Art, Creativity
Robert Augustus Masters holds a doctorate in psychology and is an experienced psychotherapist, trainer of psychotherapists, and teacher of spiritual deepening. His integral, intuitive work blends the psychological and physical with the spiritual, emphasizing embodiment, authenticity, deep shadow work, emotional openness and literacy, and the development of relational maturity. His books include Divine Dynamite: Entering Awakening's Heartland (Tehmenos Press 2006), Transformation Through Intimacy: The Journey Toward Mature Monogamy (Tehmenos Press 2007), Meeting the Dragon: Ending Our Suffering by Entering Our Pain (Tehmenos Press 2008) and Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us From What Really Matters (North Atlantic Books 2010) Tags: Robert Masters, Spiritual bypassing, Spirituality, Personal Transformation
Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D. is the daughter of Margaret Meade and Gregory Bateson and is a cultural anthropologist. She served as the Clarence J. Robinson’s Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University from 1987 to 2002, when she became Professor Emerita. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center of Aging and Workplace Flexibility at Boston College, and, until recently, was President of the Institute of Intercultural Studies in New York City. She is the author of many books and papers, including Composing a Life (Grove Press 2001), With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (Harper Perennial 1994), Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery (Steerforth 2010) and Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf 2010).
Tags: Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D., longevity, Adulthood II, beyond reproductive years, elderhood, mentoring, play, golf, long life, Social Change/Politics, Arts & Creativity, Personal Transformation, Philosophy
Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has scoured the world to bring to us meaningful folk tales that tap into ancestral sources of wisdom, and acts as a guide to connect them to the stories we are living today. Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. He distributes regular podcasts, and his many books includeThe Genius Myth (GreenfirePress 2016), Why the World Doesn’t End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss (GreenfirePress 2012), Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2012), Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World (GreenFire Press 2018)
Tags: Michael Meade, soul, imagination, sphere of influence, destiny of the soul, young people, initiation, elders, genius, gangs, Mythology, Social/Political Change, Philosophy
Cathy Hawk is founding director of Get Clarity International and Gary Hawk is Managing Director. They are experts in human energy systems and have mentored and consulted with thousands of individuals and business leaders to turn human energy into peak experience and peak performance. Cathy and Gary do this by helping their clients gain clarity of purpose, a refreshed vitality and a riveting focus on creating what’s next in their life and work. As thought and action leaders in personal transformation, the Hawks are principals in Clarity International, a consulting and leadership firm based in Colorado. Their unique Get Clarity retreats and Clarity Circles were created to provide a process where individuals and leaders can explore, refresh, invigorate, and clarify the vision of what they want to create - the vision that drives the energy and actions of them and their people. They are the co-authors of Creating the Rest of Your Life: An Atlas for Manifesting Success and Excellence in Life and Work(Brilliance Press 2007), Get Clarity, The Lights-On Guide to Manifesting Success in Life and Work(Get Clarity Press 2011) and Get Clarity for Powerful Partnering: From Power Struggles to Co-Creative Adventures (co-author Theresa Byrne) (Amazon Digital Services 2018)Tags: Cathy Hawk, Gary Hawk, Cathy and Gary Hawk, communication, partnering, team work, curiosity, inclusion, listening, judgement, collaboration, choice points, energy fields, overdoing, overscheduling, clutter, visionary personalities, positive thinking, Personal Transformation, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality
Dr. Julia Mossbridge is a cognitive neuroscientist and futurist. She’s visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences as well as Associate Professor in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is the author of Unfolding: The Perpetual Science of Your Soul's Work (New World Library 2002), The Calling: A 12-Week Science-Based Program to Discover, Energize, and Engage Your Soul’s Work (Reveal Press 2019), The Garden: An Inside Experiment (CreateSpace 2017), The Premonition Code: The Science of Precognition, How Sensing the Future Can Change Your Life (coauthor Theresa Cheung) (Watkins 2018)
Tags: Julia Mossbridge, writing down dreams, precognition, premonition, telepathy, analytical mind, cognitive mind, precognitive mind, creativity, super conscious mind, Dean Radin, William Thompson, quantum physics, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Intuition/Psychic, Science
Alan Briskin is a pioneer in the field of organizational learning and cofounder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative. His books include: Stirring of Soul in the Workplace (Berrett-Koehler 1998), The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective Folly (co-authors, Sheryl Erickson, Tom Callanan, and John Ott)(Berrett-Koehler 2009), Daily Miracles: Stories and Practices of Humanity and Excellence in Health Care (co-author Jan Boller) (Sigma Theta Tau International; 1st edition 2006)
Yvonne Tally leads meditation and de-stressing programs for corporations, individuals, and private groups in Silicon Valley. She's an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) master practitioner. She also co-founded Poised Inc., a Pilates and wellness training studio and is the founder of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarves, a charity that provides headscarves to cancer patients. She is the author of Breaking Up with Busy: Real-Life Solutions for Overscheduled Women (New World Library 2018).
Tags: Yvonne Tally, multitasking, busy, overscheduling, overscheduled, time, attention, elders, intention, joy, obligation, slow down, Self Help, Personal Transformation, Health & Healing
Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, workshop leader, and keynote speaker. His work has been translated into 47 languages. He has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show, CNN, and many other national TV shows and speaks regularly to Fortune 500 companies. He has spent more than forty years studying the most practical and powerful methods for personal and professional development, and is known for providing powerful and immediately-effective tools and techniques that lead to more love and less conflict. He is the author of many books including Life’s Big Questions: 200 Ways to Explore Your Spiritual Life (Conari 2011), Communication Miracles for Couples (Conari 2012), Shortcuts to Success: The Absolute Best Ways to Master Your Money, Time, Health, and Relationships (Red Wheel/Weiser 2000), Shortcuts to Bliss: The 50 Best Ways to Improve Relationships, Connect with Spirit, and Make Your Dreams Come True (Conari 2011), Find Happiness Now: 50 Shortcuts to Bring More Joy, Balance and Love into Your Life (Conari 2014), The Technology of Joy: The 101 Best Apps, Gadgets, Tools and Supplements for Feeling More Delight in Your Life (Self Published 2016)
Tags: Jonathan Robinson, blame, intimacy, understanding, attitude, communicating, communication, making assumptions, social media , Relationship, Self Help, Philosophy, Personal Transformation
Fr. Mathew Fox is a wisdom elder, a theologian, an Episcopal priest, and author of 35 books on spiritualty and culture, including: Original Blessing and Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times. Skylar Wilson is a Rites of Passage guide who has worked as a mentor for both teenagers and adults. As a relatively younger person in his 30s, he’s been training leaders in gatherings of intergenerational mentoring and is the founder of Wild Awakenings, which leads wilderness immersion programs. Jennifer Berit Listug is in her late 20s and is a Rites of Passage guide who recently became a mother. She is the co-director of Wild Awakenings and also works in book publishing and as a writing coach for authors. These three guests are co-directors of the Order of the Sacred Earth and co-authors of the book Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action (Monkfish 2018)
Tags: Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, Jennifer Berit Listug, Mother Earth, activism, Robin Wall Kimmerer, vow, Order of the Sacred Earth, Roy Scranton, We're Doomed. Now What?, hope, David Orr, ecocide, Brian Swimme, apocalypse, revelation, collaboration, community, rites of passage, rituals, stewards of the planet, love, fear, Spirituality, Social Change/Politics, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Community
Stewart Levine is the founder of ResolutionWorks, a consulting service dedicated to conflict resolution for businesses and individuals. His clients include NASA, American Express, Oracle, General Motors, and the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict Into Collaboration 2nd Edition (Berrett-Koehler 2009).
Gary Gach is a lifelong meditator. He’s been an actor, bookshop clerk, dishwasher, hospital administrator, office temp, stevedore, teacher, and typographer. He was Lay-ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2008 and is the founder of SEE, which stands for Spiritually Engaged Economics. He facilitates a weekly practice group of Mindfulness Fellowship, in San Francisco. His many books include The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buddhism (Alpha 2001)and Pause Breathe Smile: Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation is Not Enough (Sounds True 2018)
Tags: Gary Gach, mindfulness, liberation, vulnerable, liberation, Mindfulness Fellowship, Tai Chi, Qigong, rhythmic breathing, swimming, Personal Transformation, Self Help, Meditation
Arjuna Ardagh is a writer, public speaker and founder of the Awakening Coaching Training in Nevada City, California. It’s a training program dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life. His books include The Translucent Revolution (New World Library 2005), Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and into the Moment (Sounds True 2008), Last Laugh (Hay House 2013), Better Than Sex: The Ecstatic Art of Awakening Coaching (Awakening Coaching 2013), Radical Brilliance (SelfXPress 2018)
Tags: Arjuna Ardagh, car accident, Brilliance Cycle, transcendence, creativity, blockage, addiction, resistance, judgment, grasping, anger, contributing to life and community, mentoring, finding a mentor, Leonard Cohen, Hanaka, Kateri, Personal Transformation, Self Help, Spirituality, Parenting
Anodea Judith, Ph.D. holds a doctorate degree in Psychology and Human Health. She is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher and is considered one of the foremost experts on the combination of chakras and therapeutic issues and an interpreter of the Chakra system for the Western lifestyle. She conducts many talks and retreats. Her books include Wheels of Life (Llewellyn 1987), Charge and the Energy Body: The Vital Key to Healing Your Life, Your Chakras, and Your Relationships (Hay House 2018).
Tags: Anodea Judith, chakras, earthquake, first chakra, second chakra, third chakra, fourth chakra, fifth chakra, six chakra, seven chakra, charge, blocked energies, negative charge, positive charge, money, belief, therapy, therapist, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationship, Personal Transformation, Health & Healing
Guy Finley, founder and Director of the Life of Learning Foundation, is the author of more than 45 books and audio programs on self-realization. He also hosts online courses through Life of Learning’s Wisdom School. He is the author of many books including The Secret of Letting Go (Llewellyn Publications 2008), The Secret of Your Immortal Self: Key Lessons for Realizing the Divinity Within (Llewellyn Publications 2015), The Essential Laws of Fearless Living (Red Wheel/Weiser 2008), Forever Free CD set (Llewellyn Publications 2009), Life is Real Only When You Are (Audible Audio Edition 2014), Relationship Magic: Waking Up Together (Llewellyn Publications 2018)
Tags: Guy Finley, broken heart, love, loving, fear, resisting, blame, regret, awakening, Spirituality, Relationship, Philosophy, Personal Transformation
Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. is an internationally acclaimed evolution biologist, futurist and author. Her books include EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution (iUniverse 2000), A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us --The Evolution of Life on Earth (coauthors Brian Swimme & Sidney Liebes) (John Wiley & Sons 1998) and Biology Revisioned (coauthor Willis Harman) (North Atlantic Books 1998)
Sarah Anne Shockley is an award-winning filmmaker and a Neurolinguistic Programming Practitioner. She has studied with shamans from various cultures around the world and has lived with the debilitating Thoracic Outlet Syndrome for more than 10 years. She has been a columnist for Pain News Network and is a regular contributor to The Mighty, a 1.5 million-member online community for those living with chronic illness. Because her condition was unresponsive to existing traditional or alternative therapies, she developed a unique method of pain management and pain reduction not reliant on pharmaceuticals or medical intervention. She is the author of: The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living with and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain (New World Library 2018)
Tags: Sarah Anne Shockley, TOS, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, chronic pain, acute pain, acute debilitation, grief, emotional pain, telling the story of your pain, the timetable of pain, treating pain as enemy, writing letter to pain, Health & Healing, writing, psychology
Nicki Scully has been teaching shamanic arts and Egyptian mysteries since 1983 and is the founder of Shamanic Journeys, Ltd., which specializes in spiritual tours to sacred sites in Egypt. She has written many books including Power Animal Meditations, Alchemical Healing, Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt (co-author Linda Star Wolf) (Bear & Company 2008), Planetary Healing: Spirit Medicine for Global Transformation (co-author, her husband Mark Hallert)(Bear & Company 2011), Sekhmet: Transformation in the Belly of the Goddess (Bear & Co 2017). She’s the creator of the CD set Becoming an Oracle (Sounds True 2009).
Tags: Nicki Scully, Sekhmet, Egyptian Mythology, Ma’at, enough is enough, fierce compassion, goddess, alchemical healing, Mythology, Shamanism, Spirituality, Personal Transformation
David Ulrich is a college level professor and co-director of the Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu, Hawaii. He teaches frequent classes and workshops and is an avid photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. His photographs have been exhibited internationally in more than 75 one-person and group exhibitions. He blogs about creativity and consciousness. He is the author of The Widening Stream: The Seven Stages of Creativity (Beyond Words 2001) and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening With a Daily Practice in Photography (Watson-Guptill 2018)
Tags: David Ulrich, silos of opinions, empathy, Kent State shooting, presence, Afghan woman’s photograph in National Geographic Magazine, Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, getting permission to take a photograph, Tiananmen Square photograph, Art & Creativity, spirituality
Anne Scott is the founder of the Dream Weather Foundation. She leads workshops and retreats for women in diverse communities and organizations around the country. The focus of her work is restoring the link between feminine wisdom and social change, and on the healing nature of dreams. She has spoken to audiences in the U.S. and from Switzerland to India. She is the author of: Serving Fire: Food for Thought, Body, and Soul (Celestial Arts 1994), The Laughing Baby: Remembering Nursery Rhymes and Reasons (Celestial Arts 2001), Women, Wisdom & Dreams: The Light of the Feminine Soul (Nicasio Press 2008)
Richard Moss, M.D. left the practice of medicine at the age of thirty to alleviate suffering by finding greater spiritual understanding. He is internationally known and respected as a visionary thinker, teacher, and author whose work bridges science, psychology, energy medicine, and spiritual-awareness practices. He guides seminars and retreats in North and South America, Europe, and Australia, and is available for private mentoring for individuals at his home in Colorado. He is the author of many books, including: Inside-Out Healing: Transforming Your Life Through the Power of Presence (Hay House 2011), The Black Butterfly: An Invitation to Radical Aliveness (Celestial Arts 1987), The Second Miracle: Intimacy, Spirituality, and Conscious Relationships (Celestial Arts 1995), The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness (New World Library), Words That Shine Both Ways (Enneas Publications 1997) and The I That Is We: Awakening to Higher Energies Through Unconditional Love (Celestial Arts 1981)
Rachel Kaplan is a gardener, somatic psychotherapist, and educator who offers consultation with a permaculture focus for businesses, non-profits, schools and community groups. Rachel lives in Petaluma, California with her partner and their daughter on a little homestead they call Tiny Town Farm. Her books include: Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living (with K. Ruby Blume) (Skyhorse Publishing 2011) and Moving Toward Life: Five Decades of Transformational Dance (editor, with Anna Halprin) (Wesleyan University Press 1995)
Susan Piver is a graduate of a Buddhist seminary and an authorized meditation instructor in the Shambhala lineage. She has written for Body and Soul, Self, O: The Oprah Magazine, Reader's Digest, and the Shambhala Sun, and has been featured on Oprah, CNN, and Today, and in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and other national print publications. She is the author of five books, including: How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life: Opening Your Heart to Confidence, Intimacy, and Joy (St. Martin's Griffin 2007) and The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: How to Turn the Pain of a Breakup into Healing, Insight, and New Love (Free Press 2010)
Hank Wesselman, Ph.D. is a respected paleoanthropologist who has worked with noted anthropologists around the world including in Ethiopia investigating the mystery of human origins in the Great Rift Valley. Besides his training and scientific work, he is a shamanic student, practitioner, and teacher, now in the 30th year of his apprenticeship. He lives with his wife Jill in Hawaii. In addition to his scientific publications, his seven books on shamanism include: Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future (Bantam 1996), Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation (with Sandra Ingerman) (Sounds True 2010), The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman (Sounds True 2011), The Re-Enchantment: A Shamanic Path to a Life of Wonder (Sounds True 2016)
James Baraz has been teaching meditation since 1978, and the 10 month "Awakening Joy" class since 2003, which can also be taken on-line. Thousands have taken the course. He leads retreats, workshops, and classes in the U.S. and abroad, and is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California. He is the co-author with Shoshana Alexander of Awakening Joy: 10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness (Bantam Books 2010)
Terry Patten is a community organizer and has dedicated his efforts to the integral practice of evolving consciousness through the marriage of spirit and activism. He founded and leads Bay Area Integral, which gathers and supports an integral community in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ken Wilber and core team at the Integral Institute, of Integral Life Practice (Integral Books 2008). He is the author of: A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries (North Atlantic Books 2018)
Tags: Terry Patten, Black swan events, wicked problems, Bill McKibben, Climate Change, denial, humility, curiosity, mutual respect, affection, love, feat, evolution, Darwin, thriving, Einstein, William McDonough, questions, paradox, Rilke, uncertainty, Peace/Nonviolence,Social Change/Politics
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who, for over three decades, has been teaching in the fields of poetry and spirituality. As a cancer survivor, Mark remains committed to the usefulness of daily inner life. He devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012) and The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016). His many audio learning courses include: Staying Awake (Sounds True 2012), Holding Nothing Back (Sounds True 2012), More Together Than Alone: Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the World (Atria Books 2018)
Tags: Mark Nepo, fear, divisiveness, courage, isolation, authenticity, scarcity, abundance, the Great Depression, storytelling, Muriel Rukeyser, Oprah Winfrey, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu, social aneurysms, optimism, Parkland Florida, compassion, Psychology, Philosophy, community, Personal Transformation, Buddhism, Social Change/Politics, Peace/Nonviolence
Claudia L’Amoreaux works at the intersection of new technologies in education. She helps parents and young people nurture the skills needed to make wider, needed to make wise choices about technology that will lead to greater well-being and she’s the founder of Mindful Digital Life. You may subscribe to her blogs on her website.
Tags: Claudia L’Amoreaux, digital distractions, choiceful attention, attention, deluge of information, digital world, digital landscape, stress, Sherry Turkle, humans are indoor species, benefits of being in nature, children, young people, Education, Technology, Parenting, Personal Transformation, Self Help, Meditation
Lisa Tracy is the author of Objects of Our Affection: Uncovering My Family's Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time (Bantam 2010). She is a journalist and the former Home & Design editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer. She now lives in Lexington, Virginia, where she teaches creative nonfiction.
Albert Flynn DeSilver is an American poet, memoirist, novelist, speaker, and leader of writing workshops. He is the author of several books of poetry including Letters to Early Street (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press 2007) and Walking Tooth & Cloud (French Connection Press – Paris 2008). He has also published a memoir: Beamish Boy: (the Owl Press 2012) and is the author of Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life (Sounds True 2017).
Tags: Albert Flynn DeSilver, Silence, Awakening, absence of language, poetry, photography, Ted Berrigan, Nisargadatta Maharaj, language, editing process, Bill Birkson, Writing, Self Help, Art & Creativity, Meditation, community, personal transformation
Apricot Irving currently lives in the woods outside Portland Oregon, but has lived in Haiti, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom. She returned to Haiti in the spring of 2010 to cover the earthquake for the radio program This American Life. She’s a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation writers award and an Oregon Literary Fellowship. Her renowned oral history project, BoiseVoices.com, is a collaboration between youth and elders to record the stories of the neighborhood in the mist of gentrification. She is the author of The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir. (Simon & Schuster 2018.)
Tags: Apricot Irving, Memoir, memoirist, family, Haiti, journaling, Childhood, Thich Nhat Hanh, History, Writing, Health & Healing, Parenting
Dean Sluyter has taught natural methods of meditation and awakening throughout the United states and beyond since 1970. He’s taught at colleges, yoga studios ,corporate offices, and maximum-security prisons. He’s known for his funny, down-to-earth style, and for making life-transforming teachings accessible and easy. He is the author of many books including: The Zen Commandments (Tarcher/Putnam 2001), Why the Chicken Crossed the Road and Other Hidden Enlightenment Teachings (Tarcher/Putnam 1998), Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies (Three Rivers Press 2005), Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice (Tarcher/Penguin 2015), Less Fear, Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction (TarcherPerigee 2018)
Tags: Dean Sluyter, imagination, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, coward, hero, awakening, enlightenment, Gospel of Thomas, psychedelics, beingness, dogs, listening, space between thoughts, Personal Transformation, Self Help, Meditation
Larry Dossey, M.D. is the executive editor of Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, and served as co-chair of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions of the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including: Prayer Is Good Medicine: How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer (HarperOne 1997). The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives (Dutton 2009). The Energy of Prayer: How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice (co-author Thich Nhat Hanh) (Parallax Press 2006), The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness (Harmony 2007), One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters (Hay House 2013).
Robert Fuller, Ph.D. is a physicist and former president of Oberlin College. He has consulted with Indira Gandhi, met with Jimmy Carter regarding the President's Commission on World Hunger, and worked to defuse the Cold War in Russia when it was known as the USSR. As Fuller reflected on his career he realized that he had been, at different times in his life, a somebody and a nobody. His periodic sojourns into “Nobodyland” led him to identify rankism - the abuse of the power inherent in rank - and ultimately to write the book Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank. He has become a recognized leader of the dignity movement to overcome rankism and keynoted a Dignity for All conference hosted by the President of Bangladesh. His many other accomplishments include co-authoring the text book Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. His books include: Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank (New Society Publishers 2003), Dignity for All: How to Create a World without Rankism (co-author Pamela A. Gerloff) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2008), Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship? (e-book, Smashwords 2012), (novel) The Rowan Tree (CreateSpace 2013), (children’s book) Theo: The White Squirrel (co-author Claire Sheridan) (Amazon Digital Services 2016), Questions and Quests: A Short Book Aphorisms (Amazon Digital Services 2017), The Theory of Everybody (Robert Fuller 2017)Tags: Robert Fuller, rankism, Marshall Plan, indignity, dignity, racism, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, predation, somebodies and nobodies, Social Change/Politics
Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel is a Buddhist teacher and teaches throughout the U.S. and Europe. She’s the wife of Tibetan Buddhist master Dzigar Kongtru and has studied and practiced in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition since 1985. After many years of solitary retreat, Dzigar Rinpoche appointed Elizabeth as Retreat Master at Longchen Jigme Samten Ling, retreat center in southern Colorado. Her books include It's Up to You: The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path (editor) (Shambhala 2006), Light Comes Through: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence (editor) (Shambhala 2009), The Power of an Open Question: The Buddha's Path to Freedom (Shambhala 2010), The Logic of Faith: A Buddhist Approach to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt (Shambhala 2018)
Tags: Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, faith, dogma, fundamentialism, analytical meditation, doubt, certainty, interdependent phenomena, faithing, preferences, unconditional happiness, Dalai Lama, grace, Buddhism, Spirituality, Religion, Philosophy, Personal Transformation
Alan Watts was a British-born American philosopher, writer, speaker, and counterculture hero, best known as an interpreter of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote over 25 books and numerous articles applying the teachings of Eastern and Western religion and philosophy to our everyday lives. During the 1960s Watts became well known as a lecturer, writer, and radio and TV personality, both in philosophical and psychological venues and among the youth of the nation, who were disenchanted with the Vietnam War. He was a gifted speaker. He could stand at a podium without notes and deliver a lecture with such lucidity as to leave his audience spellbound. He died in late 1973. In this program we speak with his daughters, Joan and Anne Watts. They are the editors and curators of the book, The Collected Letters of Alan Watts (New World Library 2017)
Tags: Alan Watts, Joan Watts, Anne Watts, Joan & Anne Watts, Joan and Anne Watts, happiness, writing, Gourmet Magazine, organized religion, History
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist with a deep interest in neuroscience and mindfulness. He is a senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California Berkeley and creator of the year-long course The Foundations of Well-Being. He is the author of many books including Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (New Harbinger 2009), Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time (New Harbinger 2011), Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Harmony Books 2013), Meditations to Change Your Brain - CD Set (Sounds True 2009), Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength and Happiness (Harmony Books 2018)
Tags: Rick Hanson, Compassion, Golden Rule, Resilient, Resilience, Self-Compassion, Loving Ourselves, Inner Critic, Internal caring Committee, Inner Victim, Inner Attacker, Inn Protector, Cravings, Psychology, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Ora Nadrich is a certified Life Coach and Mindfulness Meditation teacher and founder of The Institute for Transformational Thinking. A former actress and screenwriter, Nadrich retired to devote her time to explore in depth psychology and various spiritual approaches to life including Kabbalah, Buddhism, and Siddha Yoga. She is the author of Says Who? How One Simple Question Can Change the Way You Think Forever. (Morgan James Publishing 2016).
Tags: Ora Nadrich, negative thoughts, fear based thoughts, beliefs, internal dialogue, journaling, Personal Transformation, Self Help, Psychology, Relationship
Jacob Israel Liberman is a pioneer in the fields of light, vision, and consciousness. He has developed numerous light and vision therapy instruments, including the first FDA-cleared medical device to significantly improve visual performance. He earned a doctorate in the field of optometry and a Ph.D. in Vision Science. He is the Past President of the College of Syntonic Optometry and the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM). He is the author of Light: Medicine of The Future: How We Can Use It to Heal Ourselves NOW (Bear & Company 1990). Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight (Harmony Books 1995). Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living (New World Library 2018)
Tags: Jacob Liberman, Bible, information, wisdom, NDE, spiritual guidance, tsunami, Talmud, light, Science, Spirituality
Ricardo Stocker, Ph.D. grew up in Argentina, moved to Europe when he was 25 years old and now lives in California. He studied at Emerson College in England, Prescott College in Arizona, and at Saybrook University in San Francisco. He’s a counselor, homesteader, musician, and professor of Psychology and Communication at Mendocino College. He is the author of Our Compassionate Kosmos: Awakening to the Presence of Celestial Love. (Balboa Press 2016)
Tags: Ricardo Stocker, cybersphere, cyberspace, celestial news, reading the weather, information overload, guardian angel, surrender, prayer, high noticing, Chief Spiritual Officer, CSO, Lorna Byrne, common good, collective prayer and meditation, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Self Help, Psychology, spirituality
Ellen Tadd is an internationally known clairvoyant counselor and educator who has been teaching for more than forty years. She is widely respected for the integrity of her work, the accuracy of her perceptions and guidance, and the clarity and usefulness of her teaching. Her work has been supported by the Edgar Cayce Foundation, the Marion Institute, Deepak Chopra, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. She’s lectured and taught at colleges, universities, hospitals, and community groups. She is author of: The Infinite View: A Guidebook for Life on Earth (TarcherPerigee 2017).
Tags: Ellen Tadd, consciousness, clairvoyance, staring, afirmations, inspiration, Personal Transformation, meditation, Intuition, Psychic,
Linda Tucker, an ecological activist, grew up in South Africa during Apartheid. In 2002, she founded the Global White Lion Protection Trust, an organization that works to protect not only the white lions, but also the indigenous communities and knowledge of the Tsonga and Sepedi cultures, which celebrate the white lion as a sacred living heritage. She is the author of Mystery of the White Lions: Children of the Sun God (Hay House 2010) and Saving The White Lion: One Woman’s Battle for Africa’s Most Sacred Animal (North Atlantic Books 2013)
Tags: Linda Tucker, White Lions, the star constellation Leo, Orion, Sirius, Maria Khosa, Timbavati, Safari Club International, Global White Lion Protection Trust International, trophy hunting, Animals, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Mythology
Dean Radin, Ph.D. is senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Associate Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He earned a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an M.S. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For over two decades he has been engaged in frontiers research on the nature of consciousness. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, Interval Research Corporation, and SRI International. His books include: The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (HarperCollins 1997), Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality (Paraview Pocket Books 2006), Supernormal (Random House 2013), Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe (Harmony Books 2018)Tags: Dean Radin, supernatural, magnetism, alchemy, consciousness, natural magic, intention, attention, quantum mechanics, mathematics, internal world, objective world, physics, primordial awareness, Thomas Nagel, evolution, brain, robots, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Science, History, Philosophy
Lisa Schrader is a workshop leader, author, speaker and coach and founder of Awakening Shakti. Her work has been featured on Oprah and Oxygen. She is a graduate of UCLA and a faculty member of The Shift Network, where she also hosts the annual Shakti Summit global event. She is the author of: Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and Pleasure (Quiver 2009) (e-book) Getting Started with Tantra
Tags: MP3, Lisa Schrader, sacred feminine, Shakti, tree of life, soul work, inner wisdom, showing up, masculine energy, beauty, pleasure, stress, Spirituality, Women's Studies, Personal Transformation, Meditation
Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, and futurist. She has a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University and a doctorate in archaeology. She has traveled the world and worked with wisdomkeepers from many traditions and continues to pursue her life-long passion in researching the nature of reality. Currivan resides in England. She is the author of many books including The 13th Step: A Global Journey in Search of Our Cosmic Destiny (Hay House 2009), The Wave: A Life Changing Journey into the Heart and Mind of the Cosmos (O Books 2005) and The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation (Bear & Company 2017)
Tags: Jude Currivan, mind, matter, materialistic science, consciousness, interconnectedness, fear, love, collective psyche, myth of separation, individuation, separation, The Spiral of Compassion, empathy, Science, Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Philosophy
Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. is internationally known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness, particularly on altered states of consciousness, and for his research in scientific parapsychology. He is one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology. Tart’s two classic books, Altered States of Consciousness (Doubleday 1972) and Transpersonal Psychologies (Harper Collins 1992), were instrumental in introducing these subjects to modern psychology. He is the author of many books including: Altered States of Consciousness (Doubleday 1972) , Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential(iUniverse 2001), and The Secret Science of the Soul: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together (Fearless Books 2017)
Tags: Charles Tart, Near Death Experiences, NDEs, brain chemistry, spontaneous mystical experiences, assassin, altered states of consciousness, Science, Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Meditation
Sam Daley-Harris is the founder of Results and Results Educational Fund. Results is an international grassroots, citizen’s lobby committed to healing the break between people and government and creating the political win, and creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. He is the director of Results Educational Fund’s largest project, the Microcredit Summit, a campaign to reach a hundred million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women in those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services. He is the author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, the 20th Anniversary Edition (Camino Books Inc. 2004)
Tags: MP3, Sam Daley-Harris, grassroots activism, Francis Moore Lappe, democracy, bi-partisanship, Citizen’s Climate Lobby, U.N. children’s fund, UNICEF, global and domestic poverty, Quaker lobby FCNL.org, citizen activist, George Bernard Shaw, House Climate Solutions Caucus, Representative Tom Moyer, Social change, Politics, Media, Self Help
Robert Fuller, Ph.D. is a physicist and former president of Oberlin College. He has consulted with Indira Gandhi, met with Jimmy Carter regarding the President's Commission on World Hunger, and worked to defuse the Cold War in Russia when it was known as the USSR. As Fuller reflected on his career he realized that he had been, at different times in his life, a somebody and a nobody. His periodic sojourns into “Nobodyland” led him to identify rankism - the abuse of the power inherent in rank - and ultimately to write the book Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank. He has become a recognized leader of the dignity movement to overcome rankism and keynoted a Dignity for All conference hosted by the President of Bangladesh.
Tags: Robert Fuller, Robots, slavery, dignity, evolution, technological species, dignity movement, Red Queen Syndrome, sexual harassment, rankism, AI, artificial intelligence, intuition, synchronicity. Social Change, Politics, Science, Spirituality, Technology
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. developed depth hypnosis and the “Coming to Peace” process after years of academic training and studying in the field with shamanic and spiritual teachers. Her studies include linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, and transpersonal psychology, all of which form the basis of her approach to healing and wholeness. She founded the Foundation of the Sacred Stream, a school for consciousness studies in Berkeley, California, to house the training programs. In addition to training hundreds of people to be spiritual counselors, she has taught thousands of students seeking personal growth through the Foundation’s other academic programs of applied shamanism, applied Buddhist psychology, integrated energy medicine, and empowered living. She is the author of Coming to Peace: Resolving Conflict Within Ourselves and With Others (Sacred Stream 2016)
Tags: Isa Gucciardi, Coming to Peace Process, Insight Inquiry, hurricane Harvey in Houston, TX, depth hypnosis, karmic patterns, negative intentionality, attachments, positive, Psychology, Shamanism, Spirituality, Buddhism
Robert Thurman is an eminent scholar of Asian and Tibetan history and Buddhist art and sciences. For over 50 years he has been a close student, colleague, and personal friend of the Dalai Lama. He’s professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, and co-founder with his wife Nena, and President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization. He is author of many books including Man of Peace: The Illustrated Life Story of the Dalai Lama of Tibet (graphic novel co-creator) (Tibet House 2016) and Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier (co-author Sharon Salzberg) (Hay House 2013)
Tags: Robert Thurman, violence, peace. China, industrial consumerism, industrial militarism, nonviolence, elections, Muhammad, Islam, materialism, Red Tara, women's power, feminine power, vote, anger, Shantideva, interrupting, creatively rude, humor, skillful means, Sarah Drew, Gaia Codex, Peace, Non-Violence, Global Culture, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Buddhism
Carlyn Montes De Oca is an acupuncturist, plant-based nutritional consultant, and animal-human health expert. A former film editor for Lucas films and spokesperson for the Guardian Campaign at In Defense of Animals. She is the founder of The Animal-Human Health Connection and the author of Dog As My Doctor, Cat As My Nurse (She Writes Press 2017)
Tags: Carlyn Montes De Oca, nature in our homes, dogs and cats, Chinese Medicine, environment, Parkinson’s disease, wildlife, antidote to disliking a person, hero’s journey, Joseph Campbell, animal companions, rescue animals, animal communication, Animals, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation
Cheryl Krauter, MFT is a marriage and family psychotherapist with almost 40 years of experience in the field of depth psychology. Her own voyage through cancer combined with her experience as a therapist brings a unique perspective to her clients. She conducts talks and workshops on living with the uncertainty of life threatening illness. She is the author of Surviving the Storm: A Workbook for Telling Your Cancer Story (Oxford University Press 2017)
Tags: Cheryl Krauter, cancer, survivorship, survivor care plane, pathology, depression, anger, non-pathology approach, gratitude, curiosity, fear, dreams, listening, witness, intention, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation, writing
William Arntz is a physicist and filmmaker and creator of the film, “What the BLEEP Do We Know!?” Deirdre Hade is a modern-day mystic, poet and leading visionary in the ancient arts of the wisdom traditions, and creator of “The Radiance Journey” a path to mystical knowledge that unites the magical with the material. Together, husband and wife team William Arntz and Deirdre Hade explore how science merges with mystical prophecy to help us navigate the upheaval and ever-changing surprises in these post-modern times. Arntz and Hade are the co-creators of the book: The (not so) Little Book of Surprises (Waterside Press2016), with the award winning photography of Endre Balogh.
Tags: Deirdre Hade, William Arntz, What the Bleep Do We Know, psychic, Age of Surprises, habits, neuroplasticity, dopamine, intuition, rewire the brain, affirmations, mysticism, oversouls, despair, faith, grace, God, super powers, super heroes, Philosophy, Science, Spirituality, intuition/psychic
David Hanscom, M.D. is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in complex spine problems in all areas of the spine. He has expertise in adult and pediatric spinal deformities such as scoliosis and kyphosis. A significant part of his practice is devoted to performing surgery on patients who have had multiple prior spine surgeries. He works for Swedish Neuroscience Specialists in Seattle, Washington with eight neurosurgeons and a physiatrist. Besides performing surgery when it is called for, he advocates a comprehensive and effective program of pain reduction he labels DOCC (Defined, Organized, Comprehensive Care), which takes into account the Mind/Body Syndrome. He’s the author of the revised edition of: Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain (Vertus Press 2017)
Tags: David Hanscom, chronic pain, anger, physical pain, talking about our pain, emotional pain, mirror neurons, adrenalized nervous system, adrenalin, pain pathways, spine surgery, expressive writing, nervous system pain receptors, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation
Lydia B. Smith has been involved in the film industry for more than a quarter of a century. She has produced films for CNN and PBS. She is a licensed spiritual practitioner of the Agape International Spiritual Center and the United Centers for Spiritual Living. In the spring of 2008 she walked the Camino de Santiago. She is director and producer of the documentary film: Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago. Kurt Koontz retired early from his job as a successful sales executive for a Fortune 500 technology company and then spent his time volunteering in his community. He bicycled across Europe and in the Western United States and Canada. In 2012 he walked the 500 mile El Camino de Santiago. He’s author of: A Million Steps (2013 Kurt Koontz).
Tags: Lydia Smith, Kurt Koontz, pilgrimage, Camino de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, walking the Camino, network news, shoes, REI, Travel, Personal Transformation
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a neuropsychologist who writes and teaches extensively on personal growth and contemplative practice. He is a co-founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, and editor of the Wise Brain Bulletin. His books include: Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (New Harbinger 2009); Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time (New Harbinger 2011); Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Harmony Books 2013); Meditations to Change Your Brain - CD Set (Sounds True 2009)
Tags: Rick Hanson, Ph.D., brain science, negativity bias, pain, neural experiences, safety, connection, Psychology, Science
Alan Kaufman is the Bronx-born son of a French-Jewish Holocaust survivor, and a recovering alcoholic with 23 years of sobriety. He’s a former Israeli combat soldier and a novelist, memoirist, and poet. He was instrumental in the development of the Spoken Word movement in literature. He’s Dean of The Free University of San Francisco. He is the author and editor of many books including: Jew Boy (Foxrock Books 2001); Matches (Little, Brown and Company 2005); Drunken Angel: A Memoir (Viva Editions/Cleis Press 2013)
Tags: Alan Kaufman, writing, poetry, Zen meditation, Emphysema Man, The Last Emphysema Gasp of the Marlboro Man, quitting smoking, sobriety, twelve step program, Writing
Judith Orloff, M.D. is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A., and has been a presenter at medical schools, hospitals, universities, and the American Psychiatric Association. For more than two decades she has helped patients achieve physical and emotional healing through the synthesis of traditional medicine with intuition, energy, and spirituality. She is the author of: The Ecstasy Of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go Can Empower Your Life (Harmony books 2014); Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life (Harmony Books 2009); Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You How To Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom (Warner Books 2010)
Tags: Judith Orloff, M.D., surrender, intention, letting go, patience, intuition, linear mind, illness, traditional medicine, pain, stress hormones, self-torture, self-loathing, destiny, joy, Psychology, Health & healing
Christine Page, M.D. received her medical degree from the University of London in 1978. She’s an international seminar leader on healing and empowerment. She became a well-known bridge builder and played an important role in the acceptance of alternative therapies in the British Health System. She is the author of: Frontiers of Health (Rider 2010), The Healing Power of the Sacred Woman: Health, Creativity, and Fertility for the Soul(Bear & Company 2013)
Tags: Christine Page, illness, emotion, soul, intuitive, intuition, women's biological cycles, moon cycles, menstrual cycles, menses, Health & Healing, Women’s Studies
Anodea Judith, Ph.D., is a workshop leader and speaker on personal and planetary transformation. She holds a doctorate in health and human services, and a master's in clinical psychology. She is a highly respected researcher and visionary, and is best known for her pioneering work bridging Eastern and Western psychology through the chakra system. She is the author of: Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn publications 1999), The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love (Shift books 2013).
Tags: Anodea Judith, Ph.D., evolutionary drivers, the great growing up, consciousness, military spending, Social Change, Politics
Gail Storey was formerly administrative director of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. She is a writer, hoop dancer and comic performance artist. Porter Storey, M.D. has been a full time hospice physician since 1983. He is a national leader in hospice and palliative medicine. Together they bicycled on their tandem from Maine to San Diego, and years later trekked the Pacific Crest Trail. Gail is the author of: The Lord's Motel (Persea Books 2011), God's Country Club (Persea Books 2011), I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail (The Mountaineers Books 2013) (winner of the Barbara Savage Award). Porter is the editor of: The Primer of Palliative Care, 4th edition (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2010)
Tags: Gail Storey, Porter Storey, M.D., Pacific Crest Trail, trekking, river rafting, falling into river, flooding in Boulder, Colorado, Personal Transformation, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality
David Bedrick, JD, DIPL PW is a teacher, counselor, attorney, organizational consultant, and writer. He’s a practitioner of Process Oriented Psychology, a branch of Jungian psychology. He did his clinical training at the Process Work Institute which is inspired by the work of Arny Mindell. Bedrick is a diplomate of the Institute. Currently he maintains a practice as a counselor and coach for individuals and groups. He also speaks and writes on topics ranging from ethics, diversity, and relationships, to dreams, diet, body image, anger, and shame. He is the author of: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology (Belly Song Press 2013)
Tags: David Bedrick, J.D., DIPL-PW, Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil McGraw, procrastination, cleaning up clutter, dreams, dream Wednesdays, collective dreams, Process Oriented Psychology, Arny and Amy Mindell, Psychology
David Mezzapelle is an entrepreneur and founder of Goliath Technology, GoliathJobs, JobsOver50, and Goliath–SilverCensus. He has worked with students and seniors as well as people of all ages in between. He is the author of: Contagious Optimism: Uplifting Stories and Motivational Advice for Positive Forward Thinking (Viva Editions 2013)
Tags: David Mezzapelle, optimism, positive forward thinking, Joel Heller, failure, success, baby boomers, encore career, storytelling, Self Help
Sam Daley-Harris is the founder of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund. RESULTS is an international grassroots citizens lobby committed to healing the break between people and government, and creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. He is the director of the RESULTS Educational Fund’s largest project, The Microcredit Summit, a campaign to reach 100 million of the world’s poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services. He is the author of: Reclaiming Our Democracy, Healing the Break Between People and Government, the 20th Anniversary Edition (Camino Books Inc. 2013)
Tags: Sam Daley-Harris, RESULTS, citizen lobby group, activism, R. Buckminster Fuller, ending world hunger, Citizen Climate Lobby, Eric Cantor, UN Children's Fund, citizen empowerment, micro-loan, micro-credit, Social Change, Politics
Ron Pevny is the founder and director of the Colorado-based Center for Conscious Eldering. He’s a certified Sag-ing® Leader with Sag-ing® International and conducts workshop and retreats across North America. He is the author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace & Savor Your Next Chapter (Atria Paperback 2014)
Tags: Ron Pevny, aging, saging, retirement, depression, living with purpose, comparison, aliveness, joyful expression, volunteering, gratitude, Personal Transformation, community, creativity
Carl Greer, Ph.D., Psy.D. is a practicing clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst and shamanic practitioner. He teaches at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and is on staff at the Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being. He is the author of Change Your Story, Change Your Life: Using Shamanic and Jungian Techniques for Healing (Findhorn Press 2017) and Change Your Story, Change Your Life: Using Shamanic and Jungian Tools to Achieve Personal Transformation (Findhorn Press 2014)
Tags: Carl Greer, archetypes, dreams, synchronicities, wonder, coincidence, C.J. Jung, agape, love, writing your health story, inventory of health, Health, Healing, Psychology
Lisa Smartt is a linguist, educator, and poet. She’s founder of The Final Words Project, an ongoing study devoted to collecting and interpreting the mysterious language at the end of lives. She lives in Athens, Georgia. She is the author of Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We’re Nearing Death (New World Library 2017)
Tags: Lisa Smartt, nonsensical speech, dreamtime symbols, metaphor, duel realities, hybrid nonsense language, end of life language, Death, Dying, Parapsychology, Paranormal
Anton Schwartz is a Jazz musician and son of the late Tony Schwartz who was a pioneer of the communications revolution of the 20th Century. He is the editor of the second edition of seminal book on media: The Responsive Chord: How Media Manipulates You: What You Buy, Who You Vote for, and How You Think (Mango Publication 1973-2017)
Tags: Anton Schwartz, Tony Schwartz, media, communications, hard sell, soft sell, advertising, marketing, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, jingles, indoor media, outdoor media, Folkways Records, Media, History, Social Change, Politics
David Bedrick, JD, DIPL PW is a teacher, counselor, attorney, organizational consultant, and writer. He’s a practitioner of Process Oriented Psychology, a branch Jungian psychology. He did his clinical training at the Process Work Institute which is inspired by the work of Arny Mindell. Bedrick is a diplomate of the Institute. Currently he maintains a practice as a counselor and coach for individuals and groups. He also speaks and writes on topics ranging from ethics, diversity, and relationships, to dreams, diet, body image, anger, and shame. He’s the author of: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology (Belly Song Press 2013) and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change (Belly Song Press 2017)
Tags: MP3, David Bedrick, process psychology, depth psychology, process oriented psychology, inner critic, jealously, class issues, weight, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Estelle Frankelis a practicing psychotherapist and spiritual advisor who blends depth psychology with the healing wisdom and spiritual practices of the Kabbalah. She has taught Jewish studies in Israel and throughout the United States for over forty years in both academic and religious settings and was ordained as a rabbinic pastor and spiritual guide by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Her books include:Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness (Shambhala 20015) and The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Discovering a Life of Wonder by Embracing Uncertainty (Shambhala 2017)
Tags: MP3, Estelle Frankel, Jewish Theology, questions, child of Holocaust Survivors, Dizang and Fayan, wonder, entering the darkness, nature deficit disorder, uncertainly, the unknown, Psychology, Philosophy
Brenda Peterson is a novelist, nature writer, and writing teacher. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Orion Magazine, and O: The Oprah Magazine. She’s a regular commentator for Seattle NPR and the Huffington Post. She is the author of eighteen books, including Build Me an Arc: A Life with Animals and the novel Duck and Cover (Backinprint.com 2004), Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves (De Capo 2017) and I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth (Da Capo Press 2010) She is the Co-author of Wolf Haven: Sanctuary and the Future of Wolves in North America( co-author Annie Marie Musselman) (Sasquatch Books 2016)
Tags: Brenda Peterson, wolves, Patricia Nelson Limerick, wild animals lawyers, legal rights of dogs, Jane Goodall, culling wildlife, Animals, Ecology, Nature, /Environment
Diana Leafe Christian is an author, former editor of Communities magazine, and a nationwide speaker and workshop presenter on starting new ecovillages, on building communities, and on sustainability. She lives in an off-grid homestead at Earthhaven Ecovillage in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, USA. She is the author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities (New Society Publishers 2003) and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community (New Society Publishers 2007)
Tags: Diana Leafe Christian, sociocracy, consensus decision making, democracy, governance, N Street Consensus, dealing with objections, Community, Social Change/Politics
Kate Marianchild is a “Citizen Scientist” who shares the delight that comes from walking slowly or sitting quietly in nature. She is the author of Secrets of The Oak Woodlands: Plants & Animals Among California’s Oaks (Heyday 2014).
Tags: Kate Marianchild, topophilia, adaptive survival skills, movie Lion, Yosemite, Scott Sampson, John Lane, Ann Meyer Maglinte. Oak Woodlands, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Science, Animals
Mary Mackey is an American novelist, poet, and academic. She is the author of seven collections of poetry and fourteen novels. Her Earthsong Series covers 30 years in the lives of the people of Neolithic Europe and about 26 years in Mary’s writing life. She's the author of The Year the Horses Came (Harper Collins 1993), The Horses at the Gate (Amazon Digital Services 2011), The Fires of Spring (Amazon Digital Services 2011), The Village of Bones: Sabalah’s Tale (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016)
Tags: Mary Mackey, Neolithic history, prehistoric times, imagination, visualize, researching a novel, Basque language, Marija Gimbutas, Goddess cultures, goddess artifacts, Writing, History, Women’s Studies
Sarah van Gelder is cofounder and editor-at-large of the award-winning YES!Magazine. She writes and speaks internationally on environmental, social, and economic alternatives and on community-based change. She is the editor of: Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2015), This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99 Percent Movement (Berrett-Koehler publishers 2011). And author of: The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America. (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2017)
Tags:Sarah van Gelder, grassroots activism, Dr. Victor Garcia, worker owned businesses, Jubilee year, Tamera Village Spain, place based community, reclaiming local power, Community, Political change, Politics, History, Indigenous Wisdom,
Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, personal mythmaking, and soul-making, and is professor emeritus of cross-cultural human development and religious studies at the University of Southern Maine. He’s the director of Story Commons. His journeys have taken him on a series of adventures, including: sailing on the maiden voyage of the Clearwater with Pete Seeger and his singing crew; attending the Woodstock music festival; living in a cabin in the woods near the Hudson River; visiting Arlo Guthrie at his farm in the Berkshires; having a synchronistic and fateful meeting with Joseph Campbell that became a mentoring relationship; being given a cell in a Franciscan monastery as a guest; and, returning to teach a course at Southampton College, all of which frame his memoir of that period, Remembering 1969. Robert Atkinson's books include: The Gift of Stories: Practical and Spiritual Applications of Autobiography, Life Stories, and Personal Mythmaking (Praeger 1995)m The Life Story Interview (Sage 1998), Remembering 1969: Searching for the Eternal in Changing Times (Baha’i Publishing 2008), and The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness (Sacred Stories Publishing 2017)Tags: Robert Atkinson, love, unity, evolution, diversity, unity and diversity, immigration, global nomads, Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í faith, planet citizens, global community, culture of oneness, social justice, Religion, Spirituality, Social change, Politics
Daniel Pinchbeck has been described as a radical futurist. He’s a philosopher and keen cultural observer. He was featured in the 2010 documentary, 2012: Time for Change and host of the talk show, MindShift, on Gaiam TV. He directed the think tank Center for Planetary Culture. His essays and articles have appeared in a vast range of publications, including the New York Times, Esq., Rolling Stone, ArtForum, Dazed and Confused, The Village Voice and many other publications. In 2007, Daniel launched the web magazine Reality Sandwich and co-foundedEvolver.net. Evolver currently includes Evolver Learning Labs, a webinar platform, and The Evolver Network, a nonprofit initiative. Daniel also edited the publishing imprint, Evolver Editions with North Atlantic Books. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism(Broadway Books 2003), 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Perigee 2007), and How Soon is Now: From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation (Watkins Publishing 2017).Tags: Daniel Pinchbeck, imagination, creativity, Wright Brothers, financial capitalism, Rebecca Solnit, Burning Man, sacrifice, collective intention, technology, ecological constraints, CO2, climate change, cheap energy, regenerative society, consumer society, competition, collaboration, space exploration, inner dimensions, psychedelics, Ayahuasca, LSD, DMT, Community, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Philosophy, Social Change, Politics
Cathy Wild is a creativity expert and has developed creative processes for both private and corporate clients. She’s a pioneer in somatic counseling, the expressive arts, and the field of life coaching. She has founded Body-Centered Healing, an experiential process that supports clients on a personal journey of transformation. Her private practice is located in Northern California. She is the author of Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out (Standing Place Press 2017)
Tags: Cathy Wild, creativity, the creative process, success, intuition, analytical orientation, authenticity, soulful path, Writing, Art, Self Help, Personal Transformation, Writing, Psychology
Judith Orloff, M.D. is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A., and has been a presenter at medical schools, hospitals, universities, and the American Psychiatric Association. For more than two decades she has helped patients achieve physical and emotional healing through the synthesis of traditional medicine with intuition, energy, and spirituality. She is the author of: The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go Can Empower Your Life (Harmony books 2014), Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life (Harmony Books 2009), Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You How to Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom (Warner Books 2010), The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People (Sounds True 2017)
Tags: Judith Orloff, empaths, intuition, intuitives, highly sensitive people, HSP, Heart meditation, water, eating well, self-care, trust, types of empaths, intuitive empaths, animal empaths, earth empaths, intuitive overload, strengthen inner core, Health & Healing, Intuition, Psychic, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Larry Brilliant, M.D. is a pioneering physician, visionary technologist, and global philanthropist. He was the first executive director of Google.org, and he currently serves as chair of the Skoll Global Threats Fund. He cofounded the Seva Foundation, whose programs and partners have restored sight to more than four million blind people in dozens of counties. He cofounded one of the first digital social networks, The WELL. He is the author of the memoir: Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History (HarperOne 2016)
Tags: Larry Brilliant, eradication of smallpox, India, Doctor America, Girija, WHO, World Health Organization, Nicole Grasset, Bill Foege, hatred, justice, racism, social media, deep listening, Health & Healing, Spirituality, Travel, Community, Global Culture, Peace, Non-Violence, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Social Change, Politics
Jonas Koffler is a creative media consultant, producer, and writer. He advises internationally recognized thought leaders and creative artists, helps organizations innovate, develops strategy and intellectual property for start-ups and billion-dollar companies alike. He is co-author with Neil Patel & and Patrick Vlaskovits of Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum (Rodale 2016)
Tags: Jonas Koffler, proactive, mapping your day, focus, distractions, project economy, career path, Personal Opportunity Portfolio, develop your talent base, working virtually, connectedness, Art, Creativity, Personal Transformation, Self Help
William Keepin, Ph.D. is a mathematical physicist, environmental scientist, and has been a practitioner on the contemplative path of divine love for over 35 years. He cofounded the Satyana Institute, as well as the Gender Reconciliation International project with his wife, Rev. Cynthia Brix. The Satyana Institute is a nonprofit service and training organization based near Seattle Washington. Together with his wife, Rev. Brix, he conducts trainings, retreats, and workshops nationally and internationally, encouraging individuals, communities and organizations to combine their inner work of the heart with outer service in the world. He is the co-author with his wife, Rev. Cynthia Brix of: Divine Duality: Women Healing Women (Hohm Press 2015). He is the author of: Belonging to God: Spirituality, Science, and a Universal Path of Divine Love (SkyLightPaths Publishing 2016)
Tags: Will Keepin, God, Divine Love, suffering, universal love, spiritual practice, keeping the heart open, mantra, name of God practice, Christ, Krishna, Jesus, Allah, Bishop Tutu, infinite source, religious orthodoxy, guides on spiritual path
Rupert Spira is a pre-eminent non-dual teacher. At an early age he was deeply interested in the nature of reality. At 17 he learned to meditate and began a 20-year period of study and practice in the classical Advaita Vedanta tradition. During this time he immersed himself in the teachings of P.O. Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Ramana Maharshi, and others until he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, in 1997. There he was introduced to what is known as the Direct Path. Spira lives in the United Kingdom and holds regular meetings and retreats in Europe and the United States. He is the author of many books and audio programs including: Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness and Presence (Sahaja Publications 2016) , Presence, Volume II: The Intimacy of All Experience (Sahaja Publications 2016), The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience (Sahaja Publications 2016)
Tags: Rupert Spira, nondualism, non-dualism, awareness, perception, non-duality, fear, shame, regret, presence, presence of awareness, essential being, essential self, open awareness, beliefs, feelings, sense of separation, sense of separateness, activism, activist, Spirituality, Philosophy, Transformation, Science
Hank Wesselman, Ph.D. is a respected paleoanthropologist who has worked with noted anthropologists around the world including in Ethiopia investigating the mystery of human origins in the Great Rift Valley. Besides his training and scientific work, he is a shamanic student, practitioner, and teacher, now in the 30th year of his apprenticeship. He lives with his wife Jill in Hawaii. In addition to his scientific publications, his seven books on shamanism include: The Spiritwalker trilogy (Bantam 1996), Awakening to the Spirit World (co-authored with Sandra Ingerman) (Sounds True 2010), he Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman (Sounds True 2011) and The Re-Enchantment: A Shamanic Path to a Life of Wonder (Sounds True 2016).
Tags: Hank Wesselman, angels, spirits, evil, master of deception, Hale Makuna, e'epa, psychic vampires, achons, wetiko, goodness, truth, beauty, holodeck, Star Trek, age of the healer, compassion, positive polarity, Religion, Shamanism, Spirituality, Indigenous Wisdom
Rajiv Parti, M.D. is a world-renowned specialist in pain management with over thirty years as a cardiac anesthesiologist. In addition to being Chief of Anesthesiology at Bakersfield Heart Hospital for more than a decade, Dr. Parti is founder of the Pain Management Institute of California. His study in complementary and alternative medicine has led him to formulate an integrative approach to total wellness, especially pain management, stress, and depression. He is the author of Dying to Wake Up: A Doctor’s Voyage into the Afterlife and the Wisdom He Brought Back (contributor Paul Perry)(Atria books 2016)
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Deborah Zucker, ND is a naturopathic physician and transformational health coach who helps people find transform their fundamental relationship to health. She’s the founder of Vital Medicine and offers many virtual and retreat-based programs. She holds a docorate in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University where she has also served as adjunct faculty. She is the author of The Vitality Map: A Guide to Deep Health, Joyful Self-Care, and Resilient Well-Being (LomaSerena Press 2016)
Tags: Deborah Zucker, vitality, chronic fatigue, self care, resilience, stress response cascade, stress, breath, biofeedback, posture, habits, Health, Healing
Matthew Fox, Ph.D. is a priest and was a member of the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church for thirty-four years. He holds a doctorate in History and Theology of Spirituality and is a scholar in residence with the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as founder and president of Friends of Creation Spirituality. He is the author of more than thirty books
Tags: Matthew Fox, Thomas Merton, mysticism, Ted Roszak, eros, silence, New Grange, Rachel Carson, monasticism, God the Mother, Spirituality, Social Change, Politics, Philosophy
Kelly Shelstad has more than 16 years' experience working with youth in the classroom and in wilderness settings with a major in Elementary Education and a minor in Environmental Education. She has been teaching at Siskiyou School, a Waldorf school in Ashland, Oregon. With 3 other adults, she has sailed 1000 miles in open water from Fiji to New Zealand in a 39-foot boat. And has also co-created a four-day, three-night camp for girls based on the principles of self-awareness, expression, and connection in a wilderness setting through the Rose Circle Mentoring Network. • Tom Shelstad has a background in teaching in both public and private schools. He has worked in wilderness therapy, juvenile corrections organizations as well as personal and athletic coaching. He has run leadership development programs for teens and is a faculty member at Southern Oregon University. He is the founder and director of Inner Guide Expeditions. • Kelly and Tom Shelstad co-lead and create transformational experiences for youth in their organization, known as Inner Guide Expeditions.
Tags: Kelly Shelstad, Tom Shelstad, Kelly and Tom Shelstad, backpacking, wilderness, teenagers, Ecology, Nature, Environment, Personal Transformation, Relationship, Partnership, Sexuality, Travel
Carol Pearson, Ph.D. is an expert in depth psychology and transformational leadership as well as archetypal narrative intelligence. She has served as profession at several universities and colleges and also served as president of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. She was the senior editor of The Inner Edge: A Resource for Enlightened Business Practice. She is the author of such classic works as: The Hero Within (republished, Harper Elixir 2015), Awakening the Heroes Within (Harper Elixir 2015), The Hero and the Outlaw (McGraw Hill Education 2001) (co-author Margaret Mark), Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within (Harper Elixir 2016)
Tags: Carol Pearson, narrative intelligence, stories, curiosity, Zeus, storytelling, Persephone, fear, anxiety, yoga, archetypal downloads, Demeter, Mother Teresa, Dionysus, celebration, Mythology, Personal Transformation
Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist, environmentalist, and award-winning author. In 2014, on the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Ms. Williams received the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award honoring a distinguished record of leadership in American conservation. She is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah.
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Arjuna Ardagh is a writer, public speaker, and founder of the Awakening Coaching. He is the author of many books including: The Translucent Revolution (New World Library 2005) and Better Than Sex: The Ecstatic Art of Awakening Coaching (Awakening Coaching 2013). John Gray, Ph.D. is a leading relationship expert. His unique focus is assisting men and women in understanding, respecting and appreciating their differences. He is the author of: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus(Harper 2012). Gray and Ardagh are co-authors of: Conscious Men (Self X Press 2016)
Tags: Arjuna Ardagh, John Gray, anger, passive aggression, hormonal differences between men and women, reptilian brain, monkey brain, men's groups, Relationship, Partnership, Sexuality, Women's Studies, Men's Studies
May McCarthy has co-founded and grown six successful companies over her thirty-year career, with the largest growing to over $100 million in annual revenues. She is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, angel investor, and philanthropist. She is the author of The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance (Hierophant Publishing 2015)
Tags: May McCarthy, gratitude, spiritual partner, CSO, Chief Spiritual Officer, intuition, gut instinct, goals, Self Help, Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Soul, Spirit Guides, Angels, pirit
Karan Bajaj was born and raised in India, and trained as a Hatha Yoga teacher in the Sivananda ashram in South India. He learned meditation in the Himalayas. He's been named one of India Today's Top 35 Under 35. He lives in New York City but soon will be returning to India with his wife and young daughter. He is the author of several novels, including: Johnny Gone Down (Harper Collins 2010), Keep off the Grass (Harper Collins, India 2008) and The Yoga of Max's Discontent (known in India as The Seeker) (Riverhead 2016).
Tags: Karan Bajaj, yoga, sabbatical, surrender, India, resilience, yoga retreat, cold showers, power of physical discomfort, Cambodia orphanage, Purusha, enlightenment, Work, Livelihood, Spirituality, Meditation
Amy B. Scher is an energy therapist who uses energy therapy techniques to help those who are experiencing illness and those in need of emotional healing. She is the author of How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can: A Total Self-Healing Approach for Mind, Body & Spirit (Llewellyn Publications 2016)
Tags: Amy B. Scher, subtle bodies, allopathic medicine, emotions, energy therapy techniques, anger, thymus gland, immune system, stress, tapping your chest, unconscious emotions, EFT, Emotional Freedom technique, meridians, energy pathways, Lyme disease, Health & Healing
Stephen Dinan is a social entrepreneur, visionary political strategist, and founder and CEO of The Shift Network. He is the author of: Radical Spirit: Spiritual Writings from the Voices of Tomorrow (New World Library 2002) and Sacred America, Sacred World: Fulfilling Our Mission in Service to All (Hampton Roads 2016)
Tags: Stephen Dinan, transpartisan, democracy, progressives, conservatives, political polarization, Citizens United, political fundraising, Wolf PAC, Cenk Uygur, constitutional amendment, upgrading democracy, United Nations, Barbara Marx Hubbard, planetary nervous system, internet, www.Kiva.org, Social Change, Politics, History
Stephen Jenkinson is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer. He has a master’s degree in theology from Harvard University and a master’s degree in social work. He was formerly a program director at a major Canadian hospital and medical-school assistant professor. He has worked extensively with dying people and their families and is a consultant to palliative care and hospice organizations. He is the founder of the Orphan Wisdom School in Canada and is the subject of the documentary film, Griefwalker. He is the author of: Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul (North Atlantic Books 2015)
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Jacob Needleman, Ph.D. is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and former director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He has also served as a research associate at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Tags: Jacob Needleman, silence, awareness, presence, meaningful, questions, happiness, Gurdjieff, attention, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Spirituality
Father Francis Tiso holds a Master of Divinity degree from Have University, and a doctorate from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary where his specialization was Buddhist studies. He was Associated Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops from 2004 to 2009, where he served as liaison to Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Sikhs, and Traditions religions as well as the Reformed confessions.He is the author of: Liberation in One Lifetime(North Atlantic Books 2014) and Rainbow body and Resurrection: Spiritual Attainment, the Dissolution of the Material Body, and the Case of Khenpo A Chö(North Atlantic Books 2016)
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Leslie Shore has worked in the retail industry and personal management fields as well as being a professor and instructional designer where she has gained much wisdom in what it takes to be an effective listener. She is the owner of “Listen to Succeed,” a consultancy that focuses on using listening analytics to help personal and professional clients achieve their highest level of effective communication. Her book is currently being used as a text book in several universities.
Tags: Leslie Shore, barriers to listening, emotions, interrupting, attention, daydreaming, being present, emotional IQ, body language, eye contact, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Kira Asatryan is a certified relationship coach who provides individual life coaching, relationship coaching, conflict mediation, and couples’ coaching. Before becoming a relationship coach, she was director of performance marketing for prominent Silicon Valley technology start-ups and cofounded an online marketing consultancy. She lives in San Francisco, and is the author of: Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships(New World Library 2016).
Tags: Kira Asatryan, depression, anxiety, loneliness, isolation, friendship, affection, support, respect, appreciation, encouragement, comfort, conversation, communication, Relationships, Psychology, Personal Transformation, Self Help
Debra Silverman holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and has specialized in helping thousands of individuals achieve emotional health and wisdom based on their unique personality and the four elements of water, air, earth, and fire. She combines this work with her expertise in Soul-Centered Astrology. She is a host of an on-line radio program “Tell me a Story.” She works on an individual basis as well as with groups, and is the author of The Missing Element: Inspiring Compassion for the Human Condition (Findhorn Press 2016).
Tags: Debra Silverman, personality, water people, air people, fire people, earth people, four elements, fire element, air element, water element, earth element, missing element, shame, Psychology, Self Help, Spirituality, Relationship, Partnership, Sexuality
David Gibson is a leader in the field of sound healing and therapy. He’s the founder and director of the Globe Sound and Consciousness Institute in San Francisco which offers an Associates degree in sound healing therapy. He is also the producer of sound healing music and runs the sound therapy center at the Institute offering different types of sound healing treatments. He is a founder of the Sound Healing Research Association, which is designed to help bring sound healing into the mainstream, and is the author of The Complete Guide To Sound Healing (Sound Healing Center, 2013)
Tags:David Gibson, sound, sound healing, pain, disease, frequency, ultrasound, anxiety, grief, grieving, emotion, emotions, crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, vibration, white noise, Health & Healing, music, science
Andrew Harvey is an internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, translator, mystical scholar, and spiritual teacher. He is the Founder/Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism.
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Lupa is a neo-shaman, artist and sustainability geek. She has been working with animal magic for more than 20 years and has developed a self-created and spirit-directed neoshamanic path. She possesses a master’s degree in counseling
Tags:Lupa, totems, bioregion, watershed, moss, ecosystem, soil, desert, backpacking, wilderness, One Square Inch of Silence, seasons, Meditation, Ecology, Nature, Environment
Matthew McKay, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and professor at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. The Wright Institute offers Masters and PH.D. programs to psychologists as well as providing support and evaluation for the research needs of its students. McKay is also the founder and publisher at New Harbinger Publications.
Tags: Matthew McKay, Jordan McKay, afterlife, channeling, channeled writing, mediums, past lives, reincarnation, soul, life between lives, Death & Dying, Intuition, Psychic, Parapsychology, Paranormal, spirituality
Martin Adams is a social innovator, systems thinker, and community organizer. He has been on a lifelong quest to create a fair and sustainable world in collaboration with others. Through his non-profit work, he saw firsthand the extent to which our economic system causes human and ecological strife. Consequently, Adams has devoted himself to the implementation of a new economic paradigm that allows humanity to thrive in harmony with nature.
Tags: Martin Adams, Trust, fear, love, economic paradigm, greed, interfaith, Wall Street, perfection, nature, right livelihood, Buddhism, right to use land, Spirituality, Economics, social change, Indigenous wisdom
Colleen Mauro is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Intuition magazine published from 1988 to 2001. It explored the potential of the mind and the many varied ways of intuitive knowing, and featured research and how-to information on intuition, inspiration, and telepathy for the general reader.
Tags:Colleen Mauro, Intuition, telepathy, soul, communicating with higher levels of information, soul, awakened heart, Raja Yoga, Patanjali, divine downloads, inner Google search, rational mind, intuitive mind, divine mind, Spirit Guides, Angels, Spirit, Personal Transformation, Meditation, Spirituality, Intuition, Psychic
Since 1973, Justine Willis Toms has been exploring personal, social and spiritual transformation through her work as an electronic journalist, editor and writer. She is co-founder, executive director and host of New Dimensions Radio. She is a founding convener of The Millionth Circle Initiative and has been actively involved in circle work since 1980. She serves on the board of World Prayers as well as Women’s Perspective. In June 2004, she was one of 30 people in the world invited to participate in The Synthesis Dialogues with his holiness the Dalai Lama. She was inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2011.
Tags: Justine Willis Toms, Chinese Bamboo, optimism, Geese flying in V formation, circles, Collaborative Leadership, Listening deeply, voting, creativity, beliefs, Personal Transformation, Philosophy
Michael N. McGregor is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Portland State University. He has lectured at universities, conferences, and community events on both Robert Lax and Thomas Merton and is a member of Biographers International Organization and the International Thomas Merton Society.
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John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist, retired professor of psychology, spiritual counselor, and founder and editor-in-chief of Undivided: The Online Journal of Nonduality and Psychology.
Tags: John J. Prendergast, non-dualism, wisdom, inner knowing, body, wisdom, knowledge, circle work, vibrant silence, inward alignment, safety, need for approval, trusting inner guidance, self-trust, truth, dogma, honesty, vulnerability, courage, surrender, core beliefs, projections, reacting, skillful boundaries, control, manipulation, Health & Healing, Psychology, Personal Transformation
Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is a respected kamasqa curandero and shamanic adept from Peru, and has been guiding cross-cultural, ethnospiritual apprenticeship expeditions to sacred sites of the world since 1986, with special emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. He's been a popular faculty member at numerous U.S. colleges and universities. He originated the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross-cultural shamanism, and is the founder of the Heart of the Healer Foundation. His works and programs have been featured on CNN, Univision, A&E and the Discovery Channel. Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is the author of: Lessons in Courage, Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life (co-author Bonnie Glass-Coffin)
Tags: don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Pachakuti Mesa tradition, don Celso Rojas Palomino of Salas, Chiclayo, don Benitao Corihuaman Vargas of Wasau, Cusco, Andean and Peruvian shamanic tradition, rituals, ceremony, communion, consecration, composition, connection, cooperation, spiral, pilgrima ge to sacred places, Indigenous Wisdom, Shamanism
Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative world religions who spent years traveling the world studying spirituality with Sufi dervishes, Tibetan monks, Croatian mystics, shamans, and more. She is a workshop facilitator and speaker. Sera Beak is the author of: The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach To Igniting Your Divine Spark (Jossey-Bass 2006) and Red Hot & Holy: A Heretic’s Love Story (Sounds True 2013)
Tags:Women's Studies, Relationship, Partnership, Sexuality, Spirituality
Connie Baxter Marlow and Andrew Cameron Bailey are filmmakers and social philosophers whose films, books, workshops, and public appearances spread their optimistic vision for the future of humanity. They have a home base in Sedona Arizona but spend most of their lives on the road. Their films include In Search of The Future: What Do The Wise Ones Know? and The American Evolution: Voices of America DVD Series. They are the co-authors of: The Trust Frequency: 10 Assumptions For a New Paradigm (CB Books 2012)
Tags: Baxter Marlow, Bailey, crossroad, Chardin, Omega, Mayan, evolutionary, earth, Darwin, Trust, attitude, awareness, assumption, allow, consciousness, unconscious, beliefs, paradigm shift, tipping, critical mass,
Sondra Barrett, Ph.D. is a biochemist who completed her postdoctoral training in immunology and hematology. She has developed both basic cancer research and supportive care programs while working with children with life-threatening illnesses. She has also studied the expressive arts, energy practices, and shamanism.
Tags: cells, meditation, thymus, blood, viruses, bacteria, worry, pharmacy, biochemical, Yantra, DNA, Medicine Wheel, Narby,
Robyn Posin, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, living in Ojai, California. She works as a therapist, coach and mentor, specializing in transforming the inner critic into an empowering ally, and developing a fiercely protective inner caregiver as we learn to re-parent our wounded self.
Tags: Robyn Posin gentle, voices inside, abandoning altar, belly, gut, listening, safe, sadness, grief, anger, Rebillot,
Arlene Goldbard is a writer, speaker, consultant, workshop leader, and cultural activist whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics, spirituality, the arts and artists. She is a fierce advocate for the power of human creative expression.
Tags:Goldbard, paradigm shift, Datastan, Stories, availability cascade, attention, resilience, possibility, Czechoslovakia Velvet , Berlin, Estonia, Banyan, endangered languages, Boal, education, Ravitch, Occupy Movement
Christian de Quincey, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University and Dean of Consciousness Studies at the University of Philosophical Research. He is the founder of the Wisdom Academy.
Tags: Christian de Quincey, consciousness, information age, data, attention, matter and energy, Patterns of energy, AI, artificial intelligence, technology, intelligent behavior, purpose, sentience, consciousness knows, energy flows, ecology, interconnectedness