Dogs: A Boundless Gift of Unconditional Love with JJ Flowers
Free Listening, Interviews
Free Listening Through September 1, 2026: Dog lovers might wonder how dogless people can choose to forgo the boundless gifts brought by their canine companions. No other animal loves us as much as our dogs. Flowers highlights the deep connection between humans and dogs, noting that dogs’ unconditional love can…
Changing Our Brain For Resilience with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
Free Listening, Interviews
Free Listening Through August 25, 2026: How can we grow more resilience? Hanson says, “The question becomes: How do you get your brain to change for the better in a challenging world so that you actually hardwire more patience, more confidence, more happiness and other factors of resilient wellbeing into…
The Odyssey: A Living Map of the Soul with Phil Cousineau
Free Listening, Interviews
For nearly 3,000 years, the poet known as Homer has offered, through his epic The Odyssey, a guide for navigating life’s most turbulent times. The enduring wisdom of this extraordinary poem speaks to our lives here and now through its vivid, imaginative language, The Odyssey reveals what can happen when…
An Awakened, Undefended, And Intelligent Heart with Terry Patten
Free Listening, Interviews
Despite our present polarization and alienation from one another, there are some underlying shifts taking place in the world that should force us to come together in mutual support and creativity. Terry Patten is our escort and guide to how we may become evolutionary activists in this era of exploding…
Writing As A Way To An Awakened Life with Albert Flynn DeSilver
Free Listening, Interviews
DeSilver describes how writing from the body rather than the head is a visceral experience that connects us with our intuition. He says, “Everybody is a creative person. It’s a matter of where you have been putting your attention. . . This is an invitation to reconnect with the power…
The F-Word: Reconsidering Faith with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
Free Listening, Interviews
For some faith is an outdated, even dogmatic idea. Namgyel sees it as “not something you have or don’t have, faith is a way of being in relationship to the world around you.” She refers to it as “faithing”. This dialogue takes a deep dive into the Buddhist principle of…
Effective Questions To Change Negative Habits Of The Mind with Ora Nadrich
Free Listening, Interviews
Ora Nadrich shares a series of simple questions we can ask ourselves when we pay attention to our negative thoughts. Her “Says Who!” Method includes such questions as: Says Who? Have I heard that question before? Is this someone else’s fear? Do I like this thought? Does this thought work…
The Restorative Powers of Connecting with the Earth with Laura Koniver, M.D.
Free Listening, Interviews
In these post-modern times, more and more we live indoors and this lifestyle has isolated us from the earth. This trend, along with the current pandemic with the advice to “shelter in place,” has encouraged hanging out inside our homes. We’re addicted to looking at our computer screens, smart phones,…
Exploring the Hidden Kingdom of Fungi with Merlin Sheldrake, Ph.D.
Free Listening, Interviews
Nature is an assemblage of entanglements in which we are messily embedded. Humans are multi-species beings consisting of trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that coordinate the task of living. In this deep dialogue we explore the fascinating world of the kingdom of fungi and its importance to all life…
The Power Of Trees and Chanting To Heal with Shannon Sullivan
Free Listening, Interviews
Sullivan shares with us the deep practice of healing our ancestral roots by using the analogy of trees. We use the imagery of trees in so many ways such as mapping out our ancestral tree. She shares how trees can be a mirror of our own bodies pointing out that…
