Seeding the Conversation for a Better World
“The purpose of New Dimensions is to deliver information, knowledge, and wisdom. It has been enormously effective in bringing innovative ideas of changing human consciousness to a cross-section of America, creating the context of physicist David Bohm’s “shared meaning,” which in turn coalesces the cultural shift. New Dimensions activates the…
Writing As A Way To An Awakened Life with Albert Flynn DeSilver
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 of…
Spotlight: Wholeness, Creativity and Quantum Reality with David Bohm
Over a seven-year period from 1983 to 1990, Michael Toms had the extraordinary experience of sitting down in deep dialogue with this renowned physicist, the late David Bohm, Ph.D. Bohm was a colleague of Oppenheimer and Einstein, and one of the foremost theoretical physicists of his generation. He was also…
Moving From “Datastan” to “The Republic of Story”
A former guest, Arlene Goldbard, talked about how we are moving from a culture of “Datastan” where everything is quantified and the population is confined to the role of consumer, to “The Republic of Story” in which, as she puts it, “[E]very story matters to the common good.” New Dimensions beams out…
A Missionary’s Daughter In Haiti with Apricot Irving
As a child, Apricot Irving grew up in a sparsely populated desert near Idyllwild, California. When she was six years old her father took a job as an agriculture missionary in Haiti. Suddenly she was surrounded by people everywhere. She says, “You wake up in the morning and people want to…
Spotlight: Robert Bly – An Irreverent Storyteller
Using truth as expressed in both poetry and fairytales, master poet and word-weaver Robert Bly illuminates inspiring possibilities for a culture caught in an adolescent phase of development. He shines a light on shame, divine imagination, creativity, parenting, siblings, and more. Be delighted by the timeless wisdom in these…
Living With Less Fear with Dean Sluyter
As life unfolds, we all experience many successes as well as challenges. Sluyter warns us that “we get distracted by the good and the bad shiny objects. We get caught up in stuff and then we come to define our lives in terms of how things work out.” He reminds us of…
Adulthood II: A Whole New Stage In The Life Cycle with Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D.
People are living longer but this new longevity is not equivalent to an extension of old age or years added on at the end of life. Children have left home and many are facing retirement, but are not ready to spend this time on the golf course, or playing endless…
