It has been said that we live in an argument culture. We talk past one another and discord arises in families, at work, and in communities. Conflicts are unlikely to go away any time soon, so how can we resolve them in creative and constructive ways? The following four Programs…

Free Listening Through April 30:   Keep listening while you browse! Click on the Pop out player button, above on the right. “We are a social species, born to be relational. Relational connection is our birthright and it’s how we function best as a species…New research reports that the lack…

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation (1818–19) a poem in 617 lines of enjambed heroic couplets by Percy Bysshe Shelley published posthumously in 1824   “It’s our job to transform the trials that…

I’ve had the enormous pleasure of being inspired by several deep dialogues with Dean Sluyter, a wisdom guide par excellence. I was transported in our most recent conversation as he most delightfully and profoundly opened my understanding of such literary geniuses as William Blake, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Dr. Suess,…

Free Listening Through April 23:   Keep listening while you browse! Click on the Pop out player button, above on the right. Are we born with empathy or is it a skill that can be taught? Dr. Orloff tells us that choosing empathy can transform some of our most difficult…

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense. Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) The Essential Rumi, Translated by…

How are we to mindfully navigate this technologically saturated environment? Here, four pioneers in the information age contemplate such questions as how the “Infosphere” is changing our collective metaphors. They suggest it is influencing the way we perceive and think. They help us navigate toward trustworthy information to not fall…

In these times of intense political polarization, civic despair is rampant. How does this affect our democracy and how can we counteract this apathy? Daley-Harris has been working tirelessly to provide trainings for ordinary citizens to empower effective political action and to help citizens be most effective in reshaping the…

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me. Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760) Jewish mystic and healer, regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism “This quote moves me so deeply because it’s perplexing and I think the most powerful things are those things that…

As I prepare for an interview, I’m not surprised about how often I run across a reference to the wisdom of physicist Fritjof Capra, Ph.D. He is often quoted by New Dimensions guests. In addition, we’ve been privileged to have hosted Capra many times on our program series. I vividly…