Joanna Macy has dropped her physical body; however, her work and inspiration— needed now more than ever—remain. Her activism encompassed anti-nuclear campaigns, social justice, and environmental protection, but she is best known for developing the “Work That Reconnects”—a methodology that integrates deep ecology, systems thinking, and spiritual traditions. This framework…

Be joyful though you’ve considered all the facts. Wendell Berry, farmer, essayist, poet and author of What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017   “What I like about this is that it speaks to this issue that the facts are hard. The facts of politics, climate…

  In this episode, Justine Willis Toms, host of New Dimensions Radio, shares the origin story of New Dimensions and the early days of creating spiritual radio. She also talks about how her spiritual practice has changed through the years.  Click here to go to the Podcast: Conversation with Justine Willis…

New Dimensions’ archive has been described as the Alexandria Library of the 21st Century. It represents the historical oral archive of the changing age from information and data to wisdom and visionary consciousness. With many evolutionary explorers, these deep dialogues continue to foster the global well-being of all Earth’s inhabitants.…

If you want to understand what’s most important to a society, don’t examine its art or literature. Simply look at its biggest buildings. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) American scholar specializing in comparative mythology and religion.   “Campbell said this more than 40 years ago. At that time the biggest buildings were…

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground, there are a thousand ways to go home again. Jalal al-Din Rumi “I love this quotation. In the first part, there are a thousand ways to knell and kiss the ground, I feel very inspired by how Rumi poetically…

I swam in what shone at me only able to endure it by being no one and so specifically myself I thought I’d die from being loved like that. Annunciation, a poem by Marie Howe   “Poetry is a big part of everything that I do and teach and live.…

  As many of our listeners are aware, our attention is being bought and sold by attention entrepreneurs and organizations. This highly curated digital environment may make us feel comfortable, but it ultimately stifles personal development by preventing exposure to challenging or unfamiliar ideas. There are those who are exploring…

Why would you prefer to crawl when you’ve been given wings? Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207-1273) was a 13th-century Persian poet   “I feel like this is truly the mandate of our life. There are two ways to live. There’s a way of a limited and struggling smaller self or…

We left the camp singing. Esther “Etty” Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries. In 1943, she was deported and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. “Etty was a young Dutch Jewish scholar of Russian origin. When she got to Westerbork, a staging camp for the…