Strengthening Your Ability To Pay Attention with Winifred Gallagher
There is no “attention center” in the brain. So where is our capacity for sustained focus located? Research shows us that the brain is an ensemble of alerting, orienting, and executive networks collaborating to attune us to what’s going on in our inner or outer world in coherent ways that…
A Wild And Laughing God with Tessa Bielecki
Have you ever imagined Jesus laughing? Tessa Bielecki has. She also reminds us that he was the one who made sure there was plenty of wine at that wedding party we’ve heard so much about. A lifelong Christian monastic who now lives in a cabin in the desert, she loves…
The Meaning Of Refuge with Terry Tempest Williams
This is one woman’s story of growing up downwind of an atomic testing site in a wild, beautiful, and “virtually uninhabited” area near the Great Salt Lake in Utah. “My family were some of the virtual uninhabitants,” Williams says. In 1983, as her mother was dying of cancer, there was a catastrophic flood of the…
Aging With Grace And Humor with Susan Moon
Travel with Susan Moon to get an inside view on the perils and joys of aging. With humor and deep insight, she encourages us to move forward in our aging with courage and hope. There are many lessons along the way. She says much of it is “learning how to ask…
Outliving The Limitation Of Our Personal Stories with Gangaji
The stories we tell ourselves about who we are, our childhood, our memories of the past, our life in the present, are like clothing we put on. These narratives provide us with endless hours of entertainment. Sometimes they’re horror stories and sometimes comedies. But do these tales tell us who…
Homer, An Eyeless Cat, Teaches Love And Courage with Gwen Cooper
This is an adventure story of a blind cat, Homer, and a woman finding one another, and the lessons this relationship taught her. Homer survived being trapped, without Cooper, for days after 9/11 in an apartment near the World Trade Center, and even saved Cooper’s life when he chased an…
Political Activism: Beyond Shouting And More than Silence with Sam Daley-Harris
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…
New Worlds Emerge When Patterns Break Down with Marguerite Moore Callaway
The world in is a massive realignment process. The context we’ve been used to has shifted, and is calling for new ways of adapting to many conditions that have never existed before. The world is changing and we must learn to move and change with it. Each of us must…
The Dignity Movement, Robots, And The Importance Of Asking Good Questions with Robert Fuller, Ph.D.
What is of utmost importance to Fuller are the questions we bring to our life process. He says, “Once you’ve formed a question, it almost guarantees you will find the answer.” He comments on the idea put forth by Israeli psychologist Amos Tversky: “Reality is not a point, it is a cloud…
Scientific Support For The Spiritual Dimension Of Life with Charles Tart, Ph.D.
Tart grew up with an interest in science and he believes that is it reasonable to be both scientific and spiritual in your approach to life. He explains how science works when we openly share our observations: “As an individual scientist, am biased in certain ways. I see some things too…
