A Safe Harbor for the Climate with Peter Fiekowsky
Free Listening, Interviews
Here we explore an optimistic and realistic look at how we can and must restore the health of our atmosphere to levels that support all life on this planet. What are the possibilities of a safe harbor for humanity in the climate disruption crisis? Even though the transition to net-zero…
Dreams: Our Internal GPS with Linda Yael Schiller
Free Listening, Interviews
Do you remember your dreams? It’s said that dream images come from our unconscious pool of wisdom and there’s much personal insight to be gained when we pay attention to the night murmurings of our dreamtime. Dreamwork is a viable means of knowledge of self. Dreams contain deep intelligence as…
Spreading the Positive Virus of Kindness with Lindsay Andreotti
Are you One-of-a-Kindness™? This is the trademarked phrase of the newly formed Kindness Club. We’ve all heard the often-quoted aphorism: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” (Elbert Hubbard). We can all attest to the fact that, in these most challenging of times, it is raining lemons. Lindsay Andreotti suggests…
The Art and Practice of Listening Well with Leslie Shore
Listening is a very different thing from merely hearing. It takes effort, attention, filtering, and practice. It’s a process that requires us to use different parts of our brain, and a process that is very rarely taught in formal education. Although it is so critical to improving our lives, it…
The Embodied Spiritual Path with Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D.
The French philosopher Descartes (1596-1650) was certain that we could alleviate chaos and provide certainty through rational means. His reigning philosophy was one of separating the mystery of Spirit from the life of the body. Reason ruled and sensing, feeling; intuition, and emotions, took a backseat to logic and conceptual…
Offering Comfort and Dignity to Deeply Forgetful People with Stephen G. Post, Ph.D.
The family of caregivers of those who are cognitively impaired are our true unsung heroes. Often without respite nor compensation they serve those who have an Alzheimer’s diagnosis and other forms of dementia. Alzheimer’s can also have a component of early onset but most diagnoses show up as we get…
The Old Future is Gone with Wes Jackson, Ph.D. and Robert W. Jensen, Ph.D.
As we careen from one crisis to the next and focus on political struggles that seem to rarely produce even short-term solutions, it’s easy to avoid big questions that have no easy answers. Questions such as: What is the sustainable carrying capacity of the planet for Homo Sapiens? Has our…
The Healing Power Of Sound with David Gibson
Sound is medicine, according to the research of David Gibson. Every person, emotion, and ailment has a tone. He explains that we can use frequency to match or cancel out a negative vibration, or meet a negative emotion more easily. He discusses the process of finding a sound that best…
We Are So Much More Than We Know with Joseph Selbie
Our brain is an obliging servant. We train it to create neural circuits by our repeated actions and emotions. Whatever we do over and over, the brain will create circuits to support that including reactive emotional responses. A huge part of these circuits is devoted to the autonomic systems in…
The Power of Mentorship with Will Jawando
This deep dialogue explores a life-affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized.