For more than 40 years, Sam Daley-Harris has worked to help people find ways to “make democracy viable”. He advocates deep listening and engaging face-to-face with members of Congress. It’s about working beyond just donating money, signing petitions, or writing letters to the editor. It’s about deep engagement and participating…

Free Listening Through October 7, 2025: Cousineau, a clinical psychologist at Harvard University, discusses the roots and consequences of perfectionism, emphasizing its connection to a need for belonging and acceptance. She explains how perfectionism leads to burnout, stress, and anxiety. She introduces the concept of “inner algorithms” as coping patterns…

Are we living in and collectively participating in a planetary nervous system? Does the Earth itself have a reflective capacity and are we all creative participants in guiding Earth’s destiny? Here we focus on the noosphere. The noosphere (from Greek nous, meaning “mind” or “intellect”) is a concept describing the…

In this era of digital polarization and a lack of shared reality and political consensus, we’re navigating massive issues. How might we cope with the many different spheres of sense-making and meaning? Alderman highlights the rapid expansion of information exposure over the past 50 years, leading to an “algorithmic undertow”…

The Bhagavad Gita is a 2500 year old sacred text of India and has been revered by such luminaries as Beethoven, Leonard Cohen, Carl Jung, Robert Oppenheimer, Mahatma Gandhi, and many others. It’s a divine song and one of the most trusted guides for happiness, meditation, and spiritual inner growth.…

Kaliko says when you learn a new language it changes you into a different person. He says of learning the Marquesan language: “It has its own personality. When I’m over there I’m like a different person. I might look the same on the outside but I feel that I express…

We’re all familiar with the aspect of fear that strangles us, holds us back, and keeps us living lives filled with stress, unhappiness, and emptiness. This kind of fear creates chronic anxiety, depression, and disconnection. However, Manly shares a hidden aspect of this same fear that affords us the opportunity…

Free Listening Through August 26, 2025: Mindfulness is both profound and potent. Marc Lesser suggests that it is not about holding the busy world at bay, it’s to cultivate a more alive, responsive, effective and warm-hearted way of being within the world as it already exists and within a life…

Despite ever more sophisticated medical technology and more expensive healthcare, chronic diseases are increasing. If mainstream medicine is doing its job, why are the rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rising instead of decreasing? Years ago people died from infections, plagues, and flus. It can be said that today…

Sun’s experience of why people become polarized, go to war, cannot have any room or compassion for some other point of view, is because they are stuck in an old style of either/or thinking. She sees the current global challenges as indicators of an evolutionary leap in consciousness. She urges…