Spotlight: Michael Meade: Stories For The Soul
Michael Meade, raconteur of the highest order, has the ability to tap into ancestral sources of wisdom and reveal to us our soul’s original agreement as we walk our pilgrim’s path. Along with you, we sit at the feet of Meade as he beguiles us with his opening words, “Once upon…
Spotlight: A Feast of Wisdom With Five Trailblazers
A few topics in these deep dialogues include: What survives death and where does consciousness reside? While our genes do not change, the way they are expressed may be very much within our control. What are the four paths of wise, effective action–“showing up, paying attention, telling the truth, and…
Spotlight: Longing for Spiritual Sustenance
Suggestions for finding spiritual food include: deep and intuitive listening, being in nature, poetry, maintaining wonder and awe, a writing practice, and many others. Listen to in-depth inspiration suggested by these wisdom leaders in these MP3s specially selected from the New Dimensions Program Archive. Listening Is A Personal Pilgrimage with…
Spotlight: Improve Your Life: Enrich Your Questioning and Listening Skills
Listening is a skill that takes effort, attention, patience, and practice. Effective listening can improve our relationships and our jobs, as well as enhance our intelligence. To give voice to our own authenticity requires deep listening and fertile silences. We all have within us a quiet, knowing “truth teller” that…
Spotlight: Where We Put Our Attention Will Take Us Where We Need To Go
Here find four programs that will help us focus our attention to lead us to a more vibrant life in work and relationships. Jenny Odell encourages us to contemplate the attention economy and notice how it is dominating cultures worldwide and how to resist it. Gallagher shows us why…
Spotlight: Angeles Arrien: The Wisdom Of A Wise Elder
Angeles Arrien, Ph.D. (1940-2014) left us with a tremendous legacy of wisdom and practical spiritual advice. She was a most beloved teacher who generously shared her gifts with all who came in contact with her. She was a unique and profoundly skilled guide whose influences included cultural anthropology, psychology, indigenous…
Spotlight: Into The Solution Box With Two Visionaries
These dialogues will move you, inspire you, inform you, and tilt the conversation from eco-efficiency to eco-effectiveness. The central question that drives McDonough’s work is: “How can we best serve all the children of all species, for all time?” R. Buckminster (“Bucky”) Fuller was an engineer, author, designer, inventor, and…
Spotlight: A Course in Miracles
How can we consistently choose love over fear? How can the practice of gratefulness lead us to joy? As Brother David Steindl-Rast tells us, “It is not joy that makes us grateful, it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” How can The Course in Miracles help us refine our awareness…
Spotlight: Trees: Our Loyal And Necessary Companions
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. tells us that trees are our essential partners in life on this planet and reminds us that not only are they indispensable to our well-being, they are sacred. Julia Butterfly Hill would agree as she lived in a Redwood tree for over two years. The…
Spotlight: Vitality, Energy, And Verbal First Aid
As we begin to come out of our caves of sheltering in place, the pressures of being out in the world can bring on stress. As we venture out of our homes we may feel bombarded by the chaotic energies of the world. How can we identify and cope with…