Spotlight: Opening the Doorway to our “Heartmind” – The Wholistic Approach
Buddhist teacher Ethan Nichtern describes ”heartmind” as an entwinement of our head, the cognizing, logical, reasoning intelligence, and our heart, the feeling intuitive, emotive intelligence. He exhorts us to turn our heartmind into our home – a place to live that is safe – and encourages us to welcome our…
Spotlight: The Bible – The Most Influential Book in Western Culture
Whether or not you read the Bible, whether or not you consider yourself religious, you are affected by the Bible’s influence on society. For this reason, it may be very interesting to discover just what the Bible says and what it doesn’t say. The Spotlight programs this week highlight the…
Spotlight: Father Bede Griffiths – A Mystical Bridge of East and West
Father Bede Griffiths 1906 – 1993. In all the many interviews we’ve done over the years, rarely have we met a truly “holy one” in the full sense of what that means. Fr. Bede lived in a rarified energetic. In the mid-1950s Fr. Bede went to live in India as…
Spotlight: Igniting a Sense of Place: Know Your Neighborhood
More and more we have become isolated from one another. Even though we are more connected than ever through such technology as social media, increasingly we are living in an age of loneliness. The work of becoming connected begins locally – in our own neighborhoods. Here are four programs specially…
Spotlight: Into the Solution Box with William McDonough
From the lineage of Thomas Jefferson and Buckminster Fuller emerges another brilliant prophet of the possible. Architect William McDonough is carrying the banner of “anticipatory design science” to this generation. The central question that drives McDonough’s work is: “How can we best serve all the children of all species, for…
Spotlight: Jean Shinoda Bolen
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. She brings emphasis to the question for meaning and the need for a spiritual dimension in life to all aspects of her work, while also taking into account the powerful effects of archetypes…
Spotlight: Transforming Our Life Through Writing
Through the years many guests on New Dimensions have expounded on the joys and benefits of writing and journaling. They know firsthand how this self-expression can enrich our self-knowledge, open us to our innate creativity, and turn our suffering into healing. These four programs, specially selected from the New Dimensions archive, will inspire…
Spotlight: Coping with Chronic Stress
In these post-modern times, humans are having to face relentless amounts of stress. These programs from the New Dimensions archive feature four wisdom leaders who share techniques to help us with practical and insightful ways of coping. Finding Happiness, Purpose, And Joy with Dan Millman Program #3404 MP3 Download Buy…
Spotlight: Emotions Do They Help or Hinder?
Daniel Goleman’s blockbusting book Emotional Intelligence has brought the conversation about emotions to a new level. What are the pitfalls and gifts that our emotions bring to our lives? What are some aspects of emotional intelligence? Are actions more important than analysis? Why does our brain perceive emotions as a…
Spotlight: The Good News: The Universe is Alive and Interconnected
Biologist Elisabet Sahtouris says “Life gets creative in a time of crisis.” Philosopher and cosmologist Thomas Berry tells us, “If we can’t see the stars at night, it’s not just pollution or toxicity of the planet, it’s a loss of our soul, our imagination, of the experience of what it…