How are we to mindfully navigate this technologically saturated environment? Here, four pioneers in the information age contemplate such questions as how the “Infosphere” is changing our collective metaphors. They suggest it is influencing the way we perceive and think. They help us navigate toward trustworthy information to not fall…

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…

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me. Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760) Jewish mystic and healer, regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism “This quote moves me so deeply because it’s perplexing and I think the most powerful things are those things that…

As I prepare for an interview, I’m not surprised about how often I run across a reference to the wisdom of physicist Fritjof Capra, Ph.D. He is often quoted by New Dimensions guests. In addition, we’ve been privileged to have hosted Capra many times on our program series. I vividly…

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience. Alex Steffen: Futurist author of Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century “What is really radical…

Kristi Nelson knows the deep joy that springs from simply being alive. This perspective has grown out of her own struggles with stage IV cancer. It led her to explore the practice of gratefulness. And she’s discovered that living with gratefulness is more than just another task to perform, it’s…

I remember reading Jean’s book Goddesses in Every Woman and then producing a New Dimensions’ program with her on that subject. It was 1984 and was a significant and most profound moment in my life as I discovered the goddess Athena for the first time. Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is…

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could all see themselves as…

Here we explore what the Internal Family Systems [IFS] model encompasses and how healing our own inner world can create ripples of compassion that extend from ourselves to our communities. These internal parts of the self can debilitate us with paralyzing fear, shame, feelings of not being good enough, and…

These four programs are specially selected from our archive and include a scientist, a pioneer in the exploration of human consciousness, a Buddhist monk, a physicist, and an environmentalist who share their extensive experience of social change, the essence of nonviolence, and how love and compassion must be embedded in…