Meditation: The Gardening Of The Heart with Gary Gach
We all aspire to live a purposeful and meaningful life. Gach tells us that daily meditation and setting our intentions will point us in the right direction for living mindfully. Mindfulness doesn’t need to be an intermittent part of our life, like a faucet that turns off and on; it…
Getting Dirty: The Joy Of Growing Food In Your Own Backyard with Rachel Kaplan
The Urban Homesteading Movement is a do-it-yourself people’s movement that is happening all around the country, where people with no previous experience of farming are starting to grow their own food, and take care of what we think of as farm animals, chickens, goats, bees, rabbits, and quail. Rachel Kaplan…
Sacred Knowledge From The Indigenous Wisdom Of Hawaii with Hank Wesselman, Ph.D.
In old Hawaii, where the flow of primal energies created unparalleled natural beauty, one of the world’s most highly advanced spiritual cultures developed. Before his passing, Kahuna elder Hale Makua granted Dr. Wesselman permission to share the sacred spiritual knowledge he had gathered from working with this revered wisdom keeper…
Why We Love Our “Stuff” And The Stories It Tells with Lisa Tracy
It is hard to let go of things – so much so that in the U.S. we spend more than twenty billion dollars a year on self-storage units. Besides dealing with our own stuff, many of us are finding we are also dealing with our parents’ and grandparents’ stuff as…
Writing As A Way To An Awakened Life with Albert Flynn DeSilver
DeSilver describes how writing from the body rather than the head is a visceral experience that connects us with our intuition. He says, “Everybody is a creative person. It’s a matter of where you have been putting your attention. . . This is an invitation to reconnect with the power of…
A Missionary’s Daughter In Haiti with Apricot Irving
As a child, Apricot Irving grew up in a sparsely populated desert near Idyllwild, California. When she was six years old her father took a job as an agriculture missionary in Haiti. Suddenly she was surrounded by people everywhere. She says, “You wake up in the morning and people want to…
Adulthood II: A Whole New Stage In The Life Cycle with Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D.
People are living longer but this new longevity is not equivalent to an extension of old age or years added on at the end of life. Children have left home and many are facing retirement, but are not ready to spend this time on the golf course, or playing endless…
Aging With Grace And Humor with Susan Moon
Travel with Susan Moon to get an inside view on the perils and joys of aging. With humor and deep insight, she encourages us to move forward in our aging with courage and hope. There are many lessons along the way. She says much of it is “learning how to ask…
The Practice Of Settlement, Finding A Sense Of Place with John Lane
John Lane spent the first half of his life roaming and writing about life on the move. When he settled in one place, he proceeded to explore every facet of it including the topography, history, ancient and current citizenry, and industry. This exploration sharpened his sense of place, and serves…
Understanding Everything with Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.
What is the cosmos made of at its most fundamental level? Where does consciousness exist in the physical world? How does it fit into our understanding of evolution? What can you and I do to ensure the evolution of our species continues beyond the next generation? Ervin Laszlo has a…
