The Exploration Of The Rainbow Body And The Resurrection Of Jesus with Father Francis Tiso, Ph.D.
Free Listening, Interviews
The Rainbow Body is the dissolution of the material body at death. In many schools of Buddhism it is considered to be the most significant attainment. Father Tiso’s main spiritual teacher suggested that he travel to Tibet to gather eye-witness accounts of the dissolution of the body of Kenpo A…
Offering Comfort and Dignity to Deeply Forgetful People with Stephen G. Post, Ph.D.
The family of caregivers of those who are cognitively impaired are our true unsung heroes. Often without respite nor compensation they serve those who have an Alzheimer’s diagnosis and other forms of dementia. Alzheimer’s can also have a component of early onset but most diagnoses show up as we get…
Breaking The Silence Across The Divide Of Death with Matthew McKay, Ph.D.
Most people believe the loss of the body is the loss of life. When his 23-year-old son Jordan was suddenly shot and killed, for Matthew McKay, it was not the end of Jordan’s life. It was the beginning of a quest to penetrate the veil of death through some extraordinary…
Toltec Insights And Truths with don Miguel Ruiz
Many of us have appreciated the four agreements brought to us by don Miguel Ruiz. For many years they have assisted us in altering old behavior patterns that no longer serve our lives. Briefly they are: do not take things personally, stop making assumptions, be impeccable with your words, and…
Aging: A Tender And Ferocious Time with Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D.
What does the territory of aging look like in a society that worships youth? When a realization flashes into our consciousness that we are aging, we tend to tighten up with fear. Negative images of our parents, grandparents, and friends loom before us. Anderson counsels us to move from that…
Becoming A Trustworthy Listener with Andrew Forsthoefel
Andrew Forsthoefel created for himself a coming of age ritual. After graduating from college, he took a year to walk 4,000 miles across America. Along the way he experienced the hospitality of strangers and encountered countless remarkable stories. After several months on the road Andrew began to realize that people…
How Words Can Change the Outcome of a Crisis Situation with Judith Simon Prager, Ph.D.
Dr. Prager’s book, The Worst is Over, is hailed as the ‘Bible’ for crisis communication. This deep dialogue explores the power of Verbal First Aidtm in helping someone who is in fear, shock, stress, or trauma. She illustrates, with many stories, how particular words and phrases and tone of voice can be…
Illness As A Message From The Soul with Christine Page, M.D.
Christine Page suggests there is an underlying psychological and emotional component to illness, and this makes up the soil of the body. Page believes illness is a lived experience of the mind/body/spirit and not just a physiological episode. When working with someone, she asks herself, “What is the underlying disturbance…
The Journey Of Losing A Soulmate To Cancer with Carla Malden
When you lose someone, well-meaning people give you books full of supposedly uplifting platitudes: “time heals all wounds;” “there is a purpose to this;” “you will find closure.” But, as non-religious baby-boomer Carla Malden says, she found them useless. She shares the highs and lows, sparing nothing in her truth-telling. You will…
Reclaiming Illness and Death as Natural Parts of Life with BJ Miller, M.D.
Statistics show that only 10 to 20% of us will die without warning. That means most of us have a choice as to how to orient ourselves for the inevitable. Where we will die and, most importantly, how to spend time meanwhile. Next to birth, death is one of our…