Is death actually a transition from one kind of life to another? Are our loved ones close at hand even after death? Can we collaborate with loved ones from different sides of the veil of death? Is there a reality to “soul” and “spirit?” This deep dialogue explores these subjects…

Williams asks the central question for our world today, “How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?” She looks at the elements of erosion and evolution with regards to all that is shaping the physical landscape of our nation due to…

Percy suggests that rather than resigning ourselves to growing old we can choose to become an elder. This can be a time when we can make great contributions to our community. This deep dialogue explores what it means to be to be proactive in approaching aging and becoming an elder…

Mark Nepo has discovered that writing and other forms of expression can be especially effective in assisting our spiritual growth. Nepo tells of his experience, how he loosens the knot of his limiting mind when it is swirling with assumptions and conclusions. “When I am stuck in my mind, when…

Even though we ultimately desire to be happy, most of us find ourselves taking in sorrow, pain and tragedy through everything we see, hear and feel both in our own experience and through the media. It’s like we are breathing in suffering and this suffering, both our own and that…

Folktales, fairytales, and myths are the way our ancestors tried to tell truth and actually have the earth speaking through them. Shaw says that they are more than just human intelligence at play. Here he takes us on a deep dive into the importance of inviting story into our lives,…

We live in a world of overwhelming uncertainties that threaten to erode our innate ability to maintain inner peace, which is essential for life to flourish. This inner peace, as expressed by love, exists as goodness itself and is the strongest alternative to helplessness, resentment, hate, insanity, bitterness, and crazy…

The average American sees the word karma as shorthand for a system of cosmic justice in which everything we do comes back to us in some form of consequence. The usual adages are: “What goes around comes around,” or “We reap what we sow.” Karma is, by and large, incompletely…

For more than 40 years, Sam Daley-Harris has worked to help people find ways to “make democracy viable”. He advocates deep listening and engaging face-to-face with members of Congress. It’s about working beyond just donating money, signing petitions, or writing letters to the editor. It’s about deep engagement and participating…

Free Listening Through October 7, 2025: Cousineau, a clinical psychologist at Harvard University, discusses the roots and consequences of perfectionism, emphasizing its connection to a need for belonging and acceptance. She explains how perfectionism leads to burnout, stress, and anxiety. She introduces the concept of “inner algorithms” as coping patterns…