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…

In this era of digital polarization and a lack of shared reality and political consensus, we’re navigating massive issues. How might we cope with the many different spheres of sense-making and meaning? Alderman highlights the rapid expansion of information exposure over the past 50 years, leading to an “algorithmic undertow”…

Sun’s experience of why people become polarized, go to war, cannot have any room or compassion for some other point of view, is because they are stuck in an old style of either/or thinking. She sees the current global challenges as indicators of an evolutionary leap in consciousness. She urges…

It is easy to get caught up in our mind’s version of who we are. Our thoughts do a great job of trying to define us as an island, as a discrete individual with a particular narrative about who we think we are. This construct of creating our personal myths…

Are you aware that you have access to the guidance of a streaming presence of infinite intelligence? It’s a presence that is always working for you as the voice of your inner genius. Rather than listening to the habitual voice of fear, this innate and powerful voice within is a…

Wheatley discusses the importance of creating “islands of sanity” in disruptive times to restore and awaken the human spirit. She emphasizes the need to face reality, understand the current landscape, and contribute meaningfully. Wheatley outlines five stages for solving complex problems: cooling (listening), enrichment (understanding diverse perspectives), magnetizing (inviting missing…

Here, we delve into Bolen’s Japanese American heritage and some of the mystical moments that have been guideposts in her life, including a transformative moment as a Girl Scout in the mountains and sleeping under the stars. Early in her life, she experienced five different schools as her family moved…

Microdosing involves taking small amounts of psychedelics, like LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, typically every other day, to enhance physical health and cognitive function. Research, including participatory citizen first-person accounts, indicates that microdosing has alleviated symptoms of depression, ADHD, chronic pain, long COVID, and many other ailments. Here, we discuss protocols,…

As an amateur naturalist, Brooke Williams is constantly awed by his encounters with the wild world. Since a life-altering dream about a dragonfly, the blending of the worlds of mythology and psychology hold him with equal footing with the biological world. After the dream the dragonfly would not be contained…

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is a comprehensive spiritual thought system that provides a structured course and self-study guide designed to transform one’s perception of the world with 365 daily lessons of specific practices. It teaches the physical world we perceive is an illusion stemming from our mistaken belief in…