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All Beyond Awakening Episodes
Tender contact with the wonder and peril of our time—with Jeremy Lent
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Beauty is Only Heightened by the Presence of What Threatens It—with Oscar Miro-Quesada
On Sunday, I was joined by Western-educated kamasqa curandero and shamanic adept don Oscar Miro-Quesada for: Living the Mystery: Opening Up to Gaia’s Song of Grief & Love don Oscar Miro-Quesada is a seasoned navigator of non-ordinary states of consciousness who helps people access realms of being where multidimensional powers are available for healing self, others and our beloved Mother Earth. He has been guiding ethno-spiritual apprenticeship expeditions to sacred sites of the world since […]
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Your Brokenness Leads You to Your Genius, Not to Despair
Last Sunday, I was joined by renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology, Michael Meade, for “The World is in Trouble and Needs Your Genius.” Michael is one of the founding figures of the men’s movement along with Robert Bly, Sam Keen, and Bill Kauth (The Mankind Project). He co-edited a best-selling anthology of the poetry of passage, “The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart,” with Bly and the great Jungian […]
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A Spiritual Death that Liberates Our Capacity to Show Up in Life — with Sarah Marshank
Last Sunday, I was joined by Sarah Marshank, for “The Dynamism of Stillness Emerging: Exploring Incarnational Non Dual Aliveness.” Sarah is a dynamic teacher of embodied feminine awakening and the author of the memoir, Being Self-ish: My Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother, which chronicles her dramatic life journey, ten years of meditative retreat, awakening, and her process of becoming a teacher of embodied emergence. She is also the founder of “Selfistry,” an educational […]
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When our joy can meet the world’s great need with Colin Beavan
On Wednesday, April 20th author Colin Beavan (aka No Impact Man) joined me for “Helping the World by Wanting What Actually Makes You Happy.” Colin Beavan is a well known voice on environmental issues, consumerism and human quality of life. His most recent book is How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness that Helps the World. In it, he invites readers to explore the practical spirituality that can arise from questioning […]
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The Great Reckoning—Making it a Great Homecoming with Michael Dowd
On Sunday, March 27, Michael Dowd joined me for a powerful, deep, searing public conversation we titled “The New Ten Commandments and the Coming Apocaloptimism.” Michael Dowd is an evolutionary theologian, bestselling author, and evangelist for Big History and an honorable relationship to the future. What I appreciate about Michael is that he combines the most commonsense virtues associated with religion — heartfelt access to tears, gratitude, wonder, inspiration, grief, and moral care (to the […]
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I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On: Facing the Heartbreaking Truth with Stephen Jenkinson
This past Sunday I was joined by activist, farmer, author and founder of The Orphan Wisdom School, Stephen Jenkinson, for a public conversation entitled: “Death Phobia and Grief Illiteracy: How They Distance Us From One Another, Our Planet, and Our World Crisis.” It was a rich conversation, animated by Stephen’s wry humor and unflinching contact with death and fear. We went deep with our inquiry of how it is possible to “die wise” in a culture that […]
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Falling in Love vs. Non-Separation: Evolutionary Spirituality in Dialogue
This past Sunday I was joined by integral philosopher and author Steve McIntosh for a conversation entitled: The Love of God and Non-Dual Samadhi: How Evolutionary Spirituality Integrates Our Highest Spiritual Experiences Steve McIntosh is an important integral philosopher and the author of three books. His just-released book is The Presence of the Infinite. He’s also written Evolution’s Purpose and Integral Consciousness. In addition to his work in spiritual philosophy, Steve is also co-founder and […]
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Going Beyond Mindfulness, Beyond Awakening, and Beyond Conventional Activism with Dustin DiPerna
On Sunday I was joined by Dustin DiPerna for “Waking Up Beyond Mindfulness. What kind of consciousness will really help save our world?” Dustin DiPerna is a dynamic young integral leader who has traveled all over the world, working as a bridge-builder, a scholar, a teacher, and an entrepreneur. He continues to make fresh, dynamic, original contributions to contemporary spiritual culture. He is also a friend. Dustin and I bonded immediately when we first met, even as […]
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Experiments in We-Mysticism with Patricia Albere
On Sunday I was joined by Patricia Albere for “Collective Awakening: What makes it possible? And why is it important?” Patricia Albere is the founder and director of the Evolutionary Collective in New York and San Francisco, where a committed group works inside a highly focused container that provides a rich environment for this shared consciousness to reveal its potentials. She has consciously structured her vision of a new culture of mutual awakening in very […]
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The Unexpected Gifts of “Scenario X”
On Sunday I was joined by revolutionary futurist and meditation teacher Peter Russell for a dialogue we entitled ““Supposing it’s too late…what then?” Peter’s combination of penetrating intelligence, discernment, and spiritual depth have kept him at the forefront of enlightened futurism for over 30 years. He continues push into daring, unexplored territory, with discriminating intelligence, courage and sincere, sustained care. He’s a brilliant thinking and conversation partner, who has expanded my own feeling contemplation of […]
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Grief, Loss, Tango and Freedom
On Sunday I was joined by Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi for a fiercely human dialogue we entitled “Falling in Love with Death.” Jun Po is the 83rd Patriarch of his lineage of Rinzai Zen. He began his Buddhist practice at Zen Center San Francisco in the early ’70s, later becoming a student of Eido Shimano Roshi in New York and subsequently a monk. He received inka from Eido Shimano Roshi in 1992. Interested in […]
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The New Bodhisattva and a New Kind of Political Activism
On Sunday I was joined by David Loy for “The Politics of Buddhism: Awakening from Institutionalized Greed, Ill-Will, and Delusion.” David Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is a prolific author, whose essays and books (including Money, Sex, War, Karma, The Great Awakening, and Lack and Trancendence) have been translated into many languages. His articles appear regularly in the pages of major journals […]
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No one knows how to do it: The mystery of being human
Last Sunday, I was joined by poet, author and philosopher of the soul, Mark Nepo for a dialogue entitled “the Practice of Being Human: Seeing with New Eyes in the Best and Worst of Times.” I appreciate Mark’s intense fidelity to some key values — life as a process and a practice which is all about learning, without end; felt experience and inquiry (as contrasted to solutions and answers); and a compassionate relationship to the ordeal […]
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