Last Sunday on Beyond Awakening, we broadcast my conversation with Thomas Hübl entitled, Higher Consciousness Under Fire: Where’s Your Samadhi When the Bombs Start Falling? Thomas Hübl is a fresh and original contemporary spiritual teacher. His work focuses on what he calls “spiritual competence” — increased awareness and freedom in relation to the subtle animating energetics that create the gross world and everything we experience. He works with both individual and cultural shadow with a special […]
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The Passionate Cry of Love and Freedom
This past Sunday’s Beyond Awakening featured my recent conversation with scholar/mystic Andrew Harvey entitled “The Ways of Passion and Illumination.” Over the past year I have been engaged in a series of “sacred conversations” with Andrew which have led to our deciding to teach together March 4-8 in Berkeley California. There’s a wildness and a joy in our connection as two passionate mystics and activists who feel called to convene a sacred, ceremonial ritual at […]
Integral Islam — An Inside View
Last Sunday, I was joined by Amir Ahmad Nasr for a conversation we entitled “The Birth Pangs of an Integral Islam.” It was an extraordinary conversation in that it provided the unique opportunity to get an “inside” view of one man’s journey to an Integral Islam. I think you’ll be inspired to hear Amir’s sober but fierce optimism about the evolution of consciousness in the Muslim world. Amir is the formerly anonymous Arab Spring activist behind the internationally […]
No Really—Change DOES Begin with You
Last Sunday, I was joined by Integral clinical psychologist, teacher, author, and commentator Keith Witt for a dialogue entitled, “We Are the Catastrophe, We Are the Salvation.” There’s much that I appreciate about Keith Witt—the combination of his wide-ranging intelligence with his empathic warmth; his extensive knowledge of developmental and evolutionary psychology and the insights these disciplines shine on the everyday issues of human relationships; and his skillful use of Integral theory to contextualize and […]
Don Beck’s 2nd Emancipation Proclamation
This past Sunday, I had a conversation with Don Beck entitled “Hard Truths and a Fresh Start: Facilitating the Flow after the 2014 Midterms.” Don’s work as the co-author of Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership & Change played a major role in the formation of the Integral Movement and many of his theoretical ideas, language, and real world applications were adopted by Ken Wilber and other Integral leaders and have become an important part of […]
A Higher We, Real Evolutionary Awakening, and a Trail of Blood and Tears
Last week, on October 15th, Tom Steininger and I held a follow up conversation to our October 5th Beyond Awakening dialogue, “My Guru Experiment: Twenty Years with Andrew Cohen”. We discussed what did and didn’t happen during that first dialogue and went into a deeper exploration of the intricate paradoxes surrounding the evolutionary experiments in the community of students of Andrew Cohen. Tom requested this follow up because he wanted to share more of his own […]
The Art of Sacred Conversation — a “Basement Tape”
This past Sunday’s Beyond Awakening featured my recent conversation with scholar/mystic Andrew Harvey entitled “Reckless Love and Friendship at the Edge”. It was the first in a series of “basement tapes” where we’ll be probing into a number of the most alive and edgy topics we’ve been contemplating in our exploration of “what really matters”. This first dialogue demonstrates what becomes available within the precious and dynamic container of sacred friendship. As we conversed, Andrew and I spoke […]
A Bold Experiment Continues
Last Sunday, I was joined by Tom Steininger for a conversation entitled “My Guru Experiment: Twenty Years with Andrew Cohen.” It was an edgy and timely dialogue, coming a year after the collapse of the global EnlightenNext network, and while Andrew Cohen is still on sabbatical to understand the lessons of that collapse and reckon with his shortcomings as a teacher and leader. I confess that I felt a bit nervous about this dialogue. There […]
Opening My “Blind” Eyes to What I Really Am
This past Sunday I was joined by Ole Vadum Dahl for a dialogue entitled “How Going Blind Opened My Eyes.” We conducted the interview from his home in Denmark, while I was on the road, teaching in Europe. Throughout our dialogue, Ole maintained a raw honesty as he described a journey of identity and change, crisis and redemption, and what it means to be more than who we think we are. What I especially appreciate about […]
Confirming Our Open Intelligence For the Benefit of All
This past Sunday’s Beyond Awakening featured a dialogue with Candice O’Denver entitled “Open Intelligence Outshines Experience — Uniquely in Each of Us.” Candice O’Denver is a brilliant and extremely well-educated mother and grandmother, as well as a true “Renaissance Woman” whose teachings are serving people all over the world. I have described her work as one of the most innovative spiritual teachings in the world today, but Candice rarely uses the word “spiritual” at all. During our […]
“Back to the Future”— a Universal Spirituality
Last Sunday, I was joined by the remarkable Swiss spiritual teacher Annette Kaiser for a dialogue entitled “Going into the Wild: Is a Universal Spirituality Evolving?” Something I deeply appreciate about Annette is that she is more dedicated to this universal service than to advancing herself as a teacher or expert. She has accomplished a great deal, having authored 12 books and owning and operating two retreat centers. She has inspired the heart intelligence and […]
Bruce Lipton’s Life Transformation
Last Thursday, I was joined by the remarkable biologist, author and speaker Bruce Lipton for “Learning to Walk My Talk: How Quantum Biology Changed My Life”. One of the things I really appreciate about Bruce is his warmth and vivacity. He’s so alive! And he really loves people and their potential. I first met him in Colorado over a decade ago, before the publication of his first book, Biology of Belief, and I was struck by […]
The Psycho-Physics of Love and Hope: Ervin Laszlo’s Radical Take on Deep Entanglement
Last Sunday, I was joined by the internationally-renowned scientist, philosopher and visionary, Ervin Laszlo for a public conversation we titled “The Self-Actualizing Cosmos: The Akasha Revolution in Science and Human Consciousness.” The conversation ranged quite widely, and some of what he had to say even startled me. I wasn’t surprised when he began by describing his synthesis of the radical holographic implications of the new physics, a paradigm for which he borrows the Sanskrit term […]
The Eye of the Needle and the Cave of the Heart: Cultivating a Pure and Single Heart in a World Stuffed Full of Way-Too-Muchness with Cynthia Bourgeault
It is a true delight to converse sacredly with the authentic and illuminated heart-mind of an uncommonly deep and intelligent mystic, and Cynthia Bourgeault is certainly such a being . So I’m honored and quietly excited that I will be joined on Sunday, June 15th at 10am Pacific by the great contemporary Christian mystic and teacher, Cynthia Bourgeault for a conversation entitled “The Eye of the Needle and the Cave of the Heart: Cultivating a Pure […]
The Sun Beyond the Clouds of Self
“The Path to Everything Good” is a riveting transmission of practical spiritual instruction, woven together with scientific and psychological insights, and grounded practical advice.