Part Two of an ongoing series of chapter by chapter analysis of Andrew Harvey's latest book "Radical Passion - Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action".

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is in private practice in West Los Angeles and is author of " The Now Effect" and co-author of, A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn. He synthesizes the pearls of traditional psychotherapy with a progressive integration of mindfulness to achieve mental and emotional healing. He contends that we have the power to transform our traumas and habitual patterns that keep us stuck in perpetual cycles of stress, anxiety, depression, or addiction and step into greater freedom and peace. He offers practical strategies to calm our anxious minds, transform negative emotions, and facilitate greater self acceptance, freedom and inner peace

Andrew Harvey is an internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, translator, mystical scholar, and spiritual teacher. Harvey has published over 20 books including The Hope a Guide to Sacred Activism (Hay House) and Heart Yoga the Sacred Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism (North Atlantic Books). Harvey is a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford from (1972-1986) and has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality, as well as, various spiritual centers throughout the United States. He was the subject of the 1993 BBC film documentary The Making of a Modern Mystic. He is the Founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism in Oak Park, Illinois, where he lives. His website is www.andrewharvey.net.

Estelle Frankel, MFT is a practicing psychotherapist and spiritual advisor who blends the healing wisdom and spiritual practices of Kabbalah with depth psychology. She has taught Jewish mysticism in Israel and throughout the U.S. for over thirty-five years and is on the teaching faculty of Chochmat Halev Center for Jewish meditation in Berkeley, Ca. She is the author of numerous essays and the award winning book: Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness.

The written word is central to Sharon Salzberg’s teaching and studies. In her early Buddhist studies at the University of Buffalo, she discovered Chogyam Trungpa’s book, Meditation in Action. She later heard him speak at a nearby school: he was the first practicing Buddhist she encountered. While studying in India, Shunryu Suzuki’s book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind profoundly influenced the direction of her meditation practice.

She is a regular contributor the the Huffington Post, and was a contributing editor of Oprah’s O Magazine for several years. She has appeared in Time Magazine, Yoga Journal, msnbc.com, Tricycle, Real Simple, Body and Soul, Mirabella, Good Housekeeping, Self, Buddhadharma, More and Shambhala Sun, as well as on a variety of radio programs.

Various anthologies on spirituality have featured Sharon Salzberg and her work, including Meetings with Remarkable Women, Gifts of the Spirit, A Complete Guide to Buddhist America, Handbook of the Heart, The Best Guide to Meditation, From the Ashes—A Spiritual Response to the Attack on America, and How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism.

In a role reversal, Judy Martin comes in and interviews Dr.Jennifer about Dr.Jennier's just released book "Your Ultimate Life Plan: How to Deeply Transform Your Everyday Experience and Create Changes That Last". Join them for a look at what you will find and the reasons that you'll want to order this book TODAY!

Tara Brach is a leading western teacher of Buddhist meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. She has practiced and taught meditation for over 35 years, with an emphasis on vipassana (mindfulness or insight) meditation. Tara is the senior teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. A clinical psychologist, Tara is the author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha and True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart (Bantam, January 22, 2013).

Will Taegel walks in two worlds. One reflects his Indigenous shamanic training and the other his psychological and scientific research. In his seventh decade he returned to graduate school to earn a second doctorate, a Ph.D. concentrating on an integration of ecology and quantum fields. Author of The Many Colored Buffalo and Wild Heart, The Mother Tongue is his eighth book. He has held various clinical positions and academic appointments, including Dean of the Faculty at Wisdom University. He and his spouse, Dr. Judith Yost, engage in the spiritual practices of rainwater and solar collection and are functionally off the grid. They benefit from the gardens of their spiritual community, the Earthtribe.

The Blissful Chef is the creation of Christy Morgan. That's me in the photo holding an apple…because an apple a day keeps the doctor away right? I am a vegan macrobiotic chef and cooking instructor. My business includes things like healthy cooking classes, lectures, private instruction in people's homes, consulting and corporate team building. My first cookbook Blissful Bites (available on Amazon and where books are sold) came out in September 2011 and I'm so excited to share it with you!

A Little History

Healthful cooking wasn’t always my passion. I got a degree in fashion design from The University of Texas then moved to Los Angeles to work in wardrobe for movies and television. Let me tell you, it was not working out so well. "Breaking into the biz" is as hard as they make it out to be.

Thankfully I befriended several vegans in LA, and was shown my first PETA video, Meet Your Meat, by my dear friend Sue (who owns a vegan restaurant called Counter Culture in Austin). We made the decision to go vegan together. I had no idea then that teaching and cooking for others would become my true love in life. But after working for free in the crazy world of Hollywood and being totally unhappy, Sue suggested a culinary school in Austin to me that was mostly vegan called The Natural Epicurean Academy of Culinary Arts. I took a trip to Austin to visit the school and I fell in love with the vibe and the people. I moved back the following month.

My Vegan Macrobiotic Journey

I wanted to help people and have a career that was compassionate. Leaving the world of fashion behind I dove straight into culinary school, which happened to be macrobiotic and gave me an understanding of optimal health that I couldn’t experienced just being vegan. So what the heck is macrobiotics? Good question. It's one of those cool things that is hard to explain in a sentence or two. People study it their whole lives and there's a lot of Eastern philosophy and Chinese Medicine that goes into it. It's pretty awesome actually and I feel blessed I was able to learn that stuff. Here's a post on what it means to me and here are some websites you can check out with more information. My favorite books on the subject are Macrobiotics For Dummies by Verne Varona and Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics by Jessica Porter.

Culinary school strengthened my knowledge of nutrition and diet, deepened my passion for food, and gave me the tools to truly help others. After graduating, I moved back to Los Angeles to follow my new dream of helping others find the balance and health benefits that I was now experiencing.

What's Going On Now?

After 4 years of cooking and teaching in Los Angeles, I joined the online world, where I post videos and blogs allowing me to share my knowledge, passion and delicious recipes with countless fans around the globe. When people want to make lasting impacts on their health and lifestyle they look for The Blissful Chef. I hope you take a visit to my blog and subscribe in the left side bar. I have a very busy life and business so I'm not able to post every day, but what I do post is good quality stuff! Quality over quantity right? I'm always looking for guest bloggers so shoot me an email if you want to share something or a recipe with my peeps

Dr. Siegel, who prefers to be called Bernie, not Dr. Siegel, was born in Brooklyn, NY. He attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. He holds membership in two scholastic honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated with honors. His surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He retired from practice as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale of general and pediatric surgery in 1989 to speak to patients and their caregivers.