It's what everyone wants to know -- do I survive death? Where do I go? What do I become? Rinpoche Gaelek, expert in the ancient teachings of reincarnation, helps us examine the four questions most of us ask ourselves: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?  He tells stories of the mystical Tibet he lived in, as well as the contemporary America he is now a citizen of, and shares the wisdom of the great masters. He asks us to open our minds and see if we can entertain a bigger picture of life after life, even for a moment.

Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek 1939 -2017.  Born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1939, His personal name was Gelek; kyabje and rimpoche are titles meaning "teacher" and "precious," respectively. He  was recognized as an incarnate lama at the age of four. Carefully tutored from an early age by some of Tibet’s greatest living masters, Rimpoche gained renown for his powers of memory, intellectual judgment and penetrating insight. As a small child living in a monk’s cell in a country with no electricity or running water, and little news of the outside world, he had scoured the pictures of torn copies of Life Magazine for anything he could gather about America.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on November 2, 2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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Heather Pringle, science writer with a passion for archeology, tells the story of Europeans  who, over four thousand years ago, migrated to western China. Archaeologists assumed that these isolated finds were just a few lost travelers. Then In the 1970s, construction work revealed hundreds of Western-looking human remains—many mummified-- and their artifacts and domesticated animals. The latest dated to the Silk Road, at 500, A.D.  The earliest arrived in the Bronze Age, 4,000 years ago.  These controversial finds spent decades hidden in the back rooms of museums until recently.

Heather Pringle says she enjoys her work as a writer, and the out of the way places it takes her, and the memorable encounters with both the living and the dead.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on August 10, 2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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Tyler Volk traces James Lovelock's initial observation that in the search for life elsewhere, atmospheres may offer chemical signatures, which he applied to our own planet, to note the self-regulating cycles and feedback loops that help maintain Earth's adaptive, long-term stability. Our biosphere's various ecosystems, from the soil, ocean, and air are all regulated by living processes, are "biochemical guilds" that help the planet "breath" and  shape long-term dynamics in evolution. What role are we playing in our Anthropocene era?

Tyler Volk, Professor Emeritus of Biology and Environmental Studies at New York University, has "built math models for the cycling of elements in what were called "closed ecological life support systems (CELSS)" and his research in advanced life support helped NASA plan  systems that might someday keep astronauts alive on the Moon and Mars. His book is "Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth."

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on June 4, 2002 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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England’s prehistoric monuments span almost four millennia – from the time Neolithic farmers first began to build using timber, earth and stone, to the invasion of the Romans in AD 43. Scattered across the English landscape are hundreds of these mysterious sites, from isolated standing stones to massive stone circles, and from burial mounds to multi-ramparted hillforts.

Gary Biltcliffe  has dedicated the last 35 years to historical research and investigation of earth mysteries, dowsing ancient sites, searching for lost knowledge and early folklore.

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The indomitable Shuar of the Amazon--reputed to be the only tribe in the Americas that has never been conquered--have lived as warriors, hunters, cultivators, and healers for generations. Even in today's acquisitive, often wasteful world they defend their rainforests and sustainable ways of life and offer their philosophy of love, joy, and hope. The Shuar share their practices of shapeshifting, "dreaming the world," and ecstatic sex.  They explain the interdependence of humans and the environment, their formula for peace and balance, and their faith in arutam, the life-giving spirit of nature that allows each of us to transform ourselves.

John Perkins’ insider’s view leads him to crisis of conscience--to the realization that he must devote himself to work which will foster a world-wide awareness of the sanctity of indigenous peoples, their cultures, and their environments. Perkins’ books demonstrate how the age-old shamanic techniques of some of the world’s most primitive peoples have sparked a revolution in modern concepts about healing, the subconscious, and the powers each of us has to alter individual and communal reality.  John advises corporations, executives, and entrepreneurs on ways to make the transition from a Death Economy (exploiting resources that are declining at accelerating rates) to a Life Economy (cleaning up pollution, recycling, and other technologies that create regenerative life-styles and economies)

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on August 31, 2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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A critical challenge today is freeing human thinking from the limited beliefs and attitudes that lie behind many of our problems—personal, social, and global. As we look to distill the essential wisdom on human consciousness that is found in the world’s various spiritual traditions, we learn not to look “out there” to the world of experience for reality, but “in here”, towards the dimension of consciousness itself. 

“To explore the fundamental nature of the cosmos, we don’t have to travel to outer space, but to inner space; the one thing that we cannot deny and the one thing that science has yet to explore.” Peter Russell

Peter Russell is an author, teacher and speaker, who is recognized as one of the leading thinkers on consciousness and contemporary spirituality. He studied theoretical physics, experimental psychology, and computer science at the University of Cambridge, and meditation and Eastern Philosophy in India. In the 1970s, he pioneered the introduction of personal growth programs to corporations. Russell’s life has embodied that convergence, from studies in Theoretical Physics in Cambridge UK with Stephen Hawking, to first predictions of the modern internet in his book The Global Brain, to other books that offer pure formulations of psychology, creativity, consciousness and the fundamental nature of reality.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on May 14, 2002 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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The Ulchi culture, people of Eastern Siberia; Doro, an ancient Daoist way of being in the world; technology also comes from Nature; an ancient oral history coming back to Neolithic times; the natural art and skill of shamanizing; an intimate relationship with Nature and the Universe; nature as a system of complementary and cooperative experience; the paradox of individuation and connection; plat, the most important thing that is; everything is a verb; the healing is the singing; an ocean of fascinating creation myths; restoring the life force of the soul; natural, effortless perceiving through silent feeling.

The late Jan Van Ysslestyne, M.A. was a fluent speaker of the Manchu-Tungus language spoken by the Ulchi culture. She lectured on Classical Shamanism through the University of Washington, Burke Museum, Antioch and Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. Jan was a contributing author to the book First Fish, First People, Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim (University of Washington Press) and author of Spirits from the Edge of the World. Her research into the pre-technical medical practices of indigenous cultures in the territories of south-eastern Siberia was on-going at the time of her passing. https://www.2pathfindercounseling.com/resources/shamanic-healing-practices-of-the-ulchi

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Cultural Creatives are a fascinating demographic, a major mainstream subculture of American society that represent a collective emergence of progressive values, beliefs and lifestyles. Cultural Creatives is the term coined by Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., to describe the group of individuals who are the early adopts of progressive trends in a society. They are the ones who are creating and defining the future of life and living.  They are the experimenters, crafting new products, ideas, services, experiences and lifestyles.  He drew upon thirteen years of survey research studies on more than 100,000 Americans. The Cultural Creatives offers a more hopeful future and prepares us all for a transition to a new, saner, and wiser culture. 

Cultural Creatives is the term coined by Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., to describe the group of individuals who are the early adopts of progressive trends in a society. They are the ones who are creating and defining the future of life and living.  They are the experimenters, crafting new products, ideas, services, experiences and lifestyles.

From the Archives: This live interview was recorded on Dec 15, 2001 on the nationally syndicated radio program, hosted by Laura Lee . See more at www.lauralee.com

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Dr. Brian Weiss integrates concepts of traditional psychotherapy and the exploration of his patient's spiritual unconscious.  Regression therapy can heal us. Through the process of remembering, symptoms diminish, and a strong sense of relaxation and well-being often emerges. Belief in survival of the soul goes against the scientific model, which assumes that all phenomena are physical, are grounded in time, can be measured and have a rational explanation. Brian says his research substantiated the effectiveness of past-life therapy.

Dr. Weiss is an American psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and author who specializes in past life regression. His writings include reincarnation, past life regression, future life progression, and survival of the soul after death. A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami.

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An 45,000 to 80,000‐year old bone artifact from a Neanderthal cave has caused some serious head‐scratching among academics. From four holes drilled in the bone, a Saskatoon musicologist demonstrated that it was a flute. Furthermore, the holes correspond to the four most basic notes on the traditional ‘diatonic scale,’ which modern composers love to revile as an arbitrary recent Western fabrication. Discovered in Slovenia in 1995, it was dated using the Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) technique.  The bone is commonly called the “Neanderthal flute” thought to be the oldest known musical instrument ever found. Bob suggests that this discovery provides powerful practical evidence supporting the idea of natural or acoustical foundation to the evolution of the (Do, Re, Mi Scale) diatonic scale. 

Robert Martin ("Bob") Fink (1935 - 2016)  As a musicologist, Bob achieved international fame in the musicology community for his Internet essay on the world's oldest known flute, the Neanderthal Flute, and books, research and essays on the origins of music, most of which can be found in hundreds of music libraries worldwide. 

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