Crossing the Boundary - with Alan Levin

My conversation with Mark Rudd and the transforming of his embrace with violent revolution to non-violent, practical progressive organizing. It's a bit of a raucous interview sharing our similar backgrounds, diverging paths and finding closer but not the same perspectives on our current political and social reality. Fun and hopefully meaningful to many. Mark wants it shared with especially "young" folks.

More information about Mark can be found at MarkRudd.com.

Ken shares on many subjects ranging from Jewish ancestry, Taoist philosophy and practice, and Native American healing. Great teachings for all spiritual seekers.

More information on Ken can be found at https://www.qigonghealing.com/ and https://www.sacredearthcircle.com/.

David Nicol brings groups together to practice meditative processes that aim to change the world. He is the author of the book, Subtle Activism – The Inner Dimensions of Social and Planetary Transformation. Here is my conversation with him about his journey towards his paradigm shifting and world changing work.

Professor Carroy "Cuff" Ferguson talks with me about consciousness, the multi-dimensional nature of reality, and how that intersects with our personal and collective experience as humans navigating issues of peace, justice and our issues concerning race.

The practice is one that I learned from my good friend and teacher of many years, Ralph Metzner, who joined the ancestor spirits in March of 2019. It’s a very helpful way to focus your attention before going on a journey of any kind, whether inward for healing, growth or exploring and expanding consciousness, or outward through the world. Similarly, it can be used at the end of a journey for opening to and expressing gratitude.

“Communing with the Realms of Life on Earth” begins with a short meditation to center, balance and open to a fuller integration of body, mind and spirit. We then invoke (or call attention to) the spirits of the different realms: place, time, the four directions, the animals, plants and fungi, minerals, ancestors and humans. We do this for the good of ourselves and all life on Earth.

More at the Crossing The Boundary blog: http://www.crossingtheboundary.org/communing-with-the-realms-of-life-on-earth/

Dr. Ed Tick is a profound teacher and healer who works with the relationship of the Warrior Archetype to the healing of the traumas of war, PTSD and moral injury. His work with Veterans of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan has included bringing groups of Veterans to Vietnam for reconciliation ceremonies with "enemy combatants" from the "Viet Cong" and National Liberation Front. In this interview he shares about his own development and his need, as an anti-war activist, to cross boundaries of belief in order to sit with deep empathy and compassion with the wounded soldiers who have fought America's wars.

Paula Green has a lifetime of peace and justice activism and has founded organizations that have helped people reach across boundaries in war and violence ridden areas all across the world. She founded Hands Across the Hills to help folks "depolarize" the chasm dividing us now in the U.S.. Here she shares here about her life and amazing work.

My conversation with Naftuli Moster. We explore Naftuli's personal transitions from Hasidic child to activist for secular education in ultra-Orthodox yeshivas. He is the founder/director of Yaffed, a nonprofit organization founded by individuals raised within Hasidic and Haredi communities, and is committed to improving secular education in

My conversation with Ciaron O'Connor, a leader in Braver Angels who hosts his own interview series at the Braver Angels website (braverangels.org). Here he talks with me about his life, his work in the movement to depolarize America, meditation and psychedelics and more.

My interview with Arthur Green, author and teacher of Jewish Mysticism and the re-infusing of deep, experiential spirituality in Judaism. Our talk includes his personal life transitions into a religious life as well as his thoughts bearing on the meaning of Jewish identity, universal spirituality, the perennial philosophy and Israel/Palestine.