Dr. Ursula Goodenough is professor emerita of biology at Washington University, the president of the Religious Naturalist Association, and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved. This conversation explores the story of how science can inspire deep reverence and care for our shared, evolving world.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Info about Ursula’s latest book, The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved: www.sacreddepthsofnature.com

Religious Naturalist Association: https://religious-naturalist-association.org/

Gretchen “Bunny” Nash has worked for decades with children and adults facing emotional and behavioral challenges as well as various forms of trauma. In this conversation, Bunny shares how mindfulness practices can rewire our brains to foster stress resilience, compassion, and greater well-being for individuals and communities.

RESOURCES:

Bunny’s “Practicing the Daily Pause” course at the Earth & Spirit Center, beginning April 4, 2023: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/class/continuing-meditation-practicing-the-daily-pause/

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Learn more about the Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Elaine Miller-Karas and the Community Resilience Model: https://www.traumaresourceinstitute.com/tri-staff

Amelia and Emily Nagoski, authors of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Jill Bolte Taylor, author of Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey: https://www.drjilltaylor.com/

Sr. Toni Temporiti, PhD is the founder of Microfinancing Partners in Africa, an organization that provides loans to empower women who struggle with poverty. In this episode, Sr. Toni reflects on the power of listening, community, and courage for creating a more beautiful and sustainable world – one person, one community, one small loan at a time.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Microfinancing Partners in Africa: https://microfinancingafrica.org/

Dr. Tony Zipple is an expert in behavioral health and rehabilitation counseling, in both clinical and academic settings, with extensive background in executive leadership of large organizations. In this episode, we reflect on Tony’s experience with positive psychology, mindful self-awareness, and how individuals and organizations can flourish, especially amidst change.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Tony Zipple’s website: https://tonyzipple.com/

Incite Consulting Solutions: https://inciteconsultingsolutions.com/

Phil Lloyd-Sidle is an Earth and Spirit Center instructor who sees the linkage between mindfulness and social justice, including issues of incarceration, race, gender identity and sexual orientation, and the patriarchy. In this episode, Phil shares how mindfulness can help those on the margins – and all people – to embrace their own worth and value, navigate suffering, and cultivate compassion for themselves and others in our deeply interdependent world.

Note: The introduction and show notes to this episode have been revised to correct information in the guest's bio.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth and Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Louisville Vipassana Community: http://www.louisville-vipassana-community.org/

Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/

Insight Meditation Society: https://www.dharma.org/

Plum Village: https://plumvillage.org/

Day Schildkret uses found natural materials in outdoor settings to create Earth-based art whose beauty is utterly impermanent. He’s also the author, most recently, of Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change. In this episode, Day and I reflect on how nature, creativity, and ritual help us navigate change, make meaning, and remember our true wholeness and belonging.

RESOURCES:

Please support this podcast at https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Day’s new book, Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change: https://www.dayschildkret.com/books

Day’s websites:

https://www.dayschildkret.com/

https://www.morningaltars.com/

Day in Instagram: http://instagram.com/morningaltars

Day on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/morningaltars

Dr. Broderick Sawyer is a clinical psychologist who integrates mindfulness and compassion practices into his work with organizations and individual clients. This episode explores how mindfulness can inform psychological wholeness, promote healing from racial stress and trauma, and help overcome mind-states that perpetuate division.

NOTES AND RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Broderick Sawyer’s website: https://www.brodericksawyer.com/

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim are a husband and wife team of Senior Lecturers and Research Scholars at Yale University in the School of the Environment, the Divinity School, and the Department of Religious Studies, with specializations in East Asian religions and Indigenous religions. They co-direct the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and are the creators of the new Coursera series, Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community. In this 2021 episode from our podcast archives, Mary Evelyn and John discuss their decades of work at the intersection of ecology and the world’s religions, as informed by their mentor Thomas Berry and with the hopeful, deep-time perspective of our evolving universe.

RESOURCES:

Please donate to support this podcast and the Earth & Spirit Center nonprofit organization: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/category/podcast/

Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Coursera courses by Mary Evelyn and John:

Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/religion-ecology

Journey of the Universe: A Story for Our Times

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/journey-of-the-universe

Yale Forum on Ecology and Religion: https://fore.yale.edu/

Journey of the Universe film/book/podcasts: https://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/

Thomas Berry Website: https://thomasberry.org/

United Nations Environment Programme Faith for Earth Initiative:

https://www.unep.org/about-un-environment/faith-earth-initiative

Greenfaith: https://greenfaith.org/

Ecology and Religion, by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Washington DC: Island Press, 2014.

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams. New York: Celadon Books, 2021

Deborah Eden Tull is a Buddhist teacher, activist, author, and sustainability educator. In this conversation, we dive into her latest book, Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown. We reflect on how darkness is an invitation to open-hearted, full-spectrum living, fierce compassion, relational mindfulness, and hopeful, courageous dreaming in the service of life.

RESOURCES:

Please donate to support this podcast and the Earth & Spirit Center nonprofit organization: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/category/podcast/

Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Eden’s website: https://www.deborahedentull.com/

Eden’s new book, Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown: https://www.deborahedentull.com/luminous-darkness

Eden’s nonprofit, Mindful Living Revolution: https://www.deborahedentull.com/non-profit

Jason Shulman is a spiritual teacher who straddles the worlds of Jewish Kabbalah mysticism and Zen Buddhism. In this episode, Jason shares his practical, deeply grounded, nondual vision of reality and how it plays out in conflict resolution, the integration of polarities and paradox, and above and beneath all, love.

RESOURCES:

Jason’s school, A Society of Souls: https://www.societyofsouls.com/, https://www.facebook.com/asocietyofsouls/

The Foundation for Nonduality: https://www.nonduality.us.com/, https://www.instagram.com/foundationfornonduality/, https://www.facebook.com/FoundationForNonduality,

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ml_7AMW7UL15uD_CI9mQQ

Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/