In this Part 1, Duncan and Deepak weave the story of the Buddha’s life into a variety of contexts, including the cinematic images inspired by Deepak’s conversation with his friend Shekhar Kapur, director of the 8 Academy-Award winning film, Elizabeth. The story as told by Deepak hews closely to the various historical accounts of the Buddha’s life, while being compellingly recounted as imagined "from the inside", since we all have the buddha, the "awakened one" within us.

More details on this episode go to http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/living-dialogues/episode011-deepak-chopra-buddha.html

In this Part 2, Duncan and Deepak go beyond the book itself and connect the story as told in the book to larger contemporary contexts, including the nature of mind and consciousness in relation to the latest discoveries of quantum physics, and how the spiritual quest and understanding in our time adds new liberating dimensions to those explored by Herman Hesse in his mid-20th century classic Siddhartha.

More details on this episode go to http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/living-dialogues/episode012-deepak-chopra-buddha-part-2.html

A unique intimate dialogue with Katie and Stephen about how they met, how they came to collaborate and marry, and the back-story of the evolution of this highly-praised new book, extending the power of The Work, as Katie gives her contemporary reflections on the timeless Tao Te Ching in its best-selling and most widely appreciated English translation by Stephen.

More details on this episode go to http://www.personallifemedia.com/podcasts/living-dialogues/episode013-byron-katie-stephen-mitchell-a-thousand-names-for-joy.html

A unique intimate dialogue with Katie and Stephen about how they met, how they came to collaborate and marry, and the back-story of the evolution of this highly-praised new book, extending the power of The Work, as Katie gives her contemporary reflections on the timeless Tao Te Ching in its best-selling and most widely appreciated English translation by Stephen.

More details on this episode go to http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/living-dialogues/episode014-byron-katie-stephen-mitchell-a-thousand-names-for-joy-part2.html

I’m Gangaji, and I’ve just spent a wonderful hour speaking with Duncan Campbell on his beautiful show Living Dialogues - keeping the flame of truth alive. And I’m really honored to be a part of it and I’m grateful that this is alive and functioning so beautifully. What a great mind you have, how much you can hold in your mind. That’s great! Such a great connection!

This is a highly illuminating dialogue on the ever-present paradox of "how to be in the world and not of it", drawing on the personal biographies and experiential insights of Gangaji and Duncan through the critical civil rights and anti-war movements of the 60s through the many conflicts world-wide in our time.

More details on this episode go to http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/living-dialogues/episode015-gangaji-diamond-in-your-pocket-part1.html

Part 2 of this very personal dialogue continues the exploration of "how to be in the world and not of it" by being connected to and immersed in life-giving community. The deep meaning and sense of "satsang" is directly experienced and felt.

More details on this episode go to http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/living-dialogues/episode016-gangaji-diamond-in-your-pocket-part2.html

In Part 1 of this amazing dialogue, Caroline describes in detail the miraculous revelation she received in her connection with Teresa of Avila, the beloved 16th century mystic and author of the revered spiritual text, The Interior Castle (as newly translated for our time by Mirabai Starr). These revelations became the source of her insights in this new book into the contemporary "mystical renaissance" that is going beyond the "New Age" and responding to the pull of evolution itself.

More details on this episode go to http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/living-dialogues/episode017-caroline-myss-entering-the-castle.html

In this Part 2 Caroline and Duncan expand upon the implications of the quantum leap of consciousness we are being called to by what Duncan calls "the evolutionary imperative of our time" and Caroline describes as the call for a movement of enlightened spiritual souls to make a difference in the world. As Caroline puts it with her customary penetrating directness: "The New Age is middle-aged and needs a makeover. We’ve had fifty years of exploring this new age human consciousness movement, and it’s not new any more". What’s next is what this dialogue memorably explores.

In Part 1 of this immensely interesting three-part comprehensive dialogue, Duncan and Joseph Chilton Pearce explore the themes that have permeated Joe’s astounding body of work, beginning with The Magical Child, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Evolution’s End, leading up to the radically revealing worldview in The Biology of Transcendence, embodied in the statement: "culture is the enemy of biology". And, from Joe’s definition of "culture", our acculturated conditioning is seen as opposed to evolution itself, as humanity is called to go beyond its modern and post-modern mind "either-or" consciousness to a "both-and" awareness capable of holding wholeness and diversity at the same time. As Joe puts it, we are hard-wired by our very brain and heart biological evolution to transcend our self-limiting contemporary culture-induced consciousness and realize our true humanity and divinity.

More details on this episode go to http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/living-dialogues/episode019-joseph-chilton-pearce-culture-vs-civilization.html

In Part 2 of this immensely interesting three-part comprehensive dialogue, Duncan and Joseph Chilton Pearce explore the evolution of the adaptive human brain with the appearance of the pre-frontal lobes, going beyond the reptilian, limbic (emotional), and neo-cortex tri-partite brain functions to enable us to go beyond our limiting cultural conditioning to a transcendent awareness. This transcendent awareness will enable and express a planetary unifying worldview, without which large parts of our species may not survive. As Joe points out, no culture in human history has had a higher rate of young people attempting or committing suicide than what we witness today.

More details on this episode go to http://www.personallifemedia.com/podcasts/living-dialogues/episode020-joseph-chilton-pearce-evolving-brain.html