Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. Her new book is Finding Refuge: Heartwork for Healing Collective Grief. 
Read  our review of Finding Refuge from the July/August 2021 issue of Spirituality & Health. 
Rabbi Rami and Johnson start by defining racism throughout history. They explore ethnocentrism, white privilege, generational trauma, radicalizing yoga, the problematic nature of “color-blindness,” and more.  
“We are in physical bodies and yet we are not our bodies. But we need to recognize what our bodies are doing to other bodies as we remember our divinity. … We can hold both of these at the same time.”
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Michelle Cassandra Johnson, Finding Refuge

Embark on a transformative journey beyond fear-based traditions and parochial religion with Rabbi Rami Shapiro on “Explore Spirituality.” Tailored for free thinkers and the spiritually independent, Rabbi Rami, formerly the host of the Spirituality+Health podcast, answers your spiritual and religious questions and introduces you to leading thinkers investigating the cutting edge of human consciousness and civilization. “Explore Spirituality” listeners can expect a dynamic blend of humor, insight, and provocation that will leave you entertained, smarter, and inspired.

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Rami is joined by longtime friend Joan Tollifson to discuss Joan's compelling spiritual journey and perspective on the nature of being. Rami and Joan focus on her book Nothing to Grasp and the nature of being and suffering and Joan shares her experience dealing with challenging life circumstances growing up as both an amputee and a member of the LGBTQ community in the early 1960's, as well as battling  alcoholism and cancer. 
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Nothing to Grasp with Joan Tollifson

Rami is joined by special guests Ayal Feinberg and Frank Levy to discuss the changing face of anti-semitism and how modern academic approaches hope to  develop new ways to understand and fight anti-semitism in its many forms.
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Addressing Modern Anti-Semitism with Ayal Feinberg and Frank Levy

Perry Garfinkel is a veteran journalist, editor, frequent speaker, and author of the bestselling Buddha or Bust. His newest book is Becoming Gandhi: My Experiment Living the Mahatma's 6 Moral Truths in Immoral Times. 
An excerpt from the book, along with an edited transcript of this conversation, appears in the March/April 2024 issue of Spirituality+Health Magazine.
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Perry Garfinkel, How to Live Like Gandhi

Rebecca Martinez is the founder and executive director of Alma Institute, a nonprofit educational institution equipping students from marginalized communities to become legal psychedelic facilitators. She's served as an advisor to the National Psychedelics Association, the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, and the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance. 
Her new book, Whole Medicine: A Guide to Ethics and Harm-Reduction for Psychedelic Therapy and Plant Medicine Communities, is featured in the January/February 2024 issue of Spirituality+Health Magazine.
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Rebecca Martinez, Ethics and Psychedelic Therapy

Myra Goodman is the author of Quest for Eternal Sunshine: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey from Darkness to Light, in which she tells the story of her father, Mendek Rubin, who survived the Holocaust to become an inventor and sage. 
Myra's essay with her cousin Trudy Goodman, "Awaken to Spiritual Bravery," is featured in the January/February 2024 issue of Spirituality+Health. 
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Michelle Cassandra Johnson, Finding Refuge

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