Andrew Forsthoefel created for himself a coming of age ritual. After graduating from college, he took a year to walk 4,000 miles across America. Along the way, he experienced the hospitality and wisdom of hundreds of strangers and encountered countless remarkable stories. He reveals how he become a trustworthy listener. Tune-in and be inspired by this authentic tale. He is the author of Walking To Listen: 4000 Miles Across America, One Story At a Time (Bloomsbury 2017)
Tags: Andrew Forsthoefel, fear, generosity, asking questions, racial prejudice, stealth camping, Agape House, Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman, solitude, loneliness, Home Place, Navajo Reservation, Selma, Alabama, Death Valley, listening, Community, Personal Transformation, Death & Dying, Indigenous Wisdom, Peace, Nonviolence, Travel

Bienkowski grew up in Siberia, his family exiled by the Communist regime. In a life that began with nothing, living on soup made from discarded potato peelings, he learned that true wealth and happiness come from giving, and made his way observing the true value of gratitude, forgiveness, and understanding. He worked as a clinical psychologist for forty years, often connecting with institutionalized patients previously deemed hopeless. Since his retirement, he has continued to work as a teacher, lecturer, and hospice caregiver.  He is the author of One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others (Co-author Mary Akers)(The Experiment 2010)
Tags: MP3, psychology, death, dying, dreams, personal transformation, Siberia, Poland, Soviet Union, radical gratitude, hope, listening, survival, love, fear, Naikan, Philosophy, Psychology

Van Gelder launched a 12,000 mile trip across America to explore the many dynamic movements taking root around the country. She collected a myriad of stories and examples that give us hope for our future. She observes that the sustainable systems change that is required in these threshold times is now being modeled on local levels across the country. She is the author of: The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America. (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2017)

Tags: Sarah van Gelder, poverty, wealth, inequality of wealth, Otter Creek Montana, Coal strip mining, Bakken Oil fields, fracking, Turtle Mountain Chippewa, community, potlucks, isolation, DIT, Do It Together, Halima Cassells, swap meets, extractive economies, sharing economies, Greensboro N.C., farmers markets, Whitesburg Kentucky, Appalshop, Archimedes, Community, Social change/Politics, History, Indigenous Wisdom

Marianchild has trained herself as an amateur naturalist watching wildlife, leading nature walks, and giving slide presentations. Here she shares the delight that comes from walking slowly or sitting quietly in nature, including how we might go about discovering our local eco-system. Kate Maranchild is the author of: Secrets of The Oak Woodlands: Plants & Animals Among California’s Oaks (Heyday 2014)
Tags: Kate Marianchild, acorn woodpeckers, western scrub jay, corvids, titmouse, Oak Woodlands, newts, manzanita, keystone species, California ground squirrels, wasps, ants, poison oak, woodrat, Christmas bird count, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Personal Transformation

Discover what emotions are governing your lifeand learn how to release them and heal your addictions. Cushnir explores such ideas as why your brain perceives emotions as a threat to your survival, why you don’t need to understand an emotion to be able to release it, and how you can “surf” your way through difficult emotions.
Tags: Raphael Cushnir, MP3, feeling, feelings, emotion, emotions, Dark Night of the Soul, emotional resistance, sin, compulsions and addictions, addiction, compulsive behavior, gratitude, Personal Transformation, Buddhism, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help

For decades, Diana Leafe Christian has been researching and giving workshops on ecovillages. She feels that sociocracy is one of the most effective methods of governance for serving intentional communities. It is a whole-system science that goes a step beyond consensus- governing practices. It uses transparency and inclusiveness, and creates a resilient and coherent system.

Tags:  Diana Leafe Christian, intentional community, intentional communities, sociocracy, consensus governance, Earthaven Intentional Community, Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia, NVC, Non-violent communication, Marshall Rosenberg, conflict resolution, majority rule, circles, committees, power with, power over, Community, Social Change, Politics

In this very practical approach, from a Buddhist perspective, Dzoghen Ponlop Rinpoche leads us to the key to understanding life and death: understanding the mind. He explains, “The original state of our mind and consciousness is totally free and full of compassion. It's like someone sitting on a heap of garbage piled on top of some land under which there is a tremendous treasure."

Tags: Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Bardo, pain, fear, Karmapa, time space, emptiness, paradox, fantasy, anger, mind, Buddhism, Spirituality

Sylvia Boorstein shares her insights on how we can be more accepting of the negative patterns in our minds, and find happiness regardless of the challenges we face. As one of the most beloved American teachers of Buddhism, she brings warmth, humor, and real-life honesty to the principles of mindfulness and spiritual practice. 

Tags: MP3, Sylvia Boorstein, Peace, Meditation,  Kindness,  compassion,  four noble truths,  4 noble truths,  eightfold path, Work, Livelihood, Buddhism, Peace, Non-Violence

Physicist F. David Peat points out there is something deeper at work in the universe and in our personal lives than chance or even rational thought. Through his stories he explores the relationship between science, art, creativity, and culture.

Tags: David Peat, synchronicity, science, radio, quantum, philosophy, music, listening, Jung, F. Dave Peat, dialogue, David Bohm, consciousness, chaos

Ervin Laszlo talks about politics, economics, culture, consciousness, ecology, sustainability, and spirituality, all with the deftness of one who understands the unfolding of universes as well as the nature of particulate matter.

Tags: Ervin Laszlo, mind, integral systems, music, sustainability, beliefs, chaos, unsustainability, universal science, cosmos, material world, evolution, politics, economics, culture, consciousness, complexity, ecology, interconnection, interdependent, physics, community, Science, Philosophy, Spiritually