In this show, we celebrate the synchronicity that this episode was recorded on the International Day of Peace. Fittingly, we were honored to speak with two people who are each holding a beautiful vision of how peace can grow out of this global moment of polarity and division. In the first half hour we talk with Michael Lindfield, board member of Meditation Mount in Ojai, CA. In the second half of the show, we hear from peace advocate and poet Mandy Kahn, who reads from one of her recent works.

About our guests: Michael Lindfield has studied and applied the Ageless Wisdom teachings and been involved in Creative Meditation since the late 1960s through an affiliation with Sundial House in England (a sister group of Meditation Mount). He is a highly regarded consultant and coach with over 45 years of international experience in helping individuals and organizations unleash the creativity of the human spirit to meet the urgent needs of our times and the compelling call of a more just and joyful future. Michael is author of ‘The Dance of Change: an Eco-Spiritual Approach to Transformation’ (Penguin Books 1986) and numerous articles featured in psychology, education and business journals. He is also co-founder of The Science of Group Work Initiative and a member of the Community of Living Ethics in Umbria, Italy.

Mandy Kahn is a poet and peace advocate based in Los Angeles. She is the author of two poetry collections, with a third forthcoming in 2022. Her work is included in The Best American Poetry anthology series and she is the subject of the feature-length documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn. She presented a program of peace-building interactive poems at the Getty Museum in 2019. She is the writer-in-residence at Manly P. Hall’s Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, where she teaches a free weekly online class on the nature of peace called Peace Class and presents a series of peace-building concerts called I LIKE PEACE. She has given readings at Cambridge University, the London Review Bookshop and Shoreditch House in the UK, at Motto in Berlin, at Colette in Paris, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and at the New School in New York, and has been interviewed by BBC Radio, Pacifica Radio, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Flaunt Magazine and Issue Magazine. She is the 2018 recipient of the Shakespeare Prize in Poetry.