Sacred Stories

Are you aware of the contents of your own character? Laura Staley, author of the book Abundant Heart shares insights on self-discovery, self-awareness, and interactions with those you trust.

Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote and her father, enjoy as Laura  shares the prose What are the Contents of Your Character? and key themes from her book Abundant Heart: Thoughts on Healing, Loving, and Living Free, available from online retailers worldwide.

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Do you know you have an inner sacred haven you can cultivate?

In this episode, Laura Staley, author of Abundant Heart reads her poem, Sacred Haven and shares different ways you can access and practice inner quiet, introspection, and stillness for greater peace of mind and deeper awareness.

Laura Staley shares key themes from her book Abundant Heart: Thoughts on Healing, Loving, and Living Free., available from online retailers worldwide.

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We are at the threshold. Dr. Glen Martin, author of The Earth Constitution and Dr. Kurt Johnson discuss how human beings are in serious overshoot and faced with our own possible extinction. Our intelligence and ability to comprehend this situation gives us hope that we can make the transition to a planetary species and in this way overcome destruction of the climate leading to our own extinction.

But our history of identification with the clan, the tribe, the narrow religion, or the sovereign nation, makes most people unable to see the big picture, to realize the immense danger that confronts us and to change their behavior from narrow identifications to a global regime of cooperation, harmony and sustainability.

Our moment is a threshold moment. We must make the change effectively and rapidly on all levels, including government and economics, or we will simply go dark as a failure within this vast cosmos. The Earth Constitution is a powerful beacon pointing in the right direction.

Dr. Kurt Johnson has worked in professional science and comparative religion for over 40 years and serves on many international committees, particularly at the United Nations. As part of UNITY EARTH he co-edits its two magazines: The Convergence and Light on Light, and co-hosts its Convergence series on VoiceAmerica. In comparative culture and religion Kurt was on the faculty of New York City’s One Spirit Interfaith Seminary for 12 years and is the co-author of the very influential 2013 book on the future of world religions: The Coming Interspiritual Age. lightonlight.us

Dr. Glen T. Martin is professor of philosophy Emeritus at Radford University in Virginia. He is President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) and Executive Director of the Earth Constitution Institute (EC). His newest book called The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet examines the global environmental crisis in depth along with the world system causing this crisis. It shows how the Earth Constitution addresses this crisis in all its multiple dimensions. https://earthconstitution.world/

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Can anyone ever really see you, all of you? Can you really see, know, another person?

Your host, author Janis Harper, reads from Chapter 20 in her visionary novel, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story, in this “Press Pause with Anamika” segment of the series.

Anamika talks about how we exist to each other, and offers creative writing activities that will help you explore the relationship between you and the people in your life. If you choose to participate in the activity, all you need is pen and paper for writing.

In this second segment of the series, “Press Pause with Anamika,” Janis Harper reads in the voice of the psychic teacher Anamika, from the chapters where she is giving her teachings and offering activities to her students as a way to bring her teachings home. You’ll discover ways to engage with your own body’s healing, your past lives, your relationships, and other intriguing areas of self-exploration

Press pause in your day, in your life, and listen in to yourself. There are worlds waiting to be discovered.

Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story is available in print and ebook at online bookstores everywhere.

Janis Harper is a former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist, as well as a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in Jonas and the Mountain. Although she has published mainly nonfiction, she considers this novel to be the truest work she’s ever written. Janis lives in BC, Canada. For more about her, visit her website: janisharper.ca

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We have a crisis of selfhood going on in today’s world.

Dr. Glen Martin and Dr. Rashid Shaz discuss how social media has helped dissolve our traditional sense of self and has propelled us into a “post-truth world.” In Islam it is revelations from God that bring us from the darkness (of lack of truth and coherent selfhood) into the light.

The Earth Constitution is about the common good and the Quran affirms all efforts to establish a common good for humanity. The vision behind the Constitution is one of a transformed future predicated on the preciousness of each and the good of all. Hence, it is a prophetic document consistent with Islam and should be supported.

Dr. Rashid Shaz is an ISESCO Ambassador for Dialogue of Culture among Civilizations and a professor of English at the Aligarh Muslim University, India. Dr. Shaz is considered as one of the foremost ideologues of living Islam both in India and abroad. He has extensively delivered talks on various aspects of Islam in the Muslim world, Europe and America. Some of his writings have sparked serious debates on issues of strategic importance. His major published works include Islam: Another Chance?

Dr. Glen T. Martin is professor of philosophy Emeritus at Radford University in Virginia. He is President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) and Executive Director of the Earth Constitution Institute (EC). His newest book called The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet examines the global environmental crisis in depth along with the world system causing this crisis. It shows how the Earth Constitution addresses this crisis in all its multiple dimensions. https://earthconstitution.world/

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Your host, author Janis Harper, reads from Chapter 16 in her visionary novel, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story. In this second segment of the series, “Press Pause with Anamika,” Janis Harper reads in the voice of the psychic teacher Anamika, from the chapters where she is giving her teachings and offering activities to her students as a way to bring her teachings home. You’ll discover ways to engage with your own body’s healing, your past lives, your relationships, and other intriguing areas of self-exploration.

Anamika talks about how illness is not an adversary, but a teacher; it is not something to fight, but something to learn from. Your illness is calling your attention to something. Anamika shows you how you can heed its messages and engage in the personal exploration it offers. The medicine is in the illness. If you choose to participate in the expressive arts activity, all you need is pen and paper for writing and drawing, and space to move in.

Press pause in your day, in your life, and listen in to yourself. There are worlds waiting to be discovered.

Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story is available in print and ebook at online bookstores everywhere.

Janis Harper is a former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist, as well as a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in Jonas and the Mountain. Although she has published mainly nonfiction, she considers this novel to be the truest work she’s ever written. Janis lives in BC, Canada. For more about her, visit her website: janisharper.ca

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Do you have fearshame?

Welcome to an additional twelve-part series featuring poems and prose from host Laura Staley's book, Abundant Heart: Thoughts on Healing, Loving, and Living Free.

In this first episode, Laura features the poem, Fearshame and shares ideas for becoming aware of fearshame in your body and thoughts, dissipating these sensations, shedding limiting beliefs, and discovering ways you can respond with words and deeds from your core values.

Laura Staley shares key themes from her book Abundant Heart: Thoughts on Healing, Loving, and Living Free., available from online retailers worldwide.

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What are the implications of a planet that has gone global in economics, communications, and socially in many ways? How has globalization changed the face of civilization? What are its threats and opportunities?

Dr. Alexander Chumakov and Glen Martin author of The Earth Constitution Solution, talk about the phenomenon of globalization, an area in which Dr. Chumakov is an expert.

Insulated cultures and nations have suddenly become neighbors with the globalization of transport and communications, and the world has become very small. People have not adapted to this new reality and continue to cling to fragmented ideas of who they are in their disparate communities.

This is a major problem causing such phenomena as astronomical war expenditures that take away from out ability to deal with other global problems like climate crisis. A Constitution for the Federation of Earth would be a great gift to humanity toward solving all these problems.

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Chumakov is professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, editor-in-chief of the Age of Globalization Journal, member of the Presidium of the Russian Ecological Academy, member of the Board of AIPPh (Association Internationale des Professeurs de Philosophie). General Secretary of the Philosophical Society of the USSR (1987-1991); First Vice President of the Russian Philosophical Society (1991-2020). Participant and the leader of sections and round tables on global studies at the XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII and XXIV World Philosophical Congresses. International Gusi Peace Prize winner (2015). The author of more than 700 works on social philosophy, philosophy and methodology of global studies, including those in foreign languages.

Dr. Glen T. Martin is professor of philosophy Emeritus at Radford University in Virginia. He is President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) and Executive Director of the Earth Constitution Institute (EC). His newest book called The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet examines the global environmental crisis in depth along with the world system causing this crisis. It shows how the Earth Constitution addresses this crisis in all its multiple dimensions. https://earthconstitution.world/

Subscribe to podcast at http://bit.ly/SacredStoriesiTunes or say "Alexa or Okay Google play Sacred Stories podcast."

Your host, author Janis Harper, reads from Chapter 16 in her visionary novel, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story. In this second segment of the series, “Press Pause with Anamika,” Janis Harper reads in the voice of the psychic teacher Anamika, from the chapters where she is giving her teachings and offering expressive arts activities to her students as a way to bring her teachings home. You’ll discover ways to engage with your own body’s healing, your past lives, your relationships, and other intriguing areas of self-exploration.

Anamika talks about the body and illness, and how the make-up of your body is constantly in flux, ever-changing. She offers a way for you to discover a wider meaning of your body difficulty or illness, to reveal the wound so it can be healed. If you choose to participate, all you need is pen and paper for writing and drawing.

Press pause in your day, in your life, and listen in to yourself. There are worlds waiting to be discovered.

Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story is available in print and ebook at online bookstores everywhere.

Janis Harper is a former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist, as well as a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in Jonas and the Mountain. Although she has published mainly nonfiction, she considers this novel to be the truest work she’s ever written. Janis lives in BC, Canada. For more about her, visit her website: janisharper.ca

Subscribe to podcast at http://bit.ly/SacredStoriesiTunes or say "Alexa or Okay Google play Sacred Stories podcast."

Your host, author Janis Harper, reads from Chapter 12 in her visionary novel, Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story. In this second segment of the series, “Press Pause with Anamika,” Janis Harper reads in the voice of the psychic teacher Anamika, from the chapters where she is giving her teachings and offering expressive arts activities to her students as a way to bring her teachings home. You’ll discover ways to engage with your own body’s healing, your past lives, your relationships, and other intriguing areas of self-exploration.

Anamika talks about reincarnation and how all of your lives really exist simultaneously—and some, in other dimensions. She calls these incarnations or expressions of your greater self “partner selves,” and invites you to tap into a partner self through a short creative writing activity. If you choose to participate, all you need is pen and paper or a keyboard, for writing.

Press pause in your day, in your life, and listen in to yourself. There are worlds waiting to be discovered.

Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story is available in print and ebook at online bookstores everywhere.

Janis Harper is a former adjunct English professor turned expressive arts therapist, as well as a writer, singer-songwriter, and actor. Her lifelong passions for the arts, metaphysics, spirituality, and philosophy come together in Jonas and the Mountain. Although she has published mainly nonfiction, she considers this novel to be the truest work she’s ever written. Janis lives in BC, Canada. For more about her, visit her website: janisharper.ca

Subscribe to podcast at http://bit.ly/SacredStoriesiTunes or say "Alexa or Okay Google play Sacred Stories podcast."