The New Dimensions Café

Howard Eisenberg, M.D. is a medical doctor with additional postgraduate training in both psychology and psychiatry. He’s also been awarded a postgraduate degree for his parapsychological research on telepathy. He is the author of Inner Spaces: Parapsychological Exploration of the Mind (Musson Book Co. 1977) and Dream It to Do It: The Science and the Magic—Decoding Reality 2.0 (Syntrek® Inc. 2021)

Interview Date: 1/20/2023    Tags: Howard Eisenberg, consensus reality, imagination, lucid dreaming, three brain systems, soul gazing, neurodeviant, neurodivergent people, Golden Rule, Philosophy, Personal Transformation. Meditation, Dreams

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist, environmentalist, and award-winning author. In 2014, on the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Ms. Williams received the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award honoring a distinguished record of leadership in American conservation. She is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. She is the author of many books including Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Pantheon 1991), Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert (Vintage Books 2002), When Women Were Birds (Sarah Crichton Books: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012) and The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks (Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016)

Interview Date: 6/11/2016     Tags: Terry Tempest Williams, National Parks, sacred lands, mountain lion, Big Bend National Park, Jackson Hole, Grand Teton National Park, Grizzly bear, wolves, Yellowstone, keystone species, public lands, public commons, Ecology/Nature/Environment, History, Social Change/Politics, Animals, Travel

Carol Pearson, Ph.D. is an expert in depth psychology and transformational leadership as well as archetypal narrative intelligence. She has served as profession at several universities and colleges and also served as president of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. She was the senior editor of The Inner Edge: A Resource for Enlightened Business Practice. She is the author of such classic works as: The Hero Within (republished, Harper Elixir 2015), Awakening the Heroes Within (Harper Elixir 2015), The Hero and the Outlaw (McGraw Hill Education 2001) (co-author Margaret Mark), Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within (Harper Elixir 2016)

Tags: Carol Pearson, narrative intelligence, stories, curiosity, Zeus, storytelling, Persephone, fear, anxiety, yoga, archetypal downloads, Demeter, Mother Teresa, Dionysus, celebration, Mythology, Personal Transformation

Karan Bajaj was born and raised in India, and trained as a Hatha Yoga teacher in the Sivananda ashram in South India. He learned meditation in the Himalayas. He's been named one of India Today's Top 35 Under 35. He lives in New York City but soon will be returning to India with his wife and young daughter. He is the author of several novels, including: Johnny Gone Down (Harper Collins 2010), Keep off the Grass (Harper Collins, India 2008) and The Yoga of Max's Discontent (known in India as The Seeker) (Riverhead 2016).

Tags: Karan Bajaj, yoga, sabbatical, surrender, India, resilience, yoga retreat, cold showers, power of physical discomfort, Cambodia orphanage, Purusha, enlightenment, Work, Livelihood, Spirituality, Meditation

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who, for over three decades, has been teaching in the fields of poetry and spirituality. As a cancer survivor, Mark remains committed to the usefulness of daily inner life. He devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.He is the author of 17 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012) and The One Life We're Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your Heart (Atria Books 2016), His many audio learning courses include Staying Awake (Sounds True 2012) and Holding Nothing Back (Sounds True 2012)

Interview Date: 7/18/2016  Tags: Mark Nepo, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Prayers for the Cosmos, Jesus, wholehearted, halfhearted, suffering, pain, upaguru, fear, lack, Spirituality, Personal Transformation

May McCarthy has co-founded and grown six successful companies over her thirty-year career, with the largest growing to over $100 million in annual revenues. She is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, angel investor, and philanthropist. She is the author of The Path to Wealth: Seven Spiritual Steps for Financial Abundance (Hierophant Publishing 2015)

Tags: May McCarthy, gratitude, spiritual partner, CSO, Chief Spiritual Officer, intuition, gut instinct, goals, Self Help, Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Soul, Spirit Guides, Angels, pirit

Arjuna Ardagh is a writer, public speaker, and founder of the Awakening Coaching. He is the author of many books including: The Translucent Revolution (New World Library 2005) and Better Than Sex: The Ecstatic Art of Awakening Coaching (Awakening Coaching 2013). John Gray, Ph.D. is a leading relationship expert. His unique focus is assisting men and women in understanding, respecting and appreciating their differences. He is the author of: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (Harper 2012). Gray and Ardagh are co-authors of: Conscious Men (Self X Press 2016)

Tags: Arjuna Ardagh, John Gray, anger, passive aggression, hormonal differences between men and women, reptilian brain, monkey brain, men's groups, Relationship, Partnership, Sexuality, Women's Studies, Men's Studies

Mark Gober is an avid curator and researcher of scientific papers and books about consciousness, biological processes, psychic phenomena, near-death experiences, and quantum physics. He was a partner at the Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley, California, which advises technology companies on mergers and acquisitions. He has also worked as an investment banker analyst in New York and has been named one of IAM’s strategy 300 (IAM hosts the world’s leading intellectual property strategists). Gober graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University where he wrote his award-winning thesis on Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize-winning “Prospect Theory” and was elected a captain of Princeton’s Division I Tennis Team. He is the author of several books including:An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life (Waterside Productions 2018), An End to Upside Down Liberty: Turning Traditional Political Thinking on Its Head to Break Free from Enslavement (Waterside Productions 2022) and An End to Upside Down Contact: UFOs, Aliens, and Spirits—and Why Their Ongoing Interaction with Human Civilization Matters (Waterside Productions 2022) 

Interview Date: 11/4/2022   Tags: Mark Gober, nonhuman contact, Ezekiel’s vision, temptation of Jesus, alien encounters, benevolent aliens, malevolent aliens, Tower of Babel, Elohim, Old Testament, Frances Crick, double helix, DNA, Saviors in spiritual traditions, intention, demonic energies, goodness, love, fear, good and evil, darkness, light, Parapsychology/Paranormal; Spirit Guides/Angels/Spirit, History

Barbara E Hort, Ph.D. is a Jungian counselor. She provides consultation and training in the theatrical practice of psychodramaturgy in which she provides material on the psychological dynamics of a play that can be used by performing artists to enhance their storytelling. She is the author of Unholy Hungers: Encountering the Psychic Vampire in Ourselves and Others (Shambhala 1996) and Hollow Crown of Fire: A Discovery of Meaning in the Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Predecessors (White Horse Wordsmithing 2022).

Interview Date: 12/16/2022   Tags: Barbara E Hort, coronavirus, Dante’s Inferno, historical pandemics, Persephone, metamorphosis, Mary Oliver, uncertainty, wearing masks, shelter in place, tang ping, lying flat, slowing down, Health & Healing, History, Mythology, Personal Transformation

Mark Vanhoenacker is a seasoned, long-haul commercial pilot and a brilliant lyrical writer about his journeys as experienced both from the air and on the ground where he chronicles for us some of the planet’s great cities. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and a columnist for the Financial Times. Born in Pittsfield, in Western Massachusetts, he trained as a historian and worked in business before starting his flight training in Britain in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. He is the author of Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot (Alfred Knopf 2015), How to Land a Plane (The Experiment; Illustrated edition, 2019) and Imagine a City: A Pilot’s Journey Across the Urban World.

Interview Date: 11/4/2022    Tags: Mark Vanhoenacker, piloting, wonder, awe, Pittsfield MA, Tokyo, Keeler CA, road signs, Philosophy, Travel, Writing