The New Dimensions Café

Dawna Markova, Ph.D. is the CEO emeritus of Professional Thinking Partners. She’s known Internationally for her research in the fields of learning and perception. She’s a former senior affiliate of the Society for Organizational Learning, originated at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Angie McArthur is the CEO of Professional Thinking Partners and co-founder of SmartWired and the Smart Parenting Revolution. As an expert in communication and learning styles, she has developed strategies for authors, corporations, CEOs, and the ongoing Executive Champions’ Workshop.

Tags: Dawna Markova, Angie McArthur, collaboration, CQ, collaboration intelligence, intelligence, mindset, market share mindset, mind share mindset, Ubur, Air B&B, diversity, thinking, intellectual passport, Smart Spark, teaching children, cooperation, compromise, competition, brain, confusion, Business, Personal Transformation, Work, Livelihood, Social Change, Politics, Education, Parenting

Marie-Rose Phan-Lê was born in Vietnam, emigrated to France, and later came to the United States. She is the founder and president of Healing Planet Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of healing and spiritual traditions through media. She is an award-winning writer, director, and producer of a documentary film and companion book. 

Tags: Marie-Rose Phan-Lê, authentic self, indigenous healers, Papa K, Kahuna, Lomi Lomi, Aunty Mary Fargas, ho’oponopono, Ayahuasca ritual, divine feminine, Shamanism, Indigenous wisdom, Travel, Spiritualty, Global Culture

Matthew Fox, Ph.D. is a priest and was a member of the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church for thirty-four years. He holds a doctorate in History and Theology of Spirituality and is a scholar in residence with the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as founder and president of Friends of Creation Spirituality.

Tags:  Matthew Fox, Creation Spirituality, Bible, Wisdom Tradition, feminist, mysticism , The fall and redemption, spirituality, Jesus, Stations of the Cosmic Cross, crucifixion, ritual, Burning Man, Meister Eckhart, Buck Ghost Horse, funeral ritual, grief, Wallace Black Elk, Indigenous Wisdom, Religion, Philosophy, Buddhism

Ralph White is cofounder of the New York Open Center, America’s leading urban center of holistic learning. He was the former editor of the award-winning Lapis magazine. Born in Wales, he now resides in New York City. His current activities include the Esoteric Quest series of conferences in Europe that focus on the lost spiritual history of the West. He also presents the Art of Dying conferences. He is the author of the memoir The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning (Divine Arts 2015)

Interview Date: 9/22/2015    Tags: MP3, Ralph White, Vision Quest, Peru, holistic retreat centers, Open Center, Esoteric Quest, Tibet, South America, Travel, History, Global Culture, Social Change/Politics

Paul Levy is a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence and is also a certified art teacher teaching both painting and drawing for a handful of years to people of all ages. He considers himself a wounded healer and is in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for more than 35 years and is the founder of the “Awakening in the Dream” Community; in Portland, Oregon. Along with these activities he is deeply steeped in the work of C. G. Jung. He is the author of several books including Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil (North Atlantic Books 2013), The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (Select Books 2018) and Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World (Inner Traditions 2021)

Interview Date: 12/15/2021     Tags: Paul Levy, Wetiko, C.G. Jung, shadow, psycho-spiritual disease, totalitarian psychosis, totalitarian psychosis, thirst for power, underworld, Hades, Kabbalah, Michael Mead, art of seeing, awakening, Corona virus, collective psychosis, collective madness, counterfeiting spirit, Paper and Glue documentary, creative spirit, Social Change/Politics, Philosophy, Health & Healing, Indigenous Wisdom, Intuition/Psychic, Mythology

Cerridwen Fallingstar refers to herself as a Shamanic Witch and has taught classes in magic and ritual for over 40 years. She gives lectures tying together psychology, spirituality, history, contemporary issues, and politics. She is the author of three historical novels based on her past lives. Her books include White As Bone, Red As Blood: The Fox Sorceress (Cauldron Publications 2009), White As Bone, Red As Blood: The Storm God (Cauldron Publications 2011), The Heart of The Fire (Cauldron Publications 2021) and Broth from the Cauldron: A Wisdom Journey Through Everyday Magic (She Writes Press 2021)

Interview Date: 12/7/2021      Tags: Cerridwen Fallingstar, Wicca, Zsuzsanna Budapest, Wiccan, witchcraft, magic, teachers, witch, evil, powerlessness, Spirituality, Ecology/Nature/Environmental

Peter Coyote is an award-winning actor, author, director, screenwriter, and narrator who has worked with some of the world’s most distinguished filmmakers. He’s won several Emmys for his narrations and was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest in 2011. In 2015 he received “transmission” from his teacher, making him an independent Zen teacher. He’s conceived mask training experiments and workshops as tools to give us a reprieve from the repetitive weight of our normal attachments and habits. His books include The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education (Counterpoint 1998/2015), Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle (Counterpoint 2015), Tongue of a Crow: A Book of Poetry (Four Way Books 2021) and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet Buddha: Masks, Meditation & Improvised Play to Induce Liberated States (Inner Traditions 2021)

Interview Date: 12/30/2021   Tags: Peter Coyote, intention, compassion, mask, enlightenment, waves in ocean, emptiness, dependent origination, Buddha, Zen, Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, engaged Buddhism, Buddhism, Meditation

Steve McIntosh, J.D. is a leader in the integral philosophy movement. He’s president and co-founder of the nonprofit, social policy and think tank organization: The Institute for Cultural Evolution. He founded the consumer products company Now & Zen and practiced law and held an executive position with Celestial Seasonings Tea Company. He is an honors graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and the University of Southern California Business School. Besides these accomplishments, he enjoys Olympic-class bicycle racing. He is the author of Integral Consciousness: The Future of Evolution (Paragon House 2011), Evolution's Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins (Select Books 2012), and The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness (Quest 2015)

Interview Date: 10/22/2015    Tags: Steve McIntosh, Integral Philosophy, evolution, cosmology, three big bangs, Big Bang, multi-universe theory, consciousness, evolutionary spirituality, Alfred North Whitehead, pluralistic community, Philosophy, Spirituality

Phil Cousineau is a freelance writer, filmmaker, photographer, art and literary tour leader, teacher of creativity, mythographer, storyteller, and an all-around Renaissance man. He's published over 40 books and has over 25 documentary film writing credits. He is also host and co-writer of "Global Spirit," a nationally broadcast television series. His books include Wordcatcher (Viva Editions, Cleis Press 2010), Beyond Forgiveness: Reflections On Atonement (Jossey-Bass 2011), Stoking The Creative Fires (Red (Wheel/Wiser 2008), Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words For the Long Night's Journey Into Day (Viva Editions 2014), The Book of Roads: Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakech (Viva Editions 2015), The Art of Pilgrimage revised (Conari Press 2021), The Lost Notes of Sisyphus (Sisyphus Press 2021)

Interview Date: 11/17/2021        Tags: Phil Cousineau, Joseph Campbell, Albert Camus, Greek mythology, Sisyphean task, struggle, metaphor, boredom, despair, rise of authoritarianism, The Great Gatsby, Rollo May, shame, Persephone, pandemic, Merope, Prometheus, Zeus, Mythology, Philosophy

Margaret Barkley is a teacher, poet, and curious observer of humans and nature. Her poetry has been published in the Redwood Writers poetry anthologies Beyond Distance, And Yet, and Crow, in which she was an Award of Merit poet. She holds an MA in Psychology with a focus on group facilitation and emotional intelligence and has taught for over twenty years, including at Sonoma State University and University of San Francisco. Her latest love is leading women’s retreats in the Tetons. She is the author of a book of poetry, Ribs (Finishing Line Press 2021)

Interview Date: 11/4/2021  Tags: Margaret Barkley, poetry, poems, listening, Art & Creativity, Writing