The New Dimensions Café

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The New Dimensions Café episodes

July 01, 2020 A Taste of Awakening - Arjuna Ardagh - C0306
Arjuna Ardagh is a writer, public speaker and founder of the Awakening Coaching Training in Nevada City, California. It's a training program dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life. His books include The Translucent Revolution (New World Library 2005). Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and into the Moment (Sounds True 2008), Last Laugh (Hay House 2013) and Better Than Sex: The Ecstatic Art of Awakening Coaching (Awakening Coaching 2013)
Interview Date: 6/7/2014 Tags: Arjuna Ardagh, awakening, limitless consciousness, Awakening Coaching Training, direct experience of the nature of consciousness, guru, coach, Michael Phelps, Bob Bowman, stories we make up about ourselves, unified field, Leonard Cohen, acquisition, contribution, happiness, meaning, money, income, 7 Innate Brilliances, Quantum Physics, quirky electrons, Silence of the Lambs movie, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Philosophy
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June 03, 2020 Cultivating Our Well-Being-Wisdom, Wonder, and Giving - C0295 - Arianna Huffington
At the time of this interview, Arianna Huffington was the chair, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group. She has been a nationally syndicated columnist, and is the author of many books. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. Her books include Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder (Crown 2014), Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream (Broadway Books 2011), On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life (Little, Brown and Company 2007).
Interview Date: 2/15/2014 Tags: MP3, Arianna Huffington, success, wealth, The Third Metric of Well-Being, Wisdom, Wonder, Giving, sleep, habits, meditation, group support, technology, Personal Transformation, Meditation
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May 13, 2020 The Awakened Teacher Within - Mark Nepo - C0495
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher and a most eloquent spiritual teacher. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation and in 2016 was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the Most Spiritually Influential Living People. He was part of Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want Tour in 2014 and has appeared several times with Oprah on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship. He is the author of many audio learning projects and over 20 books including Reduced To Joy (Cleis Press 2013), Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (Free Press 2012), The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom That Waits in Your heart (Atria Books 2016), The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meeting (Sounds True 2016), Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression (Sounds True 2019) and The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters (St. Martin’s Essentials 2020)
Interview Date: 1/14/2020 Tags: MP3, Mark Nepo, wisdom, quest for wisdom, joy, curiosity, wonder, sage, Naropa, embodied wisdom, Martin Heidegger, Nazis, being hypocritical, sphere of influence, shortcomings, The awakened teacher within, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Philosophy, Psychology
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May 06, 2020 Transformed by the Intimate Vastness of Nature - Gail & Porter Storey - C0279
Gail Storey was formerly administrative director of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. She is a writer, hoop dancer and comic performance artist. Porter Storey, M.D. has been a full time hospice physician since 1983. He is a national leader in hospice and palliative medicine. Together they bicycled on their tandem from Maine to San Diego, and years later trekked the Pacific Crest Trail. Gail is the author of The Lord's Motel (Persea Books 2011), God's Country Club (Persea Books 2011) and I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail (The Mountaineers Books 2013) (winner of the Barbara Savage Award). Porter is the editor of: The Primer of Palliative Care, 4th edition (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2010)
Interview Date: 10/2/2013 Tags: Gail Storey, Porter Storey, M.D., Pacific Crest Trail, trekking, river rafting, falling into river, flooding in Boulder, Colorado, Personal Transformation, Ecology/Nature/Environment, Relationship/Partnership/Sexuality
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April 29, 2020 Changing Our Cultural Sense Of Possibility - Arlene Goldbard - C0270 (1)
Arlene Goldbard is a writer, speaker, consultant, workshop leader, and cultural activist whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics, spirituality, the arts and artists. She is a fierce advocate for the power of human creative expression.
Interview Date: 6/11/2013 Tags: Goldbard, paradigm shift, Datastan, Stories, availability cascade, attention, resilience, possibility, Czechoslovakia Velvet , Berlin, Estonia, Banyan, endangered languages, Boal, education, Ravitch, Occupy Movement
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April 22, 2020 Into The Deep Numinous Night - Phil Cousineau - C0288
Phil Cousineau is a freelance writer, filmmaker, photographer, art and literary tour leader, teacher of creativity, a lifelong lover of the night, and an all around Renaissance man. He’s published over 30 books and has over 25 documentary film writing credits. He is also host and co-writer of "Global Spirit," a nationally broadcast television series. He’s a guest host for New Dimensions Radio. 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) and Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words For the Long Night’s Journey Into Day (Viva Editions 2014)
Interview Date: 12/20/2013 Tags: MP3, Phil Cousineau, night, Blue Mosque Reverie, Sultan Ahmet Mosque, creativity, Rilke, Circling the ancient tower, dominoes, café, numinous, Edward Hopper, Charles Bukowski, pay attention, paying attention, iconic images, storytelling, Arts & Creativity, Writing
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April 15, 2020 The Body Works for the Soul - Christine Page, M.D. - C0282
Christine Page, M.D. received her medical degree from the University of London in 1978. She’s an international seminar leader on healing and empowerment. She became a well-known bridge builder and played an important role in the acceptance of alternative therapies in the British Health System. She is the author of: Frontiers of Health (Rider 2010), The Healing Power of the Sacred Woman: Health, Creativity, and Fertility for the Soul (Bear & Company 2013)
Interview Date: 11/13/2013 Tags: Christine Page, illness, emotion, soul, intuitive, intuition, women's biological cycles, moon cycles, menstrual cycles, menses, Health & Healing, Women’s Studies
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April 08, 2020 The Pachakuti Mesa Ceremonial Tradition - don Oscar Miro-Quesada - C0275
Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is a respected kamasqa curandero and shamanic adept from Peru, and has been guiding cross-cultural, ethnospiritual apprenticeship expeditions to sacred sites of the world since 1986, with special emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. He's been a popular faculty member at numerous U.S. colleges and universities. He originated the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross-cultural shamanism, and is the founder of the Heart of the Healer Foundation. His works and programs have been featured on CNN, Univision, A&E and the Discovery Channel. Don Oscar Miro-Quesada is the author of: Lessons in Courage, Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life (co-author Bonnie Glass-Coffin)
Interview Date: 8/26/2013 Tags: don Oscar Miro-Quesada, Pachakuti Mesa tradition, don Celso Rojas Palomino of Salas, Chiclayo, don Benitao Corihuaman Vargas of Wasau, Cusco, Andean and Peruvian shamanic tradition, rituals, ceremony, communion, consecration, composition, connection, cooperation, spiral, pilgrima ge to sacred places, Indigenous Wisdom, Shamanism
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April 01, 2020 A Love Story of Death and Beyond - Carla Malden - C0251
Carla Malden has been a screenwriter and published author. She began her career as the assistant to renowned director Elia Kazan. With her husband and screen writing partner, Laurence Starkman, she co-wrote many screenplays and produced and wrote several award winning short films. She is author of When Do I Start? [co-authored with her father, Academy Award winning actor Karl Malden] (Limelight Editions 2004) and Afterimage, A Broken Hearted Memoir of a Charmed Life (Skirt! 2011)
Interview Date: 9/6/2012 Tags: Carla Malden, grief, loss, Death & Dying
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March 18, 2020 Waking the Healing Capacities of the Brain for Special-Needs Children - Anat Baniel - C0236
Anat Baniel was born in Israel and worked with the great master of movement Moshe Feldenkrais, who frequently taught classes in her parents' home. She has established an international reputation for her work with children with special needs. A clinical psychologist who, since the early 1980s, has refined her method for working with children and now runs the Anat Baniel Method facility in Marin county in Northern California. She created the Anat Baniel Method for working with special needs children and adults. She is the author of Kids Beyond Limits: The Anat Baniel Method for Awakening the Brain and Transforming the Life of Your Child With Special Needs (TarcherPerigee Books 2012).
Interview Date: 4/24/2012 Tags: Anat Baniel, brain science, working with special needs children, Health & Healing, Science, Parenting
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