The New Dimensions Café

Sheldon Norberg received his training at the Academy of Intuition Medicine and has developed an extensive practice in meditation and energetic space healing. He became an adjunct faculty member at the Academy of Intuition Medicine while earning his B.A. in Psycho-Spiritual Healing at San Francisco State University. He is a Certified Practitioner of Chi Nei Tsan (Chinese Organ Massage), a Certified Hypnotherapist, and a non-denominational minister. He has trained in Holotropic Breathwork®, Alchemical Divination, Shamanism, and Feng Shui.  He is the author of Healing Houses: My Work as a Psychic House Cleaner (North Mountain Publishing 2010)
Tags: Sheldon Norberg, psychic, ghosts, emotional charges in home, hard to sell house, Native American spirit, spirit world, sacralize, intuition, Parapsychology, Paranormal, Intuition, Psychic, Science

Margaret Wheatley is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher.  She began caring about the world's peoples in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in postwar Korea. She is co-founder and President Emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works with people around the world who strengthen their communities using the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions, and environment. She is a guide in leading people back to understanding who we are as human being able to create the conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community, and love. She is a grand contributor in creating an Island of Sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas.  Her books include Leadership and the New Science  (Berrett-Kohler 1998), Perseverance (Berrett-Kohler 2010),Turning To One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope in the Future (Berrett-Kohler 2009), So Far from Home: Lost and Found In Our Brave New World (Barrett-Kohler 2012), Who Do We Choose To Be: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity (Berrett-Kohler 2017)
Tags: Margaret J. Wheatley, Meg Wheatley, leadership, despair, Warriors for the Human Spirit, nonviolent, generosity, aggression, activism, expectations, disappointments, hope, fear, staying present, cycles of civilization, useful action, not attached to outcome, Community, Community, Meditation, Philosophy, Buddhism, Social Change/Politics

Pilar Jennings, Ph.D. is a writer and researcher who has focused on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation practice. She received her Ph.D. in Psychiatry and Religion from Union Theological Seminary, and has been working with patients and their families through the Harlem Family Institute since 2004. Dr. Jennings is also a researcher at the Columbia University Center for Study and Science and Religion as well as a facilitator of a Columbia University Faculty Seminar. She is a long-term practitioner of Tibetan and Vipassana Buddhism and has also trained as a Buddhist chaplain through the Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Her books include Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism (Wisdom Publications 2011) and To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action (Shambhala 2017)
Tags: Pilar Jennings, psychotherapy, suffering, desire, frustration, disappointment, loss, resilience, resiliency, greed, inner resources, friendly curiosity, happiness, Buddhism, Community, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Psychology

Dan Millman teaches worldwide, speaking to women and men from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment, and the arts. He is the author of many books including: Way of the Peaceful Warrior (H.J. Kramer 1994) (adapted into a major film starring Nick Nolte and Amy Smart) and The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World (New World Library 2011) Tags: Dan Millman, arising moment, Self Help, Philosophy, Personal Transformation, Psychology

Jacques Vallee, Ph.D. is one of today's most widely respected researchers of unexplained aerial phenomena. He earned a Masters Degree in Astrophysics while living in France and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University. His life experience was the model portrayed by François Truffaut in the Steven Spielberg award winning film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He is the author of numerous books, including: Passport to Magonia, (his seminal work) and Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times (co-author with Chris Aubeck) (Tarcher/Penguin 2010) Tags: Jacques Vallee, UFOs, Parapsychology/Paranormal, Intuition/Psychic 

Don Lattin is a journalist covering alternative and mainstream religious movements. His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazine and newspapers. He's been a commentator on many television news programs. He is the author of many books including Jesus Freaks; A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge (HarperOne 2008), Following Our Bliss: How Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today (Harper Collins 2004), Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium (co-author  Richard Cimino) (Jossey-Bass 2002), The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America (HarperOne 2010).  Tags: Don Lattin, Richard Alpert, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, psychedelic research, History, Social & Political Change

Cathy Hawk is founding director of Get Clarity International. She along with her partner, Gary Hawk are experts in human energy systems and have mentored and consulted with thousands of individuals and business leaders to turn human energy into peak experience and peak performance. They are the co-authors of Creating the Rest of Your Life: An Atlas for Manifesting Success and Excellence in Life and Work (Brilliance Press 2007), Get Clarity, The Lights-On Guide to Manifesting Success in Life and Work (Get Clarity Press 2011), Get Clarity for Powerful Partnering: From Power Struggles to Co-Creative Adventures (co-author Theresa Byrne) (Amazon Digital Services 2018)
Tags: Cathy Hawk, negative words, positive words, words that symbolize conflict, shorthand language, words have vibrational frequencies, deadline, timeline, knocking it out of the park, overwhelmed, exhausted, stop look and listen, stumbling block, Personal Transformation, Philosophy, Business

Jane Hirshfield is a poet, translator, and essayist and is the author of many collections of poetry and other books, including three collections of women poets from the past. Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, the California Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, and other honors. Her poems appear regularly in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry and have been included in six editions of The Best American Poetry. Her poetry books include The October Palace (HarperCollins 1994), Lives of the Heart (Harper Collins 1997), Women in Praise of the Sacred (HarperCollins 1994), Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Perennial 1998), After (Harper Collins 2006), Given Sugar, Given Salt (Harper Collins 2001), The classic translation of the ancient Japanese court women, The Ink Dark Moon (Vintage 1990), Come, Thief (Knopf 2011), Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2015), The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf 2015)  Tags: Jane Hirshfield, poetry, Art, Creativity

Robert Augustus Masters holds a doctorate in psychology and is an experienced psychotherapist, trainer of psychotherapists, and teacher of spiritual deepening. His integral, intuitive work blends the psychological and physical with the spiritual, emphasizing embodiment, authenticity, deep shadow work, emotional openness and literacy, and the development of relational maturity. His books include Divine Dynamite: Entering Awakening's Heartland (Tehmenos Press 2006), Transformation Through Intimacy: The Journey Toward Mature Monogamy (Tehmenos Press 2007), Meeting the Dragon: Ending Our Suffering by Entering Our Pain (Tehmenos Press 2008) and Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us From What Really Matters (North Atlantic Books 2010)  Tags: Robert Masters, Spiritual bypassing, Spirituality, Personal Transformation

Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D. is the daughter of Margaret Meade and Gregory Bateson and is a cultural anthropologist. She served as the Clarence J. Robinson’s Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University from 1987 to 2002, when she became Professor Emerita. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Center of Aging and Workplace Flexibility at Boston College, and, until recently, was President of the Institute of Intercultural Studies in New York City.  She is the author of many books and papers, including Composing a Life (Grove Press 2001), With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (Harper Perennial 1994), Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery (Steerforth 2010) and Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf 2010).
Tags: Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D., longevity, Adulthood II, beyond reproductive years, elderhood, mentoring, play, golf, long life, Social Change/Politics, Arts & Creativity, Personal Transformation, Philosophy