Episodes

Do you know? How many times do you even actually consider what you want? Aren't we taught to ignore our wants. But what if you were to learn that our desires are the closest thing to the divine within us. In fact, one of the ancient root words for the divine means desire. But how do we know what we want, with all the shoulds, ought tos, have tos and obligations of everyday living to sort through? How do we know when its a real desire as opposed to a compulsion, or an ego aggrandizement? And if w...

Our guest today is Dr. Larry Dossey, author of several books including: The Power of Premonitions; The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things; Healing Beyond the Body; Reinventing Medicine and his latest and the topic of our discussion today: One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Mind and Why It Matters. Dr. Dossey is an internal medicine physician, former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/body Interventions, National...

Today we are so honored to have Iyanla Vanzant here to talk to us about her latest book, Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything. Iyanla Vanzant, NY Times Bestselling author; host of the number one reality show on the OWN network, Iyanla: Fix My Life; and frequent guest on Super Soul Sunday and Oprah’s Life Class, is easily one of America’s most profound spiritual leaders, who empowers individuals all across the globe to live into the truest self. Her body of work spans over thre...

How do we enhance the possibility of awakening more and more to the power of our own souls while we are still in the body? Obviously there are many paths, but one that is getting more and more attention is regression therapy and hypnosis. Today we are talking to Dr. Linda Backman, licensed psychologist and regression therapist, and author of Bringing Your Soul to Light. Linda has been in private practice for more than 35 years and is committed to guiding regression clients, as well as speaking, ...

Our guest today is Dr. Larry Dossey, author of several books including: The Power of Premonitions; The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things; Healing Beyond the Body; Reinventing Medicine and his latest and the topic of our discussion today: One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Mind and Why It Matters. Dr. Dossey is an internal medicine physician, former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/body Interventions, National...

Telling the truth sounds like a pretty boring subject. But actually, it is the most adventurous thing we do. Telling the truth means first finding the truth, and then being willing to engage with it to explore its meaning. And finally telling the truth means really telling it, with your mouth, with your body language, with your manifestations. Telling the truth to and about yourself is singularly the most effective way to open the door to the unconscious. But telling the truth is not necessarily...

The original plan was to interview Iyanla Vanzant today. But there was a mix-up for her and so she couldn’t make it. Good news, however: We are going to interview her next week. So consider this week’s episode a preparation for next week’s interview—when she really will be here. So this week we introduced her book Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything. And we discussed some of the host’s ideas on forgiveness. Listen in, and get ready for next week. You are going to love it.

Today we are very fortunate to get an opportunity to talk to bestselling author Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and winner of the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. He is an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts. His latest NY Times bestselling book, and the subject of our interview today, entitled Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, is also the winner of several awards, includi...

We’ve been talking about differentness, and how we might begin to celebrate rather than condemn it. One of the areas of most contentious difference is in the area of religion—supposedly a place in which we find our deepest spiritual roots. What started out as a pathway to the divine turned into a place of rules, in which everyone was supposed to the same. Those who didn’t follow our rules became a “they” as opposed to our “we.” So, now that we have an externally developed spiritual path for each...

Last week we talked to Andrew Solomon about differences. We are going to continue that topic today as we explore what it means to an individual to be different. One of the complaints clinicians commonly hear from clients is this feeling they carry of being alien in their families of origin. This would not be true it their differences were accepted, even celebrated, by family. Unfortunately, not only does family reject us for being different but so does the social milieu in general. Children who ...

Today we are very fortunate to get an opportunity to talk to bestselling author Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and winner of the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. He is an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts. His latest NY Times bestselling book, and the subject of our interview today, entitled Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, is also the winner of several awards, includi...

There has been much said over the past several years, particular among teachers of spirituality, about so-called “negative” feelings. Most of what we hear tells us that we should be thinking and feeling “positive” thoughts and feelings. Some offer us dire warnings that if we have these negative feelings we are going to attract “negative” events and relationships into our lives. Still others have told us that if we have so-called “negative” events in our lives, we must have attracted them through...

In our third week of our Countdown to Heaven, we are talking to Bruce Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief about his latest book, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. We all understand either the actuality of the honeymoon effect, or the dream of it. But most of us see it as temporary—because we have to get back to “real life.” The Honeymoon Effect is a state of bliss, passion, energy and health resulting from huge love. But we cannot imagine that we can ...

Alright, so we’ve heard that it’s possible for a person to experience heaven right here on earth, but how? How does a person stand fully inside him or her Self and live from that central organizing essence? Well, it’s a process. And this week we are going to talk about some specific case studies, that demonstrate how we can do this. Do we have to have a Near Death Experience? Do we have to have some major life changing transformational event? Do we have to meditate for hours and hours every day?...

What does it mean to have power? Where in our lives can we find it, where in our bodies and our minds? Do we know we have power when others cater to our needs and desires? Are we powerful finally when we are famous? What do we do with power and how do we do it? Today we are going to answer some of those questions in an interview with Rev. Raymont Anderson. Raymont is Holistic Transformational Life Coach, an Interfaith/Interspiritual and New Thought Minister. He is the founder and Senior player i...

Here we are again at another new beginning. At least it is one that most of us recognize as a new beginning. The problem, however, with new beginnings is that we think we have to throw out the old to have the new. We think of it in very black and white, purist terms. But what if you knew that you didn’t have to eliminate anything to have something new? Things don’t die when new things are born. Rather things are integrated when new things are born. But what does this mean? What does it mean to i...

…how would we manage our behavior? Won’t we just fall apart? Become the evil we always suspected we were? How will we keep ourselves from hurting others, from sabotaging ourselves, from being unkind, unloving, uncertain…from becoming the worst we imagine of ourselves? Won’t we need something else, like guilt or remorse, or fear to keep us in line? Well, what if you knew that there was someone living deep inside of you who operated out of compassion and passion and who, without the external onus ...

We live in a world where failure occurs every day. Where we fail, others fail us, and life itself seems to fail. We live in a world in which we may pray for salvation, for sustenance, for safety and security, for love and relationship, but our prayers seem to fail at the doors to the gods. And what about God—has the Western version of God failed to bring about good results from his judgment, his mercy and his love? It seems to be everywhere. But what if it were actually possible that there is no...

If we really can live in heaven here on earth, where is it? Where do we find that illusive peace and bliss for which we so long? And where do we even find the door to such a place, much less build a home there? Heaven has been hidden in the unconscious, so it is there that we must travel to find it. But the point of the unconscious is to keep hidden in safety what we are not ready to approach. Yet the unconscious is also the origin of all that we have already become. Every conscious aspect was o...

In our third week of our Countdown to Heaven, we are talking to Bruce Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief about his latest book, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. We all understand either the actuality of the honeymoon effect, or the dream of it. But most of us see it as temporary—because we have to get back to “real life.” The Honeymoon Effect is a state of bliss, passion, energy and health resulting from huge love. But we cannot imagine that we can ...

When we consider the possibility that we can inhabit heaven here on earth, the first thing we typically think of is bliss. When we think of a heaven which can only be inhabited after we die—we also think of bliss—the comfort and joy of meeting again with those loved ones we’ve lost. So, either way heaven must be bliss, right? So, if we can have heaven on earth, this means that we will have everything we want, right? There will be no unmet needs and all of our relationship, financial, parenting a...

In our third week of our Countdown to Heaven, we are talking to Bruce Lipton, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief about his latest book, The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth. We all understand either the actuality of the honeymoon effect, or the dream of it. But most of us see it as temporary—because we have to get back to “real life.” The Honeymoon Effect is a state of bliss, passion, energy and health resulting from huge love. But we cannot imagine that we can ...

One of our master teachers in the fine art of tuning in is Sonia Choquette. And she is here with us this week to talk to us about that very subject. Sonia is the author of 19 international bestselling books on intuitive awakening, personal growth, creativity, and transformational leadership including the New York Times bestseller “The Answer is Simple.” An expert on the six senses, she is inspiring a global movement to raise our consciousness to the truth that “we, as humans are Divine beings en...

Many of our New Thought or New Age or Human Potential Movement leaders are telling us that it is ego that keeps us from inhabiting heaven NOW. Others are telling us that it is fear. And still others are telling us that it is our thoughts. Traditional Western religions tell us that we are not inhabiting heaven now, because that is an impossibility. Heaven is a place far away from earth in some rarefied atmosphere of holiness to which only those who have become worthy of it, through the right ritu...