Episodes
June 12, 2013
Inhabiting Heaven NOW
The concept of heaven has been distorted with so many of our fantasies about avoidance of struggle, suffering and pain. And since most of us can’t imagine a place on earth in which there is no struggle, suffering or pain, we’...
June 5, 2013
Putting an end to shame
Our biggest problem isn’t fear. It is shame. Shame defines us deep down in the recesses of our sense of ourselves. It informs us of our identity. It makes our choices for us and interacts with others through us. It dictates w...
May 29, 2013
Inhabiting Heaven NOW
There’s a lot of information “out there” right now about how to lower your stress, raise your joy level, increase your abundance and live from what some call the Higher Self—which of course means that we must do something wit...
May 22, 2013
Naming the Divine?
Don’t miss today’s clip of the upcoming Supersoul Sunday, in which we get the bigger picture on today’s top global headlines from Oprah, Rev. Ed Bacon, Elizabeth Lesser & Mark Nepo. And for our discussion today: There are man...
May 15, 2013
The Supermind
Not only are we going to get to hear another clip from Oprah’s 2-part SuperSoul Sunday interview with Maya Angelou today, but we are going to answer one of the pressing questions asked by today’s seeker: How do we move from t...
May 8, 2013
Oprah’s Supersoul Sunday and The Medial Path
This week, the Authentic Living Show exclusively announces Oprah’s new Supersoul Sunday series, beginning with Mother’s Day and her interview with Maya Angelou. Listen for clips of that show on Authentic Living this week. And...
May 1, 2013
Mystic Journey
If we were to set about to deliberately design a path that would bring us to our deepest essential self, could we do any better than the design of the soul on our lives? What does the mysterious journey of living really mean?...
April 24, 2013
Thomas Moore: A Religion of Your Own
Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul, a number one New York Times bestseller, as well as 18 other award-winning books, published in 25 languages, is coming back to the Authentic Living show to tell us how we can develop a...
April 17, 2013
The Purpose of the Past
We get a lot of double-speak when it comes to the past. Some tell us to forget about it: The past is over and done with, just don’t go there. Others tell us that the past is the key to the present. Which one is it? Or is it e...
April 10, 2013
Tapping into the River of Omniscience
Have you heard about the river that runs under the city? Yeah. It’s there. It’s a true story. You have to be willing to spelunk down into the darkness to find it, but it carries the whole city. It runs through the dark cavern...
April 3, 2013
How to work with Loss
For the third time, we are interviewing the gentle and powerful poet and author, Joyce Rupp. She is well known for her work as a writer, a spiritual “midwife, and a retreat and conference speaker—having led retreats throughou...
March 27, 2013
Authentic Power
Taoism teaches that it is the natural in us that is our power. And yet our society teaches that the natural in us is to be feared, for it is wild, untamed energy that will get us and others into heaps of trouble. But as we ta...
March 20, 2013
Help and Healing
So many of us, who consider ourselves to be more or less spiritual beings; so many of us, who consider ourselves to be Christian, or Muslim, or Buddhist, or Taoist, or any other religion, believe that being good means helping...
March 13, 2013
Bliss
So, we’ve spent the past 2 shows talking about the reality of real life in a dualistic world with its darkness and its blindness. Today we’re focusing on that elusive bliss—evidence for many of enlightenment. Bliss, joy, ecst...
March 6, 2013
The Dark
Must we have the dark to see the light? Is that the only purpose of darkness? Must we have the evil to see the good? What is the point? During this show we are going to explore the purpose of life from the perspective of dark...
Feb. 27, 2013
How do we know Truth?
My mother used to have a saying. She had a lot of those. But one she used to say a lot was: She/he wouldn’t know truth if it flew up and hit her/him in the face. And you know, sometimes she was right. Truth is, as they say, r...
Feb. 20, 2013
SEX!!!
Okay, now that I have your attention—let’s talk about intimacy. Real intimacy—of which sex is but a small, though important, part. Primary relationships—these are those had between a husband and wife, or two partners, whether...
Feb. 13, 2013
Encore Performance by Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson is coming back to the Authentic Living show for the second time this week to talk to us about her latest book, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money and Miracles. Most of us already know several o...
Feb. 6, 2013
Sophy Burnham on Intuition
Sophy Burnham, otherwise known as the “angel lady” comes to the authentic living show today to talk to us about one of her favorite topics, and the title of her latest book: The Art of Intuition. From one of the world’s profo...
Jan. 30, 2013
Got Wings?
Why don’t we have wings? I mean, think about it. We can do just about everything else, but we can’t fly, I mean, not without an airplane. Why not? Well, it could be because we are meant to grow our own set. And the kind of wi...
Jan. 23, 2013
Radical Awakening
We don’t generally think of awakening as a process of accepting what is. But our guest today has been working in Great Britain to awaken a generation of spiritual inquirers to the experience of abiding presence and peace in o...
Jan. 16, 2013
Manifest or Man-I-fest
The problem with all of our talk about manifesting, is that we don’t ever consider asking what it is within us that manifests. Jesus once said “I can do nothing of my own initiative.” And yet with all the talk out there about...
Jan. 9, 2013
Creating Your Life
How do people deliberately create the life they want—without creating it out of the intention of duality? Duality resides within us as a force, an energy to which we’ve given a lot of power. It tells us what to do based on th...
Jan. 2, 2013
The Spirit of a New Beginning
We’ve heard of the spirit of Christmas past, present and future. But what is the spirit of a new beginning? What is a new beginning? Here we are just a few weeks into the end of the Mayan calendar—have we begun again? Are the...