Episodes
Aug. 14, 2013
Astrologer Steven Forrest on Astrology and Authenticity
We are so excited today to be able to talk to well-known astrologer, author and teacher Steven Forrest about how we might use astrology to help us discover, challenge and encourage our own authenticity. Forrest is the author ...
Aug. 7, 2013
What does it mean to be present?
We hear this all the time: just be present. And the phrase is being used so much that even businesses are picking up on it. But what does it really mean to be present? Does it mean not leaving the room? Does it mean not makin...
July 31, 2013
Bargains that Kill
Bargaining is a stage, a phase really, of the acceptance process. And the acceptance process is very similar to the grief process in that the phases don’t really have any order, but they include denial, anger, sorrow, bargain...
July 24, 2013
I think therefore I am not?
Descartes told us that our thoughts proved our existence. But what if just the opposite is true? What if it isn’t our thoughts that prove our existence but our presence in the experience of the now? If those who teach meditat...
July 17, 2013
Special Encore Interview with Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson made a second visit to the Authentic Living show not so long ago, to talk to us about her book, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money and Miracles. And today we get to hear this amazing interview ...
July 10, 2013
What if I?
So, you are going through life making choices all day every day. But have you ever tried to discover all of the myriad “What ifs” plaguing your backroom brain-committee meetings? Well today, author Betsy Thompson is here to h...
July 3, 2013
The Transformative Power of Anger
Anger is a much despised emotion, considered by most to bring us all too close to the edge of that precipice over which we dare not fall, lest we have to consider ourselves to be bad or even evil people. For most religions, a...
June 19, 2013
Why do we suffer?
Part of the problem with our concept of heaven, and one of the primary reasons why we don’t live in heaven right now on planet earth, is because we suffer. The Buddha told us that we suffer because we are attached to things, ...
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...