Episodes

The simple fact of life is that we cannot have true change, lasting change without doing the deep work. Our guest today, Dr. Richard Moss, is here to tell us about how we can become the most balanced, awake, alive and loving persons we can be. We all talk about having wholeness, but we often look for the quick fixes, even in our spirituality. It takes real work, real psychological and spiritual work to have the kind of transformation we seek. According to Moss this kind of transformation is abou...

This show begins a series of shows in which we will start the countdown to Heaven—which will occur on December 13th of this year. Yes, that’s right. December 13th is Heaven’s coming out party on earth. On that day, the book, Inhabiting Heaven NOW: The Answer to Every Moral Dilemma Ever Posed, will be released, and the next phase of our spiritual evolution will begin. That next phase begins as we see that even the Bible informs us of our divine essence. But instead of being that essence, we striv...

Partners cheating on partners, friends gossiping about your most vulnerable and private information, paparazzi endangering lives to get that hot shot, parents betraying the bond of parenthood in a multitude of ways. These and other betrayals run rampant throughout our culture. In the face of this, it is even practical to invest in a relationship? After we’ve been so betrayed, how do we go about building enough trust within ourselves to make certain that we do not get betrayed again? How do we kn...

Most of us have been taught that fear is a problem to be overcome. Especially in the some of the spiritual community, fear is basically the F-word. It is the enemy. It keeps us from having what we want. It makes us live from what’s called the “lower self” rather than the so-called “higher self.” But fear, like all of our other emotions, just has a message to deliver. And in some cases that message can literally save our lives. Beyond that it can also be a warning bell, a determiner of the next s...

If we want to know the biggest barrier to our authenticity we can look to the hypnotic scripts we learned as we were growing up. But paradoxically, it is these same scripts that are the anvil upon which we hammer out the designs for an authentic life. We actually grew up in a hypnotic trance state in which the organizing center of our existence became the messages we received from primary relationships. In other words, we lost our center. These hypnotic scripts told us who to be and how to be it...

What is it really like to hear from the Universe or the divine? What can we look for in terms of knowing when it is a communique from the Universe? How do we determine the difference between a message from the divine and a message from our own confused emotions? Simran Singh comes to us today with a clear mastery of universal law and divine principle that reveals the soulful wisdom behind these communications. Simran considers herself to be a rebel humanitarian in the realms of metaphysics and s...

Somewhere along the way, those of us in the New Thought world—who don’t really believe in a devil or “his” purposes—transposed the face of that demonic force onto the ego. The ego is now considered to be the enemy—one that can possess us. When we are so possessed—it is thought—we think and feel so-called “negative” thoughts and feelings, and we act out negative behaviors. So, it seems we’ve changed the language a bit, but it’s still the same old scenario. And this evil force is not now, as it on...

Dr. Brian Weiss comes to the Authentic Living Show this week to help us find new levels of healing with regard to past life regression. He’ll be appearing at the upcoming I Can Do It Conference in Atlanta, GA to discuss this same topic and today we are fortunate to have him come here to give us a preview and to help us understand past-life regression and why it helps us heal and grow. Dr. Weiss is best known for his best-selling book Many Lives, Many Masters, and his scientific exploration of a ...

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 of several astrological bestsellers, including THE INNER SKY, THE CHANGING SKY, THE BOOK OF PLUTO, THE NIGHT SPEAKS, and the astrology classic YESTERDAY'S SKY. His most recent is THE BOOK OF THE MOON. His work has been translated into a dozen languages, and he travels worldw...

Most people would answer that they would be set free then to do all the monstrous things from which they currently hold themselves back in the name of civilized and moral behavior. We could do whatever we want, and what we want is definitely something that would otherwise get us in trouble. Right? But what if under all of our codes and constraints there is a person who knows peace, who understands life at its core level and wants only more peace and to give from the fullness of its essence? What...

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 of several astrological bestsellers, including THE INNER SKY, THE CHANGING SKY, THE BOOK OF PLUTO, THE NIGHT SPEAKS, and the astrology classic YESTERDAY'S SKY. His most recent is THE BOOK OF THE MOON. His work has been translated into a dozen languages, and he travels worldw...

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 making any plans for tomorrow, or having any memories of yesterday? Does it mean flying by the seat of your pants when it comes to job performance, relationship and parenting? Those are some fairly common questions we get when it comes to understanding the idea of being present. ...

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, bargaining and finally acceptance. Bargaining is the toughest of these phases because it provides us the illusion that we don’t really have to accept that tough reality, instead we can fix it. So, let’s say my father was indifferent to me—bargaining with this might mean I continual...

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 meditation, as the art of suspending thought or at least backing away from it to simply observe it, are correct, then why is thought still considered to be so very important to those who tell us that are thoughts create our realities? What if our realities are created by something ...

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 again. Most of us already know several of Marianne’s other books, including A Return to Love, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America and The Gift of Change, for as Time Magazine puts it, Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Wil...

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 help us both discover and come to terms with some of these what ifs. Betsy is the author of recently released “What Happens if I?” as well as,Walking Through Illusion, The Mirror Theory, LoveParent, LoveHuman, and You Are What You Think so Make Your Thoughts Delicious. Betsy’...

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, anger itself is thought of as a sin. Many New Age or even New Thought practitioners tell us of the dangers of being angry—dangers that range anywhere from anger’s power to make us operate from the “lower” self or the “ego,” to its supposed power to attract so-called “negative...

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, people, places, circumstances, etc. That if we could relinquish attachment we would no longer suffer. Some resent that idea because it seems to give the gods of fortune their way—and why should they rather than us? After all, why shouldn’t we have what we want and need? In a...

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’ve put heaven up there, out there, down there, anywhere, but here, on planet earth. What you are about to learn about heaven will change your thinking on this entirely. Heaven is not a place. It is not out there, up there, down there and it isn’t simply a place we go to afte...

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 what we repress and what we accept. In fact, it is shame that creates our fear. And the truth is that if we really knew who we truly are, shame would simply dissolve. But we live in a world in which to not feel shame is to not fit in. We live in a world in which our children ...

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 with the lower self. There’s also other talk that tells us all about what it will be like in heaven after we die. The problem with all of this talk is that we don’t seem to realize that we are already in heaven—we just don’t know it. Heaven is within us—but our trance state of ...

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 many names for the divine including, the Jewish tetragrammaton YHVY; ‘elohiym, ‘el and Jehovah; the Hindu Brahman, the Islamic Allah; the Bahá'í Baha; the Zoroastrian Ahura Mazda and others. We seem to have a need to name the divine. Well our guest today, Rabbi Wayne Dosick tel...

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 the personal mind to higher mind? Oprah tells us that it’s not enough to know that you should do a thing, you must also know how to do it. Well today is a “how to” kind of day. Here today to answer our question is Psychiatrist, Dr. Maurie Pressman, author of Living the SuperM...

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 this week, we’ll also be talking about how we walk in this world and still maintain our walk in the world of the soul? How can we deal with issues of survival, relationships, work, finances, health, politics, war, etc., while simultaneously living in the world of stillness,...