To Huston Smith each religion of the world is a precious jewel in a string of pearls. Celebrated author of the World's Religions, he also lives them. In his 80's he practices yoga daily, belongs to a Methodist church, and prays to Allah five times a day. Teacher, mentor and inspiration to the multitudes, Huston is the living embodiment of world religions in a lifetime of practice, study and contribution.Dietrich Klinghart, M.D., Ph.D., is a Western-trained medical doctor and psychologist, also familiar with holistic methods, who wields the ability to get to the heart of human pain through their families - even generationally rooted pain. In his model, the Five Levels of Healing, he recognizes that the physical body is but one level of truth and introduces the territory and interventions applicable to other non visible levels, including the physical, electromagnetic, mental, intuitive and soul levels. Understanding how deeply we are all connected, he holds great hope for this work because in healing individuals the whole family is shifted.
In this program from the Omega Institute, poet Robert Bly, a student of Islamic culture, shares his perspective on the post-September 11th world. Bly also talks about what he calls "the flattening of the culture," and the problems that arise when there no longer exists a hierarchy or vertical line of respect for the important people in our immediate lives and society. He says that we are not respecting the Muslim world and instead are trying to flatten their vertical view of God.
If you believe we are spiritual beings having a human experience rather than humans searching for spirituality, then Jackie small is speaking to you. With this lens, Jackie began pioneering the presence of soul in the world of psychology, and found a calling teaching that addiction is more than just a problem, but a call to find one's soul.Soul-based psychology teaches us the principles of how to be human while remembering that we are a spiritual being. She asserts that we are going to stop pathologizing the self in the future, but for now, there is a national healing and training program helping people birth from an old way of being into a new way of being more gracefully, without all the sickness labels.
Currently one of most respected spiritual mediums in the world, Rosemary Altea grew up seeing faces and hearing voices that no one else did and thought herself the definition of crazy. Two significant encounters with other mediums by age 30 enlightened her to the greater sense of purpose behind her gifts, and, ever since, she's accepted it as a privilege to serve others.Inspired by the truth that even in our vulnerability we are always connected to our soul's eternal strength, Rosemary invites us to consider living every day, giving up our control to God and watching the fullness of what's best for us become real. Now her goal is to teach people that they don’t even need her; that they can communicate with the other side all by themselves.
Part 1: Brian Weiss, a well established psychotherapist with a solid scientific background, took a huge risk to introduce past life regression to America in service of expanding our consciousness. A continuing pioneer in the field, he recounts the patient who changed his life, introducing us to the life changing power of hypnosis which can cure all symptoms where traditional psychotherapy has little to no effect.Part 2: In her past life, Shulamit was high-powered investment banker ... until her spiritual path opened up before her. Shulamit discovered she has the gift to create sound with the incredible ability to heal. She now teaches Kabbalistic sound meditations that have the power to awaken the Nashama or soul, the highest form of wisdom.
Author of the New York Times bestseller The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz is a humble Toltec Shaman and western medical doctor, blending ancient and modern insights and traditions. As a child, Ruiz's family experienced miracles as daily occurrences. Even so, the more he grew up in western society the more skeptical he became about the validity of the spirit world. A crisis provided him with direct experience that shocked him into remembering his true nature.Princess Irene's story of how she escaped the Nazis in a bulletproof cradle is well known. She gave up all privileges of royalty to become first a political activist, a social psychologist and now a spiritual teacher who is using her own extraordinary wisdom, connection to nature and love of all living things to help heal the world.
Part 1: Stephen Cope, scholar in residence at the Kripalu Yoga Center, blends depth of psychotheraputic awareness and yogic expertise. From the Indian subcontinent where both yoga and Buddhism originated, Buddhism was exported early on, yet yoga stayed where it was. The ground for contemplative practice in America was laid by Buddhism, and now we are seeing an explosion of interest in this 5,000-year-old practice, an embodied psychology of the fully alive human being. Stephen encourages the evolution of yoga in ways that serve and transform our 21st-century lives.Then, Jane Hirshfield beautifully recites original poetry on the speeding up of time, and generous gestures involving society and the environment.
Part 1: Sandra Ingerman brings core shamanic practices into a modern-day culture, targeting today's social suffering. Extremely profound experiences in shamanic journeying, where one meets up with spirits for direct revelation, has guided Sandra's practice from the beginning.Part 2: Poet Jane Hirshfield recites personal selections of enrapturing poetry on the self, life and death.
Shaya Isenberg and Bahira Sugarman lead people who want to age with zest, grace and wisdom to become true spiritual elders in our society. Explore friendship, mentoring, forgiveness, and miracles together to become one another's guides. Shaya and Bahira lead us to change America's cultural aging bias, by living our passion and aliveness as true spiritual elders.What draws Jane Hirshfield's poetic muse? Eros, aging, and the play of consciousness between animal souls and humans. Presenting a selection of her work, Jane's reading is the essence of authentic presence.
To help us live in true connection with each other Andrew Harvey introduces The Five Sacred Passions, emanating directly from the heart of the divine. A renaissance man, an erudite scholar, and so accessible, funny, and generous as a teacher, Andrew calls people who are interested in an inner spiritual path to also take it out and give it as a gift to the world.In the second half of the program, Joan Borysenko has the exceptional ability to make spiritual work truly accessible to her students. A highly trained scientist, psychotherapist and mystic, she focuses on integrating these three disciplines, exemplifying her belief that there are many paths to the Divine. Research shows that 42% of Americans are religious dropouts, but highly spiritual. This openness to paths other than their own is an expression of a deepening understanding that the very heart or core of all traditions similarly reflect kindness and compassion.