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Andrew Harvey | Essential Shifts TranscriptsIn this interview, scholar and mystic Andrew Harvey blazes a path straight into the sacred heart, shying away from none of the horror of the world’s situation while calling us into our most naked and vulnerable core.
Swami Beyondananda | Essential Shifts TranscriptsJoin comedian and political commentator Steve Bhaerman (aka Swami Beyondananda) for a humorous and insightful look at the "upwising" now underway. You’ll hear about Mad Cowboy Disease, the potential for bloodless evolution, and how to quiet a barking dogma.
Brian Johnson | Essential Shifts TranscriptsJoin philosopher and Internet entrepreneur Brian Johnson for a high-energy exploration of how we can leverage technology, spiritual practice, and conscious capitalism to help change the world.
Julia Butterfly Hill | Essential Shifts TranscriptsIn this dialogue with Belvie Rooks on the Essential Shifts of our time, Julia reveals her sense that the most important thing we can do is to hold an image of our world as whole, connected, and complete.
Van Jones | Essential Shifts TranscriptsJoin social justice activist Van Jones and Belvie Rooks for a heartfelt exploration of the most pressing challenges of our day and how we can meet them with compassionate presence and inspired action. Van shares intimately about his formative years and his journey into becoming a social activist, as well as the story of Ella Baker, the "secret godmother" of the civil rights movement and mentor to Dr. King.
Brother David Steindl-Rast | Essential Shifts TranscriptsIn his words and presence in this interview, Brother David demonstrates how gratefulness can help us untangle the knots of fear and help put the most essential shifts into action.
Marilyn Schlitz | Essential Shifts TranscriptsDr. Marilyn Schlitz explores an expanded vision of health, for ourselves and our society, as the balance of the systems rather than merely the absence of disease.
Michael Beckwith | Essential Shifts TranscriptsIn this interview, he turns the spotlight on the root assumptions of scarcity and fear that underpin war, sustainability, and other collective crises. The key to transforming them is spiritual practice that unravels the "lies that have become laws" in our deeper psyche.
Jean Houston | Essential Shifts TranscriptsIn this dialogue, the President of IONS and Jean Houston engage in a passionate inquiry into the peril and promise of these times on the "Godschool" called Earth. They feed mind, heart, and soul with discussions of archetypes and essence, myth and ritual, meaning and healing.
Stanislav Grof | Essential Shifts TranscriptsWhat if our propensity to war and aggression had deep roots in the trauma of birth? That’s one of the provocative theories of Dr. Stanislav Grof, drawing from fifty years at the frontiers of consciousness research.
Elisabet Sahtouris | Essential Shifts TranscriptsElisabet sees abundant evidence for us transitioning from a primarily competitive and egocentric era, which is typical of young populations of any species, into an era in which we learn to cooperate and communicate as one global family.
Don Beck | Essential Shifts TranscriptsIn this interview, the leading practitioner of Spiral Dynamics Integral, Don Beck, shares his insights about how we can more effectively meet different cultures with solutions appropriate to their "memetic codes".
Arjuna Ardagh | Essential Shifts TranscriptsFor the author of The Translucent Revolution, the question of how we create a new world boils down to one shift: wake up! At the root of all the societal ills and dangers we experience lies a fundamental feeling of separation that fuels hatred, greed, overconsumption, destruction, and war.
Arisika Razak | Essential Shifts TranscriptsIn this interview, professor, dancer, and midwife Arisika Razak shares her unique angle on the essential shifts our world now requires. A truly sustainable world, she says, is one in which the threads of caring and community have been rewoven so that all members of a society feel treasured and honored.
Dean Radin | Essential Shifts TranscriptsThis insightful and entertaining interview focuses on the shift from a mechanistic model of science to one based on quantum interconnection, drawing upon the latest research on the effects of minds on other minds, as well as the environment.
Thom Hartmann | Essential Shifts TranscriptsAir America radio host Thom Hartmann is rising quickly as a voice for societal progress, economic justice, and spiritual awakening. In this interview, he explores a wide range of subjects, from the vital importance of small acts of compassion to stopping the corruptive influence of corporate personhood.
