Channel: Radical Spirit
The Radical Spirit channel explores the meeting point between consciousness and societal change, highlighting leaders who exemplify spiritual depth and passionate engagement in public processes, as well as offering practical steps to engage change work in life-enhancing ways.
We are especially focused on bridging between different evolutionary movements such as sustainability and spiritual practice. Our preference is to look at the leading edge – how is a more integral version of spiritual activism emerging in a next generation of leaders? How are these leaders engaging the public sphere?
Ultimately, Radical Spirit offers a non-dual perspective that sees our spiritual work and our world work as inextricably linked. When societal change work is undertaken with reverence and compassion instead of mere frustration, old dichotomies can dissolve and all parties’ truest interests can be fully honored. Old versions of activism rest upon antagonism, whereas spiritual activism seeks a greater wholeness that includes those who were once opponents.
Listing of recorded teleseminars in this channel
December 3, 2008
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee has traveled to the far corners of the earth to create a remarkable video library of insight and inspiration called the Global Oneness Project. He shares stories with host Stephen Dinan, of remarkable people who work in slums, combat zones, and remote areas of the developing world.
November 5, 2008
In the wake of the most momentous American election of our lifetimes, one thing is certain - the fate of this nation and our world lies squarely in the hands of "we the people." What will it take to awaken and inspire a new generation of leadership by and for the people?
October 1, 2008 | 1 comment
Eleanor describes "citizens' solutions councils" as the bridge between grassroots ingenuity and institutional resources. She urges us to move away from working in technological isolation toward working with our communities to identify and build on what works. The resulting movement, trans-partisan and free from ideological standoffs, can reshape our economy and our world in a way that positions it well for the 21st century.
September 3, 2008
In the course of creating a new software company, Brian Robertson decided to pursue a higher dream than a profitable company. He wanted to create a new template that integrated the best organizational models and human potential practices available. Out of this dream, emerged holacracy, a practical system of governance, organization, and decision-making that holds great promise for reformulating our workplace and even our world.
August 6, 2008
The Junior Attractors, Brad Morris and Matthew Ashdown, are the founders of Agents of Change Global Movements Inc., which gives the younger generation an amazing opportunity to understand how their thoughts create their future and how to co-create with others in peace.
July 2, 2008
Award winning, house designer, Jay Shafer, lives in approx. 100 sq feet. An average American house creates 7 tons of construction waste whereas Jay's tiny home construction waste barely fills the back of a small pick-up truck. In this teleseminar he gives helpful hints to live a more sustainable lifestyle and shares his vision for future sustainable neighborhoods.
June 4, 2008
Author of Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus John Gray takes Shift in Action members on a powerful two-hour ride through a revolution in relationship.
May 14, 2008 | 3 comments
In this teleseminar, the author of Digital Dharma, Steven Vedro, weaves together two worlds – communication technology and the evolution of consciousness. He takes listeners to the early days of the telegraph and the telephone, each of which changed society in powerful ways, ultimately encouraging women’s liberation, and then shows how the journey of emerging media parallels the emergence of new stages of collective consciousness.
May 7, 2008
William Keepin and Cynthia Brix introduce a new paradigm in healing work between men and women called the “Power of Reconciliation.”
April 2, 2008
Brian Johnson, the founder of Zaadz.com (recently acquired by Gaiam), has a deep commitment to actualize his full potential, drawing insights from the world's wisdom traditions and applying them in the crucible of startup businesses, relationships, and daily life.
March 6, 2008 | 1 comment
Aqeela Sherrils has a personal history that could leave a hardened heart – a childhood of abuse and poverty, an adolescence of death and violence, and an adulthood in which his eldest son was lost to gang violence and his wife to cancer.
February 6, 2008
Anodea Judith is a true pioneer in bringing the Eastern map of the chakras into dialogue and application with Western psychology. In this far-ranging interview, she explores the power of this map to understand personal and collective evolution, as well as the current challenges we face in moving from a third chakra culture based on the “love of power” to a fourth chakra culture based on the “power of love.”
January 2, 2008
Start your New Year with an exploration of the depths!
Ralph Metzner is one of the world's pioneering transpersonal psychologists and scholars, having been one of the early psychedelic researches at Harvard with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (now Ram Dass).
December 5, 2007
Jim Garrison is the President of Wisdom University, the author of seminal books such as America as Empire, and the co-founder with Mikael Gorbachev of the State of the World Forum. His perspective thus includes spiritual, sociological, and political dimensions of who we are and where we are headed.
November 7, 2007
Stacey Lawson is equal parts entrepreneur and spiritual leader. She launched a successful company and sold it by the age of 28 before serving as Vice-President at Siebel Systems shortly thereafter, growing an area of the company from startup to 1200 employees.
October 24, 2007
Explore the leading edge of Integral Art with musician and multi-media artist Stuart Davis in a dialogue with Radical Spirit host Stephen Dinan. Stuart shares about his phases of development as an artist, from being a provocative rocker interested in ego gratification to a pluralistic social change advocate to a mystic fascinated with how it all fits together. 
September 5, 2007
Ecstatic vocalist Suzanne Sterling explores the transformational power and esoteric dimensions of sound, voice, and consciousness in this dialogue with host Stephen Dinan.
July 18, 2007
Dive into the depths of conscious embodiment with this teleseminar featuring world-renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea discussing "Conscious Embodiment, Yoga in the Quantum Age."
June 6, 2007 | 1 comment
This teleseminar features one of transpersonal psychology's founders and most eminent leaders, Stanislav Grof, in dialogue with host Stephen Dinan. Dr. Grof reflects on the insights that have emerged from over 40 years of non-ordinary state research into the human psyche with psychedelics and Holotropic Breathwork™.
April 25, 2007
Damanhur emissary Esperide Ananas gives an extraordinary tour of the history, philosophy, governance, psychology, economics, and spiritual innovations of this unique community of 1000 citizens in the foothills of the Alps near Turin, Italy.
March 7, 2007
Join one of our most provocative and insightful cultural critics, Erik Davis for a one-hour exploration with Stephen Dinan of "The Visionary State." Erik’s newest book explores California’s role in the evolution of new models of spirituality and societal living. California has long acted as a Petri dish of experimentation, marrying new technologies, media, and an experimental ethos to keep expanding the frontier of our consciousness. 
February 21, 2007
Join host Stephen Dinan and guests Barbara Marx Hubbard and Teresa Collins as they discuss "Conscious Evolution". 
January 17, 2007
Steve Bhaerman (aka Swami Beyondananda) is an internationally known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 18 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the "Cosmic Comic." Swami’s comedy has been called "irreverently uplifting" and has been described both as "comedy disguised as wisdom" and "wisdom disguised as comedy." 
November 29, 2006
Paralyzed yoga teacher Matthew Sanford reveals his unique insights on the mind-body relationship and its relationship to consciousness. Matthew's life work began at age thirteen when he survived a car accident that took the lives of his father and sister and left him paralyzed from the chest down. For the last 27 years, he has been on a practical exploration of the mind-body relationship through yoga and rehabilitation.
October 11, 2006
Topics include the importance of political disillusionment, lessons from stage four leaders, the power of collaboration, differentiating between calling and craving, the role of our media, and the transformative power of America’s founding vision.
July 31, 2006 | 1 comment
In this teleseminar, Walter reviews some of the most compelling lines of evidence from researchers such as Ian Stevenson, while adding case studies involving more famous people such as Picasso, Gauguin, and Anne Frank. Topics include the reincarnation of America’s founding fathers as current political leaders, potential past life matches for consciousness leaders, and the benefits and perils of using psychic sources to make matches. 
June 16, 2006
Join the authors of Spiritual Politics, Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, in an insightful look at marrying consciousness and political engagement. 
May 3, 2006
J. Manuel Herrera has long straddled two seemingly disparate worlds – the world of spiritual practice and the world of politics. In this teleseminar, he explores the roots of his calling and its fruition, as well as the potential for our democratic process to become much more transformative. 
March 22, 2006
Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Relligious Right is rabbi of Beyt Tikkun and editor of Tikkun Magazine: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture and Society. 
February 7, 2006
This teleseminar covers ground from the significance of Coretta Scott King's passing to the importance of atonement, and from rebalancing masculine and feminine in our political culture to visualizing the future. Marianne's vision is inspiring, her passion infectious, and her call to bring about an evolution in consciousness through spiritually-grounded involvement in politics is contagious. 
December 21, 2005
Noah has grown into a uniquely authentic teacher of the dharma in the West, studying under respected masters while staying fully connected to the punk movement and music. In this teleseminar, he discusses rebellion and the 4 Noble Truths, his journey through 12-steps and addiction, his work in prisons, the challenges of living non-violently and the opportunity of growing a uniquely American Buddhist tradition that embraces tattoos and cheeseburgers alongside mindfulness meditation.
November 11, 2005
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September 30, 2005
Author Arjuna Ardagh and host Stephen Dinan range over a wide variety of topics, from the possibility of political translucence to triple-bottom-line business and the upper octaves of sex, illuminating the common threads involved in shifting to a translucent worldview. This dialogue gives fresh evidence for a new Renaissance underway in our day.
August 25, 2005
In a far-ranging spiritual and philosophical adventure, Saniel Bonder and host Stephen Dinan examine the relationship between "Spiritual Awakening and Social Change." What does an enlightened activist look like? Listen to the founder of Waking Down in Mutuality discuss the growing edge of the consciousness revolution.