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#40 Living the Mystery: Shakti Caterina Maggi
Spiritual guide and author, Shakti is known internationally as one of the most authentic and profound voices in contemporary spirituality. Presenting the message of Advaita and non-dual Tantra within a contemporary...
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#39 Tending Our Inner & Outer Landscapes: Lyla June
Lyla June in this illuminating community conversation with Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo shares ways in which indigenous food systems of the past and present teach us how to relate to our inner and outer world. These...
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#38 Weaving the Eternal Golden Braid: Donald Hoffman & Rupert Spira
“For now, what is important is not finding the answer, but looking for it.”― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist and author of more than 100...
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#37 Collective Consciousness: Orland Bishop
Orland Bishop is the founder and director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, where he has pioneered approaches to urban truces and mentoring at-risk youth that combine new ideas with traditional...
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#36 Holographic Being: Mukti
Mukti’s name originates in Sanskrit and is most often translated as “liberation,” a term used in Vedanta and Buddhism much the way the term “salvation” is used in Christianity. Mukti has been the Associate Teacher of...
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#35 Deep Medicine: Rupa Marya
Dr. Rupa Marya illuminates the hidden connections between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems. What is deep medicine? How can re-establishing our relationships...
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#34 Converations on Complexity: Neil Theise
“We are not walking through the world; we are interwoven with it. In everything we do, we participate in complexity."–Neil Theise
Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through...
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#33 Intimacy with the Sacred: Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translationsof sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of NewMexico-Taos for 20 years and now...
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#32 Breathing Bamboo: Cornelius Boots
Cornelius Boots is a woodwinding pioneer, composer and root philosopher. He is a nanotheist and elemental-nature lover.
After a 30-year career of high-caliber jazz, classical, rock and experimental music activities...
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#31 Our Mycelium Selves: Merlin Sheldrake
From the SAND Archives we present a conversation between SAND co-founder Maurizio Benazzo and biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake from SAND’s Wisdom in Times of Crisis Series (2020).
In this talk they discuss...
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#30 Here. Now. Being.: Joan Tollifson
Joan Tollifson is a writer and lifelong explorer of what is. Her background includes Buddhism, Advaita, nontraditional meditative inquiry, radical nonduality, martial arts, somatic work, addiction recovery, political...
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#29: Rumi & the Mysterion: Kabir Helminski
Kabir Helminski is co-director, with his wife, Camille Helminski, of the Threshold Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge and practice of Sufism. He is the author of Living Presence and...
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