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Spiritual Activism/Service

748. Robert Ganung

 Love, Interconnection, and Awakening in Daily Life Summary: This conversation explores how contemplation and social action can be joined in a single spiritual life. It also looks at interspiritual practice, interconnection, near-death research,...

743. Karyn O’Beirne

 Awakening to the True Source Summary: A conversation about spontaneous awakening, grace, and how direct experience can reshape one’s understanding of God, identity, and reality. The discussion also explores mindfulness, Toltec teachings,...

693. Jem Bendell

Spiritual Growth Through World Crisis Summary: This conversation explores what it means to face societal and climate collapse honestly without turning away into denial or despair. It also looks at how mortality, spiritual practice, and connection...

670. Robin Chaurasiya

Awakening Through Radical Service and Surrender Summary: A conversation about awakening through radical service, burnout, and surrender. It also explores the tension between spiritual insight and lived experience, as well as the lessons learned...

643. Shelly Tygielski

Pandemic of Love and Inner Work in Action Summary: This conversation explores how loving-kindness practice can become practical service in the world. It also looks at showing up consistently for suffering, community, and difficult people without...

626. Nipun Mehta

Generosity, Non-Striving, and the Gift Economy Summary: A conversation about how generosity, service, and compassion can become a way of life rather than just an ideal. It also explores impermanence, non-striving, spiritual traps, and the subtle...

617. Lynne Twist

The Soul of Money and the Paradigm of Enough Summary: This conversation explores how indigenous wisdom, gratitude, and conscious action can help humanity move beyond scarcity. It also looks at the paradigm of enough, the Eagle and Condor...

540. Clare Dubois

Clare Dubois is the founder and CEO of TreeSisters.org, a global women's movement spanning over 200 countries, that has collectively funded the planting of over 25 million trees. TreeSisters is a social change movement and a tropical...

462. Dena Merriam

Dena Merriam has been working in the interfaith field for 20 years and founded the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) in 2002. Initially, the organization was designed to provide a global platform for women spiritual leaders to organize and...

460. James O’Dea

James O’Dea is the award-winning author of The Conscious Activist, Cultivating Peace, Soul Awakening Practice, and other works. James is a former President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Washington office director of Amnesty International,...

449. Terry Patten

Terry Patten was a philosopher, teacher, activist, consultant, social entrepreneur, and author. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the evolution of consciousness by facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through...

381. Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose & Bill Maher. Seven of her twelve...

329. Andrew Harvey

Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired,...

323. Adam Bucko

Adam Bucko is an activist, spiritual director to many of New York City’s homeless youth, and co-author of a new award-winning book called “Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation (Sacred Activism)". He grew up in Poland during...

227. Adam C. Hall

Adam C. Hall achieved the American Dream in all its glory and then woke-up to the nightmare of his own life condition.  Once a financial power broker and real-estate developer, Adam undertook a life-changing metamorphosis that would ultimately...

141. Rafael Stoneman

Rafael Stoneman continues to study the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi and is the founder of A.H. Nonprofit, which has three key programs that focus on alleviating homelessness: Alternative Housing, Addiction Help, and Anger Hotline. A.H....

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